Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
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A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Classics | Series: The Handmaid's Tale
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) "While others watched the TV series I re-read the book. When The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, reviewers compared Margaret Atwood unfavourably to male writers of science fiction. ...Show more
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbidd ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? . . . Or is he all of these?
Paradise Lost by John Milton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence, "Paradise Lost" has been fully revised with an introduction by John Leonard in "Penguin Classics". In "Paradise Lost" Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosm ...Show more
The Outsiders (Modern Classics) by S.E. Hinton
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In Ponyboy's world there are two types of people. There are the Socs, the rich society kids who get away with anything. Then there are the greasers, like Ponyboy, who aren't so lucky. Ponyboy has a few things he can count on: his older brothers, his friends, and trouble with the Socs, whose idea of a go ...Show more
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante Dante, Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics | Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
The first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in whi ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
The Iliad by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An accessible Iliad for twenty-first-century readers A classic of Western literature for three millennia, Homer's Iliad captivates modern readers--as it did ancient listeners--with its tale of gods and warriors at the siege of Troy. Now Herbert Jordan's line-for-line translation brilliantly renders the ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three m ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. This "Penguin Classics" edition of is edited with an introduction and notes by Richard Maxwell. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of ti ...Show more