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Selected Short Fiction by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with a diverse range of fictional techniques. In his tales of the supernatural, he creates frighteningly believable, spine-tingling stories of prophetic dre ...Show more
Silas Marner by George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Silas Marner" by George Eliot. "God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine: you've no right to her!" Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Sila ...Show more
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, glimpses of their troubled past ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
"I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine...I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you, my own dear! Come to me - come to me, and save m ...Show more
The Adventure of Six Napoleons and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library edition Many readers would claim that The Adventure of the Copper Beeches or The Man with the Twisted Lip was their favourite Sherlock Holmes story - but then that would be doing an injustice to The Adventure of the Yellow Face and The Problem of Thor Bridge. It is just as we ...Show more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?' The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarc ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Awakening originally titled, A Solitary Soul, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the ...Show more
The Beetle by Richard Marsh
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'It changes its shape at will. It compels others to do its bidding. It inspires terror in all who look on it . . . 'Eminent politician Paul Lessingham is the toast of Westminster, but when 'the Beetle' arrives from Egypt to hunt him down, the dark and gruesome secret that haunts him is dragged into the ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.' The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adv ...Show more
The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories by O. Henry
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, O. Henry's comic eye and unique, playful approach to the rough material of life's realities are unmatched. These stories, which range from the cattle-lands of Texas to the bars of New York, highlight the joys of avoiding habit and conven ...Show more
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others' Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity ...Show more
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it.' A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the ...Show more