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The Honourable Schoolboy (Smiley's People #6) by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In the second part of John le Carré's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension. George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its hist ...Show more
The Iliad (Homer) Translated by Robert Fagles by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A work of tremendous influence that has inspired writers from his ancient Greek contemporaries to modernist writers such as T.S. Eliot, Homer's epic poem "The Iliad" is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in "Penguin Classics". One of the foremost achievements in W ...Show more
The Iliad (Penguin Classic) by Homer (Translated by Rieu)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An accessible Iliad for twenty-first-century readers A classic of Western literature for three millennia, Homer's Iliad captivates modern readers--as it did ancient listeners--with its tale of gods and warriors at the siege of Troy. Now Herbert Jordan's line-for-line translation brilliantly renders the ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. Includes Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy and ...Show more
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sending shockwaves through the world of Barsetshire. The Crawleys desperately try to remain dignified while they are shunned by society, but the scandal threatens to tear them, and the c ...Show more
The Last Demon by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I, a demon, bear witness that there are no more demons left. Why demons, when man himself is a demon? Why persuade to evil someone who is already convinced? I am the last of the persuaders'. Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the Nobel Prize in 1978, is best-remembered for his humane and moving short stori ...Show more
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in "Penguin Classics". Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when ...Show more
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle Hailed by Dante as "the master of those who know," the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) surveyed every field of learning known to the ancient world and pioneered the sciences of psychology and logic. A disciple of Plato and the tutor to Alexander the Great, Aristot ...Show more
The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories by Henry Lawson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson has become part of the Australian national psyche, and his short stories and verse have come to affect how Australian's view their country.Yet at his best Lawson transcends even the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub ...Show more
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just society. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system rouse his fellow men from their political quietism. A masterpi ...Show more
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Stevenson's famous exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a morality tale, this dark psychological fantasy is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution, cri ...Show more