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By: Dante
ISBN: 9780141195872
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 25th November 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, this title depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins.
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By: Charlotte Bront
ISBN: 9780141040387
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity.
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By: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9780241382691
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This is the story of a young country workman obsessed by his ambition to become an Oxford student, interwoven with his fraught relationships with two women.
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By: D. H. Lawrence
ISBN: 9780141192482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper.
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By: Victor Hugo
ISBN: 9781846140495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A tale of injustice, heroism and love that follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine (Anne Hathaway), driven to prostitution by poverty.
(Hardback)
By: Louisa May Alcott
ISBN: 9780141192413
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four 'little women' enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England.
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By: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780241638439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780140433340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 25th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense. This edition includes all of Austen's juvenilia, including her 'History of England', and the novella 'Lady Susan', in which the anti-heroine schemes and cheats her way through high society.
(Hardback)
By: Gustave Flaubert
ISBN: 9780141394671
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780141198415
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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2012 is the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of our greatest and most important novelists, Charles Dickens. This title includes six of his works.
(Hardback)
By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780141197708
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life.
(Hardback)
By: Ovid
ISBN: 9780141394619
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, this book interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy.
(Hardback)
By: George Eliot
ISBN: 9780141196893
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon.
(Hardback)
By: Wu Chengen
ISBN: 9780141393445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 11th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9780241468647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Miles Franklin
ISBN: 9780241699584
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: William S. Burroughs
ISBN: 9780241284636
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780241453513
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780141197715
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive 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.
(Hardback)
By: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780141192499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of an orphan named Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves.
(Hardback)
By: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780241552643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9780241284643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: John Milton
ISBN: 9780141394633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780141197692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank.
