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Set in the immense landscape of the Great Plains, The Prairie (1827) addresses many questions raised by the penetration of the American west: the displacement of the Indians, the destruction...

Originally published in 1823, "The Pioneers" is the first of Cooper's five "Leatherstocking Tales", and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town...

Set in Provence in the waning years of the French Revolution, the book centres on the experiences of Peyrol, an exile who is drawn into the lives of the inhabitants...

Although Wilkie Collins is remembered primarily as the bestselling creator of the vogue for "Sensation fiction" in the 1860s, he was also prolific in many genres apart from the full-length...

This dictionary is designed for English and Italian students, holiday makers and business people. It contains 45,000 words and phrases (including some slang and technical jargon), lists of regular and...

A collection of correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke, Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetayeva. Published for the first time in English, these 49 letters examine their thought and work, the nature...

This novel involves three expatriate Englishmen teaching in Egypt toward the end of King Farouk's glittering, corrupt reign. As a portrayal of English academics abroad, the book is full of...

These stories are translated with an Introduction by Ronald Hingley.

This book examines the opinions and influences, idiosyncrasies and personalities of writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Kingsley Amis, Cervantes and Milan Kundera. Professor Miller discusses and defends the profession...

Two women, bound by a shocking event, drawn to a vast and beautiful country they cannot forget. Kate Carrington has cut all ties with Africa, the land of her birth....

Le Carre shows espionage at its best and worst in this novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic...

This volume includes A Simple Heart, The legend of St Julian Hospitator and Herodias. These three pieces of fiction by the 19th-century French naturalist are introduced by an essay describing...

The book titled The Duke's Children by the author Anthony Trollope. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'since the day on which he had accepted place and retired from London, his very soul had sighed for the lost glories of Westminster and Douning Street' After the death...

The book titled The Eustace Diamonds by the author Anthony Trollope. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Vendee, La by the author Anthony Trollope. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Rudolph Rassendyl's quiet life is interrupted by his unexpected and personal involvement in the affairs of Ruritania, whilst travelling through the town of Zenda, finding himself engaged in plans to...

InRuth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter...

A historical adventure reminiscent of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley romances, Cooper's novel centers on Harvey Birch, a common man wrongly suspected of being a spy for the British. For more...

An understated, charged novel by the groundbreaking playwright and novelist, Elizabeth Inchbald In scenes charged with understated erotic tension, A Simple Story - by groundbreaking playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald...

Mrs Gereth is convinced that Fleda Vetch would make the perfect daughter-in-law. Only the dreamy, highly-strung young woman can genuinely appreciate, and perhaps eventually share, Mrs Gereth's passion for her...

Penguin Classics relaunch. The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century....

Goldsmith's only novel is a comic and intelligent work, following the travels of the Vicar of Wakefield, Dr Primrose When Dr Primrose loses his fortune in a disastrous investment, his...

This novel examines war and its psychological effect on the individual soldier, by following the exploits of a group of soldiers during the American Civil War.

Cooper undertook a "hazardous experiment" in resurrecting one of his most popular characters, for he had killed off Bumppo in his previous incarnation. This book is noted as a classic...

There were three unexpected deaths that summer. After Letitia died, her husband decided to bring in his mother-in-law to help with the baby. None of the likely nannies had proved...

The book titled Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait by the author Henry Green. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the seed of an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, this book recreates the world of the secret agent. The world of law and order is mirrored...

Seventh-century Arabia, although fragmented and in many respects primitive, was moving from a nomadic towards a settled economy, despite the restraints of tribal anarchy. The ideology of Islam - calling...

The book titled The Hireling by the author L. P. Hartley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Bostonians by the author Henry James. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The author reviews what he considers to be the new generation of programmers. In doing so he aims to help programmers understand the new technologies, industries and applications they should...

With sympathy and care, Trollope observes the romances of two controversial heroines in the first of his Palliser novels 'Anthony Trollope knew more about women than any other novelist of...

The brand new Aristotle detective novel In the winter of 330-329 BC Athens itself suffers a series of alarming thefts and home robberies. It seems that nobody is safe. The...

A fresh look at Chaplin from the masterful Peter Ackroyd He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood,...

Maugham's brilliantly executed novel of the tensions and triumphs of performance, on stage and off Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she...

The first time Morris has written about himself since his autobiography "Animal Days" (1979). Desmond Morris wrote his autobiography "Animal Days" recounting his life up to 1967 when he published...

After 1944, Hitler's notorious book was not widely available until the hardback edition of this version appeared in 1969. This paperback edition is intended primarily for students of 20th century...

The shocking and hilarious novel of dating, sex, and distress in an average American suburb, now a major motion picture directed by Jason Reitman and starring Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner,...

"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own...

Challenges opinions about the Civil War general's presidency, explaining how Grant enabled the country to achieve a sense of post-war calm and applied constructive political strategies in favor of less...

A moving account of how war is remembered - and by whom 'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David...