Author: | Charles Dickens |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Penguin Classics |
Reading Level: | General Adult |
"A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings" collects stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings. This "Penguin Classics" is edited with an introdu... read more
Author: | Albert Barnett Facey |
Category: |
Classics |
Born in 1894, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression and spent sixty years with his beloved wife, Evelyn. Despite enduring hardships we can barely imagine today, Facey always saw his life as a '... read more
Author: | William Shakespeare |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find t... read more
Author: | Aesop |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop’s fables in a volume that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites - the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and the steady tortoise -... read more
Author: | Lewis Carroll |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Clothbound Classics |
Reading Level: | General Adult |
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with... read more
Author: | Lewis Carroll |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
It's a warm summer's afternoon when young Alice first tumbles down the rabbit hole and into the adventures in Wonderland that have kept readers spellbound for more than 150 years. Collected here are Lewis Ca... read more
Author: | Lewis Carroll |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (alias Lewis Carroll) was an interesting and idiosyncratic character, to say the least. He was a mathematics lecturer at Cambridge University and a deacon in the Anglican Church. Obv... read more
Author: | George Orwell |
Category: |
Classics |
Animal Farm, by George Orwell - author of 1984, one of Britain's most popular novels - is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption.
'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.'
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Author: | L.N. Tolstoy |
Category: |
Classics |
A powerful translation of the classic Russian novel - retells the tale of rebellious Anna and her ill-fated, adulterous romance with Count Vronsky amid the turmoil of nineteenth-century Russia. Reissue.
Author: | Leo Tolstoy |
Category: |
Classics |
Awards: | Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. |
Now the subject of a major new film adaptation from director Joe Wright ("Atonement", "Pride and Prejudice"), Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" is translated by award-winning duo Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky in "Penguin Classics". Starring Keira Knightley ("A ... read more
Author: | Banjo Paterson |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | A&R Classics |
When a young man submitted a set of verses to the Bulletin in 1889 under the pseudonym 'The Banjo', it was the beginning of an enduring tradition. Today Banjo Paterson is still one of Australia's best-loved poets. This complete collection of his verse shows the bush b... read more
Author: | Joseph Heller |
Category: |
Classics |
Series: | Vintage Classics |
Awards: | Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 21 2003. |
"WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSON Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off th... read more