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Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, is a children's novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), first published in 1871. The book reprises characters from her 1868-69 two-volume novel, Little Women, and acts as a sequel, or as the second book in an unofficial Little Women trilog ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Age 8+ | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.'Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pur ...Show more
M R James - Ghost Stories by M R James
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
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
Mansfield Park (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
The Penguin English Library Edition of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 'We have all been more or less to blame ... every one of us, excepting Fanny' Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble ran ...Show more
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin'My hour is come . . . the clock of eternity is about to strike, but its knell must be unheard by mortal ears!'This violent, profound, baroque and blackly humorous novel is the story of Melmoth, who has sold his soul in exchan ...Show more
Middlemarch by George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day'. George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a ...Show more
Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales (Penguin English Library) by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'...an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...' Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales, including - among others - the ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?' Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move ...Show more
Passing by Nella Larsen
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today, with an introduction by Emily Bernard. Now a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson and Alexander Skarsg rd A Penguin Vitae Edition Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned ...Show more
Peter Pan (Penguin English Library) by James Matthew Barrie
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'All children, except one, grow up.'It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the backyard. The poor dog was barking, for she could smell danger. And she was right - this was the night that Peter Pan would take the Darling children on the most breath-taking advent ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes...' ...Show more
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
One of the most important novels of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen's semi-autobiographical Quicksand follows a mixed-race woman's travels as she seeks fulfillment in a racially and sexually treacherous world. This affordable student edition reprints and lightly annotates the text of the 1928 first ...Show more