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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Category: Picture Books | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. "Every idiot who goes around with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding". Charles Dickens' tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Chri ...Show more
A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtBy Mark TwainAn extravagant but cleverly planned burlesque that works as a condemnation of Chivalry, one of Twain's chief aversions...
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.'After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for th ...Show more
A Room With A View: Penguin English Library by E. M. Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ..." Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ord ...Show more
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Literature | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library editionWhen Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead m ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Literature | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll '"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). "Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever ...Show more
Animal Farm (Penguin English Library) by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a l ...Show more
At the Mountains of Madness by H P Lovecraft
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
At the Mountains of Madness H.P. LovecraftOn an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in thes ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
A beautiful edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the S ...Show more
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Literature | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil'. Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark ps ...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
Father Brown Selected Stories by G. K Chesterton
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be'Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success- refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of s ...Show more