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| "The Passion According to G.H" |
| "GH a well-to-do Rio sculptress enters the room of her maid which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed' There she sees a cockroach - black dusty prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and panicking slams the door on it Her irresistible fascination with the dying insect provokes a spiritual crisis in which she questions her place in the universe and her very identity propelling her towards an act of shocking transgression Clarice Lispector's spare deeply disturbing yet luminous novel transforms language into something otherworldly and is one of her most unsettling and compelling works Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown References to her literary work pervade the music and literature of Brazil and Latin America She was born in the Ukraine in 1920 but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War the family fled to Romania and eventually sailed to Brazil She published her first novel Near to the Wildheart in 1943 when she was just twenty-three and the next year was awarded the Graca Aranha Prize for the best first novel Many felt she had given Brazillian literature a unique voice in the larger context of Portuguese literature After living variously in Italy the UK Switzerland and the US in 1959 Lispector with her children returned to Brazil where she wrote her most influential novels including The Passion According to GH She died in 1977 shortly after the publication of her final novel The Hour of the Star"
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| "The Divine Comedy : Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso" |
| "Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy tracing Dante's journey from Hell to Purgatory and finally Paradise is published here for the first time in a single volume The volume includes a new introduction notes maps and diagrams and is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader who is coming to the great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first time The Divine Comedydescribes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love Beatrice; and finally his arrival in Heaven Examining questions of faith desire and enlightenment the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption 'The perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism likely to be the best modern version of Dante' - Bernard O'Donoghue'The most moving lines literature has achieved' - Jorge Luis Borges'This version is the first to bring together poetry and scholarship in the very body of the translation - a deeply-informed version of Dante that is also a pleasure to read' - Professor David Wallace University of PennsylvaniaIndividual editions of Robin Kirkpatrick's translation - Inferno Purgatorio and Paradiso - are also available in Penguin Classics and include Dante's Italian printed alongside the English text Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family His life was divided by political duties and poetry the most of famous of which was inspired by his meeting with Bice Portinari whom he called Beatrice including La Vita Nuova and The Divine Comedy He died in Ravenna in 1321Robin Kirkpatrick is a poet and widely-published Dante scholar He has taught courses on Dante's Divine Comedy in Hong Kong Dublin and Cambridge where is Fellow of Robinson College and Professor of Italian and English Literatures"
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| "A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition by Anthony Burgess (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat' explanatory notes pages from the original typescript interviews articles and reviewsEdited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis'It is a horrorshow story 'Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence He and his gang of friends rob kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses But what will his re-education mean?A dystopian horror a black comedy an exploration of choice A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it and includes a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat' explanatory notes pages from the original typescript interviews articles and reviews shedding light on the enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet and juicy criminality'Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University He spent six years in the British Army before becoming a schoolmaster and colonial education officer in Malaya and Brunei After the success of his Malayan Trilogy he became a full-time writer in 1959 His books have been published all over the world and they include The Complete Enderby Nothing Like the Sun Napoleon Symphony Tremor of Intent Earthly Powers and A Dead Man in Deptford Anthony Burgess died in London in 1993Andrew Biswell is the Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation His publications include a biography The Real Life of Anthony Burgess which won the Portico Prize in 2006 He is currently editing the letters and short stories of Anthony Burgess"
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| "Persuasion by Jane Austen (Hardback, 2011)" |
| "Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design At twenty-seven Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects Eight years earlier she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension but above all it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities"
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| "Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Hardback, 2011)" |
| "Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design During an eventful season at Bath young naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time She is delighted with her new acquaintances flirtatious Isabella who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney who invite her to their father's mysterious house Northanger Abbey There her imagination influenced by novels of sensation and intrigue Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine this is the most youthful and and optimistic of Jane Austen's works"
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| "The Outsider by Albert Camus (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "'My mother died today Or maybe yesterday I don't know'In The Outsider (1942) his classic existentialist novel Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms Meursault his anti-hero will not lie When his mother dies he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law Yet he is as much a victim as a criminalAlbert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurd and revolting against the injustice of society depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when faced with the 'tender indifference' of the world Sandra Smith's translation based on close listening to a recording of Camus reading his work aloud on French radio in 1954 sensitively renders the subtleties and dream-like atmosphere of L'EtrangerAlbert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist essayist and playwright is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century His most famous works include The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) The Plague (1947) The Just (1949) The Rebel (1951) and The Fall (1956) He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 and his last novel The First Man unfinished at the time of his death appeared in print for the first time in 1994 and was published in English soon after by Hamish HamiltonSandra Smith was born and raised in New York City and is a Fellow of Robinson College University of Cambridge where she teaches French Literature and Language She has won the French American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize"
