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'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death'

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An epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, and perhaps his greatest long work, the Penguin Classics edition of...

This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An...

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A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Classics edition of Thomas De...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet is the literary debut of the world's most famous fictional detective, Sherlock...

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A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers
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Raju's first stop after his release from prison is the barber's shop. Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple. Raju...

A tragicomedy, a satire on materialism and a scream of pain and injustice, Timon of Athens depicts Shakespeare's greatest...