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By: Rabindranath Tagore

ISBN: 9780140449839
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This edition "reprinted with a new chronology, further reading, and corrections"--Copyright page.


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By: E.M. Forster

ISBN: 9780141186191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of stories of the author whose stories - whether they are set in Italy, Greece, India, or in England itself - contrast the freedom of paganism with the restraints of English civilization, the personal, sensual delights of the body with the impersonal, inhibiting rules imposed by society.


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By: O. Henry

ISBN: 9780140186888
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1993
UK Publication Date: 25th November 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes stories that discuss con men and tricksters and 'innocent' deceivers, about fate, luck, and coincidence, have delighted generations of readers. Set in New York and the West, in Central America and the South, this title demonstrates the author's speech and place, and highlights his appreciation of life's quirks.


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By: Anna Freud

ISBN: 9780141980911
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Anna Freud was one of the most creative and innovative thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis, whose pioneering work in child analysis and development revolutionized the treatment of the young. This book offers an overview of her entire career, displaying the richness, variety and originality of her thinking.


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By: Hildegard of Bingen

ISBN: 9780140436044
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2001
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Hildegard was a 12th century Cistercian nun, prophet and writer. This thematically arranged selection contains extracts from her trilogy of visionary writings, her treatise on medicine and the natural world (Causes and Cures), her choral music, and documents relating to her life and work.


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By: Barry Dainton

ISBN: 9781846146206
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 24th April 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Takes us through the nature of Self When you think 'What am I', what's actually doing the thinking Is it a soul, or some other kind of mental entity separate from your body, or are 'you' just a collection of nerve-endings and narratives This book takes us through the nature of Self and its relation to the rest of reality.


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By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9780143106524
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment.


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By: Richard McGuire

ISBN: 9780241287521
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Richard McGuire has been an illustrator at the world-renowned New Yorker magazine for over a decade. In this time he has used his one-panel 'spots' as a unique canvas upon which to practice the art of the graphic miniseries. Here these series are collected for the first time, as a charming, joyful and witty 'short story' collection.


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By: Amryl Johnson

ISBN: 9780241995754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Isak Dinesen

ISBN: 9780141187198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2003
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of seven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar. It is shot through with themes of love and desire - from the maiden lady who now believes herself to have been the grand courtesan of her time to the Count whose wife is so jealous that she cannot bear him to admire her jewels.


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By: T. E. Lawrence

ISBN: 9780141182766
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2000
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign which revolutionized the art of war. This title presents the epic events.


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By: Zak Brown

ISBN: 9780241788929
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sylvia Day

ISBN: 9781405912396
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 22nd November 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Seven years ago, on the eve of her wedding, young Lady Jessica Sheffield witnessed a scandalous seduction by the roguish Alistair Caulfield. But after years of serene and comfortable marriage, the widowed Jessica still cannot free her dreams of Alistair and that long ago night.


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By: Henry Miller

ISBN: 9780141399119
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The author called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in 1930s Paris his rosy crucifixion. In this volume, he looks back to his early sexual escapades in Brooklyn, and his growing infatuation with the playful, teasing dance hall hostess who will become the great obsession of his life.


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By: Chris Ramsey

ISBN: 9780241447130
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Ben Saunders

ISBN: 9780718187279
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: M M Kaye

ISBN: 9780241953037
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of Winter de Ballesteros, a beautiful English heiress who has come to India to be married; and of Captain Alex Randall, her escort and protector, who knows that Winter's husband to be has become a debauched wreck of a man.


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By: Isak Dinesen

ISBN: 9780140180435
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1990
UK Publication Date: 25th October 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes four stories that illuminate the author's love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape.


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By: Keith Houston

ISBN: 9780718193881
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Where does the ampersand get its name from What does the hashtag have to do with commerce in ancient Rome This book gives answers to these questions. From the pilcrow to the ampersand, it reflects the changes in written communication through the ages, charting how punctuation has adapted to each new technological innovation.


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By: Abolqasem Ferdowsi

ISBN: 9780143108320
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Stanley Wells

ISBN: 9780141017136
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Shows that Shakespeare was a man of the theatre, one among a community of artists in the teeming world of Renaissance London. This book also sketches a gallery of Shakespeare's fellow playwrights.


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By: Frank Kermode

ISBN: 9780140285925
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2001
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The true biography of Shakespeare is in the plays. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the seventeenth century. They are often in language that is difficult to us, and must have been hard even for contemporaries. How and why did Shakespeare's language develop as it did


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By: Dr Neil MacGregor

ISBN: 9780718195700
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was uncertain. This title uncovers the extraordinary stories behind twenty objects from the period to re-create an age at once distant and yet surprisingly familiar.


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By: William Shakespeare

ISBN: 9780141396224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a collection of Shakespeare's sonnets. This book contains poetry and themes such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality. It is a pocket-sized volume.

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