The Complete Works of Shakespeare with a Life of the Poet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics
"Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Hamlet, " and "Macbeth" -- the works of William Shakespeare still resonate in our imaginations four centuries after they were written. The timeless characters and themes of the Bard's plays fascinate us with their joys, struggles, and triumphs, an ...Show more
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
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Category: Classics
When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, a ...Show more
Plato - The Republic by Plato
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The Republic (Politeia; Latin: De Re Publica) is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man-for this reason, ancient readers used the name On Justice as an alternative title (not to be confuse ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's "Ulysses" is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written betwe ...Show more
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea: Popular Penguins by Randolph Stow
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite older cousin Rick leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. When Rick returns several years later, he has changed and the old merry-go-round that represents Rob's dream of utopia ...Show more
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
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Category: Classics
The extraordinary Booker Prize shortlisted story of a black man's revenge against an unjust and intolerant society. Thomas Keneally was born in Sydney Australia in 1935. He studied to be a Catholic priest but abandoned his vocation to take up teaching and writing. He is the author of numerous works of f ...Show more
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds he ...Show more
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiance Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate Am ...Show more
Rome in Crisis by Plutarch; Christopher Pelling (Translator, Introduction by, Notes by); Ian Scott-Kilvert (Translator)
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Category: Classics
Bringing together nine biographies from Plutarch's Parallel Lives series, this edition examines the lives of major figures in Roman history, from Lucullus (118-57 BC), an aristocratic politician and conqueror of Eastern kingdoms, to Otho (32-69 AD), a reckless young noble who consorted with the tyrannic ...Show more