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Howards End by E M Forster
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
'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
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
An epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, and perhaps his greatest long work, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Rudyard Kipling's "Kim" is edited with an introduction by Harish Trivedi, and includes a general preface by Jan Montefiore. Kim, orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor white ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'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
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin'My hour is come . . . the clock of eternity is about to strike, but its knell must be unheard by mortal ears!'This violent, profound, baroque and blackly humorous novel is the story of Melmoth, who has sold his soul in exchan ...Show more
Middlemarch by George Eliot
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Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day'. George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?' Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move ...Show more
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
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Category: Classics | Series: English Library
'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign'. To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay "On Liberty" is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who or ...Show more
Peter Pan (Penguin English Library) by James Matthew Barrie
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'All children, except one, grow up.'It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the backyard. The poor dog was barking, for she could smell danger. And she was right - this was the night that Peter Pan would take the Darling children on the most breath-taking advent ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes...' ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe. 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ...reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one ...Show more
Silas Marner by George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Silas Marner" by George Eliot. "God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine: you've no right to her!" Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Sila ...Show more