Walden: Penguin Pocket Classics by Henry Thoreau
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Inspiring, brilliantly written, cantankerous and funny - Walden is both a very specific ...Show more
The Call Of Cthulhu: Penguin Pocket Classics by H. P. Lovecraft
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
* Book: The Call of Cthulhu * Biography * Bibliography "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu h ...Show more
The Greatest Cases of Sherlock Holmes (Faux Leather Edition) by A. Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics
Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr. Watson solve these breathtaking and perplexing mysteries. In The Greatest Cases of Sherlock Holmes we encount ...Show more
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos is an astonishing grand tour of the universe and the best layman's guide to current thinking on 'how everything works'. This rollercoaster ride explores the mysteries of space and time; asks questions about the nature of reality, dark matter, space warps and wiggl ...Show more
Sentimental Journey by STERNE LAURENCE
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly "Travels through France and Italy", Laurence Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey" through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of travel writing in its own right. This "Penguin Classics" edition includes an introduction and notes by P ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more
Herland - Vintage Future by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
When three American men discover a community of women, living in perfect isolation in the Amazon, they decide there simply must be men somewhere. How could these women survive without man's knowledge, experience and strength, not to mention reproductive power? In fact, what they have found is a civilisa ...Show more
Slapstick or Lonesome No More - Vintage Future by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics
Manhattan has become the Island of Death. The former President of the United States stands barefoot in a purple toga around a cooking fire in the lobby of the Empire State Building. He is Dr Wilbur Daffodil-II Swain and Slapstick or Lonesome No More! is his story - one of monstrous twins, orgies, reveng ...Show more
The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens? first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds of scrapes and adventures. Funny, warm-hearted and ful ...Show more
Oliver Twist (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Sam (AFT) George (ILT); Gilpin Charles; Cruikshank Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
'Look here! Here?s a jolly life! What?s the odds where it comes from??Meet the Artful Dodger, as roistering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four foot six. With him, you?ll run down the dirty backstreets of London to be entertained by the Respectable Old Gentleman and his brood of thieves ...Show more
The Fringe Dwellers - Text Classics by Nene Gare
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
Set in a remote area of Western Australia, The Fringe Dwellers is the story of two part-Aboriginal sisters, Noonah and Trilby, who live in a family camp on the fringe of white society. Noonah accepts her position - but Trilby refuses to. First published in 1961, The Fringe Dwellers is a landmark novel i ...Show more
The Odd Angry Shot by William Nagle
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
The Odd Angry Shot is the seminal account of Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War. Brief and bracing, tragic yet darkly funny, it portrays a close-knit group of knockabout SAS fighters: their mateship, homesickness and fears; their practical jokes, drinking and fighting. The enemy is not just the Viet ...Show more