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Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soul--in contempt' In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time, in particular those of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhaur. Twilight of the Idols is a 'grand declara ...Show more
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An action-packed Cold War thriller set in the deserts of North Africa A Soviet space scientist defects to win academic freedom, but western intelligence has other plans for him, and sends an unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File - to look after him. But what follows is a blo ...Show more
Utopia: The Influential Classic by Thomas More
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Category: History | Series: Capstone Classics Ser.
What we can learn from a Renaissance nowhere In 1516, a book was published in Latin with the enigmatic Greek-derived word as its title. Utopia—which could mean either “good-place” or “no-place”—gives a traveler’s account of a newly discovered island somewhere in the New World where the inhabitants enj ...Show more
Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more
War and Peace : (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classics Ser.
War looms in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and when Napoleon invades Russia in 1812 it forever changes those whose lives it engulfs. Although told on a panoramic scale Tolstoy's epic novel focuses the chaos of battle, the horror of death and bloodshed, and the expression of the noble virtues of love and ...Show more
War of the Worlds / The War in the Air by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University. In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened. The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to di ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
When the Sleeper Wakes - (Dystopian Classics) by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Dystopian Classics Ser.
"When the Sleeper Wakes" by H.G. Wells centers around a young man, Graham who wakes up 200 years later and is astonished to see how much the world has progressed. Graham discovers that he is the possessor of over half the world. Dystopian Classic Editions publishes works of dystopian literature that hav ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. Two devastating Russian stories of solitude, unrequited love and depravity from beyond the grave. Film adaptations have been made by Italian ...Show more