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The Woodlanders

The Woodlanders

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Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the...
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms

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Author: Luo Guanzhong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels, this is the epic story of...
The Diary of a Nobody

The Diary of a Nobody

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Author: George Grossmith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Channelling a razor-sharp satire through the everyday mishaps of the immortal comic character Mr Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith's...
Dead Souls

Dead Souls

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Author: Nikolay Gogol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange' Vladimir Nabokov Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in...
Wives and Daughters

Wives and Daughters

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Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters is a story of romance, scandal and intrigue within the confines of a watchful,...
Sylvia's Lovers

Sylvia's Lovers

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Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Elizabeth Gaskell's only historical novel, Sylvia's Lovers, is set in 1790 in the seaside town of Monkshaven (Whitby) where...
North and South

North and South

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Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skilfully weaves a compelling love...
On Tangled Paths

On Tangled Paths

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Author: Theodor Fontane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Lene is a beautiful, orphaned young seamstress, and Botho is a handsome, aristocratic cavalry officer. They are in love,...
No Way Back

No Way Back

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Author: Theodor Fontane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'I'm not interested in war stories, they're always the same, always somebody collapsing mortally wounded and saying long live...
Effi Briest

Effi Briest

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Author: Theodor Fontane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her...
Three Tales

Three Tales

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Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and...
Sentimental Education

Sentimental Education

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Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The story of a life-long infatuation, which is seen by many as Flaubert's masterpiece Sentimental Education begins with the...
Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

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Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century....
The History of Tom Jones

The History of Tom Jones

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Author: Henry Fielding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in...
Uncle Silas

Uncle Silas

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Author: J. Le Fanu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as...
Middlemarch

Middlemarch

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Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community....
Silas Marner

Silas Marner

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Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Penguin Classics Relaunch. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver...
Romola

Romola

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Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years...
Felix Holt: The Radical

Felix Holt: The Radical

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Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the...
Daniel Deronda

Daniel Deronda

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Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She...
Adam Bede

Adam Bede

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Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival,...
Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland

Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland

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Author: Vidar Hreinsson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'The axe bit well and the head went flying off and landed some distance away. Then Thorgeir rode off'...
The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip

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Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 New translation by Robin Buss, with chronology, further reading, explanatory notes. Set at the height of the "tulipomania" that...
Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 Charles Dickens's last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend is a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society, edited...
Martin Chuzzlewit

Martin Chuzzlewit

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Charles Dickens's powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy and greed, Martin Chuzzlewit is edited with an introduction and notes...
Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 One of the touchstones of the English comic novel, the Penguin Classics edition of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby is...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery...
Barnaby Rudge

Barnaby Rudge

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 This edition is based on the first one-volume publication of Barnaby Rudge, reproducing all the original illustrations. Appendices include...
David Copperfield

David Copperfield

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Author: H.K. Browne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, David Copperfield is...
Hard Times

Hard Times

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A damning indictment of Utlilitarianism and the dehumanising influence of the Industrial Revolution, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is edited...
Selected Short Fiction

Selected Short Fiction

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of...
Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

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Author: Daniel Defoe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Penguin Classics relaunch. With Robinson Crusoe, Defoe wrote what is regarded as the first English novel, and created one...
Bel-ami

Bel-ami

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Author: Guy Maupassant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is translated...
Selected Short Stories

Selected Short Stories

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Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes...
History of the Thirteen

History of the Thirteen

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Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in...
Ursule Mirouet

Ursule Mirouet

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Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Part of his panorama of French life La Comedie Humaine, it is a touching portrayal of innocence and...
Old Man Goriot

Old Man Goriot

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Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'So many mysteries in one boarding house!' Not everyone who lodges with Madame Vauquer is quite what they...
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

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Author: William Harvey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Offering unexpurgated translations of the best-loved tales, including such classics as 'Sindbad the Sailor', Tales from the Thousand and...
Against Nature

Against Nature

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Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against Nature (A...
Victory: An Island Tale

Victory: An Island Tale

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Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Conrad's last great novel, featuring one of his most fascinating heroes, Victory is a psychological thriller, a tragic romance...
Armadale

Armadale

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Author: Wilkie Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins's Armadale was regarded by T.S. Eliot as 'the...
The Woman in White

The Woman in White

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Author: Wilkie Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, the first Victorian 'sensation novel' and one of the earliest mystery novels in...
Selected Works

Selected Works

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Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary and oratorical...
The Awakening and Selected Stories

The Awakening and Selected Stories

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Author: Kate Chopin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Awakening and Selected Stories is Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations...
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki

Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki

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Author: Meredith McKinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 New to Penguin Classics, these two Japanese texts are timeless reflections on Buddhism, nature and the value of being...
Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons

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Author: Choderlos de Laclos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning...
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91

The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91

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Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A collection of eight of Chekhov's finest early stories. This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young...
The Shooting Party

The Shooting Party

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Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 New to Penguin Classics, this is Chekhov's only full-length novel When a young woman dies during a shooting party...