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Plain Tales from the Hills (Penguin Classics), by Rudyard Kipling
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Steinbeck's only work of fantasy literature--in a deluxe edition with a foreword by Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr A Penguin …
Wife to Mr Milton
Marie Powell is sixteen when her father marries her to the poet John Milton in payment of a debt. They move to a pretty garden-house in London, but she struggles to adjust to her …
The Uses of Literacy
When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us …
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
In the rich, humid air of sixteenth-century Peru, Atahuallpa, the Sun-God King, meets Pizarro the Conquistador, representative of the Spanish Empire at its most insatiable. While …
On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it "The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version of On the Road] for our time. . …
Tales of the Pacific
Stories deal with injustice, greed, brutality, materialism, the unconscious, and the harshness of nature
Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth
Robert Graves first came across the name of Roger Lamb in 1914, when Graves was an English officer instructing his platoon in regimental history. Lamb was a British soldier who had …
Hermit in Paris
Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. …
Selected Poems
Published in order of first publication as far as possible, this selection ranges from initial offerings such as 'Tinker's Wife' and 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to his tragic …
The Secret Garden (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Published to coincide with the 2011 centennial of The Secret Garden's publication, this Penguin Threads edition of the classic children's tale includes cover art by Jillian Tamaki …
Where the Stress Falls
Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. …