Woman Who Rode Away The/st Maw by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A collection of three works exploring the profound effects on protagonists who embark on psychological voyages of liberation. The first story offers a depiction of London's fashionable horse riding set. The second story portrays the intimacy between an aloof woman and her male guide, while the third dea ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover: Popular Penguins by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with notes by Michael Squires and an introduction by Doris Lessing.Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless ...Show more
Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
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Category: Classics
A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomt ...Show more
Tales from Shakespeare by Mary Lamb
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Category: Classics
As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took great delight in exploring their benefactor's extensive library; as adults they began writing children's books together that also appealed to all generations. In "Tales of Shakespeare", they wished to bring their favourite plays to life for children too young to r ...Show more
The Marquise Of O-- and other stories by Heinrich Kleist
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this happened, she must prove her innocence to her doubting family and discover whether the perpetrator is an assailant or lover. Michael Kohlhaas depicts an honourable man wh ...Show more
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics S.
An epistolary novel chronicles the cruel seduction of a young girl by two ruthless, 18th-century aristocrats.
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling; John Seelye (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This wonderful classic combines three unbeatable elements: a sea story, lively and dynamic characters, and a protagonist who undergoes a transformation. Harvey Cheyne is the pampered son of a multimillionaire who falls off an ocean liner and is rescued by a small fishing boat. After being punched in th ...Show more
The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Influencing philosophers such as Sartre and Camus, and still strikingly modern in its psychological insights, Kierkegaard's "The Sickness Unto Death" explores the concept of 'despair' as a symptom of the human condition and describes man's struggle to fill the spiritual void. Throughout history, some bo ...Show more
Great Ideas: Fear And Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The infamous and controversial work that made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology and existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and Camus Writing under the pseudonym of "Johannes de silentio," Kierkegaard expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in ...Show more