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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. "Every idiot who goes around with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding". Charles Dickens' tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Chri ...Show more
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.'After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for th ...Show more
Animal Farm (Penguin English Library) by George Orwell
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a l ...Show more
At the Mountains of Madness by H P Lovecraft
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
At the Mountains of Madness H.P. LovecraftOn an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in thes ...Show more
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'"Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them" ' Taking respite from the Man of Wrath, her children and her stifling household, Elizabeth discovers that the pa ...Show more
Howards End by E M Forster
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. We rich can'. 'Only connect' is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich ...Show more
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
An epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, and perhaps his greatest long work, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Rudyard Kipling's "Kim" is edited with an introduction by Harish Trivedi, and includes a general preface by Jan Montefiore. Kim, orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor white ...Show more
Kim (Penguin English Library) by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: New Children's Novels | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'He knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in glove with men who led lives stranger than anything Haroun al Raschid dreamed of; and he lived in a life wild as that of the Arabian Nights...' Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in Ind ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: New Children's Novels | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.'Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pur ...Show more
Sanditon by Jane Austen
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
Jane Austen's Last, Unfinished Novel "I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt." ? Jane Austen, Sanditon Set in 19th century England, Jane Austen's last novel was completed by another author after her death. While it is still de ...Show more
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
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Category: No Category | Series: The Penguin English Library
'In the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions...I loved you madly'. Dickens' last novel is a mystery built around a presumed crime - the murder of a nephew by his uncle. Dickens died before completing the story, leaving the mystery u ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!' A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Os ...Show more