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A Bird in the Hand (#1 George and Molly Palmer-Jones) by Ann Cleeves
Category: No Category | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
Originally published in 1986, A Bird in the Hand announced Ann Cleeves, now the bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series, as a brilliant new voice in contemporary crime fiction.Who could have known birdwatching was such a dangerous sport?Young Tom French has been found dead in a marsh ...Show more
A Christmas Carol: A Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classic by Charles Dickens
Category: No Category | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
The classic seasonal tale of self-discovery, with 80 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. This classic seasonal tale of self-discovery has become one of Charles Dickens's most famous and best-loved works. On Christmas Eve, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by the ghost of his former business p ...Show more
A Christmas Carol (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Charles Dickens; Judith John (Contribution by)
Category: No Category | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
From the bustling, snowy streets of 19th-century London to the ghostly apparitions of Christmases past and future, award-winning artist Roberto Innocenti vividly renders not only the authentic detail but also the emotional impact of Charles Dickens's beloved Christmas tale. In both crowded urban scenes ...Show more
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writingscollects stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings. This Penguin Classics is edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Slater.Since it was first published in 1843 A Christmas Carol ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.
A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a stray dog and performs on it a human transplant - with disastrous consequences.
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Classics Ser.
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social ...Show more
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr, J.L. Carr
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Penelope Fitzgerald - Introduction Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 112 pages | ISBN 014118230X | May 2000 A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beau ...Show more
A Nietzsche Reader by Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Secondhand. Selected and Translated with an Introduction by R. J. Hollingdale.The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The G ...Show more
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a myste ...Show more