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The Wings of the Dove
Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and financially ambitious Kate Croy is already romantically …
The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis
The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century …
Finnegans Wake
Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses, James Joyce set himself even greater challenges for his next book -- the night."A nocturnal state...That is …
Goblin Market and Other Poems
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. …
The Breakthrough
Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of life if the promise of fulfilment lies elsewhere?On the windswept coast of rural …
The Shadow Puppet
A new translation of this gripping domestic tragedy, set in Simenon's very own neighbourhood.One by one the lighted windows went dark. The silhouette of the dead man could still be …
The Missing Girl
' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." 'Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in …
Selected Poems: Tennyson
As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age, and Selected Poems is edited with an introduction …
Spiritual Verses
Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma ‘navi, or ‘spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored ‘mystical’ poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the …
A Most Wanted Man
'One of the most sophisticated fictional responses to the war on terror yet published' GuardianAn illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a …
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. …