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The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix Tie-In) by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror ...Show more
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A classic of fantastic literature, Leonora Carrington's "The Hearing Trumpet" is the occult twin to "Alice in Wonderland", published with an introduction by Ali Smith in Penguin Modern Classics. One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing tr ...Show more
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A group of people have little in common except that they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, whose presence changes their lives.
The Heat's On by Chester B. Himes
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the drug dealer, though, isn't coming back - he died after Grave D ...Show more
The Histories by Herodotus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
"The Histories" describes how a small band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. But while this epic struggle forms the core of his work, Herodotus' natural curiosity frequently gives rise to colourful digressions: a description of the natural wonders of Egypt; an account ...Show more
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault
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We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault's landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an explosion of discussion about sex as a separate sphere of life for study and ...Show more
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
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Michel Foucault's landmark account explores our evolving attitudes to sex, and shows how are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase in pleasure.
The History of Sexuality 3 - The Care of the Self (Penguin Modern Classics) by Michel Foucault
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Michel Foucault's landmark account explores our evolving attitudes to sex, and shows how are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase in pleasure.
The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
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A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighbouring squire though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls.
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine by Eusebius; G. A. Williamson (Translated by); Andrew Louth (Revised, Edited & Introduction by)
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Eusebius' account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in writing the History and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical historians. In tra ...Show more
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars and society, and the eve ...Show more
The History of the Franks by Saint, Bishop of Tours Gregory
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Written following the collapse of Rome's secular control over western Europe, the History of Gregory (c. AD 539 594) is a fascinating exploration of the events that shaped sixth-century France. This volume contains all ten books from the work, the last seven of which provide an in-depth description of G ...Show more