Villette by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics
'That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol - blind, bloodless, and of granite core. I felt, too, that the trial God had appointed me was gaining its climax, and must now be turned by my own hands, hot, feeble, trembling as they ...Show more
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins. 'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop ...There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth ...stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'. "The Woma ...Show more
PRISONER OF LOVE by GENET JEAN BRAY BARBARA
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Category: Classics
Jean Genet's last book is a little-known masterpiece from the writer celebrated by Le Matin as 'one of the greatest French prose poets of this century'. Starting in 1970, Genet - petty thief, prostitute, modernist master - spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps. Always an outcast himself, Gene ...Show more
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestseller. The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short - and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to w ...Show more
Claudine at School (Claudine #1) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the lanky Anais, the cheerful Marie and the prim Joubert twins Claudine wreaks havoc on her small school. Always clever, witty and charming Claudine is more than a match for her formidable headmistress as they ...Show more
Crime and Punishment - A New Translation by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Michael R. Katz
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Category: Classics
Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and on our modern world. Declared a PBS "Great American Read," Michael Katz's sparkling new translation gives new life to the story of Raskolnikov, an impov ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
It is 1984. The world is in a state of perpetual war and Big Brother sees and controls all. Winston Smith, a member of the Outer Party and propaganda-writer at the Ministry of Truth, is keeping a journal he should not be keeping and falling in love with Julia, a woman he should not be seeing. Outwardly ...Show more
Confessions of Felix Krull by Thomas Mann
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Category: Classics
The late, great work of Thomas Mann - a comic novel of deception and misplaced confidence - back in print for the first time in over twenty years'The most astonishing work that Mann ever wrote and also one of the most perfect. . . with Felix Krullthe world receives from Thomas Mann the gift which German ...Show more
Lotte in Weimar by Thomas Mann
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Category: Classics
Thomas Mann's meditation on the power of literary representation and the tyranny of the writer's imagination, published in Vintage Classics for the first time. Mann's novel, written some 150 years after Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, follows Lotte Kestner, Goethe's real-life heroine, as she make ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Includes pictures and section on Dostoevsky's life and works The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical, and witty monologue ranges from general observations and phi ...Show more
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family, setting them against the emergence of modern England. This work examines the relationships and the conflicts they bring, and the inextricable mingling of the physical and the spiritual.
Lysistrata - Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley by Aristophanes; Samuel Smith (Translator); Aubrey Beardsley (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics
A Classic Available Again Aristophanes was the greatest writer of ancient Athenian "old comedy," known for its satires of contemporary life and for its broad, often obscene humor. "Lysistrata" was first produced in 411 BC, when the Peloponnesian War had been devastating Greece for 20 years. Most people ...Show more