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Plato - The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Socrates spent a lifetime analyzing ethical issues, and the Euthyphro finds him outside the court-house, still debating the nature of piety with an arrogant acquaintance. The Apology is both a robust rebuttal to the charges of impiety and corrupting young minds and a definitive defence of the philosophe ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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, ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Remembrance of Things Past 2: The Guermantes Way; Cities of the Plain by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, fal ...Show more
Scarlet and Black - A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century by Stendhal
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Red and the Black is a historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830. It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy-who ultimately allows his passi ...Show more
Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales by Jarvie Gordon
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Category: General History | Series: Penguin Popular Classics Ser.
This is a collection of Scottish fairy tales, folk tales and legends, which have been passed on from generation to generation, and have been brought together in this one volume.
Selected Poems by Robert Browning
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language, ...Show more
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, ...Show more
The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre; Eric Sutton (Translated by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first volume in his Roads to Freedom trilogy, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Age of Reason is a philosophical novel exploring existentialist notions of freedom. Following a Parisian philosophy teacher through the cafés and bars of Montparnasse over two days in the sweltering summer of 1938, Sartre's searin ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun-tzu John Minford (Introduction by, Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A stunning Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of the world's most famous military treatise, by the award-winning translator of the Tao Te Ching and the I ChingFor more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics and management strategi ...Show more
The Aunt's Story by Patrick White
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
"From Australia's first Nobel Prize-winning author. With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But creatin ...Show more
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the twentieth century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, b ...Show more