The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

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• 'A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale' Oscar Wilde The Turn of the Screw , James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable t... Lees meer

Waverley

Walter Scott

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• The first historical novel and an international bestseller Sir Walter Scott was one of the bestselling novelists of the nineteenth century and is cred... Lees meer

Discourses and Selected Writings

Épictète

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• A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher Despite being born into slavery, Greco-Roman philosopher Epictetus becam... Lees meer

My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin

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• The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin beg... Lees meer

Fourteen Byzantine Rulers

Michael Psellus

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• The death of Basil II in A.D. 1025, after fifty glorious years as sole emperor, ushered in decades of turbulence, corruption, and incompetence. For th... Lees meer

Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi

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• Pinocchio plays pranks upon the kindly woodcarver Geppetto, is duped by the Fox and the Cat, kills the pedantic Talking Cricket, and narrowly escapes ... Lees meer

Murder Trials

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• "Whereas the place for prejudice is a public meeting, a court of law is the adobe of truth." Cicero was still in his twenties when he got Sextus Rosci... Lees meer

Studies in Hysteria

Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer

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• Hysteria--the tormenting of the body by the troubled mind--is among the most pervasive of human disorders; yet, at the same time, it is the most elusi... Lees meer

Armadale

Wilkie Collins

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• When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he revea... Lees meer

Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak

Black Hawk

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• A rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature, presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publication Upon its publication in 1... Lees meer

The Log of a Cowboy

Andy Adams

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• Straightforwardly told, rich in detail, and laced with appealing campfire humor, Andy Adams's realistic The Log of a Cowboy is a classic portrayal of ... Lees meer

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs

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• One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final... Lees meer

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

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• Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with h... Lees meer

The Actual

Saul Bellow

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• "The work of a great master still locked in unequal combat with Eros and Time." - The New York Times Book Review A Penguin Classic In this dazzling wo... Lees meer

The Solitudes

Luis de Gongora

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• An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one if the most acclaimed translators of our time A towering figure of th... Lees meer

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

William Shakespeare

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• Shakespeare's poetic meditations on love Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' The language of Shakespeare's sonnets has become inseparable from th... Lees meer

Daisy Miller

Henry James

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• Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a ... Lees meer

On Living and Dying Well

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• Philosophical writings on "the good life" by the great Roman orator, in a vital new translation In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman ... Lees meer

Zadig and l'Ingénu

Voltaire

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• One of Voltaire's earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a da... Lees meer

Guy Mannering

Walter Scott

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• Guy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places his faith in patriarchal power, wealth and social position. But th... Lees meer

What Is Art?

Leo Tolstoy

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• This profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice, and religion.... Lees meer

Shirley

Charlotte Brontë

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• Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent a... Lees meer

Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

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• Penguin inaugurates a series of revised editions of Conrad's finest works, with new introductions Conrad's great novel of guilt and redemption follows... Lees meer

The Poem of the Cid

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• One of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain, The Poem of the Cid recounts the adventures of the warlord and... Lees meer