Creating Anna Karenina - Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature's Most Enigmatic Heroine by Bob Blaisdell
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Category: Literature
Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature and we return to her, and the novel she propels, again and again. Remarkably, there has not yet been an examination of Leo Tolstoy specifically through the lens of this novel. Critic and professor Bob Blaisdell unravels Tolstoy's f ...Show more
Afraid of the Light by Douglas Kennedy
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Category: Literature
A gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, ...Show more
The Road to Middlemarch - My Life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead
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Category: Literature
What would happen if I stopped to consider how Middlemarch has shaped my understanding of my own life? Why did the novel still feel so urgent, after all these years? And what could it give me now, as I paused here in the middle of things, and surveyed where I had come from, and thought about where I was ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Literature | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle. "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rati ...Show more
How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #22 by Johann Peter Hebel
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Category: Literature
'The devil gave the woman a nudge: "Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the butcher's shirt!"' Written for a local German journal and published in 1811, these fabulous, funny, jewel-like miniature tales describe con men, tricksters, disasters, murders, rascals and lovers, and include ...Show more
Orwell and Politics by George Orwell
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Category: Literature
This comprehensive collection brings together the best of George Orwell's powerful political essays and journalism with his timeless satire on totalitarianism, Animal Farm. They show the vast range of his political interests, with articles expressing his views on subjects from corrupt political language ...Show more
Cult Writers by Ian Haydn Smith; Kristelle Rodeia (Illustrator)
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Category: Literature | Series: Cult Figures Ser.
In Cult Writers Ian Haydn Smith introduces 50 novelists deserving of a cult status. The literary genres and subjects explored within these writers’ pages are rich and diverse – acting as mirrors of their genius minds: from Irvine Welsh’s gritty Edinburgh streets, to Ken Kesey’s drug-fuelled madness; fro ...Show more
Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books by Clare Pollard
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Category: Literature
What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve being eaten? Fierce Bad Rabbits explores the stories behind our favourite picture books, weaving in tales of Clare Pollard's childhood reading and her re-discovery ...Show more
Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Literature
Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign spies, blackmailers, cultists, petty thieves, murderers, swindlers, policemen (both stupid and cl ...Show more
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Literature
When Lucy Snowe leaves England to look for a new life on the Continent she has no idea what lies in store for her. This quiet, lonely girl must learn quickly when she finds herself teaching in a foreign school, with no friends or family to rely on.
The Photograph by Penelope Lively
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'DO NOT OPEN - DESTROY.' The words on the envelope he has found are written in Kath's hand, but Glyn ignores his wife's instruction and breaks the seal. His life unwinds. For he finds a photograph showing Kath holding hands with another man. Unable to forget this long-ago act of betrayal he recklessly ...Show more
Swan Song: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
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Category: Literature
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'The new Donna Tartt.' Vogue 'Brilliantly captures Capote's acid wit and his dramatic downfall.' The Times, Books of the Year 'A dazzlingly assured first novel... This clever book, with the moreish astringency of a negroni, is a perfect summer cocktail. ...Show more