The Benefit of Farting Explained by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
What is the nature, essence and definition of a fart? What are the consequences and disadvantages of suppressing one? Why is farting considered to be taboo? Swift's The Benefit of Farting argues eloquently, in a forceful a posteriori fashion, that most of the distempers thought to affect the fairer sex ...Show more
August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: Classics
The Russian Nobelist's major work, back in print for the centenary of World War I and the Russian Revolution In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has written "a dramatically new interpretation of ...Show more
Fireworks by Angela Carter
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Category: Classics
'I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.' So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko. These exotic, sensuous stories represent Carter's first major achievement in the short-story form. Lush imaginary forests, a mur ...Show more
The Abyss and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev; Hugh Aplin (Translator)
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Category: Classics
As the young Zinaida and her sweetheart, the student Nemovetsky, stroll through the idyllic Russian countryside, their memories, dreams and thoughts about life and the future mingle in the evening breeze. But when night falls, they hasten to retrace their steps back to town through a small wood, where t ...Show more
To Be Read At Dusk : Little Black Classic by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 86 | Reading Level: very good
'The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man.' Three ghostly tales from a master of the form, 'The Signalman', 'The Trial for Murder' and the title story, 'To Be Read at Dusk'. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past - 3 volume set by Marcel Proust / Moncrieff
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C K Scott Mon ...Show more
Wings Of The Dove by Henry James
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Category: Classics
Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and financially ambitious Kate Croy is already romantically involved with promising journalist Merton Densher when they become acquainted with Milly Theale, a New York socialite of imm ...Show more
Language: Vintage Minis by Xiaolu Guo
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turn ...Show more
Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative ac ...Show more
Frankenstein (Olive Edition Classic) by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics
The chilling and tragic tale of Victor Frankenstein and the tortured creature he brings to life, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, remains one of the most widely read Gothic novels of our time. Celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2018, Frankenstein is now available in a limited Olive Edition from HarperPer ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Tony Tanner (Notes by, Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
The Great Gatsby is a dazzling social satire, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece and a milestone in twentieth-century literature, now beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls ca ...Show more
Aesop's Fables - The Cruelty of the Gods by Carlo Gébler
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Category: Classics
A witty, scatological illustrated version of the world's greatest collection of fables, allegedly written by a slave in the 5th century BC. A book for our times: as Gebler notes, Aesop has two subjects - the exercise of power and the experience of the powerless who endure life and all that it inflicts o ...Show more