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This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of „A Room with a View“ by E. M. Forster '„But you do,“ he went on, not waiting for contradiction. „You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it…“ L ..

A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman, Lucy, in the repressed culture of Edwardian England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century.

A newly reissued edition of Agatha Christie's ‚Mary Westmacott‘ novel, a Crime of the Heart novel about love and anguish across the class divide.

Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing priest; and both e ..

A new translation of the classic Swedish novel, from the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

New edition of this classic of the middle ages. Translated, with an introduction, by Jesse Byock.

Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov's motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the expose, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work which had a huge impa ..

An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome.

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry – all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.

New edited by J.C.C. Mays.

Newly edited and corrected text.

‚Pamela under the Notion of being a Virtuous Modest Girl will be introduced into all Familes,and when she gets there, what Scenes does she represent? Why a fine young Gentleman endeavouring to debauch a beautiful young Girl of Sixteen.‘ (Pamela Cens ..