Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Faber Modern Classics by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Category: Classics | Series: Faber Modern Classics Ser.
Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirtee ...Show more
Outbreak of Love - Text Classics by Martin Boyd
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full of unilluminated directions. But when we know where we want to go and press the right button, the route is illuminated before us in electric clarity. Diana von Flugel warned her husband: a piece of toast that har ...Show more
Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun
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Category: Classics
Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can't enter a country without a passport or visa. And she knows that she and her parents can't go back to Germany again - h ...Show more
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'"Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them" ' Taking respite from the Man of Wrath, her children and her stifling household, Elizabeth discovers that the pa ...Show more
Silas Marner by George Eliot, George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Silas Marner, the story of an isolated man who learns to open his heart, was George Eliot's favourite of her novels, combining humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism."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 acc ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto with The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Karl Marx
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow. A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the tyr ...Show more
Othello by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics
Othello William Shakespeare Othello, The Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the short story "Moor of Venice" by Cinthio, believed to have been written in approximately 1603. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, his wife Desdemona, his lieutenant Cassio, and ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield
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Category: Classics
The complete classic stories by New Zealand's most famous writer. Unlike many selected editions, this is a complete collection of all 75 of Katherine Mansfield's finished stories taken from her five books: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Doves' Nest, Something Childish and In a German Pension. Virginia Woo ...Show more
The Prose Edda by Jesse L. Byock, Jesse L Byock
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves ...Show more
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics | Series: IV
In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote 'Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a ...Show more
Postcards from Penguin Classics: One Hundred Book Covers in One Box
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Category: Classics
Since its launch with The Odyssey in 1946, Penguin Classics has become the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. Spanning 4,000 years of world literature, covering all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history and philosophy in between, Postcards from Penguin Classics is the ...Show more
H. P. Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos Tales by H. P. Lovecraft
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Category: Classics | Series: Crafted Classics Ser.
The complete Cthulhu Mythos by master horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, now with a creatively embroidered cover.The Cthulhu Mythos is a collection of 23 loosely connected short stories by H. P. Lovecraft, one of the earliest masters of dark fantasy and horror. From "Dagon" to "The Call of Cthulhu" to "The ...Show more