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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 'I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year, 'observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thack ...Show more
Victoria: Queen, Matriarch, Empress by Jane Ridley
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Monarchs
This title is part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format. Queen Victoria inherited the throne at 18 and went on to become the longest-reigning female monarch in history, in a time of intense industrial, cultural, political, scientific a ...Show more
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and "vile bodies" in every kind of capricious escapade in this story. The characters are an assortment of those inhabiting the social domain that lies between Park Lane and Bond Street.
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their hedonistic whims and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. ...Show more
Walden: Penguin Pocket Classics by Henry Thoreau
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Inspiring, brilliantly written, cantankerous and funny - Walden is both a very specific ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes. At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly e ...Show more
War for the Oaks: Penguin Worlds by Emma Bull
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Category: Accessories | Series: Penguin Worlds
Eddi McCandry lives in Minneapolis and plays guitar in a rock'n'roll band. Or at least she did until they split after a disastrous gig. Her night doesn't improve any when she's followed home by a fierce black dog. A talking dog, it turns out, who says that he's now her bodyguard
Warm Worlds and Otherwise by James Tiptree Jr.
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Daring, energetic, and struck through with linguistic inventiveness, Warm Worlds and Otherwise is one of the most influential short story collections in all of science fiction, and one of the principle achievements of James Tiptree Jr - the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon.Demonstrating Tiptree's eye f ...Show more
Washington Square (Popular Penguin) by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. Torn between her desire to win her father's love and approval and her passion for the first man who has ...Show more
Waterloo : Little Black Classic by Victor Hugo
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Category: Accessories | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 125
'Brave Frenchmen, will you not surrender?' Cambronne answered, 'Merde!' A tense, dramatic account of the Battle of Waterloo - and how a rain shower changed history - from Victor Hugo's epic novel Les Misérables. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ...Show more
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Yevgeny Zamyatin's page-turning science fiction adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel that became the basis for the tales of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, among so many others. Its messag ...Show more