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PENGUIN CLA - THE TURN OF THE SCREW

PENGUIN CLA - THE PROFESSOR

PENGUIN CLA - THE DHAMMAPADA

PENGUIN CLA - THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA

PENGUIN CLA - TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

PENGUIN CLA - THE YEARS

SHIRLEY

THE DIVINE COMEDY

PENGUIN CLA - THE MOONSTONE

PENGUIN CLA - JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. "Rashomon" and "In a Bamboo Grove" inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as "The Nose", "O-Gin" and "Loyalty" paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. And in later works su

PENGUIN CLA - RASHOMON AND SEVENTEEN OTHER STORIES

The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, 'The Two Hussars' contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Illustrating Tolstoy's belief that art must serve a moral purpose, 'What Men Live By' portrays an angel sent to earth to learn three existential rules of life, and 'Two Old 

PENGUIN CLA - MASTER & MAN & OTHER STORIES

The Bhagavad Gita is an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and is also one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit poetry. It describes how, at the beginning of a mighty battle between the Pandava and Kaurava armies, thegod Krishna gives spiritual enlightenment to the warrior Arjuna, who realizes that the true battle is for his own soul.

PENGUIN CLA - THE BHAGAVAD GITA

Austen's witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for reality During an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, her imagination influenced by novels of sensation a

PENGUIN CLA - NORTHANGER ABBEY

Describes the ideal state and explains how it can create the most desirable life for its citizens.

POLITICS

PENGUIN CLA - PICKWICK PAPERS

"This translation first published under the title The Wretched in Penguin Classics 2013"--Title page verso.

PENGUIN CLA - LES MISERABLES

E. M. Forster's beloved classic and sharp critique of imperialism A Penguin Classic When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs. Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the "real India," they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr. Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soo

PENGUIN CLA - A PASSAGE TO INDIA

This collection includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's most popular creations. With his devoted amanuensis, Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke filled rooms in Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue and evil in such cases as 'The Speckled Band', in which a terrified woman begs their help in solving the mystery surrounding her sister's death, or 'A Scandal in Bohemia', which portra

PENGUIN CLA - ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

The crowning plays of one of Ireland's most heralded artists Oscar Wilde was at once a family man and a homosexual outsider, a socialite, socialist, and Irish nationalist. His contradictions inspired him to ponder the roles and masks donned in conventional society, and his acute and wry insights are wonderfully displayed in this collection of his essential plays. Known not only for his brilliant, epigrammatic language, but also for his sense of theatrical design, color, and staging, Wilde create

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST AND OTHER PLAYS

A collection of stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings Since it was first published in 1843 A Christmas Carol has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas. Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by the three ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, has been adapted into countless film and stage versions since it was first p

PENGUIN CLA - A CHRISTMAS CAROL

HOLDING UP THE UNIVERSE

The Partition Of The Indian Subcontinent In 1947 Left A Legacy Of Hostility And Bitterness That Has Bedevilled Relations Between India And Pakistan For Over Fifty-Five Years. The Two Countries, Both Nuclear Powers Now, Have Fought Three Wars Since Independence And Have Twice Come To The Brink Of War In Recent Years. Each Of Their Attempts To Make Peace Has Failed, And Each Failure Has Added A New Layer Of Anger And Mistrust To Existing Animosities. So What Will It Take For India And Pakistan To

MAKING PEACE WITH PARTITION

Contains a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre. This book provides a separate introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.

