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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Now a major musical film from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, and also featuring Amanda Seyfreid, Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha Baron-Cohen, Victor Hugo's Les Mis rables is one of the great works of western literature. Victo ...Show more
Little Women (Clothbound Classic) by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Top 10 Finalist on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 Louisa May Alcott's heartwarming tale of the indelible bond between sisters This treasured novel, drawn in part from Louisa May Alcott's personal experience, brings to life the provincial yet abundantly full lives of the March sisters. Meg, Jo, Be ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Clothbound Classics
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 spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her a ...Show more
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Jane Austen's timeless works of romantic fiction have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and adored writers in the English language. Now any fan of Austen's sparkling literary satires can collect all six of her full-length novels in magnificent clothbound editions. With covers by award-wi ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman ...Show more
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick Illustrations by Rockwell Kent Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captai ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
"Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. ... It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." (Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.) "Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dal ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Catherine Morland should know better. She's the very ideal of a nice, normal girl. But Catherine is cursed with an overactive imagination. She is also obsessed with lurid Gothic novels, where terrible things happen to the heroine. Which gets her into all sorts of trouble... When Catherine visits Bath a ...Show more
Persuasion (Clothbound Classic) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Sir Walter Elliot, de Kellynch-Hall, dans le comté de Somerset, n'avait jamais touché un livre pour son propre amusement, si ce n'est le livre héraldique. Là il trouvait de l'occupation dans les heures de désoeuvre- ment, et de la consolation dans les heures de chagrin. Devant ces vieux parchemins, il é ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fi ...Show more
Sanditon by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A stunning new Clothbound Classics edition of Jane Austen's tantalizing final work - set to be a major Andrew Davies ITV adaptation this autumn Written in the last months of Austen's life, Sanditon features a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators in a newly established seaside resort, and show ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility (Clothbound Classic) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Clothbound Classics
" As nearly flawless as any fiction could be."-- Eudora Welty"As nearly flawless as any fiction could be."--Eudora Welty"As nearly flawless as any fiction could be." --Eudora WeltyFamously characterized as the story of two Dashwood sisters who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of "civili ...Show more