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The Penguin English Library Edition of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen We have all been more or less to blame... every one of us, excepting Fanny Taken from the poverty of her parents home in Portsmouth, » ...mai mult

My literary hero is John Dos Passos - Adam Curtis (filmmaker) A modernist masterpiece, capturing... the fragmented lives it sketches, in a dazzling kaleidoscope of New York City in the 1920s Christopher » ...mai mult

The father of contemporary European detective fiction Ann Cleeves Maigret shrugged his shoulders, buried his hands in his pockets and went off without answering. He had just spent one of the most » ...mai mult

A brilliantly and preposterously funny book Guardian A flawless comic novel... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud Helen Dunmore, The Times Jim Dixon has accidentally » ...mai mult

A poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel Garcia Marquezs Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics. » ...mai mult

Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads. How to be a good father? Childrens birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, » ...mai mult

The Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct! she exclaimed. Nor will I for a minute Hardys powerful » ...mai mult

The Penguin English Library Edition of Evelina by Frances Burney O Sir, how much uneasiness must I suffer, to counterbalance one short morning of happiness! In this comic and sharply incisive » ...mai mult

The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him » ...mai mult

These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and » ...mai mult

Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, » ...mai mult

The Penguin English Library Edition of Emma by Jane Austen I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma » ...mai mult

In this inspiring, witty and eminently sensible book, Nigella Lawson sets out a manifesto for how to cook (and eat) good food every day with a minimum of fuss. From basic roast chicken and pea risotto » ...mai mult

Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca. Rafe Khatchadorian » ...mai mult

There is only one book to a man, Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the intertwined » ...mai mult

The Penguin English Library Edition of Dubliners by James Joyce Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears... But » ...mai mult

Whats the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents liquor cabinet, only to » ...mai mult

The Penguin English Library Edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window A chilling masterpiece » ...mai mult

Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as » ...mai mult

The Penguin English Library Edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of » ...mai mult

Collecting five stories of suspense, mystery and slow, creeping horror, Daphne Du Mauriers Dont Look Now and Other Stories includes an introduction by Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black, in Penguin » ...mai mult

A definitive work... explains clearly and succinctly concepts and theories at the heart of European and American philosophy. - Brenda Almond What do philosophers mean by absolute and akrasia? What » ...mai mult

Hes great, Vera, said Angie. When Viktor Sarav takes a job at Ballantines, Angie and her brother Don - the young owners of the New York fashion company - are pleased. But soon there are strange deaths » ...mai mult

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. It is the year 2522, and the » ...mai mult