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A Parisian Affair (Penguin pocket classics) by Guy de Maupassant
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Pocket Classics
'Nowhere could she discover the dens of iniquity about which she had dreamed...' Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly h ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, ...Show more
Greenmantle by John Buchan
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
In "Greenmantle" (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of "The Thirty-Nine Steps", travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and ...Show more
Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes The by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Sherlock Holmes' fame has also brought him notoriety and there are those in the criminal underworld who must move against him or find their schemes in ruins ... And it is in "The Final Problem" that Dr Watson has the sad task of telling the grisly, fatal and shocking tale that saw Holmes finally meet hi ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'.In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes ...Show more
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is w ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Considered by many to the greatest novel ever written, Tolstoy's masterpiece is a story of family life set against the backdrop of war. The novel begins in 1805, in the crowded and gossip-filled rooms of a St Petersburg party, and follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Bolkonsky and Rostov families as ...Show more
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