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A History of the Crusades - Volume III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades by Steven Runciman
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The third volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and disillusion' Steven Runciman's triumphant three-volume A History of the Crusades remains an unsurpassed account of the events th ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictiona ...Show more
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knavewas published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and ...Show more
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
asper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say. He knows two things about his own world. He'll never work down the mines and he does know about animals. His only cpompanion is his kestrel hawk and, like himself, with the will to destroy or be destroyed. Filmed as 'Kes' by Ken Loach.
A Laodicean by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits ancient Stancy Castle. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the work, but is then torn between George's admiration and that of Captain De Stancy, whose old-world romanticism contrasts with Somerset's forward-look ...Show more
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
On the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In A Legacy, Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds - the wealthy bourgeois life of the Merzes in Berlin and the aristocratic eccentricity of the von Felden dynasty in rural ...Show more
A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography by Evelyn Waugh
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves, contributed to his genius. Save for a few pale shadows, hi ...Show more
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett; Carly Gledhill
Category: Board Books | Series: Penguin Bedtime Classics Ser.
First published in 1905, "A Little Princess" is one of Frances Hodgson Burnett's most beloved stories. Expanded from an earlier serialized short story entitled "Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's", it is the story of young girl named Sara who is enrolled by her father, Captain Richard Crewe ...Show more
A Little Princess : The Story of Sara Crewe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
Sara Crewe is an exceptional student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies. When her adored and indulgent father dies, she is banished to a room in the attic and forced to work as a servant. This much-loved children's story follows the fortunes of this resourceful girl.
A Man's Head by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Set in the in the atmospheric and squalid streets of Paris, Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. In another one of Maigret's unconventional and audacious plans, he arranges the escape of the condemned man in an attempt to prove his theory. The presumed ...Show more
A Modern Detective : Little Black Classic by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
In these two stories gentleman sleuth C. Auguste Dupin, the first fictional detective, investigates the death of a young girl and the grisly murders in the Rue Morgue.
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'In December 1937 I crossed the Pyrenees from France - two days on foot through the snow.' Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately ...Show more