The Last Days of Socrates - Plato: Translated by Tredennick & Tarrant. Introd. & Notes by Tarrant - Penguin Classics by Plató; Hugh Tredennick (Translator); Harold Tarrant (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The trial and death of Socrates (469-399 BCE) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as the trial and death of Jesus. In four superb dialogues, Plato provides the classic account. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house, debating the nature of piety, while the Apology is his ro ...Show more
Doctor Zhivago (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Boris Pasternak
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Ser.
FROM AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKYDoctor Zhivagois the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with cruel experience of the new order and the changes it has wrought in h ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Heroines
One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert's legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatch ...Show more
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others' Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity ...Show more
The Kreutzer Sonata and other stories (riverrun editions) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Kreutzer Sonata and Other StoriesThis second volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction, selected by the critic Shar ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories [Special Edition] by Patrick O'Brian
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Category: Classics
The Complete Short Stories is the most comprehensive collection of O'Brian's short fiction ever published. An essential volume, certain to enchant O'Brian admirers as well as readers who are fortunate enough to be journeying with him for the very first time. Patrick O'Brian is acclaimed as one of the g ...Show more
The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Jorge Luis Borges remains one of the most influential short story writers of the twentieth century, whose spe ...Show more
The Imitation of the Rose by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Classics
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Thirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century. The small inciden ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia (Collins Classics) by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I sometimes fear we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia, first published just before ...Show more
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
A major modern classic: the turbulent story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemoia 'Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers' - Ali Smith 'A novel to love as well as admire, always playful and ironical, full of brilliant descriptions, bon mots and absu ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway (Vintage Deco) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames'In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. ...Show more
Burmese Days by D. J. Taylor (Editor); George. Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Orwell: the New Editions Ser.
A new edition of Orwell's debut novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D. J. TaylorFirst published in 1934, and a bitter souvenir of Orwell's time as a servant of the British Raj, Burmese Days follows the slow decline of John Flory, as he tries to steer a path between the bores of the Kyaukt ...Show more