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War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Considered by many to the greatest novel ever written, Tolstoy's masterpiece is a story of family life set against the backdrop of war. The novel begins in 1805, in the crowded and gossip-filled rooms of a St Petersburg party, and follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Bolkonsky and Rostov families as ...Show more
Washington Square by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. This novel interweaves the public and private faces of nineteenth-century New York society; it is also a ...Show more
Waterloo : Little Black Classic by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 125
'Brave Frenchmen, will you not surrender?' Cambronne answered, 'Merde!' A tense, dramatic account of the Battle of Waterloo - and how a rain shower changed history - from Victor Hugo's epic novel Les Misérables. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the firs ...Show more
Watermark: an Essay on Venice by Joseph Brodsky
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor". ("Wall Street Journal"). "Watermark" is Joseph Brodsky's witty, intelligent, moving and elegant portrait of Venice. Looking at every aspect of the city, from it ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
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Category: Art | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
We Belong to Gaia by James Lovelock
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Category: Penguin Green Ideas | Series: Penguin Non Fiction Classics
James Lovelock draws on decades of wisdom to lay out the history of our remarkable planet, to show that it is not ours to be exploited - and warns us that it is fighting back. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers a ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
When I Was Old by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty'. Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly ideas that pass through my head', ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. Two devastating Russian stories of solitude, unrequited love and depravity from beyond the grave. Film adaptations have been made by Italian ...Show more
Why I Am so Clever : Little Black Classic by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 102
Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether? Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Seais edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress An ...Show more