The Harp in the South Trilogy by Ruth Park
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Ruth Park . . . that steady glow at the heart of Australian literature.' Ruth CracknellThree of Ruth Park's best loved books - Missus, The Harp in the Southand Poor Man's Orange- are brought together in this volume, tracing the saga of the Darcy family over thirty years. The story has its beginnings in ...Show more
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea by Randolph Stow
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from his world of aunties and cousins and the beautiful, dry landscape of Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite, older cousin, Rick, leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. When he returns from the war years later, he ha ...Show more
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: CLASSICS
More unforgettable Sherlock Holmes mysteries for fans of the hit movies. Sherlock Holmes, the world's best-known and most-loved fictional detective, is more popular today than ever. This collection presents many of the most familiar cases Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, ever solve, including "Sil ...Show more
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales by Kathryn Bernheimer
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Category: CLASSICS
The fairy tale lives again in these forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Aimee Bender, Kelly Link, Lydia Millet, and more than thirty other extraordinary writers celebrate fairy tales in this thrilling volume-the ultimate literary costum ...Show more
Black Beauty (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Anna Sewell
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Category: CLASSICS
Although his mother warns him that there are 'bad, cruel men? in the world, he begins his life in a happy home, with a friendly groom to look after him and plenty to eat. However, when a change of circumstances means that he is sold, he soon discovers the truth of his mother?s words. Anna Sewell?s movin ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
This is a dramatic, moving depiction of social defiance and social deference, of passion and human frailty. Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tens ...Show more
Classic Sherlock Holmes: Complete and Unabridged by DOYLE SIR ARTHUR CONAN
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Category: CLASSICS
In four novels and fifty-six short stories, the exciting adventures of Baker Street's most famous resident - Sherlock Holmes. Known and loved for over a century, this shrewd amateur detective, with the faithful Watson by his side, has delighted readers across the world. This handsome omnibus edition sta ...Show more
Classic Lewis Carroll: Complete and Unabridged by CARROLL LEWIS
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Category: CLASSICS
Nonsense stories, verses, puzzles and games from the world of Lewis Carroll. Here are the nonsense classics and the unforgettable characters created by that witty, enigmatic mathematician who wrote under the name of Lewis Carroll. This omnibus edition contains a treasure-house of stories, poems, games a ...Show more
The Penguin Book of the Beach by Robert Drewe
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Category: CLASSICS
Draws together twenty-five of the finest contemporary writers whose stories represent the most stimulating, startling, deeply moving and humorous writing about the beach. This book includes contributions from: Paul Bowles, Italo Calvino, Raymond Carver, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nadine Gordimer, Ian McEwa ...Show more
Peter Pan: Peter and Wendy and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Classics
Peter Pan, the "boy who would not grow up", originally appeared as a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J.M. Barrie's sequence of stories, "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens". His later role as flying boy hero was brought to the stage by Barrie in the beloved play "Peter Pan", which ope ...Show more
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: CLASSICS
This is the story of sixteen-year-old David Balfour, an orphan, who after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle manages to escape and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Her last completed novel, marrying witty social realism to a 'Cinderella' love story, Jane Austen's "Persuasion" is edited with an introduction by Gillian Beer in "Penguin Classics". Anne Elliot, twenty-seven and still single, seems destined for spinsterhood. In her youth, she broke off an engagement to ...Show more