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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Category: International Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. "Every idiot who goes around with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding". Charles Dickens' tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Chri ...Show more
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
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Category: International Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'"Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them" ' Taking respite from the Man of Wrath, her children and her stifling household, Elizabeth discovers that the pa ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none'. Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, "Oliver Twist" features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction - the treacherous g ...Show more
Sanditon by Jane Austen
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Category: International Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
Jane Austen's Last, Unfinished Novel "I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt." ? Jane Austen, Sanditon Set in 19th century England, Jane Austen's last novel was completed by another author after her death. While it is still de ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: International Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
"I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine...I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you, my own dear! Come to me - come to me, and save m ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
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Category: International Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Awakening originally titled, A Solitary Soul, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the ...Show more
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
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Category: International Classics | Series: PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY
Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman, decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they can be executed. Showing great daring and aided by ...Show more
The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III by Adam Smith
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Category: Economics | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776 co-incided with America's Declaration of Independence. These volumes include Smith's assessment of the mercantile system, hi ...Show more
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