William Shakespeare on the Art of Love: The Most Eloquent Love Passages in Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry - Includes All 154 Sonnets by Michael Best
Category: Classic
The beauty and meaning behind his poetry and prose has meant that Shakespeare's work has lived on throughout history long after his death. We still fall in love and become passionate, or jealous, or dim-witted, or melancholy, or dreamy, or vengeful, or courageous on behalf of a loved one. We still use l ...Show more
Beowulf: Popular Penguins by Michael Alexander
Category: Classic | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"Alexander's translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful and] ...communicates the poem with a care which goes beyond fidelity-to-meaning and reaches fidelity of implication. May it go on ... to another half-million copies." - Tom Shippey, Bulletin of the I ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Category: Classic
Holly Golightly is a glittering socialite mover and shaker: generally upwards, sometimes sideways and, every now and then, down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, a tease. In short, she's an icon. Truman Capote's most famous work, Breakf ...Show more
To the Lighthouse: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"To the Lighthouse" is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel and is widely acknowledged as being among the greatest literary achievements of this century. It is also the most popular of all her novels. It is set on a Hebridean island where the Ramsay family as well as various guests enjoy the long summer in each ...Show more
War and Peace : (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classic | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classics Ser.
War looms in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and when Napoleon invades Russia in 1812 it forever changes those whose lives it engulfs. Although told on a panoramic scale Tolstoy's epic novel focuses the chaos of battle, the horror of death and bloodshed, and the expression of the noble virtues of love and ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (Alma Classics) by Jane Austen
Category: Classic | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an absorbing dance through the rigid social hierarchies of early-nineteenth-century England, with the passion of the two unlikely lovers growing as their union seems ever more improbable.
Of a Boy: Popular Penguins by Sonya Hartnett
Category: Classic | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Internationally published author: the US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway and Denmark. Award winning author. The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand, shopping centres an ...Show more
Hard Times: Popular Penguins by Charles Dickens
Category: Classic | Series: Popular Penguins
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young adult minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of ...Show more
The Inheritance of Loss: Popular Penguins by Kiran Desai
Category: Classic | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives a ...Show more
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Category: Classic
Perhaps the single most influential work of English drama, William Shakespeares Hamlet is a timeless tragedy of the conflicted loyalties, madness, betrayal and terrible revenge. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by TJB Spencer with an introduction by Alan Sinfield. 'To be or not to be - that is ...Show more
Hamlet by William Shakespeare; Jeff Dolven (Editor); David Scott Kastan (Introduction by)
Category: Classic | Series: Barnes and Noble Shakespeare Ser.
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (/ˈh mlɨt/), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is instructed to exact on his uncle Claudius. Claudius had ...Show more
Dracula (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Flexi Edition) by Bram Stoker
Category: Classic | Series: Barnes and Noble Flexibound Editions Ser.
This is one of several titles in Barron's series of Graphic Classics, famous literary works retold in graphic novel form for young readers. Wonderfully atmospheric color illustrations and fast-paced narratives will keep older boys and girls absorbed, and many students will be inspired to delve into the ...Show more