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Out of Africa (Penguin pocket classics) by Isak Dinesen; Karen Blixen
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
In one of the most passionate memoirs ever written, Karen Blixen recalls running a farm in Africa at the start of the twentieth century, and the love affair that changed her life.'When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music.'From the moment Karen Blixen arriv ...Show more
The Betrothed (Penguin pocket classics) by Alessandro Manzoni
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'I pity this house; the curse of God is hanging over it'. Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are ...Show more
The Cossacks and Hadji Murat (Penguin pocket classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'He said that Shamil had ordered Hadji Murat to be taken dead or alive...' In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected ...Show more
The Good Soldier Svejk (Penguin pocket classics) by Jaroslav Hasek
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Listen, Švejk, are you really God's prize oaf?''Humbly report, sir,' Švejk answered solemnly. 'I am!' The chaotic, hilarious adventures of an ordinary soldier, who is either genuinely a total idiot or a genius pretending to be one - perhaps the greatest book to come out of the First World War, as Švej ...Show more
The House of Ulloa (Penguin pocket classics) by Emilia Pardo Bazan
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Then he saw the barrel of a gun aimed dead on target - not at him, as he might have expected, but at the clergyman's back.' Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, the House of Ulloa follows innocent and timid Father Julian Alvarez as he tries to turn the aristocratic owner away from drinking, womanizing a ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago (Penguin Pocket Classics No. 4) by Alfred Russel Wallace
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head'Alfred Russel Wallace left to explore the islands of southeast Asia an obscure naturalist; he returned eight years later an acclaimed scientist and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution. This is his vivid, exh ...Show more
The Rainbow (Penguin pocket classics) by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'So Ursula became the child of her father's heart.' The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family and their struggles with each other and themselves. Beautiful, strange and with a power all its own, The Rainbow redefined the English novel. A new series of twenty distinctive, ...Show more
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