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Wie Faust, Don Quijote oder Dracula hat Robinson sich längst von dem literarischen Werk gelöst, in dem er erstmals auftrat, ist eher Mythos als Romanfigur. Robinson und seine Geschichte kennen alle; auch die, die das Buch nie gelesen haben. Daniel Defoe präsen...
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Nearly 2400 species are illustrated in full colour, with detailed notes on how to...
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The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination, Robert Louis Stevensons "Treasure Island" is edited with an introduction by John Seelye in "Penguin Classics". When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances...
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George Eliots tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, "Silas Marner" is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in "Penguin Classics". Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before...
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Leadership has never played a more prominent role in Americas national discourse, and yet our opinions of leaders are at all-time lows. Private sector leaders are widely seen as greedy to the point of being corrupt. Public sector leaders are viewed as incompet...
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Um ihre Eltern finanziell zu unterstützen, nimmt die junge Pfarrerstochter Agnes eine Stelle als Gouvernante an. Bald schon gerät sie zwischen die Fronten von Dienerschaft, verzogenen Kindern und allzu nachgiebigen Eltern. Sensibel und eindrücklich erzählt Ann...
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What dark history is this? This is the question that hangs over Dickenss brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century. Set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Barnaby Rudge tells a story of individuals caught up in the mi...
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This collection of Poes work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poes writing. They are peopled with n...
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Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and T hrough the Looking-Glass, here illustrated throughout the inner pages by Sir John Tenniels much lov ed drawings. However, inspired by the insatiable Victorian ...
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Charles Dickens "Dombey and Son" is a darkly witty tale of two siblings struggle to achieve happiness in the shadow of their fathers pride, edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders in "Penguin Classics". To Paul Dombey, business is all and money...
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is one of the most notorious texts in En glish literature. As recently as 1963 an unexpurgated edition was the subject of a trial, yet in the eighteenth century John Clelands open celebration of sexu...
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Jane Austen is without question, one of Englands most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literatures most charismatic and believab le heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as whe...
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Henry James great masterpiece, now in a stunning Penguin clothbound edition designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will so...
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Catherine Morland ist für Jane Austen eine ungewöhnliche Romanheldin: zwar ist sie jung und tugendhaft, aber weder ausnehmend schön noch besonders elegant, und als Tochter eines Geistlichen keine sonderlich gute Partie. Ihr Hauptinteresse gilt Büchern und der...
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Our Mutual Friend, Dickens last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its appare...
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This title presents the sweeping love story of two people who defy the conventions of their age to follow the dictates of their hearts. Trapped in a stifling marriage, Anna Karenina is swept off her feet by the dashing Count Vronsky. When the truth about their...
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From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers - featuring cover art by type superstar Jessica Hische ? It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and gift-worthy hardcover ...
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Der groúe viktorianische Erzähler. Die Welt?Den Namen Oliver Twist hat Mr. Bumble, der Kirchspielbüttel, für das im Armenhaus geborene Kind erfunden, dessen Mutter starb, bevor sie Aufschluú über ihre Herkunft geben konnte. Unter dem Regiment herzloser, eigens...
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Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the authors first-hand experience, North and South fo llows the story of the heroines movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskells skilful n...
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No more "Double, double, toil and trouble?" Now you can learn Shakespeare on the double! Macbeth has all the ingredients of a modern day bestseller-greed, ambition, murder, mayhem, madness, politics, assassinations, hallucinations, prophecies, spells, and rebe...
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Ein schmuckes Herrenhaus mit Park und Stallungen in der stillen Landschaft von Northamptonshire: das ist "Mansfield Park", der Schauplatz dieses bewegten Familienromans. Im Kreis ihrer begüterten Verwandten hat die scheue Fanny kein leichtes Leben. Doch trium...
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The Wordsworth Classics? Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare? s works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespe...
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A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardys "Tess of the DUrbervilles" is edited with notes by Tim Dolin and an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet in "Penguin Classics". When Tess Durbeyfield is...
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This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Middlemarch" by George Eliot. She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was sobbing he...
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"Bleak House" is Charles Dickens masterful assault on the injustices of the British legal system. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Nicola Bradbury, as well as a preface by Terry Eagleton. As the interminable case of J...
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Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the field s and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day theyll find a place of their own and live the America...
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This is the bestselling Dan Brown audiobook. Seek and ye shall find. With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origi...
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One of Britains most popular novels, George Orwells dystopian tale "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith...
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Gaskell?s last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nin eteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships ? father, daughter and step-mot her, father and sons, father and step-daughter ? all teste...
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Kapitän Ahab macht erbittert Jagd auf den weiúen Wal, für ihn kolossales Sinnbild des Bösen. Der Verfolger indes verstrickt sich immer tiefer in seine Besessenheit, und der Leser folgt ihm gebannt auf seiner blindwütigen Odyssee. Herman Melville hat mit seinem...
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Fünfter Teil des hochgelobten und beliebten Fantasy-Epos A Song of Ice and Fire. Unter der Obhut der Letzten der Targaryons, Daenerys Stormborn, sind die jungen Drachen zu Furcht einflöúenden Wesen herangewachsen. Die Sieben Königreiche sind von schrecklicher ...
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Daisy Miller is one of Henry Jamess most attractive heroines: she represents youth and frivolity. A s a tourist in Italy, her American freedom and freshness of spirit come up against the corruption an d hypocrisy of European manners. From its first publicatio...
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Lewis Carrolls novels Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (first published in 1865 and 1871, respectively) have entertrained readers young and old for more than a century. Their magical worlds, amusing characters, clever dialogue, and...