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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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Category: Classic 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
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Chess by Stefan Zweig
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
On a cruiseship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He accepts with a sneer. He will beat anyone, he says. But only if the stakes are high. Soon, the chess board is surrounded. At first, the challenger crumbles before the mind of the master. But th ...Show more
Death Of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic 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
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Purity is priceless. Count Dracula's castle is a hellish world where night is day, pleasure is pain and the blood of the innocent prized above all. Young Jonathan Harker approaches the gloomy gates with no idea what he is about to face. And back in England eerie incidents are unfolding as strange punctu ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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: Classic Fiction | 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: Classic Fiction | 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
Jane Eyre - Penguin Red Classics by Charlotte Bronte (Author) , Michael Mason (Introduction by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Charlotte Bronte's first published novel, "Jane Eyre" was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847. Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? . . . Or is he all of these?
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
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 rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them ...Show more
Mozart's Journey to Prague by Eduard Morike
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Making Mozart's way to Prague for the opening of Don Giovanni, the great composer, playfully tries to steal an orange from a Bohemian family's garden. But no sooner has he taken the fruit than he is caught by a furious gardener. Desperate to escape, Mozart frantically scrawls an apologetic note to the o ...Show more