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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes * Chiltern
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories have that rare, compelling quality which has enabled their popularity to endure for over 100 years. People are as ravenous for these clever, spirited mysteries – and the eccentric, irreverent man who solves them – today as they were in 1892, the year that 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' was published. The 12 classic stories contained in this collection include “A Scandal in Bohemia” and “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” two of Holmes’ most famous and enjoyable cases.


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The art of war
Sun Tzu’s The Art of War offers the wisdom of ancient China for the modern reader

Originally written in the 5th century, The Art of War is a masterpiece of military strategy and Chinese philosophy that has influenced countless leaders, both on the battlefield and in the boardroom. The exhortations and advice from The Art of War have echoed throughout the centuries as pieces of timeless wisdom, no matter the foe you may be facing.

This edition of the timeless classic uses Lionel Giles’s brilliant translation of the original text, re-designed with a modern look and a pocket-size trim that’s perfect for gift giving. Whether they’re students or salespeople, readers everywhere will benefit from Sun Tzu’s profound insights into human behavior.




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Animal farm y 1984
George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that proves disastrous. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But some Animals Are More Equal Than Others. . . .

1984

In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.









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Notes From Underground
Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?




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Le Morte D'Arthur
To the modern eye, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table have many similarities to our own contemporary super-heroes. Equipped with magical powers, enchanted swords, super-strength, and countless villains to take on, they protect the weak and innocent and adhere to their own code of honor. Comparing Batman, Superman, and Captain America to Sir Launcelot, Sir Tristram, and Sir Galahad isn't a huge leap of the imagination.



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Hard Times
Hard Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era. The story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller.




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Pere Goriot
“Père Goriot can rightly be regarded as one of the greatest of Balzac’s novels,” writes Henry Reed of this masterful study of a father who sacrifices everything for his daughters. This novel marked the true beginning of Balzac’s towering project La Comédie Humaine, his series of novels and short stories depicting “the whole pell-mell of civilization.” In Père Goriot, the great novelist probes the “bourgeois tragedy” of money and power from two different directions. While Goriot is willingly reduced to poverty to support his ambitious daughters, an impoverished young man of integrity becomes money hungry. Attracted to one of Goriot’s daughters, Rastignac succumbs to the fever of social climbing. The resulting tale is a commentary on wealth and human desire that still rings true in the twenty-first century.




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Bleak house
"It would have been far better if you had never been born." Esther, at 14, has never known love. Determined to live well, earn some love, and overcome the shadow of her birth, she takes her first steps into an unknown world. A family curse, a manipulating lawyer, poverty, and secrets threaten to destroy Esther’s world. Are the walls of Bleak House strong enough to protect her and her new friends from such powerful forces? The reader will be caught up in an unfolding mystery, full of surprises. Perhaps the biggest mystery of all is: Who is Nemo?








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Arabian Nights, Volume I
Enjoy the timeless tales of Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and many more in this first volume of The Arabian Nights.

Upon learning of his queen’s infidelity, proud King Shahryar has her killed. As revenge on womankind, he decides to wed a different virgin every night, only to have her beheaded at dawn. Such is Shahryar’s practice for three terrible years—until he weds Scheherazade, the maiden who will change his life....

A breathtaking beauty, Scheherazade is as learned as she is sensuous. Her first night with the king, she uses her imagination, her eloquence, and more than a little cunning to regale him with a tale of genies and wishes, wisely cutting the story short at dawn. The king is so beguiled, he cannot have her murdered without hearing the story’s end. From then on, Scheherazade spends nights conjuring stories of flying carpets and fantastical journeys, always stopping with a cliff-hanger—and saving her own life.

This edition follows the unexpurgated translation of Richard F. Burton, the renowned Victorian explorer. Intricate and inventive, these stories within stories continue to captivate readers as they have for centuries.



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Antony and Cleopatra
A magnificent drama of passion and war, this riveting play presents the complicated relationship between the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra and the Roman leader Mark Antony, a man torn between an empire and love.




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The sun also rises
Step into the vibrant and disillusioned world of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises." Set against the backdrop of 1920s post-World War I Europe, this iconic novel takes you on a journey through the lives of a group of expatriates as they grapple with the complexities of love, friendship, and the search for meaning in a world forever changed.

Join the charismatic and enigmatic Jake Barnes, a war veteran grappling with a life-altering injury, as he navigates the bohemian nightlife of Paris and the exhilarating bullfighting culture of Pamplona, Spain. Alongside him are the spirited and alluring Lady Brett Ashley, the tormented writer Robert Cohn, and a cast of characters who embody the disillusionment and restlessness of the Lost Generation.

Hemingway's spare and evocative prose captures the essence of a generation wrestling with the aftermath of war and the loss of traditional values. Through his characters, he explores themes of love, masculinity, identity, and the futile quest for meaning in a world that seems to have lost its way.




