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Fifth Business
by Robertson Davies
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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 Thomas Hardy
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Feb 25 2003
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Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy an...
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Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
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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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Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
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Mar 26 1992
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"The modern writer who has influenced me the most." - George Orwell"One of my favourite writers." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez"A writer of great dedication." - Graham GreeneFrom the Trade Paperback edition....
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Penguin Classics Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
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Dec 31 2002
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Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spend...
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Dangerous Liaisons
by Choderlos de Laclos
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Mar 27 2007
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Penguin Classics Lady Chatterleys Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
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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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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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Dec 31 2002
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Pevear and Volokhonsky, winners of the 1991 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their version of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, have produced the first new translation of Leo Tolstoy's classic Anna Karenina in 40 years. The resul...
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Penguin Classics Master And Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Sep 25 2007
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The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of accomplices - including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat - he immediately begins to create havoc. Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margar...
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At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
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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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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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Feb 25 2003
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"Dumas was... a summit of art. Nobody ever could, or did, or will improve upon Dumas's romances and plays." -- George Bernard Shaw...
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The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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May 31 2004
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Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Dostoyevsky set out to create a protagonist with 'a truly beautiful soul' and to trace the fate of such an individual as he comes into contact with the brutal reality of contemporary society. The novel begins whe...
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Penguin Classics Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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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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Dec 31 2002
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Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote's fancy lea...
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Modern Classics On The Road
by Jack Kerouac
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Feb 1 2000
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"On the Road" swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American...
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Modern Classics Mrs Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
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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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Feb 17 2000
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A gruesomely witty cautionary tale Time Every generation should discover this book Time Out Not only about man's violent nature and his capacity to choose between good and evil. It is about the excitements and intoxicating effects of language Daily Telegra...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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