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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
After reading A Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens' other Christmas writings, it has had a ...Show more
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses ...Show more
A Parisian Affair (Penguin pocket classics) by Guy de Maupassant
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
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a ric ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
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
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in con ...Show more
Frankenstein - Pocket Penguin Classics by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with the secret of resurrecting the dead. But when he makes a new 'man' out of plundered corpses, his hideous creation fills him disgust. Rejected by all humanity, the creature sets out to destroy Frankenstein and everyone he loves. And the hunter becomes prey in a chase ...Show more
Greenmantle by John Buchan
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
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? . . . Or is he all of these?
Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
A land before time - a journey beyond belief...Unlucky in love, but desperate to prove himself in an adventure, journalist Ed Malone is sent to test the infamous and hot-tempered Professor Challenger on his bizarre South American expedition findings - not least his sketches of a strange plateau and the ...Show more
Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes The by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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