Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin F. Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection | Reading Level: very good
These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Category: Classics
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slaver ...Show more
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: Faber Stories by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Classics | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. 'It i ...Show more
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics
A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino's incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous masterwork.You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replac ...Show more
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places; brilliant and pl ...Show more
Victim (Faber Stories) by P. D. JAMES
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Category: Classics | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened. He said in a harsh voice: "He married your wife, didn't he? Took her away from you some people might say. Nice piece of goods, too, by the look of her. Didn't you feel ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Heroines
"At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Bront '"-Virginia Woolf "Given the action of Jane Eyre, which is in every sense dramatic, there is a pull, all the same, between action and consciousness." -Raymond Williams "Teaching the true s ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. Today, more than fifty years after its first appearance, we can see that ...Show more
Dante and the Lobster (Faber Stories) by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Classics | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not. 'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett's first book, More Pricks Than Kicks . Published in 1934, its style was recognisably indebted to that of his mentor, James Joyce, and crammed with li ...Show more
The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes
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Category: Classics | Series: Faber Stories Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.' In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo. A fourteen-year-old girl pla ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Edith Grossman (translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart. But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, nine months and four days - Florentino has another chance to ...Show more