classic literature
"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote." – E. M. Forster
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Penguin Black Classics
Love and Freindship and Other Works
Jane Austen · 2022
<p>Although the four novels published in her lifetime were well-received, much of Jane Austen's notoriety came about after her death. Her decision to publish anonymously was a standard for women in the early 19th Century and furnished one of the most beloved writers in English literature little personal acclaim during her lifetime. The stories in this collection are drawn from the manuscripts of the author that are commonly referred to as her "Juvenilia". Although the literary quality of these early works does not rise to the level of Austen's more polished later works they do provide an invaluable glimpse into the early talent of the author, and her development as a poet, satirist, playwright, and novelist. The reader will most assuredly note the misspelling of friendship in the title work as well as the many other quaint misspellings and odd capitalizations that were intended as a parody by the author of the Romantic novels she read as a child. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and follows a collection first published in 1922 with a preface by G. K. Chesterton.</p><p><br></p>
Notes from Underground and the Double
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2009
<p>'That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work' Malcolm Bradbury<br><br>Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's <i>Notes from Underground</i> tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' and his gradual withdrawal from society. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in <i>The Double</i> when a government clerk encounters a man who looks exactly like him - his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like <i>Notes from Underground</i>, this is a masterly tragi-comic study of human consciousness.<br><br>Translated by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by Robert Louis Jackson</p>
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1995
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2002
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2002
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 2014
<b>Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four sisters in a deluxe hardcover edition, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.<br></b><br>Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be more different. But with their father away at war, and their mother working to support the family, they have to rely on one another. Whether they're putting on a play, forming a secret society, or celebrating Christmas, there's one thing they can't help wondering: Will Father return home safely?
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 1993
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Joanne Greenberg · 2022
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare · 2004
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 2003
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte · 2002
<b>Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film “<i>Wuthering Heights</i>,” which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff.<br></b><br>Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.<br><br>Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. <br><br>In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of <i>The Brontë Myth</i>, looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted, from Charlotte Brontë onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction, which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel, as well as Emily Brontë's influences and background.
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali · 2021
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 2003
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 2003
Charlotte Brontë characterized the eponymous heroine of her 1847 novel as being "as poor and plain as myself." Presenting a heroine with neither great beauty nor entrancing charm was an unprecendented maneuver, but Brontë's instincts proved correct, for readers of her era and ever after have taken Jane Eyre into their hearts. The author drew upon her own experience to depict Jane's struggles at Lowood, an oppressive boarding school, and her troubled career as a governess. Unlike Jane, Brontë had the advantage of a warm family circle that shared and encouraged her literary pursuits. She found immediate success with this saga of an orphan girl forced to make her way alone in the world, from Lowood School to Thornfield, the estate of the majestically moody Mr. Rochester, and beyond. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Penguin Little Black Classics
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
Oscar Wilde · 2016
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke · 2014
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2017
My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun
Emily Dickinson · 2016
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy · 2008
The Night is Darkening Round Me
Emily Brontë · 2015
NYRB Classics
Confusion
Stefan Zweig · 2012
Journey Into the Past
Stefan Zweig · 2010
The Post-Office Girl
Stefan Zweig · 2008
Beware of Pity
Stefan Zweig · 2006
Down Below
Leonora Carrington · 2017
The Summer Book
Tove Jansson · 2008
Chess Story
Stefan Zweig · 2011
Stoner
John Williams · 2006
