The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics
London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, who live in fear of the terrorists in their midst. One such terrorist is Verloc. He is the secret agent who is given the mission to str ...Show more
The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This title is presented with an introduction by Stella Rimington. It's May, 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure - a desperate hunt across the co ...Show more
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition by Edith Hamilton
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Category: Classics
For decades readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting and fascinating world of Western mythology. From Odysseus's adventure filled journey to the Norse god Odin's effort to postpone the final day of doom, Edith Hamilton's classic collection not only retells the ...Show more
Poems Of Banjo Patterson Hen by Patterson Banjo ; Lawson Henry
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Category: Poetry and Drama
Combined with Pro Hart's paintings, which capture the humour of some of these poems, the pathos and loneliness of others, the poems of Paterson and Lawson come alive once more in this exciting boxed set. These books are not only for the countless Paterson and Lawson admirers who can now enjoy their work ...Show more
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at th ...Show more
Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tal ...Show more
Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by OSCAR WILDE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture o ...Show more
Pygmalion: Popular Penguins by Bernard Shaw
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Popular Penguins
A barbed attack on the British class system, Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his ...Show more
Poems of John Keats: Popular Penguins by John Keats
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
John Keats (1795-1821) asked that his gravestone carry only the phrase 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water.' But although his life was short, he left work that sets his name among the greatest in English poetry, and the most admired by other poets. This pocket-sized selection for general readers ...Show more
Curly Verse: Selected Poems - Popular Penguins by Michael Leunig
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In this selection of poems covering the period 1972 to 2002. This beautifully elegant volume excludes the cartoon element, focusing on Leunig's brilliant texts, with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy and joyfulness. Michael Leunig pokes fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deplores the idiocy ...Show more
Notes from Underground: Popular Penguins by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, La ...Show more