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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writingscollects stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings. This Penguin Classics is edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Slater.Since it was first published in 1843 A Christmas Carol ...Show more
A Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.' A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with the astronauts themse ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictiona ...Show more
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'In December 1937 I crossed the Pyrenees from France - two days on foot through the snow.' Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately ...Show more
A Small Circus by Hans Fallada
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A "Small Circus" is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer of "Alone in Berlin"). It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the "Pomeranian ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There have enchanted readers for generations. The topsy-turvy dr ...Show more
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A wonderful, unsparing epic ... an intimate human story of loss and love' New Statesman, Books of the Year The epic novel of love, war and revolution from Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature An extraordinary Russian masterpiece, And Quiet Flows the Don follows the turbulent fortu ...Show more
Animal Farm (Penguin Clothbound Classic) by George Orwell
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterm ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszli
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous "Angel of ...Show more
Banjo Paterson: Collected Verse by Banjo Paterson
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Australian Classics Ser.
The poet A B 'Banjo' Paterson, best known for his rousing folk classics "The Man from Snowy River" and "Waltzing Matilda," is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular balladist. His poems, written with great gusto and humour, celebrate all the romance and rough-and-tumble of old Aust ...Show more
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the twentieth Anniversary Edition - with a new introduction by the author. "About as close to flawless as any reader could ask for". ("The New York Times Book Review"). Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth Anna Boatwright - lives a happy life, in and out of her aunt's houses, playin ...Show more