The Day of Judgement by Salvatore Satta
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Category: Classics
At precisely nine o'clock, as he did every evening, Don Sebastiano Sanna Carboni pushed back his armchair, carefully folded the newspaper which he had read to the very last line, tidied up the little things on his desk, and prepared to go down to the ground floor...Around the turn of the twentieth centu ...Show more
The Lost Europeans by Emanuel Livitnoff
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Category: Classics
Coming back was worse, much worse, than Martin Stone had anticipated. Martin Stone returns to the city from which his family was driven in 1938. He has concealed his destination from his father, and hopes to win some form of restitution for the depressed old man living in exile in London. THE LOST EUROP ...Show more
The Enchiridion of Epictetus by Epictetus Epictetus
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Category: Classics
No writings of Epictetus himself are really known. His discourses were transcribed and compiled by his pupil Arrian (author of the Anabasis Alexandri). The main work is The Discourses, four books of which have been preserved (out of an original eight). Arrian also compiled a popular digest, entitled the ...Show more
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics
Doctor Thorne was considered by Trollope to be the best of his works - a profound examination of the relationship between money and love, as it shifts away from the city of Barchester to a more rural setting. Frank Gresham is bankrupt and in love. Unfortunately, the woman he loves, Mary Thorne, is illeg ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faith ...Show more
For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
For the Term of his Natural Life by Marcus Clarke. For the Term of His Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Life), appearing as a novel in 1874. It is the best known novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian his ...Show more
Henry IV: Part Two: Black Penguin Classics by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics
Continuing the saga begun in Henry IV Part I, William Shakespeare's history play Henry IV Part II charts the continuing evolution of Prince Hal from roguish troublemaker to noble ruler of men. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Peter Davison with an introduction by Adrian Poole. Angered by th ...Show more
Henry IV: Part One: Black Penguin Classics by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics
A history play alternating between the high drama of court life and the earthy comedy of the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap, William Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I is a masterful drama of a prodigal son rising to meet his destiny. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Peter Davison with an intro ...Show more
Julia Paradise by Jones Rod
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
He would relive for a long time everything she said to him in the room at the mission. He would recall the way her voice had grown thicker and thicker, and how her head had begun to hang to one side from the exhaustion of her telling, and how he made himself face the photograph of the dead child...Shang ...Show more
Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
First published in the 1920's, "The Prophet" an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, the book is perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the Twentieth Century and has sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. Gibran's protagonist, called simply 'the "Prophet"', delivers ...Show more
Against the Grain ( Rebours) by Joris Karl Huysmans
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Category: Classics
Described as A Novel Without a Plot J. K. Huysman's Against the Grain ( Rebours) is a relatively simple story. It concerns the seclusion of one Des Esseintes, the last member of a once powerful and noble family. Having lived an extremely decadent life, Des Esseintes finds himself disgusted with human so ...Show more
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the emotional journey of a young man who, during a stay in a picturesque German village, falls in love with Lotte, a local woman engaged to another man. As he realizes that his pas ...Show more