PENGUIN CLA - A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, and The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness 

METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES

'I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush, and tyranny Tremble at patience' A jealous King, convinced that his wife has been unfaithful and is having another man's baby, imprisons her and puts her on trial. The child is abandoned to die, but when she is found and raised by a shepherd, it seems redemption may be possible. A bravura blend of tragedy, comedy and romance, Shakespeare's emotionally potent late play explores artifice and nature, mortality and renewal, and the d

PENGUIN CLA - THE WINTERS TALE

A masterful novel of New York society by a champion of literary realism When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. Torn between her desire to win her father's love and approval and her passion for the first man who has ever declared his love for her, Catherine faces an agonising dilemma, and becomes all too aware of the restrictions that oth

PENGUIN CLA - WASHINGTON SQUARE

'Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king' Richard, a vain, despotic ruler, listens only to his flatterers. When his cousin Bolingbroke, previously banished, returns to seize the crown, Richard discovers that the throne given to him by God can be taken from him by men. Depicting a tortured and morally ambivalent soul wearing the 'hollow crown', whose illusions are brutally shattered, this tragic history play unravels the idea of kingship. It is also a w

PENGUIN CLA - RICHARD II

Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not successful he decides instead to marry the beautiful but shallow Agnes, agreeing to abandon his writing and become a schoolmaster at a second-rate public school. Giving up his hopes and values for those of the conventional world, he sinks into a world of petty conformity and bitter disappoi

PENGUIN CLA - THE LONGEST JOURNEY

Describes the emotions and fears of childhood as this trilogy follows a young boy as he grows up.

PENGUIN CLA - CHILDHOOD BOYHOOD YOUTH

In the Musketeers’ final adventure, D’Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Meanwhile, a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask wastes away deep inside the Bastille. When the destinies of king and prisoner converge, the Three Musketeers and D’Artagnan find themselves caught between conflicting loyalties. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the Englis

THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK

Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is

PENGUIN CLA - GARDEN PARTY & OTHER STORIES

Young D?Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King?s elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to ? Porthos, Athos and Aramis, inseparable friends: the Three Musketeers. Soon part of their close band, D?Artagnan?s loyalty to his new allies puts him in the deadly path of Cardinal Richlieu?s machinations. And when the young hero falls in love with the beautiful but inaccessible Constance, he finds himself in a world of murde

PENGUIN CLA - THE THREE MUSKETEERS

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Nicola Bradbury.

PENGUIN CLA - BLEAK HOUSE

A relentlessly inventive collection of myths that betray a deep love and respect for the natural world A Penguin Classic The Camel gets his Hump, the Whale his Throat, and the Leopard his Spots in these bewitching stories that conjure up distant lands, the beautiful gardens of splendid palaces, and the jungle and its creatures. Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's delight in human eccentricities and the animal world, and based on bedtime stories he told to his daughter, these strikingly imaginative fab

PENGUIN CLA - JUST SO STORIES

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of 

PENGUIN CLA - LITTLE DORRIT

Two irresistibly intimate masterworks by one of Russia's greatest writers Published here in a marvelous new translation, Resurrection tells the story of a Russian nobleman who comes face to face with the sins of his past. When Prince Nekhlyudov serves on a jury at the trial of a prostitute arrested for murder, he is horrified to discover that the accused is a woman he had once seduced and abandoned. His guilt at the central role he played in her ruin soon leads him on a quest for forgiveness as 

PENGUIN CLA - RESURRECTION

When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been discussed between her and Giles, Grace finds herself captivated by Dr Edred Fitzpiers, a sophisticated newcomer to the area—a relationship that is encouraged by her socially ambitious father. Hardy's novel of betrayal, disillusionment and moral compromise depicts a secluded community coming to terms with the disastrous

WOODLANDERS

First pub 1817. Historical romantic adventure. Features Scotland's legendary highlander. Film adaption starrring Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hunt and Tim Roth, currently showing in Perth.

PENGUIN CLA - ROB ROY

A classic Victorian adventure into the realm of the unknown "She" is Ayesha, the mysterious white queen of a Central African Tribe and the goal of three English gentlemen, who must face shipwreck, fever, and cannibals in their quest to find her hidden realm. First published in 1887, She has enthralled the imaginations of many-from Freud, who prescribed the book to one of his patients, to the generations of readers, who remain fascinated by the book's revealing and fantastic representations of da

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