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Hans Christian Andersen
The Emperor's New Clothes

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so terribly fond of beautiful new clothes that he spent all his money on dressing elegantly...Jewels i…

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Maurice Leblanc
The Escape of Arsène Lupin

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'When I decide to escape I shall want nobody's assistance.'In this thrilling collection, we meet Arsène Lupin, a brilliant, alluring master of disgu…

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James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not t…

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Frank O'Connor
The Genius

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Known as Ireland's Chekhov, Frank O'Connor was a master of the modern short story, with an eye for capturing the spaces between our selves and our s…

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Jane Austen
The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksDuring his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for.In Jane Austen's breezy and entirely biased telling of English history, Mary, Qu…

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Dambudzo Marechera
The House of Hunger

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'No, I don't hate being black. I'm just tired of saying it's beautiful. No, I don't hate myself. I'm just tired of people bruising their knuckles on my jaw.'A novella with the force of a screaming trumpet…

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Emilia Pardo Bazán
The Lady Bandit

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksPriests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Bazán, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, inte…

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Wang Xiaobo
The Maverick Pig

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Razor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo's essays established him as one of China's most popular - and subversive - writers. From the …

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Virginia Woolf
The New Dress

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Waking, I cry "Oh, is this your - buried treasure? The light in the heart."'In these exquisite stories from the genius of English moderni…

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Saadat Hasan Manto
The Price of Freedom

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of Indi…

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Snorri Sturluson,
The Prose Edda

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Composed in Iceland in the 13^th^ Century, The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature, taking readers on a voyage t…

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Rich Boy

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . . .In this glittering new selection of Fitzgerald's short stories, we meet…

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Søren Kierkegaard
The Seducer's Diary

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'What does love fear? Limitation.'Johannes stealthily pursues Cordelia through the streets of Copenhagen, and through an intricate, manipulative courtship contrives to possess her. Motivated not by love o…

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Stanislaw Lem
The Seventh Voyage

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Journey into space with Polish scifi master Stanislaw Lem. The whimsical time-loops of Ijon Tichy's cosmic adventure 'The Seventh Voyage' are reminiscent of Douglas Adams, while the spectral whispers haun…

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H. P. Lovecraft
The Shadow out of Time

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before'After five years of 'strange amnesia', Natha…

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M. R. James
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books There are many great English ghost stories, but they appear flimsy and emotionally spectral compared to the works of M.R. James. This selection give…

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Kate Chopin
The Story of an Hour

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to nameNuns, m…

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H. G. Wells
The Time Machine

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The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution and human hopes. With this book, Wells invented an entirely …

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Tove Ditlevsen
The Umbrella

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Then she would feel exposed and cry, as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time, even though she could still hide it from those she only…

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Homer
The Wrath of Achilles

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On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But when his pride is wounded and he refuses to fight, the thread of fate begin…

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