The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succès de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in exchange f ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Classics | Series: The Handmaid's Tale
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) "While others watched the TV series I re-read the book. When The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, reviewers compared Margaret Atwood unfavourably to male writers of science fiction. ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who makes a devilish pact never to grow old. Dorian Gray remains forever young, indulging in unspeakable pleasures while his portrait bears the mark of his corrupt existence. A beautifully decadent tale of the destructive allure of perpetual ...Show more
Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Book Club Edition Ser.
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' Drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm has neglected his livestock for too long. In a burst of insurgent fervour they rise up and he is deposed, with the pigs taking charge of the newly named Animal Farm. Everything runs smoothly, productivi ...Show more
The Outsiders by S E Hinton
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Category: Classics | Series: The Originals
Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders. "
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. "The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very spec ...Show more
Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum
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Category: Classics
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how their lives have changed since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them: "Make your lives extraordinary!" Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society - a secret club where, free ...Show more
Babette's Feast and Other Stories by Isak Dinesen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, 'Babette's Feast', which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her employers to the decadent feast ...Show more
Plays by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, including The Seagull--now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Elizabeth Moss, and Annette Bening At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of dr ...Show more