Tag: Classics

The Light of Day (Penguin Modern Classics)


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English | 26 Jan. 2023 | ISBN: 0241606195 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 2.2 MB
‘He took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul, where it all really happened’ Frederick Forsyth

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The Golem (Dedalus European Classics)


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English | 2010 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 1873982917, 1910213675 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
"A superbly atmospheric story set in the old Prague ghetto featuring The Golem, a kind of rabbinical Frankenstein’s monster, which manifests iitself every 33 years in a room without a door. Stranger still, it seems to have the same face as the narrator. Made into a film in 1920, this extraordinary book combines uncanny psychology of doppelganger stories with expressionism and more than a little melodrama… Meyrink’s old Prague – like Dicken’s London – is one of the great creations of City writing, an eerie, claustrophobic and fantastical underworld where anything can happen." – Phil Baker in The Sunday Times

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The Drowning Pool (Penguin Modern Classics)


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English | 5 July 2012 | ISBN: 0141196629 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 1.2 MB
When Maude Slocum – beautiful, frightened and angry – comes to Lew Archer’s office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As he follows the Slocums around, Archer finds that Mrs Slocum might have the least of the family’s troubles: her teenage daughter is desolate, her husband is in the closet and her mother-in-law has just come to an unpleasant end in the swimming pool. But why is their handsome ex-chauffeur still hanging around? And what does the sinister Pacific Refinery Company have to do with the all the bloodshed?

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The Captain and the Enemy (Vintage Classics)


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English | December 1, 2011 | ISBN: 0099529149 | True EPUB | 192 pages | 1.2 MB
In postwar London, a boy is drawn into a labyrinth of personal betrayals, intrigue, love, and revolution: "In short, a tremendous yarn" (Paul Theroux).

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Siblings (Penguin Classics)


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English | February 2, 2023 | ISBN: 0241555833 | True EPUB | 144 pages | 1 MB
A story of sibling love ruptured by the Iron Curtain, by one of the most significant East German writers.

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Pan (Oxford World’s Classics)


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English | September 22, 2023 | ISBN: 0192893459 | True EPUB | 176 pages | 1.8 MB
‘When the snow water had broken crevices open in the mountain a shot or even just a sharp cry was enough to tear loose a huge slab and send it toppling.’

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On Growth and Form (Canto Classics)


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English | July 21, 2014 | ISBN: 1107672562 | True PDF | 366 pages | 41.7 MB
Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D’Arcy Thompson’s classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take.

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