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  • MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
    MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a new cover to tie in with the hugely anticipated 2017 film adaptation. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a do...
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  • DESTINATION UNKNOWN
    DESTINATION UNKNOWN
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    A young woman with nothing to live for is persuaded to embark on a suicide mission to find a missing scientist... When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed? One woman appears to have the key to the mystery. Unfortunately, Olive Betteron now li...
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  • LOVE THAT MOVES THE SUN AND OTHER STARS
    LOVE THAT MOVES THE SUN AND OTHER STARS
    DANTE ALIGHIERI
    'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!' A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with wo...
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  • APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH
    APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    All wish her dead Who succeeded? Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: 'You see, don'...
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  • POIROT INVESTIGATES
    POIROT INVESTIGATES
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    POIROT INVESTIGATES: - is a collection of eleven short stories written by English author Agatha Christie -- the best-selling author of all time. This was first published in the UK in March 1924. In the motley collection of superb short stories, Hercule Poirot -- idiosyncratic and eccentric detective -- solves a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and revenge. In the...
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  • THE BIG FOUR
    THE BIG FOUR
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination... Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man's gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a ...
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  • MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA
    MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    An archaeologist's wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq... It was clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq; something associated with the presence of 'Lovely Louise', wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr Leidner. In a few days' time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. But with Louise ...
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  • TAKEN AT THE FLOOD
    TAKEN AT THE FLOOD
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room... A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the ...
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  • HADJI MURAT: NEW TRANSLATION
    HADJI MURAT: NEW TRANSLATION
    LEO TOLSTOY
    Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling imam, Shamil. Hoping to protect his family, he joins the Russians, who accept him but never put their trust in him – and so Murat must find another way to end the struggle.Tolstoy knew as he was writing th...
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  • DEATH IN THE CLOUDS
    DEATH IN THE CLOUDS
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane... From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8,...
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  • THE MURDER ON THE LINKS
    THE MURDER ON THE LINKS
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    Stabbed in the back A pieced of lead piping nearby It should be a simple case... Poirot is summoned to France, but arrives too late to save his client, whose body now lies face down in a shallow grave on a golf course. Why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And who was the intended recipient of the love-letter in the pocket? Before Poirot can answer these ques...
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  • THE BEAUTIFULL CASSANDRA
    THE BEAUTIFULL CASSANDRA
    JANE AUSTEN
    'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder, drunkenness, perjury, theft, poisoning, women breaking out of prison, men forging wills and babies biting off their mothers' fingers... Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Cla...
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  • THE LIFE OF A STUPID MAN
    THE LIFE OF A STUPID MAN
    RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA
    'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across m...
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  • HICKORY DICKORY DOCK
    HICKORY DICKORY DOCK
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    There's more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel... An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot's interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items - including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of so...
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  • HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED?
    HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED?
    LEO TOLSTOY
    'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot ' A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity ...
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  • THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN
    THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice... When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again - for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing. The prime suspect is R...
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  • ANNA KARENINA: NEW TRANSLATION
    ANNA KARENINA: NEW TRANSLATION
    LEO TOLSTOY
    Leo Tolstoy’s most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, “moral” life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face of the corrupt Russian bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the aristocrat Konstantin Lev...
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  • MODERN CLASSICS KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING
    MODERN CLASSICS KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING
    GEORGE ORWELL
    Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way...
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  • MRS MCGINTY'S DEAD
    MRS MCGINTY'S DEAD
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    The old children's game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head and her pitifully small savings were stolen.Suspicion falls immediately on her lodger, hard up and out of a job. Hercule Poirot has other ideas - unaware that his own life is now in great danger... ...
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  • DEAD MAN'S FOLLY
    DEAD MAN'S FOLLY
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    A charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing. Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to organise their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for ...
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  • HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS
    HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    CRIME & MYSTERY. It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning b...
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  • PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES
    PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES
    ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    The Penguin English Library Edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found ...
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  • THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD
    THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD
    AGATHA CHRISTIE
    Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2). Each reader...
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  • THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
    THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
    HENRY JAMES
    Regarded by many as Henry James's finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between money and happiness, The Portrait of a Lady contains an introduction by Philip Horne in Penguin Classics. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy th...
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  • DRACULA
    DRACULA
    BRAM STOKER
    Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific disc...
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  • LITTLE WOMEN
    LITTLE WOMEN
    LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
    Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadPart of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring ...
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  • DEVILS
    DEVILS
    FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
    Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the young rad...
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  • KING SOLOMON'S MINES
    KING SOLOMON'S MINES
    HENRY RIDER HAGGARD
    'Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.' An amazing adventure set in Africa, against the backdrop of endless deserts and snowy mountains, Kings Solomon's Mines follows Allan Quartermain, in his quest to find h...
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  • ULYSSES
    ULYSSES
    JAMES JOYCE
    With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive nov...
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  • THE CASE-BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    THE CASE-BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon and homosexual incest are some of the psychological tragedies whose consequenc...
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