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A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court

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Author: Dan Beard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Author: Mark Twain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures...
Sketches from a Hunter's Album

Sketches from a Hunter's Album

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Author: Ivan Turgenev Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Turgenev s first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of the author...
Fathers and Sons

Fathers and Sons

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Author: Ivan Turgenev & Tatyana Tolstaya (Afterword) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in...
Arthurian Romances

Arthurian Romances

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Author: Chretien Troyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chretien...
Framley Parsonage

Framley Parsonage

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Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to...
The Warden

The Warden

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Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Anthony Trollope's The Warden is the first of his well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, edited with an introduction and notes...
Phineas Redux

Phineas Redux

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Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Completes the set of six 'Palliser' novels available in Penguin Classics. In the fourth of the 'Palliser' stories, Trollope...
The Last Chronicle of Barset

The Last Chronicle of Barset

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Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sending...
The Way We Live Now

The Way We Live Now

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Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, edited with...
Resurrection

Resurrection

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'You want to use me to save your soul . . . You disgust me' Serving on the jury...
How Much Land Does a Man Need? & Other Stories

How Much Land Does a Man Need? & Other Stories

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and...
Master and Man and Other Stories

Master and Man and Other Stories

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles...
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...
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 "Each phase of life has its own love" In these four stories, Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) depicts desire...
War And Peace

War And Peace

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1440 The acclaimed new translation of Tolstoy's masterpiece, for the first time in Black Classics after the successful hardback and...
A Confession and Other Religious Writings

A Confession and Other Religious Writings

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional...
Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America

Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America

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Author: Alexis Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 Unique to this edition is a translation of Tocqueville's other American writings-Two Weeks in the Wilderness and The Excursion...
History of the Peloponnesian War

History of the Peloponnesian War

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Author: Thucydides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens...
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 Letters of the Younger Pliny

The Letters of the Younger Pliny

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Author: The Younger Pliny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pliny's letters provide a series of fascinating views on imperial Rome A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c....
Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

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Author: William Thackeray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky...
My Inventions and Other Writings

My Inventions and Other Writings

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Author: Nikola Tesla Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Nikola Tesla's life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor's mind knew...
Selected Poems: Tennyson

Selected Poems: Tennyson

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Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years in the literary career of one of the nineteenth...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: Rabindranath Tagore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature,...
Agricola and Germania

Agricola and Germania

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Author: Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Agricolais both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected...
Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels

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Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose...
Zeno's Conscience

Zeno's Conscience

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Author: Italo Svevo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A marvel of psychological insight from one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth century This...
The History of Mr Polly

The History of Mr Polly

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Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job...
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...
The Red and the Black

The Red and the Black

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Author: Stendhal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Stendhal's dark, compelling tale of one man's descent into glamorous, greedy French society Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to...
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 Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

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Author: A. Spearing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Contains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle...
Sanshiro

Sanshiro

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Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jay Rubin's translation of Soseki's cherished novel, new to Penguin Classics One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction,...
Electra and Other Plays

Electra and Other Plays

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Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Demonstrating Sophocles' aptitude for humanising figures from Greek myth and transforming simple fables into complex high tragedy, Electra and Other...
The Theban Plays

The Theban Plays

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Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle aginst fate....
The Talmud: A Selection

The Talmud: A Selection

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Author: Norman Solomon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 The Talmud is one of the most significant religious texts in the world, second only to the Bible in...
The Little Demon

The Little Demon

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Author: Fyodor Sologub Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'He wanted to do something to her, be it pleasant or painful, tender or shameful - but what? Should...
The Mahabharata

The Mahabharata

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Author: John D. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 New selection and translation of the great epic story of ancient India, revealing a mythic world of bloody...
The Wealth of Nations: Books IV-V

The Wealth of Nations: Books IV-V

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Author: Adam Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Smith's THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of...
The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III

The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III

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Author: Adam Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid 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...
The School for Scandal and Other Plays

The School for Scandal and Other Plays

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Author: Richard Sheridan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The three plays collected in this volume demonstrate Sheridan's unerring ability to create unrivalled comedy out of ingenious plots,...
Selected Poems and Prose

Selected Poems and Prose

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Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance...
Frankenstein

Frankenstein

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Author: Mary Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein leads the reader on an unsettling journey...
Man and Superman

Man and Superman

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Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the...
Pygmalion

Pygmalion

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Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale...