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From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter

The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space. Here are classic tales from writers including Truman Capote, Shirley Jackson, Dylan Thomas, Saki and Chekhov, as well as little-known treasures such as Italo Calvino's wry sideways look at Christmas consumerism, Wolfdietrich Schnurre's story of festive ingenuity in Berlin, Selma Lagerlof's enchanted forest in Sweden, and Irène Nemerovsky's dark family portrait. Featuring santas, ghosts, trolls, unexpected guests, curmudgeons and miracles, here is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short story writers of all time.

The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories

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Daniel Defoe

David Blewett

Pennsylvania

‘I grew as impudent a Thief, and as dexterous as ever Moll Cut-Purse was’ Born and abandoned in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders is forced to make her own way in life. She duly embarks on a career that includes husband-hunting, incest, bigamy, prostitution and pick-pocketing, until her crimes eventually catch up with her. One of the earliest and most vivid female narrators in the history of the English novel, Moll recounts her adventures with irresistible wit and candour—and enough guile that the reader is left uncertain whether she is ultimately a redeemed sinner or a successful opportunist. Based on the first edition of 1722, this volume includes a chronology, notes on currency and maps of London and Virginia in the late seventeenth century.

Moll Flanders (Penguin Classics Edition, 1989)

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James Cable

Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, written by an unknown author, is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with its integrity threatened by the weakness of Arthur's own knights. Whispers of Queen Guinevere's infidelity with his beloved comrade-at-arms Sir Lancelot profoundly distress the trusting King, leaving him no match for the machinations of the treacherous Sir Mordred. The human tragedy of The Death of King Arthur so impressed Malory that he built his own Arthurian legend on this view of the court - a view that profoundly influenced the English conception of the 'great' King. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Death of King Arthur (Penguin Classics Edition)

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This classic novel will take you on a journey to the past, where the story of a family in the countryside unfolds. With its rich narrative, you will discover the complexities of social class and romance in England. The story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy will draw you in and leave you wanting more. The novel comes in a UK-B format paperback with revised features, perfect for young adults and adults alike. Get your copy today and enjoy this timeless literary work!

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Alabama

Pride and Prejudice; Penguin Classics - paperback, Jane Austen, Trade PB VG

Thomas Hardy

A. Alvarez

Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy's early work, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina, has achieved classic stature.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics Edition, 1985)

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A Sentimental Journey (Penguin Classics Edition, 1986) 

Arthur Miller

Christopher W. E. Bigsby

A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community A Penguin Classic "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition...is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Crucible (Penguin Classics Edition, 2003)

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Anthony Trollope

"I never saw anything like you clergymen … you are always thinking of fighting each other" After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the son of the old bishop, Archdeacon Grantly, resentment and suspicion threaten to cause deep divisions within the diocese. Trollope’s masterly depiction of the plotting and back-stabbing that ensues lies at the heart of one of the most vivid and comic of his Barsetshire novels, peopled by such very different figures as the saintly Warden of Hiram’s Hospital, Septimus Harding, the ineffectual but well-meaning new bishop and his terrifying wife, and the oily chaplain Mr Slope who has designs both on Mr Harding’s daughter and the fascinating would-be femme fatale Signora Vesey-Neroni. This is the second volume of Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire. In his introduction, Robin Gilmour examines the novel’s political and social background and Trollope’s concern with changes occurring in society. This edition also includes a preface by J. K. Galbraith. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Barchester Towers (Penguin Classics Edition, 1987) 

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One spring day, 30 pilgrims set off from an inn in Southwark for a shrine in Canterbury. The inn keeper offers a free dinner, on their return, to the person who can tell the best story. So begins an assortment of tales from such varied characters as the Knight, the Wife of Bath and the Miller.

