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Animal Farm: The Illustrated Edition by George Orwell
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Category: New Age | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
2015 is the 70th anniversary of Animal Farm. To commemorate this important anniversary, Penguin Classics is republishing the classic illustrated Animal Farm by Joy Batchelor and John Halas. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Adult Classic | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
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Category: Adult Classic | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Holly Golightly is generally up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She hasn't got a past. She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone, not even to her one-eyed rag-bag pirate of a cat. One day Holly might find somewhere she belongs. Also includes: House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
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Category: Adult Classic | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determine ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Adult Classic | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck creat ...Show more
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
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Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fa ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift
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Category: Adult Classic | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos ...Show more
Hiroshima by John Hersey
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with his heartrending account of six men and ...Show more
Maurice by E.M. Forster
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Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Cli ...Show more
Medea And Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Student Books | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without ref ...Show more
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Black Classics
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remar ...Show more
Middlemarch by George Eliot, George Eliot
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Category: Adult Classic | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
George Eliot's Victorian masterpiece: a magnificent portrait of a provincial town and its inhabitants George Eliot’s novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. The proposed Reform Bill promises political change; ...Show more