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War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Considered by many to the greatest novel ever written, Tolstoy's masterpiece is a story of family life set against the backdrop of war. The novel begins in 1805, in the crowded and gossip-filled rooms of a St Petersburg party, and follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Bolkonsky and Rostov families as ...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
Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
'Down with your plaid, Waverley,' cried Fergus, throwing off his own; 'we'll win silks for our tartans before the sun is above the sea.' The first romantic historical novel and international bestseller, "Waverley" (1814) tells the story of Edward Waverley, a naive, sensitive young man who is posted to S ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Paperback Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
We the Living by Ayn Rand
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state. Of this book, Ayn Rand said, "it is as near to an autobiogr ...Show more
What Would Gandhi Do? by Michael Kirby
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials
Former High Court justice Michael Kirby reflects on the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, analysing how the Mahatma might respond to some pressing issues facing modern society
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
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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Category: Paperback Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tric ...Show more
Winter by Len Deighton
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Category: Paperback Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A monumental work ... brilliantly executed' Daily Telegraph 'The pace and tension leave one almost breathless. A frightening yet compelling novel' Sunday Telegraph Peter and Paul, the two sons of German businessman Harald Winter, are bonded together by a childhood trauma. But as they grow up the brothe ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, "Wives and Daughters" centres on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father. When he remarries a new stepsister, Cynthia, enters Molly's quiet life. Loveable but worldly and troubling, Cynthia's arrival alters Molly's d ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Wuthering Heights" is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, i ...Show more