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Fifth Business
by Robertson Davies
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 (57 customer reviews)
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Jun 24 2005
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The first book of Robertson Davies's Deptford Trilogy tells the story of three men destined to be crucial players in each others' lives. The story is, in fact, the memoir of Dunstan Ramsay, a long-time boarding-school teacher, set to retire. Written to the...
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Far from the Madding Crowd
by S Russell
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 (5 customer reviews)
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Feb 25 2003
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"Far from the Madding Crowd" was Thomas Hardy's first major literary success, and it edited with an introduction and notes by Rosemarie Morgan and Shannon Russell in "Penguin Classics". Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to...
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Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
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 (72 customer reviews)
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Jan 28 2003
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Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's ...
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Penguin Classics Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
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(8 customer reviews)
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Dec 31 2002
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Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall, with a preface by Michele Roberts. Emma Bovary is be...
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Dangerous Liaisons
by Choderlos de Laclos
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Mar 27 2007
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"If this book burns, it burns as only ice can burn."...
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Penguin Classics Lady Chatterleys Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
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(55 customer reviews)
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Jun 27 2006
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Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 ...
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Day of the Locust and The Dream Life of Balso
by Nathanael West
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(1 customer review)
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Feb 24 2000
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Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an ...
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Penguin Classics Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
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(19 customer reviews)
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Dec 31 2002
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Now the subject of a major new film adaptation from director Joe Wright ("Atonement", "Pride and Prejudice"), Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" is translated by award-winning duo Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky in "Penguin Classics". Starring Keira Knig...
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Penguin Classics Master And Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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(13 customer reviews)
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Sep 25 2007
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Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita" is a fiercely satirical fantasy that remained unpublished in its author's home country for over thirty years. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction by Richard Pevear and Larissa Vol...
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At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
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(7 customer reviews)
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Feb 17 2000
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If you try to read it too closely, the structure of this book will drive you crazy. Ask me how I know. On the first level, it seems to emanate from the addled mind of a navel-gazing Irish university student stumbling around thinking about writing a book or...
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Penguin Classics Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
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(47 customer reviews)
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Feb 25 2003
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Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the ...
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Penguin Classics Count Of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
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(106 customer reviews)
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Feb 25 2003
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Alexandre Dumas' epic tale of suffering and revenge inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Count of Monte Cristo" is translated with an introduction by Robin Buss. Thrown in prison for a crime he has n...
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The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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(2 customer reviews)
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May 31 2004
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot" is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated from the Russian by David McDuff, with an introduction by William Mills Todd III. Returning ...
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Penguin Classics Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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(61 customer reviews)
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Jan 28 2003
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On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, ...
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Penguin Classics Don Quixote
by Miguel Cervantes
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(13 customer reviews)
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Dec 31 2002
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A more profound and powerful work than this is not to be met with...The final and greatest utterance of the human mind -- ...
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Modern Classics Mrs Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
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(106 customer reviews)
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May 25 2000
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As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swo...
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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
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(388 customer reviews)
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Feb 17 2000
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"A terrifying and marvellous book." -- Roald Dahl "A brilliant novel ... a tour-de-force in nastiness, an inventive primer in total violence, a savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds." -- The New York Times "I do not know of an...
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Lives of Girls and Women (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Alice Munro
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Jun 24 2005
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Lives of Girls and Women is nearly always recommended as an ideal introduction to Alice Munro. Everyone who preaches this doctrine knows that it is doing Munro a bit of a disservice: Lives of Girls and Women is her only novel, and it is certainly not her best work. ...
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Penguin Classics Tales From The Thousand And One Nights
by N J Dawood
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(4 customer reviews)
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Feb 2 2004
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The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" to the ...
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Penguin Classics Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
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(394 customer reviews)
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Dec 31 2002
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The main drama in Bronte's novel happens in a long narrative told by an elderly housekeeper to a convalescing new tenant. This story-within-a-story setup makes it well suited for audio adaptation, as Scales takes the housekeeper's part and relates the past...
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Modern Classics Ulysses
by James Joyce
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(256 customer reviews)
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Mar 23 2000
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Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these ...
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Penguin Classics Picture Of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
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(176 customer reviews)
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Jan 28 2003
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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he ...
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Penguin Modern Classics Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
by Mordecai Richler
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(17 customer reviews)
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Sep 30 2005
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a novel about costs. How much will Duddy sacrifice to get what he wants? "Born with a rusty spoon in his mouth," Duddy is a hustler and a schemer, scrambling to acquire the idyllic lakefront property he thinks will raise him out of ...
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Penguin Classics Lady With The Little Dog And Other Stories
by Anton Chekhov
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Jun 28 2004
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During the last ten years of his life, Anton Chekhov penned his great plays, spent time treating the sick, and wrote a small number of stories that are considered his masterpieces. The eleven stories collected here-"The Lady with the Little Dog," "The Hous...
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