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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Considered by many to the greatest novel ever written, Tolstoy's masterpiece is a story of family life set against the backdrop of war. The novel begins in 1805, in the crowded and gossip-filled rooms of a St Petersburg party, and follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Bolkonsky and Rostov families as ...Show more
Whizz for Atomms by Geoffrey Willans
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With one mad yell the mob, armed with stumps and bits torn from desks, surge away down the pasage, trampling the masters under foot. A buket of water fall on Grimes and the term end in a series of wizard rags and japes. Cars arrive, driven by parents with drawn, white faces. Nigel Molesworth is dragging ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
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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
Wuthering Heights - Penguin Red Classic by Emily Bronte
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In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere. As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-mean ...Show more