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The Call Of Cthulhu: Penguin Pocket Classics by H. P. Lovecraft
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
* Book: The Call of Cthulhu * Biography * Bibliography "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu h ...Show more
The Cossacks and Hadji Murat (Penguin pocket classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'He said that Shamil had ordered Hadji Murat to be taken dead or alive...' In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected ...Show more
The Good Soldier Svejk (Penguin pocket classics) by Jaroslav Hasek
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Listen, Švejk, are you really God's prize oaf?''Humbly report, sir,' Švejk answered solemnly. 'I am!' The chaotic, hilarious adventures of an ordinary soldier, who is either genuinely a total idiot or a genius pretending to be one - perhaps the greatest book to come out of the First World War, as Švej ...Show more
The House of Ulloa (Penguin pocket classics) by Emilia Pardo Bazan
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Then he saw the barrel of a gun aimed dead on target - not at him, as he might have expected, but at the clergyman's back.' Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, the House of Ulloa follows innocent and timid Father Julian Alvarez as he tries to turn the aristocratic owner away from drinking, womanizing a ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Pocket Penguins
'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back to my mind'. Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundl ...Show more
The Lost Estate (Penguin pocket classics) by Henri Alain-Fournier
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
'He too began to chase the great pierrot through the corridors of the ch teau...' A novel of desperate yearning and vanished adolescence, the story of Meaulnes and his restless search for a lost, enchanted world has the atmosphere of a dream and the purity of a fairy tale. A new series of twenty distinc ...Show more
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Manuscripts don't burn' In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural ...Show more
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin pocket classics) by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
'There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.'This dreamlike meditation on being young and alone in Paris is a feverish work of nerves, angst and sublime beauty from one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.A new series of twenty distinctive, unf ...Show more
The Rainbow (Penguin pocket classics) by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'So Ursula became the child of her father's heart.' The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family and their struggles with each other and themselves. Beautiful, strange and with a power all its own, The Rainbow redefined the English novel. A new series of twenty distinctive, ...Show more
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius; Robert Graves (Translator)
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies, each about one of the Roman emperors, including one on Julius Caesar. It was written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius, in 121. Considered highly significant in antiquity, The Twelve Caesars ha ...Show more