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Emma (Summer Classics Edition) by Jane Austen
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
A classic love story in which the heroine is the last to find out who it is she really loves. Emma Wodehouse is the loveable heroine of this enduring story about the relations between men and women, and one girl's confused journey into womanhood. Emma Woodhouse may have decided that she will never ma ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
The classic story of orphan Pip and the mysterious fortune which falls into his lap, his snobbish rejection of his old friends and his growth through pain and mishap into true maturity.
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
Orphaned into cruel charity at the hands of her rich cousins and later at Lowood school, Jane escapes to take up a position as a governess to the young ward of Mr Rochester. The story of their love affair, Jane's discovery of Rochester's secret and her desperate flight is an enduring classic.
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
David Balfour sets off into the world to find his last remaining relative, Ebenezer, with no idea of the hazards and intrigues to follow. Tricked into bording a ship he finds himself bound for slavery in Carolina but overcomes shipwreck and the accustation of murder, to emerge the trimphant hero and cla ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe (Summer Classics) by Daniel Defoe
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
Robinson Crusoe's father wants him to be a lawyer, but he is desperate for adventure. So, against all advice, he sets out to travel the world in search of money and excitement. But there is a devastating storm at sea, and Crusoe is washed up on a deserted island, alone and terrified. Far from the comfor ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Category: unmapped | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
The story of a simple, beautiful girl's seduction and its tragic consequences. Thomas Hardy sympathetically portrays Tess's struggles to overcome the pitfalls that poverty and ignorance place in her way.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
'Part of my plan has been to try pleasantly to remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.' An unparalleled celebration of childhood, Tom Saywer has delighted adults since its first publication. Tom i ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop . . . there in the middle of the broad, bright highroad . . . stood the figure of a solitary woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments' Walter Hartright's chance midnight encounter is to change his life, for when he takes u ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
A story of English society during the Napoleonic wars. Through a free-wheeling melee of brilliant improvisations sail Becky Sharp, a resourceful, engaging and amoral character, and Amelia Sedley, her less lustrous but more ambiguous foil.
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
Set in a provincial town in the early-19th-century, this is a subtle representation of historical change explored in human terms. The heroine passes from childhood to maturity in a process that, though often painful for her, is sharply and humorously observed.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Summer Classics S.
"Wuthering Heights" tells the tragic love story of Catherine Earnshaw and the tortured Heathcliff, characters that have moved generations of readers.
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