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The Call of the Wild by Jack London
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.' The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adv ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a platform from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness among the British middle-class of the late eighteenth century. The novels included in this collection from the elegant Knickerbocker Classics series--Sense and ...Show more
The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool'. In "The Confidence-Man", Melville's unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster and master of disguise comes to swindle his fellow passengers - who ...Show more
The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories by O. Henry
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, O. Henry's comic eye and unique, playful approach to the rough material of life's realities are unmatched. These stories, which range from the cattle-lands of Texas to the bars of New York, highlight the joys of avoiding habit and conven ...Show more
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others' Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity ...Show more
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it.' A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the ...Show more
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'I will not read it; I should never sleep again' A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immoral and decadent on first publication in 1894, Machen's wei ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | 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
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
From the founding father of science fiction H.G. Wells, a masterpiece about a man trapped in the terror of his own creation. The Invisible Man inspired The Map of Chaos by New York Times bestselling author Felix J. Palma. As a gift to readers, this ebook edition includes an excerpt from The Map of Cha ...Show more
The Machine Stops and Other Stories by E. M. Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
A new selection of E. M. Forster's exquisite short stories, now in the beautifully designed Penguin English Library Series 'We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relatio ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!' A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Os ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare' Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scienti ...Show more