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The Chosen by Chaim Potok
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Category: Kids Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the twentieth century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, b ...Show more
The Complete English Poems by John Donne
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods. Constant in his work, however, ...Show more
The Complete Poems by Walt Whitman
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Category: Poetry/Aust Lit | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
From Leaves of Grass to "Song of Myself," all of Whitman's poetry in one volume In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America's most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it sp ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel <i>The Day of the Triffids</i> to moderate acclaim. Nearly seventy years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by <i>The Times</i> (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.” Bill Mas ...Show more
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe; David Galloway (Editor, Foreword by); Tatiana Rapatzikou (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. "The Fall of the House of Usher" describes the final hours of a family tormented ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerv ...Show more
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine by Eusebius; G. A. Williamson (Translated by); Andrew Louth (Revised, Edited & Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Eusebius' account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in writing the History and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical historians. In tra ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more
The Iliad (Penguin Classic) by Homer (Translated by Rieu)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An accessible Iliad for twenty-first-century readers A classic of Western literature for three millennia, Homer's Iliad captivates modern readers--as it did ancient listeners--with its tale of gods and warriors at the siege of Troy. Now Herbert Jordan's line-for-line translation brilliantly renders the ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. Includes Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy and ...Show more
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 by Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekhov
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton Chekhov at the height of his power as a writer In the final years of his life, Chekhov produced some of the stories that rank among his masterpieces, and some of the most highly-regarded works in Russian literature. The poignant 'The Lady with the L ...Show more