Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Edith Grossman (translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart. But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, nine months and four days - Florentino has another chance to ...Show more
A Good Man is Hard to Find: Faber Stories by Flannery O'Connor
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Category: Classics | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid "The Misfit", an escaped convict who's reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag down for help but the very man whose picture the ...Show more
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
Hemingway's passion for Spain and for the bullfight is renowned. In DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON he shares the sights, the sounds, the excite-ment and, above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for the 'the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an an ...Show more
Possession: A Romance by A S Byatt
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Possessionis an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets.Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and trag ...Show more
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powe ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Oft-copied but never bettered, Jane Austen's Emma is a remarkable comedy of manners that follows the charming but insensitive Emma Woodhouse as she sets out on an ill-fated career of match-making in the little town of Highbury. Taking the pretty but dreary Harriet Smith as her subject, Emma creates mis ...Show more
Six Thinking Hats: Popular Penguins by Edward de Bono
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Used successfully by thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world, Six Thinking Hats offers a practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas.Your success in business depends on how you think. "The main difficulty of thinking is ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provi ...Show more
Inner Room (Faber Stories) by Robert Aickman
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Category: Classics | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
In perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his strange stories, Robert Aickman blurs the lines between memory, premonition and the hallucinated life. Lene, a woman now recovering from the losses of the Second World War, recalls a gothic dolls' house of her childhood and the way in which its uncan ...Show more
The War of the Worlds: Penguin Classics by H.G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. S ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for reality, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is edited with an introduction and notes by Marylin Butler in Penguin Classics. During an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first t ...Show more
The New York Stories by John O'Hara
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage O'Hara | Reading Level: very good
'Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons... O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society' Wall Street Journal John O'Hara remains ...Show more