Three Tang Dynasty Poets: Little Black Classics: Pengiun 80s #9 by Wang Wei
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?' A generous selection from three of the greatest and most enjoyable of Chinese poets Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around ...Show more
Jack the Ripper by OTTO PENZLER
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Category: Classics
The predatory ritual, the escalating savegery of the crimes, the grisly trophies taken from his victim's bodies, the games played with his pursuers, the cannibalism: Jack the Ripper's reign of terror in London's East End during the autumn of 1888 casts a long shadow. Many have murdered more, but few hav ...Show more
My Inventions and Other Writings and Lectures - Nikolai Tesla by Nikola Tesla
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Category: Classics
This volume presents one of the richest and most comprehensive collections of writings by Nikolai Tesla, a founding figure of the modern electrical power industry and long-time rival of Thomas Edison. Included is Tesla's autobiography, My Inventions, and the lengthy philosophical essay "The Problem of I ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks
This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles that must be overcome on the path toward a harmonious unity of the sexes.
Old Nurse's Story: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #39 by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upon the window-glass...' A phantom child roams the Northumberland moors, while a host of fairytale characters gone to seed gather in the dark, dark woods in these two surprising tales of the uncanny from ...Show more
Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
With this new translation and selection, the unique inventiveness of Andersen's genius is revealed. At a time when children's stories were formal, moral and didactic, Hans Christian Andersen revolutionized the genre, giving an anarchic twist to traditional folklore and creating a huge number of utterly ...Show more
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian'This Room Guaranteed BOMB-FREE. From the Management' Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound, overpopulated Costa Rica, holed up with an assortment of scientists in a luxur ...Show more
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accide ...Show more
Happening by Annie Ernaux
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Category: Classics
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child.This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. I ...Show more
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Fall Of The Roman Republic by Plutarch
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Category: Classics
Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from The Lives, a series of biographies spanning the Graeco-Roman age ...Show more
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by ROBERT L. STEVENSON
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York. In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of m ...Show more