Author: | Charles Dickens |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Popular Penguins Ser. |
The classic holiday tale is presented with two other Dickens Christmas stories, "The Chimes" and "The Haunted Man"Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark ... read more
Author: | John Kennedy Toole |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Popular Penguins |
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly: flatulent, eloquent and pretty much unemployable . . . 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 v... read more
Author: | Virginia Woolf |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Popular Penguins |
A Room of One's Owngrew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and why neither of them could have written War and Peace, over the silent fate of Shakespea... read more
Author: | Mark Twain |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Popular Penguins Ser. |
By witnessing a murder, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn find themselves in a series of adventures that lead them to some frightening situations.
Author: | Lewis Carroll |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Popular Penguins Ser. |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author: Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.The tale is ... read more
Author: | Jules Verne |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Popular Penguins Ser. |
"To go around the world...in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available, was not only impossible, it was madness"
One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that h... read more
Author: | Truman Capote |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Popular Penguins Ser. |
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wi... read more
Author: | John Steinbeck |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Popular Penguins Ser. |
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Peng... read more
Author: | Anthony Burgess |
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... read more
Author: | John Wyndham |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Popular Penguins Ser. |
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has r... read more
Author: | Anaïs Nin |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Popular Penguins Ser. |
An extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the mistress of erotic writing
In Delta of Venus, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Amon... read more
Author: | Mary Shelley |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Popular Penguins Ser. |
Reading Level: | very good |
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brin... read more