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The Prose Edda by Jesse L. Byock, Jesse L Byock
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves ...Show more
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version Of The Indian Epic by R. K. Narayan
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling. 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, 'is aware of the story of The Ramayana. Everyone of whatever age, out ...Show more
The Rebel by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Rebel" is Camus's attempt to understand the time 'I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by ...Show more
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal's "The Red and the Black" is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in "Penguin Classics". Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins ...Show more
The Return Of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach falls. When Dr Watson meets a mysterious deformed man, the truth is revealed.
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions o ...Show more
The Sagas of the Icelanders by Jane Smilely, Jane Smilely
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Category: No Dept - sale | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A collection of stories, which depicts the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last' Walter Mitty is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary daydreams - in which the life he leads is one of excitement and adventure, and he is the hero of his own story. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is jus ...Show more
The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The one saving grace is his love for his master's daughter, Wanda. They begin a secret affair, trying to avoid the cruelty of the other villagers, until one day Jacob's fortunes ...Show more
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
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Category: No Dept - sale | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Commu ...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: Paperbacks | 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
The Sun Also Rises (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Hemingway'sclassic novel of post-war disillusionment-the emblematic novel of the Lost Generation-now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, in a beautiful Graphic Deluxe Edition featuring flaps, deckled edges, and specially commissioned cover art by R. Kikuo Johnson and a new introduction b ...Show more