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‚I have become whore through goodwill and libertine through virtue.‘ Orphaned and penniless at the age of twelve, the beautiful and devout Justine embarks upon her remarkable odyssey. Her steadfast faith and naive trust in trust in everyone she mee ..

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‚There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.‘ Fe ..

Now a major musical film from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper („The King's Speech“), starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, and also featuring Amanda Seyfreid, Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha Baron-Cohen, Victor Hugo's "Les Miserabl ..

‚Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another‘ Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. But though they may be poor ..

Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls are shown throughout as real people and not mere mor ..

‚I go about the street with water-creases crying, „Four bunches a penny, water-creases.“‘ London Labour and the London Poor is an extraordinary work of investigative journalism, a work of literature, and a groundbreaking work of sociology. Mayhew co ..

„Lord of the Flies“ is a novel that has captivated schoolchildren ever since it was first published in 1954. A teacher himself, Golding clearly understood what excites and interests children. It is not only a gripping story, with strong, sympathetic ..

Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. But these clashes are dramatized through personal st ..

This is the „Penguin English Library Edition“ of „Middlemarch“ by George Eliot. 'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings – that it was Love to whom she was ..

The crew of the whaling ship the Pequod is bound by its Captain Ahab to a single, bloody goal: the killing of the whale Moby-Dick, the giant albino that has taken his leg and on which he has sworn vengeance. Driven, perhaps doomed, by his dangerous monomania, they sail in pursuit of the monster.

The violent murder of a mother and daughter in Paris leaves the police baffled – but the reclusive Dupin, an amateur detective, decides to investigate simply in his desire for truth and to prove a falsely imprisoned man innocent. Through his ground-b ..

Hermann Hesses Erzählung über den Gegensatz zwischen Geist- und Sinnenmenschen und ihre produktive Vereinigung im Künstler ist eine moderne Gestaltung des Don-Juanund Casanova-Motivs. Sie ist aber auch ein Loblied der Freundschaft, voller Abenteuer i ..