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Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls
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In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel book, the intrepid Venetian describes the customs of India, recounts the story of the king who died eighty-four times and explains how to retrieve di
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Is this a dagger which I see before me?
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'And when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars.'
This collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, including both old favourites and lesser-known pieces, shows him at his dazzling be
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A Modern Detective
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He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.
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Lady Susan
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The scheming and unscrupulous Lady Susan is unlike any Austen heroine you've met in this fascinating early novella.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrat
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The Suffragettes
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'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.'
A potted history of the women who pioneered feminism and chang
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The Old Nurses Story
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A phantom child roams the Northumberland moors, while a host of fairytale characters gone to seed gather in the dark, dark woods in these two surprising tales of the uncanny from the great Victorian
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The Steel Flea
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he Steel Flea is an uproarious and alcohol-soaked shaggy-dog story from one of Russia's great comic masters.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black C
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The Old Man of the Moon
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The Old Man of the Moon is Shen Fu's intimate and moving account of his marriage - from early passion to the trials of poverty and separation - and his great, enduring love for his wife in eighteenth
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A Modest Proposal
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Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across
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Mrs Rosie and the Priest
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Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cross-dressing wives and very bad priests.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin'
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The Stolen White Elephant
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From the father of American literature, four sparkling comic tales of extraordinary animals and parables subverted.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrat
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Matilda
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Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Lit
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Dracula
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, t
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Anarchist Communism
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Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about humankind's ability to make a better, truly communal society, the anarchist writings of Peter Kropotkin have influenced radicals the world over, from
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Wuthering Heights
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Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the
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To the Lighthouse
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'One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret Drabble
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose
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The Trouble With Happiness
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A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these pre
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Warm Worlds and Otherwise
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Daring, energetic, and struck through with linguistic inventiveness, Warm Worlds and Otherwise is one of the most influential short story collections in all of science fiction, and one of the princip
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A Room of One's Own
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A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence.
Based on a lecture given at Girton C
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the L..
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, t
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The Box Man
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'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardboard walls. At first repulsed by the strange phen
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The Waves
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Clear, bright, burnished ... the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry' The New York Times
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood t
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One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
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'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy'
What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging ove
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The Venice Train
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'There were some weeks that were painful, nerve-racking. At the office or at home, in the middle of a meal, he would suddenly find his forehead bathed in sweat, a tightness in his chest, and at those
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Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One..
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A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order'
One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true origina
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The Burrow
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A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fiction
Strange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this col
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Remembrance of Things Past Volume 1
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Summary
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumes
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth cen
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Moments of Reprieve
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Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experien
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The Kabbalistic Tradition
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New to Classics, a wide-ranging survey of the Jewish mystical tradition
'The Torah is both hidden and revealed . there is a secret meaning to the holy Torah that is not written down explicitly or
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Fifty-Two Stories
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Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their
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