Twelve Caesars, The by Suetonius
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics S.
Chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar and Augustus, to the decline into depravity and civil war under Nero, and the recovery and stability that came with his successors.
Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin American Library | Reading Level: very good
Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Describing the many trials and eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering, good-hearted slave Uncle Tom, it aimed to show how Christian love can overcome any human cruelty. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has rem ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house?He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth protrude menacingly from his mouth in clouds of rancid breath... Yet even Count Dracula?s unnerving appearance and the frightened reaction of the local peasants fail to warn Jonathan H ...Show more
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Tales by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics
Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel "Dracula", he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. This collection, comprising "Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories", a volume of spine-chilling short stories collected and published by Stoker's widow after his de ...Show more
Dracula: My Penguins by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics
When Jonathan visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon, a number of incidents unfold: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; puncture marks appear on a woman's neck; and, the inmate of an asylum r ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
Howards End by David (INT) E. M.; Lodge Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics, | Reading Level: very good
In "Howard's End", E.M. Forster unveils the English character as never before, exploring the underlying class warfare involving three distinct groups - a wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man living on the edge of poverty. The sou ...Show more
The Epic of Gilgamesh by N K Sandars, N. K. Sandars
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literatureMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells ...Show more
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The story of Peter Abelard and Heloise d'Argenteuil remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. This title follows the path of their romance from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard's pupil, through the suffering of public scandal and enforced secret ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book. Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced ...Show more