Classics

Anthony Trollope / The Warden

"The Warden" centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to the purposes of the...

John Bunyan / The Pilgrim's Progress

As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.' So begins one of the...

Virginia Woolf / Orlando

This exuberant "biography" is seen as Woolf's most light-hearted novel. It tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the 16th century and moves...

Homer / The Odyssey - PB

By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky / Crime and Punishment

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a...

William Shakespeare / Macbeth

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own...

George Orwell / Coming up for Air

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Iris Murdoch / The Nice and the Good

A revolver shot rings through a Whitehall office one hot afternoon in the middle of an English summer. A Government official has apparently shot himself, but the circumstances are questionable –...

Joseph Conrad / The Secret Agent

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William Shakespeare / Othello

If anything, Othello has increased its stature as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies ever since it was first written, between 1603 and 1604, due to the victimisation suffered by its tragic hero,...

Barry Hines / A Kestrel For a Knave ( Filmed as Kes)

With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.Life is...

Charles Dickens / A Christmas Carol

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Winifred Holtby / South Riding

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Harriet Beecher Stowe / Uncle Tom's Cabin

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William Shakespeare / King Lear

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O Henry / 100 Selected Stories

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Joseph Conrad / Lord Jim

This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and...

Hans Fallada / Alone in Berlin

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Gustave Flaubert / Madame Bovary

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Thomas Hughes / Tom Browns' School Days

The book describes Tom's time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his departure for a wider...

Stella Gibbons / Cold Comfort Farm

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William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Nights Dream

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E.M. Forster / A Room with a View

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Oscar Wilde / The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Molly Keane / Good Behaviour

Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces...

Francis MacManus - The Greatest of These - Vintage Mercier Paperback 1969 ED

The Greatest of These was first published in Dublin in 1943 by the Talbot Press.Set in the late 19th century,  It presents a very sympathetic portrait of Bishop Ned Langton, who feels impelled to...

R.M. Ballantyne / The Coral Island

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Thomas Hardy / The Return of the Native

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Charlotte Bronte / Jane Eyre

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Anthony Trollope / Barchester Towers

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Gaston Leroux / The Phantom of the Opera

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Henry Fielding / Tom Jones

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Mary Shelley / Frankenstein

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Susan M. Coolidge / What Katy Did

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William Shakespeare / Henry IV Part One

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Virginia Woolf / Mrs Dalloway

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Anthony Hope / The Prisoner of Zenda

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Robert Louis Stevenson / Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

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Jules Verne / Around the World in 80 Days

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William Shakespeare / Romeo and Juliet

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Jane Austen / Sense & Sensibility

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Graham Greene / The Heart of the Matter

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Charles Dickens / Martin Chuzzlewit

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Harper Lee / To Kill A Mockingbird

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of...

J.D. Salinger / The Catcher in the Rye

William Golding / Lord of the Flies

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Chinua Achebe / Things Fall Apart

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Joseph Conrad / Heart of Darkness

John Steinbeck / Of Mice and Men

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E. Nesbit / The Railway Children.

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William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice

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Jerome K. Jerome / Three Men In A Boat

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