The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics Reprint, 1986)

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The Story of an African Farm (Penguin Classics Edition, 1986)

Walter Scott

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New Mexico

When young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious and scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on his father's business and his beloved Diana Vernon, he turns in desperation to Rob Roy for help. Chieftain of the MacGregor clan, Rob Roy is a brave and fearless man, able and cunning. But he is also an outlaw with a price on his head, and as he and Francis join forces to pursue Rashleigh, he is constantly aware that he, too, is being pursued - and could be captured at any moment. Set on the eve of the 1715 Jacobite uprising, Rob Roy brilliantly evokes a Scotland on the verge of rebellion, blending historical fact and a novelist's imagination to create an incomparable portrait of intrigue, rivalry and romance.

Rob Roy Penguin Classics

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James Agee

Steve Earle

The classic American novel--winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize--now re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth

One of Time's All-Time 100 Best Novels

A Penguin Classic

Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident--a tragedy that destroys not only a life, but also the domestic happiness and contentment of a young family. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and powerful emotion, A Death in the Family is a masterpiece of American literature.

A Death in the Family (Penguin Classics Edition, 2008) 

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Oscar. Wilde

Texas

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.

Penguin Classics the Picture of Dorian Gray

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Miguel de Cervantes

John Rutherford

Ohio

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote's fancy leads them wildly astray. At the same time the relationship between the two men grows in fascinating subtlety. Often considered to be the first modern novel, Don Quixote is a wonderful burlesque of the popular literature its disordered protagonist is obsessed with.

Penguin Classics Don Quixote

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics Reprint, 1962)

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Penguin

Bundle of Shakespeare and classics  Penguin books  1958-1960 approximately

Henry Fielding

Thomas Keymer

Withdrawn library book with the usual stickers and stamps. Structurally the book is in good condition. It is worn in some spots and there is a crease on the cover. The 2 pieces of tape on the inside cover seem arbitrary because it doesn’t look like they were put there to fix anything. There are 2 pieces of tape in the same spot on the inside back cover as well. Please see pictures.

Henry Fielding's picaresque tale of a young man's search for his place in the world, The History of Tom Jones is edited with notes and an introduction by Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakely in Penguin Classics.

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. But when his amorous escapades earn the disapproval of his benefactor, Tom is banished to make his own fortune. Sophia, meanwhile, is determined to avoid an arranged marriage to Allworthy's scheming nephew and escapes from her rambunctious father to follow Tom to London. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.

In his introduction Thomas Keymer discusses narrative techniques and themes, the context of eighteenth century fiction and satire, and the historical and political background of the Jacobite rebellion. This volume also includes a chronology, further reading, notes, a glossary and an appendix on Fielding's revisions.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754) born at Sharpham Park, in Somerset, was a dramatist, novelist, political agitator and founder of London's first police force, the 'Bow Street Runners'. As a playwright he was a thorn in the side of Sir Robert Walpole's Whig government, who effectively legislated his retirement from the theatre with the Licensing Act of 1737. Undeterred, Fielding launched his career as a novelist in 1740 with Shamela (a parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela), followed by Joseph Andrews (1741), an anticipation of his masterpiece, the comic novel Tom Jones (1749).

If you enjoyed The History of Tom Jones, you might like Henry Fielding's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, also available in Penguin Classics.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Penguin Classics)

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Henry Green

John Updike

For a withdrawn library book this is in very good condition. There is something on the spine towards the top. Possibly glue, but I didn’t remove it so as to not damage the book. Please see pictures.

Introduction by John Updike

Henry Green explored class distinctions through the medium of love. This volume brings together three of his novels contrasting the lives of servants and masters (Loving); workers and owners, set in a Birmingham iron foundry (Living); and the different lives of the wealthy and the ordinary, (Party Going).

