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Within The Walls by Giorgio Bassani
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover, the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and communities, a holocaust survivor seemingly back from the dead, a formidable socialist activist defying house arrest, and the only witness to the first local atrocity of the Second ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, "Wives and Daughters" centres on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father. When he remarries a new stepsister, Cynthia, enters Molly's quiet life. Loveable but worldly and troubling, Cynthia's arrival alters Molly's d ...Show more
Woman Who Rode Away The/st Maw by D. H. Lawrence
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A collection of three works exploring the profound effects on protagonists who embark on psychological voyages of liberation. The first story offers a depiction of London's fashionable horse riding set. The second story portrays the intimacy between an aloof woman and her male guide, while the third dea ...Show more
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suf ...Show more
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
"Women in Love" is widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel. The novel continues where: "The Rainbow" left off with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. T ...Show more
Wonderful Adventures Of Mrs Seacole In Many Lands by SEACOLE MARY
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin 20th Century Classics Ser.
Famed for her work among the sick and wounded of the Crimean War, Mary Seacole possessed a unique perspective: that of a Victorian-era black woman at a battlefield's front line. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1805, she began her career as a healer by helping her mother nurse British officers at nearby mi ...Show more
Wonderful World Of Oz by BAUM L Frank
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Most people are familiar with the land of Oz by way of the classic 1939 film. But the film was based on only the first of fourteen books about Oz in which Baum developed his vision of a socialist paradise and which garnered an immense and loyal following. Three of the novels are collected here. The Wiza ...Show more
Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. This work provides background to the philosophy of one of the profoundest thinkers of the twentieth century.
Written Lives by Javier Marias
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Marias, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling "A Heart So White", throws unexpected, and very human, light on authors too often enshrined in the halo o ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Category: No Category | 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
Wuthering Heights (Clothbound Classic) by Emily Brontë
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful and tactile cloth. In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere . . . As darkness falls, a man ca ...Show more