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Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
A cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language, Naked Lunchis an exhilarating ride into the darkest recesses of the human psyche. An unnerving tale of an addict unmoored in New York, Tangier, and ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, Naked Lunch's formal innovat ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Clothbound Classic) by George Orwell
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
'Who controls the past controls the future- who controls the present controls the past.'Hidden away in the Records Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, w ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Catherine Morland should know better. She's the very ideal of a nice, normal girl. But Catherine is cursed with an overactive imagination. She is also obsessed with lurid Gothic novels, where terrible things happen to the heroine. Which gets her into all sorts of trouble... When Catherine visits Bath a ...Show more
Oliver Twist (Clothbound Classic) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist is a gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne. The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After r ...Show more
Persuasion (Clothbound Classic) by Jane Austen
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Sir Walter Elliot, de Kellynch-Hall, dans le comté de Somerset, n'avait jamais touché un livre pour son propre amusement, si ce n'est le livre héraldique. Là il trouvait de l'occupation dans les heures de désoeuvre- ment, et de la consolation dans les heures de chagrin. Devant ces vieux parchemins, il é ...Show more
Proust Clothbound Box by Marcel Proust; C. K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel, and C. K. Sco ...Show more
Sanditon by Jane Austen
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A stunning new Clothbound Classics edition of Jane Austen's tantalizing final work - set to be a major Andrew Davies ITV adaptation this autumn Written in the last months of Austen's life, Sanditon features a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators in a newly established seaside resort, and show ...Show more
Tales from 1,001 Nights by Ursula Lyons (Translator); Robert Irwin (Introduction by); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator); Malcolm C. Lyons (Translator)
Category: No Category | 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, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar s ...Show more
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Clothbound Classic HB) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
A beautiful clothbound edition featuring some of the famous detective's most famous cases.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, tactile clot ...Show more
The Bronte Sisters Boxed Set by Charlotte Bronte
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Jane Eyre | Wuthering Heights | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Villette. This stunning box set brings together the Bronte sisters' four greatest novels in beautiful Penguin editions designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. From the bleak moors of Wuthering Heights to the Belgian capital in V ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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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, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In The Canterbury TalesChaucer created one of the great to ...Show more
The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave ...Show more