Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs.
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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton'"A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence.
"My brain feels like a bomb, night and day.
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![Oliver Twist](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureO/L/9780141198880-oliver-twist.jpg)
'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none'
Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, Oliver Twist features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction - the ...
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![Moby-Dick](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/O/9780141198958-moby-dick.jpg)
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.
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![Pas de visuel pour A Room with a View](https://www.unitheque.com/Medias/Images/Unitheque-LibrairieH250.png)
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 ...
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![Middlemarch](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/I/9780141199795-middlemarch.jpg)
'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 sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day'George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community.
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![FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureF/A/9780141198934-from-madding-crowd.jpg)
Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a proud working woman whose life is complicated by three different men - respectable farmer Boldwood, seductive Sergeant Troy and devoted Gabriel - making her the object of scandal and betrayal.
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![The Secret Agent](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141199559-secret-agent.jpg)
Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a "monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery.
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![Howards End](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureH/O/9780141199405-howards.jpg)
The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer.
We rich can''Only connect.
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![The Time Machine](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141199344-time-machine.jpg)
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G.
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![North and South](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureN/O/9780141198927-north-south.jpg)
The Penguin English Library edition of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?'Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale.
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![Jane Eyre](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureJ/A/9780141198859-jane-eyre.jpg)
She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than Victorian society traditionally allowed.
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![The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141199009-adventures-huckleberry-finn.jpg)
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals.
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![Persuasion](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureP/E/9780141198835-persuasion.jpg)
With an essay by Elizabeth Bowen
'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect'
Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is a moving, masterly and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
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![The Picture of Dorian Gray](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141442464-picture-dorian-gray.jpg)
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman inthe eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence.
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![Gulliver's Travels](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureG/U/9780141196640-gulliver-travels.jpg)
This edition is part of the Penguin Classics Clothbound series designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.
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![Treasure Island](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/R/9780141192451-treasure-island.jpg)
The story grew out of a map that led to imaginary treasure, devised during a holiday in Scotland by Stevenson and his nephew. The tale is told by an adventurous boy, Jim Hawkins, who gets hold of a treasure map and sets off with an adult crew in search of the buried treasure. Among the crew, however, is the treacherous Long John Silver who is determined to keep the treasure for himself. [...]
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![The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141192574-sonnets-lover-complaint.jpg)
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 this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous.
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![The Wings of the Dove](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141441283-wings-dove.jpg)
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
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![The House of Mirth](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141199023-house-mirth.jpg)
Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepted by 'old money' and courted by the growing tribe of nouveaux riches. But as she nears thirty, her foothold becomes precarious; a poor girl with expensive tastes, she needs a husband to preserve her social standing, and to maintain her in the luxury she has come to expect.
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![Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes and the Amateur Emigrant](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/R/9780141439464-travels-with-donkey-cevennes-amateur-emigrant.jpg)
In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman. His response was to embark on a journey through the Cevennes with a donkey, Modestine, and a notebook, which he later transformed into Travels with a Donkey. Just a few months after [...]
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![Wuthering Heights](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureW/U/9780141439556-wuthering-heights.jpg)
Emily Brontë's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the Penguin Classics edition of Wuthering Heights is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord.
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![The Monkey Wrench Gang](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141187624-monkey-wrench-gang.jpg)
Scandalizing the establishment and read by others as a call-to-arms when it appeared in 1975, The Monkey Wrench Gang is a wildly funny and provocatively satirical book that ignited the flames of environmental activism.
'A terrific read - funny, perceptive, brutally honest, and extremely timely' - Eric Schlosser
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![The Heart is a Lonely Hunter](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141185224-heart-lonely-hunter.jpg)
Carson McCullers’ prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature.
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![Pride and Prejudice](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureP/R/9780141199078-pride-prejudice.jpg)
The Penguin English Library Edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes ...
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