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Northanger Abbey (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen. 'To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive'. During an eventful season at Bath, yo ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none'. Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, "Oliver Twist" features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction - the treacherous g ...Show more
Persuasion (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect'. "Persuasion", Jane Austen's last novel, is a moving, masterly and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. It tells the ...Show more
Portrait of a Lady (Penguin English Library) by Henry James
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This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James. 'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her'. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Tou ...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
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe. 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ...reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!" Jane Austen's novel tells the story of Marianne Dashwood, who wears her heart on her sleeve, and whe ...Show more
Silas Marner by George Eliot
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This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Silas Marner" by George Eliot. "God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine: you've no right to her!" Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Sila ...Show more
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
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'"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look ...And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes"'. The marriage of Gertrude and Walt ...Show more
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, glimpses of their troubled past ...Show more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?' The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarc ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.' The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adv ...Show more