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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspire ...Show more
A Rage in Harlem by Chester B. Himes
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing t ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
A Room of One's Own: The Feminist Classic by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Capstone Classics Ser.
Discover Virginia Woolf's landmark essay on women’s struggle for independence and creative opportunity A Room of One's Own is one of Virginia Woolf's most influential works and widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the women's movement. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambr ...Show more
A Room with a View: Penguin Classics by E M Forster
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentin ...Show more
A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Classics & Poetry | 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
A Treasury of Irish Literature (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Various Authors ..
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classics Ser.
A Treasury of Irish Literature celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the Ireland with a generous selection of poetry and prose that spans two centuries.Ireland's celebrated poetic legacy is represented by more than 200 poems from twenty-five of the nation's most distinguished poets, including Thomas ...Show more
Abcdcs: David Collins Studio by David Collins; Madonna (Foreword by)
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Category: Fashion | Series: Classics Ser.
"I have always wanted to see things I imagine made into a reality," declared renowned architect David Collins, a statement that rings powerfully true in the projects of his eponymous studio. Presented alphabetically, ABCDCS showcases a bold portfolio of images that manifest an interior designer's wildes ...Show more
Absolute Friends by John le Carré
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947 in a newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West.The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties an ...Show more
Adventure Word Cloud Boxed Set (Peter Pan, Jungle Book, Treasure Island, Call of the Wild) by Editors of Canterbury Classics
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Category: Childrens Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Jump into thrilling adventures with this Word Cloud Boxed Set There are so many adventures to choose from in this exclusively selected boxed set Four special-edition Word Cloud Classics are included: Call of the Wild and Other Stories, The Jungle Book, Peter Pan, and Treasure Island. Readers will b ...Show more
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is edited with a critical introduction by Peter Coveney. Mark Twain's story of a boy's journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed th ...Show more