Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'. A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveya ...Show more
Medea And Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without ref ...Show more
Carl Von Clausewitz On War by Carl von Clausewitz
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
War...is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will' Writing at the time of Napoleon's greatest campaigns, Prussian soldier and writer Carl von Clausewitz created this landmark treatise on the art of warfare, which presented war as part of a coherent system of political though ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Everyman Classics
Neurologist Oliver Sacks investigates the complex relationship between the brain and the mind and, almost impossibly, manages to make his subject matter not only accessible to the general reader, but utterly absorbing. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals suffering fro ...Show more
H. G. Wells by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
No home library is complete without the classics H. G. Wells is a keepsake collection of the author's greatest work to be read and treasured. He was the first to popularize the concept of time travel. He disturbed--and fascinated--us with a frightening doctor's island. He wrote of an invisible man, ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Jane EyreBy Charlotte Brontëm grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fe ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Trial (original German title: Der Process,later Der Prozess, Der Proceß and Der Prozeß) is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions) by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Flexibound Editions Ser.
Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass… have entertained readers young and old for more than a century. Their magical worlds, amusing characters, clever dialogue, and playfully logical illogic, epitomise the whit and whimsy of Carroll's writing.
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
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Category: Classics | Series: Bloomsbury Classic Reads
Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting. Then he meets Yeamon, whose delectable girlfriend h ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject oflocal gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder ...Show more
Welcome to the Monkey House - Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics
A masterful collection of twenty-five short stories from the inimitable Kurt VonnegutA diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House, which gathers together twenty-five of Kurt Vonnegut's short stories from the 1950s and 1960s. Sh ...Show more
Peter Pan (Macmillan Collector's Library) by J. M. Barrie; Francis Donkin Bedford (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Presented in a beautiful slip-case edition that contains new, full-color illustrations for readers aged 8 and up, J. M. Barrie's best-loved tale of Lost Boys, mermaids, pirates, and a boy who will never grow up will enchant even the oldest child at heart. Wendy knows that all children have to grow u ...Show more