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At the Mountains of Madness by H P Lovecraft
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
At the Mountains of Madness H.P. LovecraftOn an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in thes ...Show more
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil'. Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark ps ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window'. A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, "Dracula" also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise Count Dracula on a London home, he m ...Show more
Evelina by Frances Burney
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: good
'O Sir, how much uneasiness must I suffer, to counterbalance one short morning of happiness!' In this comic and sharply incisive satire of excess and affectations, beautiful young Evelina falls victim to the rakish advances of Sir Clement Willoughby on her entrance to the world of fashionable London. Co ...Show more
Howards End by E M Forster
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. We rich can'. 'Only connect' is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich ...Show more
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
"The Penguin English Library Edition" of "Ivanhoe" by Walter Scott. 'Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!'. Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his return, his passionate desire is t ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.'Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pur ...Show more
Mansfield Park (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
The Penguin English Library Edition of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 'We have all been more or less to blame ... every one of us, excepting Fanny' Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble ran ...Show more
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
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 Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerl ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes...' ...Show more
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
'"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look ...And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes"'. The marriage of Gertrude and Walt ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.' The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adv ...Show more