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Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window'. 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 m ...Show more
Dubliners by JOYCE JAMES
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition of Dubliners" by James Joyce. 'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears...But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, ...Show more
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'"Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them" ' Taking respite from the Man of Wrath, her children and her stifling household, Elizabeth discovers that the pa ...Show more
Emma (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Emma by Jane Austen 'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall' Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, ...Show more
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Ze ...Show more
Evelina by Frances Burney
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Category: No Category | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'O Sir, how much uneasiness must I suffer, to counterbalance one short morning of happiness!' In this comic and sharply incisive satire of excess and affectations, beautiful young Evelina falls victim to the rakish advances of Sir Clement Willoughby on her entrance to the world of fashionable London. Co ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!' she exclaimed. 'Nor will I for a minute'. Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a proud working woman whose life is complicated by three different men - respectable farmer Bold ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'. A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley'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 graveya ...Show more
Ghost Stories by M. R. James
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
The voice - it was little more than a whisper - sounded so hoarse and angry, and yet as if it came from a long, long way off . . . 'The aim of a good ghost story is to make the blood freeze, pleasurably, and this M. R. James achieves to perfection in these wonderful stories. His most atmospheric setting ...Show more
Great Expectations (Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. "What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her stick; 'that, where those cobwebs are?" "I can't guess what it is, ma'am." "It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!" "Great Expectations", Dickens' ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor'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'. A savage and hilarious satire, "Gulliver's Travels" sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift, subject to bizarre and ...Show more
Hard Times (Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'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'. Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family ...Show more