The Odyssey by Homer Homer, Homer, Homer
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
The Odyssey is a classic poem written by Homer that consists of 12.110 verses. It is unique already in that it has reached our days in its original form. This poem is a genuine revelation of the poetic thought of ancient Hellas....After the Trojan War, most of the survived Greek leaders returned by sea ...Show more
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' - Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbid ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; Laura Thompson (Introduction by)
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Category: Everyman Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew t ...Show more
The Franchise Affair (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Josephine Tey
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Category: Classics
One of the great country house detective novels, entertaining and ingenious Marion Sharpe and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country home, the Franchise. Everything changes when a local schoolgirl accuses them of kidnap and abuse, describing the attic room ...Show more
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
"From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak s Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original. anned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way ...Show more
Orlando by Virginia Woolf; Winterson Jeanette (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
The thrill of reading Virginia Woolf's Orlando is the feeling of looking into a whirlpool just as something utterly extraordinary materializes for the first time: an exhilarating hallucination of surreal and beautiful images that remain in memory long after you put the book down. Orlando has it all: lif ...Show more
I for Isobel Text Classics by Amy Witting; Charlotte Wood (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Winner of the Barbara Ramsden Prize, 1990. This was life: no sooner had you built yourself your little raft and felt secure than it came to pieces under you and you were swimming again. Born into a world without welcome, Isobel observes it as warily as an alien trying to pass for a native. Her collectio ...Show more
I, Claudius: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clarity and meticulous realism. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is a includes an introduction by Barry Unsworth.Despised for his weakness and regarded by ...Show more
The Jungle Book (Word Cloud Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Get lost in the jungle with these dazzling tales of adventure! The JungleBook is a collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, originally published in magazines in the late 1800s. These stories, which have enchanted generations of readers, include "Mowgli's Brothers," "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," and "Toomai of th ...Show more
The Secret Garden (Word Cloud Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
The classic children's story, now available in a new package A classic piece of children's literature first published as a novel in 1911, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden is a story of transformation and renewal. Unwanted by her parents, Mary Lennox, a spoiled, selfish young girl is raise ...Show more
Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously pursuing an ...Show more