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The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family, it is as much as can be expected'. Written with great humour, irony and honesty, "The Way of All Flesh" exploded perceptions of the Victorian middle-class family in its radical depiction of Erne ...Show more
Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
"One more step, Mr Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out." This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson. In Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins' parents - and it is ...Show more
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'I am got, I know not how, into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing, and cannot take a plumb-lift out of it for my soul; so must be obliged to go on writing like a Dutch commentator to the end of the chapter, unless something be done...' Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and ...Show more
Washington Square by Henry James
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Washington Square" by James Hardy. "Why, you must take me or leave me ...You can't please your father and me both; you must choose between us". When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the ...Show more
Where Angels Fear to Tread: Penguin English Library by E. M. Forster
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
'I had got an idea that everyone here spent their lives in making little sacrifices for objects they didn't care for, to please people they didn't love; that they never learned to be sincere - and, what's as bad, never learned how to enjoy themselves'. E. M. Forster's first novel is a witty comedy of ma ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Wives and Daughters" by Elizabeth Gaskell. "Eh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing ways..." Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course b ...Show more
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins. 'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop ...There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth ...stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'. "The Woma ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Penguin English Library) by Emily Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë "May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then" 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 h ...Show more