A Study in Scarlet and the Sign of the Four (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
All legends begin somewhere, and the two novels here are where one of the world's best-loved legends began. In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first meet and investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a deserted house. In The Sign of the Four the detective ...Show more
Wailing Ghosts: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 07 by Pu Songling
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Category: Classics
'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.' These delightful miniature tales of macabre hauntings, monsters and magic tricks are Classical China's greatest stories. They include 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast.' Introducing Little Black Classic ...Show more
Life in Ten Houses: Penguin Specials by Sonya Hartnett
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials
The internationally celebrated writer Sonya Hartnett is firmly Melburnian but has restlessly moved from suburb to suburb in her search for the 'Last House' - that special corner of the world in which to settle and find contentment. Viewing her life and work through the lens of real estate, she vividly r ...Show more
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
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Category: Classics
At the age of five, little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Everyone in the village is afraid of him, but Heidi is fascinated by his long beard and bushy grey eyebrows. She loves her life in the mountains, playing in the sunshine and growing up amongst the goats and birds. ...Show more
Confessions of a Sinner by Augustine
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
The Beauties and Furies: Text Classics by Christina Stead
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"The express flew towards Paris over the flooded March swamps. In a parlour-car, the melancholy dark young woman looked out persistently at the sand-dunes, cement-mills, pines, the war-cemetery with stone banners like folded umbrellas, the fields under water, the bristling ponds with deserted boats and ...Show more
The Little Hotel (Text Classics) by Christina Stead
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
People live year after year in a hotel like this. We have their police papers, we know their sicknesses and family troubles; people come to confide in you. They tell you things they would not tell their own parents and friends, not even their lawyers and doctors. After the Second World War, bizarre char ...Show more
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1960, the author set out to rediscover his native land. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of its people. Accompanied only by his dog, Charley, he travelled all across the United States in a pick-up truck. His journey took him through almost forty states. Th ...Show more
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics
The Pearl is a haunting and timeless tale of the dangers of unexpected wealth by Nobel prizewinner John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Kino is a desperately poor Mexican pearl diver. But when he finds 'The Pearl of the World' ...Show more
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde an by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
One of Stevenson's most famous and enduringly popular works, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde describes the mysterious relationship between a respectable and affable doctor and his brutal associate. Set in the grimy streets of Victorian London, this tale of murder, split personality and obscure sci ...Show more
The Suburbs of Hell: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
'His eyes are on the one eye of the rifle. His mouth splits open his brown beard. He throws up a hand, palm outward, in an unwilled, futile gesture to ward off death.' A killer is hounding the seaside town of Old Tornwich. Residents are gripped by fear and suspicion, and the finger of blame is pointed i ...Show more
The Girl Green as Elderflower: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
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