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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A History of the Crusades II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187

A History of the Crusades II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187

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Author: Steven Runciman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

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Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful...
Because They Wanted To

Because They Wanted To

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Author: Mary Gaitskill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A bestselling collection of short stories from the American master storyteller Mary Gaitskill, author of Bad Behavior First published...
The Convenient Marriage: A sparkling Regency romance from the classic author

The Convenient Marriage: A sparkling Regency romance from the classic author

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Author: Georgette Heyer (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A stunning, commercially-focused reissue of a Georgette Heyer backlist classic, perfect for fans of The Crown and ITV's...
Berlin Finale

Berlin Finale

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Author: Heinz Rein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of...
Elizabeth and her German Garden

Elizabeth and her German Garden

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Author: Elizabeth von Arnim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series. 'Oh, my dear, relations are...
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The Penguin English Library Edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "What do you think that is?' she asked...
The Explorers: Text Classics

The Explorers: Text Classics

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Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving...
Six Thinking Hats: Popular Penguins

Six Thinking Hats: Popular Penguins

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Author: Edward de Bono Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats is the groundbreaking psychology manual that has inspired organisations and individuals all...
Burmese Days

Burmese Days

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Orwell's first novel, a devastating account of colonial rule in Burma, in a stunning new cover look for his...
The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel

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Author: Baroness Baroness Orczy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series. 'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel...
Summer Will Show

Summer Will Show

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Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Sylvia Townsend Warner's tale of a Victorian woman's love for her husband's mistress is an extraordinary re-imagining of...
The Fall

The Fall

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Based around a series of blistering confessions, The Fall was described by Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and...
The Drinking Den

The Drinking Den

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Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 One of the great works of 19th century Realism, and one of Zola's best-known novels Set in the taverns...
A History of My Times

A History of My Times

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Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of...
The Complete Short Fiction

The Complete Short Fiction

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Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar...
The Island of Doctor Moreau

The Island of Doctor Moreau

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Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by...
Elective Affinities

Elective Affinities

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Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate....
Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days

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Author: Jules Verne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in...
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th Edition)

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th Edition)

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Author: Dr Geza Vermes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Discovered on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in the decade after the Second World War, the...
The Cossacks and Other Stories

The Cossacks and Other Stories

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a...
Arabian Sands

Arabian Sands

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Author: Wilfred Thesiger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Wilfred Thesiger spent five years wandering the deserts of Arabia, producing Arabian Sands,...
The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden

The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden

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Author: Richard Stokes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 An anthology of some of the greatest poetry in the English language Poetry and music have been associated with...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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Author: Laurence Sterne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorise it. Part novel, part...
Ethics

Ethics

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Author: Benedict de Spinoza Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the...
The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book

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Author: Sei Shonagon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From short tales to lists of beautiful and ugly things, Sei Shonagon tells of a leisurely life in the...
Pericles

Pericles

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Pericles, Prince of Tyre, must solve a riddle in order to marry, or be put to death. But when...
As You Like It

As You Like It

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Shakespeare's most sunny, fast-paced and accessible comedies,As You Like Itis an exuberant combination of concealed identities and...
A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In one of Shakespeare's most perennially popular comedies, slapstick collides with courtly romance and confusion ends in harmony, as...
Othello

Othello

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 In this tragedy of strange, ornate beauty and remarkable psychological power, innocence is corrupted, and goodness and happiness are...
The Rise of the Roman Empire

The Rise of the Roman Empire

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Author: Polybius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to...
The Stonewall Reader

The Stonewall Reader

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Author: Jason Baumann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the...