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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?' This special edition of A Clockwork Orangerestores the text of Anthony Burgess' novel as he originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of his teen slang 'Nadsat', pages from the original typescript, explanatory notes, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light o ...Show more
A Confederacy of Dunces (PB) by John Kennedy Toole
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses ...Show more
A Laodicean by Thomas Hardy
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits ancient Stancy Castle. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the work, but is then torn between George's admiration and that of Captain De Stancy, whose old-world romanticism contrasts with Somerset's forward-look ...Show more
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
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Category: Teenage & Young Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'In December 1937 I crossed the Pyrenees from France - two days on foot through the snow.' Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately ...Show more
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a myste ...Show more
A RUSSIAN JOURNAL by STEINBECK JOHN
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the cou ...Show more
A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
Of the more than one hundred books that H. G. Wells published in his lifetime, this is one of the most ambitious. Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of World War I, A Short History of the World is an engrossing account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Wells b ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays: Sweet Bird of Youth; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams: E. Martin Browne (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Tennessee Williams's sensuous, atmospheric plays transformed the American stage with their passion, exoticism and vibrant characters who rage against their personal demons and the modern world. This collection includes a number of William's plays, including "A Streetcar Named Desire".
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. This "Penguin Classics" edition of is edited with an introduction and notes by Richard Maxwell. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of ti ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Penguin Bedtime Classics) by Lewis Carroll; Carly Gledhill (Illustrator); Tony Ross (Illustrator)
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Category: Kids Board Books | Series: Penguin Bedtime Classics Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is fill ...Show more