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A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library editionWhen Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead m ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. 'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!' Described by Dickens as 'the best story I have written', "A Tale of Two Cities" interweaves thrilling historical dr ...Show more
Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library edition As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but there are many stories here which would get the vote - ranging from The Boscombe Valley Mystery to the wonderful Adventure of Silver Blaze, from the Adventure of the Norwood Buil ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: No Category | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll '"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). "Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show'. Dickens' epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfield's extraordinary journey through life, as he ...Show more
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'"Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them" ' Taking respite from the Man of Wrath, her children and her stifling household, Elizabeth discovers that the pa ...Show more
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
Great Expectations (Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
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Category: SPECIAL ORDER | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. "What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her stick; 'that, where those cobwebs are?" "I can't guess what it is, ma'am." "It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!" "Great Expectations", Dickens' ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Category: CHILDREN'S CLASSICS | Series: Penguin English Library
'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a Mile distant'. A savage and hilarious satire, "Gulliver's Travels" sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift, subject to bizarre and ...Show more
Howards End by E M Forster
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. We rich can'. 'Only connect' is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself' Passionate, poetic and revolutionary, Jane Eyre is a novel of naked emotional power. Its story of a defiant, fiercely intelligent woman ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: CHILDREN'S CLASSICS | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.'Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pur ...Show more