Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
In 1855 Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. The volume received great praise from leading Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This encouraged what would become a lifelong project as Whitman expanded and rewrote the volume until his death in 1892. Whitman's inn ...Show more
The Tower by W. B. Yeats
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
The Tower was W. B. Yeats's first major collection of poetry as Nobel Laureate after the receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of his most influential collections. The title refers to Thoor Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower that Yeats purchased in 1917 and later restored. The Tower ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none'. Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, "Oliver Twist" features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction - the treacherous g ...Show more
Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales (Penguin English Library) by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'...an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...' Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales, including - among others - the ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. 'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!' Described by Dickens as 'the best story I have written', "A Tale of Two Cities" interweaves thrilling historical dr ...Show more
M R James - Ghost Stories by M R James
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
The voice - it was little more than a whisper - sounded so hoarse and angry, and yet as if it came from a long, long way off . . . 'The aim of a good ghost story is to make the blood freeze, pleasurably, and this M. R. James achieves to perfection in these wonderful stories. His most atmospheric setting ...Show more
A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtBy Mark TwainAn extravagant but cleverly planned burlesque that works as a condemnation of Chivalry, one of Twain's chief aversions...
The Suffragettes : Little Black Classic by Various
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.' A potted history of the women who pioneered feminism and changed the world. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ...Show more
The Sea Raiders : Little Black Classic by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
"...slowly uncoiling their tentacles...and making a soft purring sound to each other." This is a disgusting account of a school of giant squid attacking a seaside resort, and two other examples of Wells' extraordinary imagination at work - 'The Magic Shop' and 'The Land Ironclads'. This is one of 46 new ...Show more
The Frogs : Little Black Classic by Aristophanes
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Ko-ax, ko-ax, ko-ax!Now listen, you musical twerps,I don't give a damn for your burps!' A biting comedy from the great Ancient Greek playwright. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of ...Show more
Daphnis and Chloe : Little Black Classic by Longus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'This only they knew, that the kiss had destroyed him and the bath had destroyed her.' In this beautiful Ancient Greek tale, Daphnis and Chloe are the inexperienced goatherd and shepherd who must face pirates, rivals and the confusion of their own feelings to find true love. It is one of 46 new books in ...Show more
Seven Hanged : Little Black Classic by Leonid Andreyev
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.' This astonishing novella from 1908, newly translated for Little Black Classics by War and Peace translator Anthony B ...Show more