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| "Big Sur by Jack Kerouac (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die' so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast The resulting novel in which his autobiographical hero Jack Duluoz wrestles with doubt alcohol dependency and his urge towards self-destruction is one of Kerouac's most personal and searingly honest works Ending with the poem 'Sea Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur' it shows a man coming down from his hedonistic youth and trying to come to terms with fame the world and himself"
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| "Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile by Francoise Sagan (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "Sylish shimmering and amoral Sagan's tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera was her masterpiece published when she was just eighteen However this frank and explicit novella was considered too daring for 1950s Britain and sexual scenes were removed for the English publication Now this fresh and accurate new translation presents the uncensored text in full for the first timeBonjour Tristesse tells the story of Cecile who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until one hot summer on the Riviera he decides to remarry - with devastating consequences In A Certain Smile which is also included in this volume Dominique a young woman bored with her lover begins an encounter with an older man that unfolds in unexpected and troubling waysBoth novellas have been freshly translated by Heather Lloyd and include an introduction by Rachel Cusk Heather Lloyd has also written a new afterword for this edition Francoise Sagan was born in France in 1935 Bonjour tristesse (1954) published when she was just 19 became a succes de scandale and even earned its author a papal denunciation Sagan went on to write many other novels plays and screenplays and died in 2004Heather Lloyd was previously Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow and has published work on both Bonjour tristesse and Francoise SaganRachel Cusk is the author of Saving Agnes (1993) which won the Whitbread First Novel Award; A Life's Work On Becoming a Mother (2001); and Arlington Park (2006) shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction Her most recent book is Aftermath On Marriage and Separation (2012)'Funny thoroughly immoral and thoroughly French' The Times"
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| "Persuasion by Jane Austen (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Persuasion by Jane Austen'Her attachment and regrets had for a long time clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect'Persuasion Jane Austen's last novel is a moving masterly and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities It tells the story of Anne Elliot who persuaded to break off her engagement to the man she loved because he was not successful enough has never forgotten him When he returns he brings with him a tantalizing second chance of happiness The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte'The more solitary the more friendless the more unsustained I am the more I will respect myself'Passionate poetic and revolutionary Jane Eyre is a novel of naked emotional power Its story of a defiant fiercely intelligent woman who refuses to accept her appointed place in society - and instead finds love on her own terms - has become famous as one of the greatest romances ever written but it is also a brooding Gothic mystery a profound depiction of character and a transformative work of the imaginationThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins'Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man'When Rachel Verinder's birthday present - the Moonstone a large Indian diamond - is stolen at her party suspicion and the diamond's mysterious curse seem set to ruin everyone and everything she loves Only Sergeant Cuff's famous detective skills offer any hope of peace and a future for them all The intricate plot and modern technique of multiple narrators made Wilkie Collin's 1868 work a huge success in the Victorian sensation genre With a reconstruction of the crime red herrings and a 'locked-room' puzzle The Moonstone was also a major precursor of the modern mystery novelThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens"What do you think that is?&39; she asked me again pointing with her stick; &39;that where those cobwebs are?""I can&39;t guess what it is ma&39;am""It&39;s a great cake A bride-cake Mine!"Great Expectations Dickens&39;s funny frightening and tender portrayal of the orphan Pip&39;s journey of self-discovery is one of his best-loved works Showing how a young man&39;s life is transformed by a mysterious series of events - an encounter with an escaped prisoner; a visit to a black-hearted old woman and a beautiful girl; a fortune from a secret donor - Dickens&39;s late novel is a masterpiece of psychological and moral truth and Pip among his greatest creations The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library edition of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell'How am I to dress up in my finery and go off and away to smart parties after the sorrow I have seen today?'Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction Margaret Hale It shows how forced to move from the country to an industrial northern town she develops a passionate sense of social justice and a turbulent relationship with mill-owner John Thornton North and South depicts a young woman discovering herself in a nuanced portrayal of what divides people and what brings them togetherThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley&39;Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face of such loathsome yet appalling hideousness&39;A twisted upside-down creation myth Mary Shelley&39;s chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science and the horror within us all It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder and destruction Written after a nightmare when its author was only eighteen Frankenstein gave birth to the modern science fiction novel The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Gulliver&39;s Travels by Jonathan Swift&39;Fifteen hundred of the Emperor&39;s largest horses each about four inches and an half high were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis which as I said was half a Mile distant&39;A savage and hilarious satire Gulliver&39;s Travels sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift subject to bizarre and unnerving encounters with among others quarrelling Lilliputians philosophizing horses and the brutish Yahoo tribe that change his view of humanity - and himself - for ever Swift&39;s classic of 1726 portrays mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished magnified and finally bestial species presenting us with a comical yet uncompromising reflection of ourselves The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense it ain't good morals Ain't I right?'The original Great American Novel an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarchic humour Twain's masterpiece sees Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft There they find steamships feuding families an unlikely Duke and King and vital lessons about the world in which they live With its unforgettable cast of characters Hemingway called this 'the best book we've ever had'The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions'A searing shocking tale of women as consumer items in a man's world The House of Mirth sees Lily Bart beautiful and charming living among the wealthy families of New York but reluctant to finally commit herself to a husband In her search for freedom and the happiness she feels she deserves Lily is ultimately ruined by scandal Edith Wharton's shattering novel created controversy on its publication in 1905 with its scathing portrayal of the world's wealthy and the prison that marriage can becomeThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H G Wells'Death!' I shouted 'Death is coming! Death!'In this pioneering shocking and nightmarish tale naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray Soon gigantic killing machines that chase and feed on human prey are threatening the whole of humanity A pioneering work of alien invasion fiction The War of the World's journalistic style contrasts disturbingly with its horrifying visions of the human race under siegeThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe'I walk'd about on the shore lifting up my hands and my whole being as I may say wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self 'Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book Robinson Crusoe set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea is forced to make do with only a knife some tobacco and a pipe He learns how to build a canoe make bread and endure endless solitude That is until twenty-four years later when he confronts another human being First published in 1719 Robinson Crusoe has been praised by such writers as James Joyce Virginia Woolf and Samuel Johnson as one of the greatest novels in the English languageThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes 'When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane she is determined to dislike him more than ever In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class lifeThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily BronteMay you not rest as long as I am living You said I killed you - haunt me thenLockwood the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights the home of his landlord There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw and her betrayal of him As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance is visited upon the next generation their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the pastThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleMr Holmes they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!The terrible spectacle of the beast the fog of the moor the discovery of a body this classic horror story pits detective against dog rationalism against the supernatural good against evil When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby the blame is placed on a family curse It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imaginationThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Dracula by Bram Stoker (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker&39;Alone with the dead! I dare not go out for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window&39;A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre Dracula also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise Count Dracula on a London home he makes a horrifying discovery Soon afterwards a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman&39;s neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the arrival of his &39;Master&39; while a determined group of adversaries prepares to face the terrifying Count The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Howards End by E. M. Forster (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E M Forster'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 Wilcoxes the gentle idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts As the Schlegel sisters try desperately to help the Basts and educate the close-minded Wilcoxes the families are drawn together in love lies and death Frequently cited as E M Forster's finest work Howards End brilliantly explores class warfare conflict and the English characterThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne'Shame Despair Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones - and they had made her strong but taught her much amiss'Fiercely romantic and hugely influential The Scarlet Letter is the tale of Hester Prynne imprisoned publicly shamed and forced to wear a scarlet 'A' for committing adultery and bearing an illegitimate child Pearl In their small Puritan village Hester and her daughter struggle to survive but in this searing study of the tension between private and public existence Hester Prynne's inner strength and quiet dignity means she has frequently been seen as one of the first great heroines of American fictionThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Emma by Jane Austen (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Emma by Jane Austen&39;I never have been in love; it is not my way or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall&39;Beautiful clever rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage Nothing however delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée Harriet Smith her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships Emma is often seen as Jane Austen&39;s most flawless work The Penguin English Library - 100 paperbacks of the best fiction written in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Hard Times by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Hard Times by Charles Dickens&39;Now what I want is Facts Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts Facts alone are wanted in life Plant nothing else and root out everything else&39;Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind school owner and model of Utilitarian success Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts he bans fancy and wonder from young minds As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and &39;bully of humility&39; Mr Bounderby and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery And as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe and victimised weaver Stephen Blackpool Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognise the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in the English language from the eighteenth century and the first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Hardback, 2013)" |
| "Mark Twain's great American masterpiece in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designMark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin' Beneath the exploits however are more serious undercurrents - of slavery adult control and above all of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with JimMark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on 30th November 1835 in Florida Missouri In 1853 he left home earning a living as an itinerant type-setter and four years later became an apprentice pilot on the Mississippi a career cut short by the outbreak of the Civil War For five years as a prospector and a journalist Clemens lived in Nevada and California In February 1863 he first used the pseudonym 'Mark Twain' as the signature to a humorous travel letter A trip to Europe and the Holy Land in 1867 became the basis of his first major book The Innocents Abroad (1869) His numerous subsequent books include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) A Tramp Aborad (1880) The Prince and the Pauper (1882) and his masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin (1885) Twain died on 21st April 1910'The best book we've had' - Ernest Hemingway"
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| "The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy'Here - I am waiting to know about this offer of mine The woman is no good to me Who'll have her?'In a fit of drunken anger Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair Over the course of the following years he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temperThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville (Hardback, 2013)" |
| "Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designIn Herman Melville's Moby-Dick Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (and that of generations before him) into the pursuit of a creature as vast dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself More than just a novel of adventure this is a haunting social commentary populated with some of the most enduring characters in literature Written with wonderfully redemptive humour Moby Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character faith and the nature of perception"
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