Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida by Robert Chandler, Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics
Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, ...Show more
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
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Category: Classics
Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer ...Show more
Gate of the Hundred Sorrows: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #24 by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics
'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find all over the City.' Kipling first became famous for his pungent, harsh and shocking stories of northwest India, where he grew up. This is just a small selection from his inexha ...Show more
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics
Mowgli movie fans will fall in love with this beautifully illustrated classic Since its inception in 1894, The Jungle Book has enchanted readers--both young and old--with its invaluable moral lessons. By bestowing the animals in the stories with human traits, famed writer Rudyard Kipling gives read ...Show more
The Last Battle (Vol 7 The Chronicles of Narnia) HB by C. S. Lewis
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Category: Classics | Series: The Chronicles of Narnia
A beautiful hardback edition of The Last Battle, book seven in the classic series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and colour interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. To my side, all true Narnians! Would you wait till your new masters have killed you all, o ...Show more
A Tree for Christmas by Jane Riordan
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Category: Classics
It wouldn't be Christmas without a Christmas tree but when Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet set off to find the perfect tree in the Hundred Acre Wood they soon run into difficulties ... But perhaps with the help of their friends Eeyore, Rabbit, Tigger and Owl, they'll be able to make this a Christmas to remem ...Show more
The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes by Zena Sutherland
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Category: Classics
This classic nursery rhyme collection is the perfect gift for every child. All of the best-loved nursery rhymes are here in this treasury of over 75 rhymes and songs. Introduce children to familiar favourites such as Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill and Baa, Baa, Black Sheep. And re-discover classics such ...Show more
Famous Classics for Girls: Heidi, What Katy Did & Black Beauty by Susan Coolidge; Anna Sewell; Johanna Spyri; Egmont UK Staff (Editor)
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Category: Classics
Three essential stories for girlhood reading, retold for young readers and collected in one lovely package In Heidi, a little orphan girl is forced to live with her grumpy grandfather in a lonely hut in the Alps, and eventually comes to love her mountain life. Katie intends to be beautiful and good ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics
This new hardback edition is one of five special Puffin Classic editions created in partnership with the world-famous V & A Museum, with exquisite cover designs from their William Morris collection. Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-na ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago (Penguin Pocket Classics No. 4) by Alfred Russel Wallace
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head'Alfred Russel Wallace left to explore the islands of southeast Asia an obscure naturalist; he returned eight years later an acclaimed scientist and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution. This is his vivid, exh ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, the epitome of sense, desires a man who is promised to another woman. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the epitome of sensibili ...Show more