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Don Quixote
In a new translation that “comes closest, among the modern translations, to the simple, intimate, direct style that characterizes Cervantes’ narrative,”* Don Quixote is a novel that is both immortal satire of an outdated chivalric code and a biting portrayal of an age in which nobility was a form of madness.


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A tale of two cities
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.




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1984 (Planeta)
Una novela indispensable en nuestra colección de grandes autores.En 1984, los ciudadanos de Londres ya no distinguen entre el aspecto privado y público de sus vidas. Empleando sus técnicas de vigilancia sobre la población, el Gran Hermano les ha arrebatado la intimidad. Winston Smith es un funcionario cuyo trabajo consiste en escribir y reescribir la historia para el Ministerio de la Verdad, una de las instituciones del estado totalitario que subyuga al ciudadano. Un día, Smith siente que ya no quiere formar parte de los engranajes del sistema opresivo.
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The Raven: Tales and Poems
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro

Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro’s favorites, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ray Russell’s short story “Sardonicus,” considered by Stephen King to be “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written,” to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere.

The Raven

The Raven: Tales and Poems is a landmark new anthology of Poe’s work, which defied convention, shocked readers, and confounded critics. This selection of Poe’s writings demonstrates the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. “The Fall of the House of Usher” describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In “The Tell Tale Heart,” a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “The Cask of Amontillado” explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate. The title narrative poem, maybe Poe’s most famous work, follows a man’s terrifying descent into madness after the loss of a lover.




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Great Tales and Poems of Edgar A..
A new selection for the NEA’s Big Read program

A compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program.

This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and such unforgettable poems as “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and “Annabel Lee.” Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story, represented here by “The Purloined Letter,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.”

Also included is his essay “The Philosophy of Composition,” in which he lays out his theory of how good writers write, describing how he constructed “The Raven” as an example.




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Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino
Una de las novelas más populares del maestro de la novela de aventuras, Jules Verne.Un viaje alucinante por el fondo marino a bordo del Nautilus, capitaneado por el enigmático Nemo.El profesor Pierre Aronnax, gran conocedor de la biología marina, su fiel criado Conseil, y un habilidoso arponero son secuestrados por la tripulación del submarino Nautilus: una de las máquinas más formidables que jamás haya concebido el hombre.Capitaneados por el excéntrico Nemo, navegaran por las más diversas regiones oceánicas en una travesía fascinante que les revelará los peligros y los valiosísimos tesoros que esconden las profundidades del mar.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand conoció la gloria la noche del estreno de este drama poético de capa y espada, realista y romántico, basado en la vida del poeta y filósofo gascón. Personaje pendenciero, jugador, libertino y libre pensador, materialista y poco romántico, célebre por su desproporcionada nariz, Rostand convirtió a Cyrano de Bergerac en mito y héroe nacional, haciéndole pasar de la historia a la leyenda.

Esta edición presenta la magistral traducción realizada por Jaime y Laura Campmany respetando escrupulosamente la métrica en que había sido escrita la obra original. Con ella disfrutaremos, en toda su fuerza y viveza, de la musicalidad y el ritmo del verso francés.
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Cancion de navidad
El cuento navideño más popular de todos los tiempos con las ilustraciones originales de John Leech, incluidas en la primera edición en 1843.Traducción de José C. Vales
Cubierta diseñada por Sergio Mora
Ilustradiones de interior: John LeechEbenezer Scrooge es un hombre avaro y egoísta, sarcástico y huraño con sus pocos seres allegados. La víspera de Navidad, el fantasma de su antiguo socio Jacob Marley se le manifiesta, provocando una serie de apariciones de los fantasmas de las Navidades pasadas, presentes y futuras, que despertarán emociones en el protagonista que parecían olvidadas.Esta edición, con una nueva traducción a cargo de José C. Vales, está basada en el manuscrito autógrafo de Charles Dickens fechado en diciembre de 1843 que se conserva en la Morgan Library & Museum y que fue utilizado por los impresores de la primera edición original (1843).
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La señora Dalloway
La novela más popular de la autora de Una habitación propia.Virginia Woolf es una de las autoras más relevantes de la literatura del siglo XX.Clarissa Dalloway es una mujer de cincuenta y dos años de la alta sociedad londinense, casada con un diputado conservador del parlamento británico y madre de una hija adolescente. Un día de junio de 1923, se prepara para dar una fiesta en su casa aquella misma noche. Allí se rencontrará con amigos que hace muchos años que no ve. Mientras pasea por las calles londinenses ultimando los preparativos, Clarissa se encuentra inmersa en sus propios recuerdos y examina las decisiones que ha tomado a lo largo de su vida, como su romance de infancia con Peter Walsh.Pasado, presente y futuro se entretejen en este relato que, a través de las complejas vidas interiores de sus personajes, consigue explorar los límites de la experiencia humana. Por su narrativa cargada de lirismo, capaz de reseguir con maestría los monólogos interiores de los protagonistas, y su reivindicación de la condición femenina, La señora Dalloway se ha convertido en una de las novelas más revolucionarias e imprescindibles del siglo XX.
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