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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, "David Copperfield" is edited with an introduction and notes by Jeremy Tambling in "Penguin Classics". "David Copperfield" is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhapp ...Show more
David Copperfield (Penguin Black Classics) by Charles Dickens; Jeremy Tambling (int)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, "David Copperfield" is edited with an introduction and notes by Jeremy Tambling in "Penguin Classics". "David Copperfield" is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhapp ...Show more
David Copperfield (Penguin Black Classics) by Charles Dickens; Jeremy Tambling (int)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, "David Copperfield" is edited with an introduction and notes by Jeremy Tambling in "Penguin Classics". "David Copperfield" is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhapp ...Show more
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Nikolay Gogol
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nikolai Gogol's 'epic poem in prose', "Dead Souls" is a damning indictment of a corrupt society, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Robert A. Maguire in "Penguin Classics". Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landow ...Show more
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Two French priests, friends since childhood, are sent to the newly created diocese of New Mexico. Life there is hard and frequently dangerous. Journeys between parishes are beset by the perils of bandits and storms. The people do not always want to hear the priests' message. But through their many years ...Show more
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Demian is a coming-of-age story that follows a young boy's maturation as he grapples with good and evil, lightness and darkness, and forges alternatives to the ever-present corruption and suffering that he sees all around him. Crucial to this development are his relationships with a series of older ment ...Show more
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Thomas Hardy
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Hardy described "Desperate Remedies" as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determine ...Show more
Don Quixote (penguin classics) by Miguel Cervantes
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, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of ...Show more
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that, instead of laying their ghosts to rest, they become caught up in a train of strange events. This volume contains stories that exp ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England- an apparently unmanned shipis wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman disco ...Show more
Early Christian Writings - The Apostolic Fathers by Staniforth Maxwell, Maxwell Staniforth
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Focuses on traditions and organisation of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. This title presents an account of the early Church and outlines a form of early Christianity drawing on the theology and traditions of its parent religion, Judaism. Contents: Firs ...Show more