Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics 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 brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha ...Show more
Animal Farm - Penguin Student Edition by George Orwell
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Category: Black Classics | Series: Penguin Student editions
Penguin Student Editions have been specifically designed for readers who are studying a text in detail. They include a helpful introduction and explanatory notes, character sketches, a text summary, a chronology, a selection of questions and topics for discussion and analysis, as well as suggestions for ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Black Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?' This special edition of A Clockwork Orangerestores the text of Anthony Burgess' novel as he originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of his teen slang 'Nadsat', pages from the original typescript, explanatory notes, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light o ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Black Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Black Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes...' ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Black Classics | Series: Penguin Black Classics
When a young student at a military academy mails some of his poetry to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, seeking advice, he initiates years of correspondence, during which Rilke expresses his most personal insights into the artist's relationship with life, the interior needs of the individual growing t ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Category: Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Wuthering Heights" is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, i ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Oliver Ready (Translator)
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Category: Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
Will I really - I mean, really - actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces?...Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in blood ...axe in hand?...Lord, will I really? This new translation of Dostoevsky's 'psychologica ...Show more
Animal Farm (Penguin English Library) by George Orwell
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Category: Black Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a l ...Show more
The Great Gatsby (Penguin English Library) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Black Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
A genuine great of twentieth-century writing, this release has been refreshed by Fitzgerald researcher James L.W. West III to incorporate the writer's last modifications and highlights a note on the organization and content, an individual foreword by Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan-and anoth ...Show more
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley
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Category: Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley's original 1818 text, introduced by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read 2018 marks the bicentennial of Mary Shelley's seminal novel. For th ...Show more
