Sakhalin Island by Anton Chekhov; Brian Reeve (Translator)
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Category: Classics
In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip ...Show more
Sanditon by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
Jane Austen's Last, Unfinished Novel "I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt." ? Jane Austen, Sanditon Set in 19th century England, Jane Austen's last novel was completed by another author after her death. While it is still de ...Show more
Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
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'Buchi Emecheta was the foremother of black British women's writing . . . powerful fictions written from and about our lives' Bernardine Evaristo 'Most dreams, as all dreamers know quite well, do have setbacks. Adah's dream was no exception, for hers had many' They nicknamed Adah 'the Igbo tigress' at s ...Show more
Selected Essays by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
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Selected Poems by Rumi
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational verse speaks with the universal voice of the human soul and brims with exuberant energy and passion. Rich in natural imagery from ho ...Show more
Selected Poems by D. H. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics
'Softly in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Talking me back down the vista of years'From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others(1913) to the groundbreaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts and Flowers(1923), the poems of D. H. Lawrence challenged convention and inspired later poets. ...Show more
Selected Poems by William Wordsworth
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of the most enduringly popular of Romantic poets, William Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and belief in the importance of feeling. This volume brings together a rich selection from the most creative period of Wordsworth's life - from 'Tintern Abb ...Show more
Selected Poems: Baudelaire by Charles Baudelaire; Carol Clark (Editor, Translator, Introduction by, Notes by); Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
'I have sought forgetful sleep in love; but love is nothing but a mattress of needles'The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal ...Show more
Selected Poems: Milton by John Milton; John Leonard (Introduction by); Christopher Ricks (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
An authoritative new edition of Milton's essential verse John Milton, who abandoned early plans of becoming a clergyman to become a poet, was a master of almost every type of verse-from the classical to the religious, from the lyric to the epic. His writing reflected his radical views and his profou ...Show more
Selected Poetry: Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Richard Holmes (Introduction by, Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
With this collection, renowned Colridge biographer Richard Holmes casts new light on the poets sensibilities and accomplishments. Holmes divides the poems into eight categories of theme and genre, dispelling the myth of Coleridge as "the metaphysical dreamer" and rediscovering him as a Romantic autobiog ...Show more
Selected Short Stories by Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the 'swarm and confusion of life'. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of 'Solid Objects' through t ...Show more
Selected Stories by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
D.H. Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten stories shows the variety of his achievement as the works develop from an early realism towards myth and fairy tale, murder, and ghost stories. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the lea ...Show more