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The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library editionA dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation. For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it'. In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a 'wicked woman' as the local gossips would have it, but as the estranged wife of a ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
My guest was lying sprawled on his back, there was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor . . . 'Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare' Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scienti ...Show more
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library EditionThe deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime, but a mole in Moriarty's criminal organization alerts Sherlock Holmes of the evil deed by means of a cipher . . . When Holmes and Watson arrive at a Sussex manor house the ...Show more
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'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 threaten ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Virgina Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
In the Ramsays' summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye. The section begins with Mrs Ramsay assuring her son James that they should be able to visit the lighthouse on the next day. This prediction is denied by Mr Ramsay, who voices his certainty that the weather will not be clear, an opinion th ...Show more
Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
"One more step, Mr Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out." This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson. In Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins' parents - and it is ...Show more
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'I am got, I know not how, into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing, and cannot take a plumb-lift out of it for my soul; so must be obliged to go on writing like a Dutch commentator to the end of the chapter, unless something be done...' Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and ...Show more
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Under the Greenwood Tree" by Thomas Hardy. 'At sight of him had the pink of her cheeks increased, lessened, or did it continue to cover its normal area of ground? It was a question meditated several hundreds of times by her visitor in after-hours - the m ...Show more
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Warden by Anthony Trollope'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ... that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive corner of the world which been allotted to him ... made miserable ...Show more
Where Angels Fear to Tread: Penguin English Library by E. M. Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'I had got an idea that everyone here spent their lives in making little sacrifices for objects they didn't care for, to please people they didn't love; that they never learned to be sincere - and, what's as bad, never learned how to enjoy themselves'. E. M. Forster's first novel is a witty comedy of ma ...Show more