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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses ...Show more
A Man's Head by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Set in the in the atmospheric and squalid streets of Paris, Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. In another one of Maigret's unconventional and audacious plans, he arranges the escape of the condemned man in an attempt to prove his theory. The presumed ...Show more
A Parisian Affair (Penguin pocket classics) by Guy de Maupassant
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Pocket Classics
'Nowhere could she discover the dens of iniquity about which she had dreamed...' Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly h ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, ...Show more
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns and the kindly Miss Matty live in a village where women rule and men usually tend to get in the way. Their days revolve around card games, tea, thriftiness, friendship and an endless appetite for scandal (from the alarming sight of a cow in flannel pyjamas to the shoc ...Show more
Death Of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Ivan Ilyich lies alone, dosed up on opium and deceived by doctors, haunted by memories and regrets. His faithful servant tends to his every need. But as he forces down false remedies and listens to empty promises, Ivan grows aware of one terrible truth. His wife and his children are not awaiting his rec ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Emma Woodhouse is content with her life and sees no need for marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her plans soon unravel a ...Show more
Frankenstein - Pocket Penguin Classics by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with the secret of resurrecting the dead. But when he makes a new 'man' out of plundered corpses, his hideous creation fills him disgust. Rejected by all humanity, the creature sets out to destroy Frankenstein and everyone he loves. And the hunter becomes prey in a chase ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Pip doesn't expect much from life...His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an escaped criminal, is summoned to visit a mysterious old woman and meets the icy beaut ...Show more
How to be Topp by Geoffrey Willans
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Category: Children's & YA | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
All skools make some sort at teaching the pupils things and the headmaster pin up a huge timetable of lessons etc. which make the heart sink when you look at it. Nigel Molesworth is back, this time taking the tinies in hand and showing that they can survive the first term - as long as you avoid the pref ...Show more