The War of the Worlds: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered near London. Armed with just a white flag, the locals approach the mysterious object only to be burned alive by heat-rays as horrific, tentacled invaders emerge. Soon, the whole of human civilization is under thre ...Show more
Metamorphosis: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
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Category: Classic Fiction
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease- some resign themselves to fate, some seek bla ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three m ...Show more
Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Stories (Barnes & Noble Fexibound Classics) by Edgar Allen Poe
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Barnes and Noble Flexibound Editions Ser.
Few authors' names conjure up such an air of ghoulish terror as that of Edgar Allan Poe. The best of his chilling horror stories and other suspenseful tales, 27 short stories in total, are presented here in one fantastic volume, providing an ideal introduction to this master of the macabre for those un ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
Jane EyreBy Charlotte Brontëm grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fe ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Austen Ser.
Pride and PrejudiceBy Jane AustenElizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!' A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Os ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Classic Fiction
A well-priced edition of one of the greatest twentieth century novels, with a striking new jacket and an introduction by Charlotte Wood.Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in what remains of a Britain ravaged by revolution. His every move is monitored by the Thought Police, who are responsible ...Show more