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The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

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Author: J. D. Salinger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century - reissued in a stunning hardback design to celebrate the Salinger...
The Small House at Allington

The Small House at Allington

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Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that...
The Decameron

The Decameron

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Author: Giovanni Boccaccio Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1072 Penguin Classics relaunch. In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take...
The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

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Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 What little girl can turn a whole household upside down and breath new life back into a strange,...
Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies. 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy...
Les Miserables

Les Miserables

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Author: Victor Hugo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1376 'Still grips the reader with its epic-narrative sweep and all-embracing humanitarianism' Douglas Kennedy, Sunday Times With an introduction by...
The Iliad

The Iliad

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Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYA stunning new translation of Homer's great...
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

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Author: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Paradise Lost was the first literary work in English written on a planetary scale... In sublimity and magnitude, it...
Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...
Notes From Underground

Notes From Underground

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Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Notes from Underground establishing Dostoevsky's reputation as the most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in...
Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1040 Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son is a darkly witty tale of two siblings' struggle to achieve happiness in the...
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Pip doesn't expect much from life . . . His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing...
Orlando: Popular Penguins

Orlando: Popular Penguins

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Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 274 Orlando, deciding not to grow old, pursues his quest for passion, adventure, fulfilment and protracted youth. Chasing a dream...
Sketches by Boz

Sketches by Boz

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz foreshadows his novels in its profusion of characters, its glimpses of surreal modernity and...
She

She

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Author: H. Rider Haggard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Drawing on his fascination with African lore and his love of adventure to create a seminal work of...
Little Women

Little Women

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Author: Louisa May Alcott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four 'little women' enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England. The...
Emma

Emma

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Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either...
Kokoro

Kokoro

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Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Kokoro, meaning 'heart', is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom...
The Rainbow

The Rainbow

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Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The novel (1915) chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more...
The Man Who Would Be King: Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling

The Man Who Would Be King: Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling

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Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

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Author: John Tenniel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing...
A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his...
Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels

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Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Swift's brilliant and satirical classic, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by...
Persuasion

Persuasion

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Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by...
Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick

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Author: Herman Melville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as...
The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Author: Mark Twain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the...
Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

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Author: Charlotte Bronte Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 Charlotte Bronte's first published novel, Jane Eyre was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847. Part...
Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

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Author: Emily Bronte Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and...
Heart of Darkness: Popular Penguins

Heart of Darkness: Popular Penguins

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Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Marlow, a ferry-boat captain on foreign assignment in the Congo, searches for the legendary and feared Mr. Kurtz, unprepared...
Emma

Emma

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Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and...
Kangaroo

Kangaroo

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Author: D.H. Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A landmark D. H. Lawrence novel, considered to be among the best writing about Australia After the Great War,...
The Dickens Boy

The Dickens Boy

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Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In the late 1800s, rather than run the risk of your under-achieveing children tarnishing your reputation at home, you...
Juneteenth

Juneteenth

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Author: Ralph Ellison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Published after Ellison's death, his follow-up to Invisible Man is a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity....
The First Man

The First Man

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died...
The Plague

The Plague

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip...
Italian Folktales

Italian Folktales

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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and...
Nadja

Nadja

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Author: Andre Breton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 NADJA is a Surrealist romance, and has come to be known as a book which defined that movement's attitude...
The Bonfire of the Vanities

The Bonfire of the Vanities

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Author: Tom Wolfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 As influential as Martin Amis's MONEY and Oliver Stone's film WALL STREET, this is an exhilarating satire of Eighties...
Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 Penguin Classics Relaunch When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in...
Middlemarch

Middlemarch

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Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 Vintage Classics brings you one of the most admired, best loved and most influential novels in the history of...
The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh

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Author: N. Sandars Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature...
Botchan

Botchan

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Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'All right, I decided, if I couldn't win tonight, I'd win tomorrow. If I couldn't win tomorrow, I'd win...
The Italian

The Italian

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Author: Ann Radcliffe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he...
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

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Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), starring Leonardo DiCaprio...
Dracula

Dracula

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Author: Bram Stoker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker 'Alone with...
The Life of Samuel Johnson

The Life of Samuel Johnson

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Author: James Boswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of...