Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Vasily Grossman
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATION BY ROBERT CHANDLER, UPDATED AND REVISED. The twentieth century War and Peace, a broad portrait of an age and a searing vision of Stalinist Russia, Life and Fate is also the story of a family, the Shaposhnikovs, whose lives in the army, the gulag, a physics institute, a power sta ...Show more
Arthur Schopenhauer - Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many ...Show more
The Penguin Classics Book by Henry Eliot
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Category: Classics
Penguin Classics is the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. From The Epic of Gilgameshto the poetry of the First World War, and covering all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history and philosophy in between, this reader's companion encompasses 500 authors, 1,200 books and ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, ...Show more
Spy Hook by Len Deighton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Spy Bernard Samson is forced on the run from his own government in this nail-biting first instalment of the Hook, Line and Sinker seriesMillions of pounds have gone missing, and the Department have sent agent Bernard Samson to Washington to track them down. But this mission is just the start of somethin ...Show more
Westwood by Stella Gibbons
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Category: Classics
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LYNNE TRUSS 'Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the twentieth century' The Times Set in wartime London, Westwood tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a plain bookish girl whose mother has told her that she is not the type that attracts men. Her schoolfriend Hilda has a sunny t ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The orphaned Jane Eyre is no beauty but her plain appearance belies an indomitable spirit, sharp wit and great courage. As a child she suffers under cruel guardians, harsh schooling and a rigid social order but when she goes to Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for the mysterious Mr Rochester, the ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Black Classics
When a young student at a military academy mails some of his poetry to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, seeking advice, he initiates years of correspondence, during which Rilke expresses his most personal insights into the artist's relationship with life, the interior needs of the individual growing t ...Show more
Great Novels: The World's Most Remarkable Fiction Explored and Explained by DK
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Category: Classics
A beautifully illustrated guide to the greatest novels ever writtenDiscover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's greatest novels.From medieval romances and tales of chivalry through the realist novels of the 19th century to experimental modernist works and today's explorations of the sel ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time: Volume 2 by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, and an unequalled meditation on different forms of love, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside, and his relationships with his grandmother and the Swann family. Here Proust ...Show more
The Best of Sherlock Holmes (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Wuthering Heights" is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, i ...Show more