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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. "Every idiot who goes around with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding". Charles Dickens' tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Chri ...Show more
At the Mountains of Madness by H P Lovecraft
Category: Horror | Series: The Penguin English Library
At the Mountains of Madness H.P. LovecraftOn an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in thes ...Show more
Emma (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
Category: No Category | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Emma by Jane Austen 'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall' Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!' she exclaimed. 'Nor will I for a minute'. Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a proud working woman whose life is complicated by three different men - respectable farmer Bold ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Category: No Category | Series: The Penguin English Library
'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?' Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Category: No Category | Series: The Penguin English Library
The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.' The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adv ...Show more
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
Category: Horror | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'I will not read it; I should never sleep again' A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immoral and decadent on first publication in 1894, Machen's w ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!' A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Os ...Show more
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