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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Category: Default | Series: Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?' The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarc ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
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Category: Erotica | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Awakening originally titled, A Solitary Soul, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions'. A searing, shocking tale of women as consumer items in a man's world, "The House of Mirth" sees Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of ...Show more
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, George Eliot
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Category: Default | Series: Penguin English Library
If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie? Tragic and moving, "The Mill on the Floss" is a novel of grand passions and tormented lives. As the rebellious Maggie's fiery spirit and imaginative nature bring her into bitter conflict with her narrow provincial family, most painfully with her ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Default | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins. 'Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man'. When Rachel Verinder's birthday present ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!' A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Os ...Show more
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
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Category: Default | Series: Penguin English Library
'He was constantly harassed with the idea, that the next time he lifted his eyes, he would to a certainty see that face, the most repulsive to all his feelings of aught the earth contained'. A nightmarish tale of religious fanaticism and darkness, this chilling classic of the macabre tells the tale of R ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
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Category: Default | Series: The Penguin English Library
'She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it'. In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a 'wicked woman' as the local gossips would have it, but as the estranged wife of a ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, H. G. Wells
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Category: Default | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare' Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scienti ...Show more
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
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Category: Default | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family, it is as much as can be expected'. Written with great humour, irony and honesty, "The Way of All Flesh" exploded perceptions of the Victorian middle-class family in its radical depiction of Erne ...Show more
Warden by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Default | Series: Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Warden by Anthony Trollope'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ... that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive corner of the world which been allotted to him ... made miserable ...Show more
Where Angels Fear to Tread: Penguin English Library by E. M. Forster
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Category: Default | Series: The Penguin English Library
'I had got an idea that everyone here spent their lives in making little sacrifices for objects they didn't care for, to please people they didn't love; that they never learned to be sincere - and, what's as bad, never learned how to enjoy themselves'. E. M. Forster's first novel is a witty comedy of ma ...Show more