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The Homeric Hymns by Jules Cashford, Homer, Homer
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Composed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. They recount the key episodes in the lives of the gods, and dramatise the moments when they first appear before mortals. Together they offer the most vivid picture we have ...Show more
The Honourable Schoolboy (Smiley's People #6) by John le Carré
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In the second part of John le Carré's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension. George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its hist ...Show more
The Hopkins Manuscript by R. C. Sheriff
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The funny and moving story of the apocalypse - as seen from one small village in England Retired teacher Edgar Hopkins lives for the thrill of winning poultry prizes. But his narrow world is shattered when he learns that the moon is about to come crashing into the earth, with apocalyptic consequences. T ...Show more
The House on the Hill by Cesare Pavese
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A devastating novel set in wartime Italy from the great twentieth-century writer, in a new translation by Tim ParksJune, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing industrial Turin; Fascist Italy seems to be on its knees. Corrado, a teacher, is staying in relative safety in the hills above the city. He has no at ...Show more
The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in London in 1965, The Housing Lark follows a group of West Indian friends as they attempt to buy a house together in the city they now call home, while also navigating racist attitudes, sexual politics, exploitative landlords and brushes with the law. Written with Selvon's characteristic exuberance ...Show more
The IPCRESS File (#1) by Len Deighton
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, Guardian A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinist ...Show more
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How simple this novel is. How subtle. How strong. How unlike any other. It is unique. It is unforgettable. It is extraordinary' Doris Lessing'I'm surprised it isn't the most famous book in the world' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers'She was close to the edge now: the ice laid its ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYHigh on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
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Category: No Category | 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 Iliad (Homer) Translated by Robert Fagles by Homer
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A work of tremendous influence that has inspired writers from his ancient Greek contemporaries to modernist writers such as T.S. Eliot, Homer's epic poem "The Iliad" is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in "Penguin Classics". One of the foremost achievements in W ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. Includes Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy and ...Show more