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The Mayor of Casterbridge (Clothbound Classic) by Thomas Hardy; Keith Wilson (Editor); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
At a country fair near Casterbridge in the fictional county of Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan. Drunk on rum-laced furmity he auctions her off, along with their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober the n ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
In The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a rand ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Category: No Category | Series: Clothbound Classics
The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succès de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in exchange f ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Henry James's 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 soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her ...Show more
The Prophet by KAHLIL GIBRAN
Category: No Category | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Prophet, a masterwork by Kahlil Gibran, is one of our time's most treasured classics. It was first published in 1923 and has since been translated into over twenty languages, with over nine million copies sold in the United States alone.The Prophet is a compilation of philosophical, spiritual, and, ...Show more
The Queen Of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
Category: No Category | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Penguin Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith A countess with a card trick; love letters filled with deception; a desperate man with a pistol.'The Queen of Spades', one of ...Show more
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner; John Deathridge (Introduction by, Translator, Notes by)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audience itself. The four operas-The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried ...Show more
The Sonnets and a Lover's complaint (Clothbound Classic) by William Shakespeare; John Kerrigan (Editor, Introduction by); Coralie Bickford-smith (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
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 and tactile cloth. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written m ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall By Anne Bronte is the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, dissolute husband, and who must then support herself and her young son. By challenging the prevailing morals of the time the novel caused a critic to pronounce it ''utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls' ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. But are the children really in danger - and if so, from whom? The novella is accompanied here by several more of the ve ...Show more
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
A stunningly beautiful clothbound hardback edition of one of the most famous adventure stories in the world. Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captain Flint, young Jim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he has discovered a map that will lead him to the fabled Treasure Isl ...Show more
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: No Category | Series: Clothbound Classics
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 foil stamped into the design. The story grew out of a map that led to imaginary tre ...Show more