Henry and June by Anais Nin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Drawn from the original, uncensored journals of Anais Nin, "Henry and June" is an intimate account of a woman's sexual awakening. It covers a single momentous year - from late 1931 to the end of 1932 - during Nin's life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. She fell in love with June's ...Show more
High Fidelity: Popular Penguins by Nick Hornby
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll. Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserabl ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell; Jaron Murphy (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Essential Gothic, SF and Dark Fantasy Ser.
After travelling to Spain at the end of 1936 with the intention of working as a correspondent for a British socialist newspaper, thirty-three-year-old George Orwell decided to join the Republican efforts to overturn Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. Having enrolled in the POUM militias, th ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles: Popular Penguins by Alan Marshall
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood--a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides, and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders, bushmen, farmers, and tellers of tall stories--a worl ...Show more
I, Claudius: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clarity and meticulous realism. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is a includes an introduction by Barry Unsworth.Despised for his weakness and regarded by ...Show more
Improper Stories by Saki
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Category: Classics
Eighteen sharply satirical and deliciously disturbing tales by Saki, the Edwardian master of the short story.
In the Memorial Room (Text Classics) by Janet Frame
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
In the Memorial Room is a brilliant black comedy, by the celebrated author of An Angel at My Table. Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship - a 'living memorial' to the poet Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the Fr ...Show more
In the Ravine & Other Stories (Macmillan Colllector's Library) by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Anton Chekhov was one of the world's most accomplished short-story writers and this collection displays the breadth and variety of his genius. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful boo ...Show more
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
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Category: Classics
"First published in 1946, this humane epic novel is set in rural Iceland in the early twentieth century. Bjartus is a sheep farmer determined to eke a living from a blighted patch of land. Nothing, not merciless weather, nor his family will come between him and his goal of financial independence. Only A ...Show more
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” read the now-famous words above the gate through which Dante, the protagonist of Inferno, crosses the threshold. But that forbidding inscription applies only to those without faith; and though Dante's journey through the nine circles of Hell begins with terror and c ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Jane EyreBy Charlotte Brontëm grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fe ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself' Passionate, poetic and revolutionary, Jane Eyre is a novel of naked emotional power. Its story of a defiant, fiercely intelligent woman ...Show more