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Loving; Living; Party Going (Penguin Classics)

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Honore De Balzac

Marion Ayton Crawford

Vintage Penguin Classics two book bundle
1) Cousin Bette, Honore De Balzac 1965 edition ISBN 0140441603
2) The Travels, Marco Polo 1958 edition 
ISBN 0140440577
Both books are in good shape. The have some wear & tear around edges, corners & on the spine. There some scratches & indentations on covers & yellowing of covers & page edges. Please see photos 

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Poor Relations, Part One

During the 1840's, a bourgeois Parisian family is brought to ruin by the machinations of an embittered spinster

Vintage|| Penguin Classics Bundle: Cousin Bette & The Travels

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. Sinclair’s masterpiece is an honest, sometimes brutal, tour de force that opened America’s eyes to the struggles and horrors many immigrants endured.

Welcome to Chicago during the early 1900s. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle portrays the hardships of the immigrant working class in a way that changed literature and history. The story begins with Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus, who takes a job at Brown’s slaughterhouse to try to earn enough money to stay afloat. His life becomes a constant struggle—he, his young wife, Ona, and the rest of his family eventually falling victim to a slew of unfortunate circumstances including exploitation, abuse, and for some even death.

From unsanitary and unsafe working conditions to poverty wages, the novel revealed to the American public the struggles immigrants encountered in Chicago’s meatpacking industry. Sinclair, a muckraking journalist, penned the bestselling narrative in an attempt to expose the evils of capitalism, and bring to light the extreme adversity these people faced not just in Chicago, but in industrialized cities across the country. By detailing numerous health violations in these workplaces, Sinclair’s novel caused public outrage and eventually led to the passing of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.

Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the musings of literary geniuses such as Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter, to the striking personal narratives from Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this new series is a comprehensive collection of our history through the words of the exceptional few.

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The Jungle (penguin classics Deluxe)

Jane. Austen

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Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition Threads Collection

Content with her life and not interested in marriage, Emma Woodhouse, a rich and beautiful heiress, causes complications with her matchmaking schemes.

Emma (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Threads Collection)

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Connecticut

The Rise And Fall Of Athens Plutarch Vintage Paperback 1964 Penguin Classics

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Virginia

FRAKENSTEIN (PENGUIN CLASSICS BUNDLE) FAUX LEATHER

Henry James

Patricia Crick

No markings anywhere inside. Cousin Bette has a sale sticker peeled off on the back cover. Minor signs of shelf wear on spine. The Golden Bowl excellent condition tiny blemishes on spine. 
Rob Roy minor signs of shelf wear and slight discoloration of pages on top edges

Cousin Bette/ Rob Roy

This story of the alliance between Italian aristocracy and American millionaires is 'a work unique among all James's novels- it is his only novel in which things come out right for his characters ...he had finally resolved the questions, curious and passionate, that had kept him at his desk on his inquiries into the process of living. He could now make his peace with America - and he could now collect and unify the work of a lifetime.' - Leon Edel in The Life of Henry James

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The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories

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James Cable (translator)

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Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice; Penguin Classics - paperback, Jane Austen, Trade PB VG

Thomas Hardy; A. Alvarez

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Laurence Sterne; Graham Petrie

A Sentimental Journey (Penguin Classics Edition, 1986)

Arthur Miller; Christopher W. E. Bigsby

The Crucible (Penguin Classics Edition, 2003)

Anthony Trollope; Robin Gilmour (editor)

Barchester Towers (Penguin Classics Edition, 1987)

Geoffrey Chaucer; Nevill Coghill (Translator)

The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics Reprint, 1986)

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Walter Scott

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Oscar. Wilde

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Brian Stone (translator)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics Reprint, 1962)

Some Shakespeare

Bundle of Shakespeare and classics Penguin books 1958-1960 approximately

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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Penguin Classics)

Henry Green; John Updike (introduction)

Loving; Living; Party Going (Penguin Classics)

Honore De Balzac; Marion Ayton Crawford; Marco Polo; Ronald Latham

Vintage|| Penguin Classics Bundle: Cousin Bette & The Travels

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle (penguin classics Deluxe)

Jane Austen

Emma (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Threads Collection)

Plutarch

The Rise And Fall Of Athens Plutarch Vintage Paperback 1964 Penguin Classics

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