The Aeneid (Clothbound Classic) by Virgil
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound editionVirgil's Aeneid, inspired by Homer and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem that sits at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took as his hero Aeneas, legendary sur ...Show more
The Iliad (Clothbound Classic) by Homer
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYHigh on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. ...Show more
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Lonely Londoners, an unforgettable account of immigrant experience and one of the great twentieth-century London novels, now in in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition.At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. The ...Show more
The Odyssey (Clothbound Classic) by Homer
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
'I long to reach my home and see the day of my return. It is my never-failing wish' The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monst ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter by Various
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Category: Books on Literature | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
The ultimate festive anthology of the best Christmas stories of all time, selected from around the world Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the ...Show more
The Queen Of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Penguin Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith A countess with a card trick; love letters filled with deception; a desperate man with a pistol.'The Queen of Spades', one of ...Show more
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner; John Deathridge (Introduction by, Translator, Notes by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audience itself. The four operas-The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried ...Show more
The Sonnets and a Lover's complaint (Clothbound Classic) by William Shakespeare; John Kerrigan (Editor, Introduction by); Coralie Bickford-smith (Illustrator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful and tactile cloth. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written m ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes. At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly e ...Show more
Woman in White (Clothbound Classic) by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Fiction | Series: Clothbound Classics
Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. "The Woman in White" famously opens with Walter Hartr ...Show more
About Love by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Fiction
Widely considered to be one of greatest ever writers of the form, Anton Chekhov's short stories offer unforgettable character, crystalline expression, and a beautiful, quiet uncertainty. Collected here are five of his very best tales- 'The Lady with the Little Dog', 'The House with the Mezzanine', and t ...Show more