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The Sundial by Shirley Jackson
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In The Sundial Shirley Jackson, author of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, blends family politics and apocalyptic terror to create a disturbing world of sinister relations and the macabre. "An amazing writer". (Neil Gaiman). Mrs Halloran has inherited the great Halloran house on the death of her son, ...Show more
The Symposium by Plato
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical challenge t ...Show more
The Tall Man - Penguin Australian Classics by Chloe Hooper
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hurley who chose to work in some of the toughest and wildest ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject oflocal gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder ...Show more
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Based on eyewitness accounts and his own unlimited access to the Emperor Hadrian's Imperial archives, the scholar Suetonius wrote a sweeping account of the lives of twelve of Rome's most powerful emperors. From the empire's most shining examples of ruling competency, such as Julius Caesar and Augustus, ...Show more
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
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Category: Military | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women's history.' In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to wr ...Show more
The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag's novel is an exquisitely detailed picture of ...Show more
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
"The Voyage of the Beagle" is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to "The Origin of Species". This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Brown and Michael Neve. When HMS Beagle sailed out o ...Show more
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. S ...Show more
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
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Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag ? only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in "Penguin Modern Classics". More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, "The Waves" conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Through a series of connected monologues,The Waves tells the story of six very different friends - Bernard, Louis, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda - as they progress from childhood to middle age. Interspersed with evocative descriptions of the seaside at different times of day, the poignant personal his ...Show more