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Penguin Books Ltd Othello (Penguin Popular Classics)
If anything, <I>Othello</I> has increased its stature as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies ever since it was first written, between 1603 and 1604, due to the victimisation suffered by its tragic hero, Othello, as a result of his skin colour. Othello is a noble Moor, a North African Muslim who has converted to Christianity and is deemed one of the Venetian state's most reliable soldiers. However, his ensign Iago harbours an obscure hatred against his general, and when Othello secretly marries the beautiful daughter of the Venetian senator Brabanzio, Iago begins his subtle campaign of vilification, which will inevitably lead to the deaths of more than just Othello and Desdemona.<p> An extraordinary play, both for its dramatic economy and power as well as its remarkable language, from Othello's bombastic traveller's history to Desdemona's elegiac willow song, the play raises uncomfortable questions about ongoing questions of not only racial identity but also sexuality, as Othello and Desdemona's sexual relationship becomes the voyeuristic site of Iago's attempt to destroy them. Particularly fascinated with the question of what it means to see, <I>Othello</I> also contains one of the greatest tragic death scenes in all of Shakespeare, with Othello's final identification with a malignant and a turbaned Turk. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Penguin Books Ltd Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Kim (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Oliver Twist (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Europeans (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Phantom of the Opera (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Prisoner of Zenda (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Treasure Island (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Popular Classics)
Arguably Herman Melville's greatest work, and hailed as a classic American novel, <I>Moby Dick</I> tells the tale of one man's fatal obsession and his willingness to sacrifice his life and that of his crew to achieve his goal. The story follows the fortunes of Captain Ahab and the culturally and spiritually diverse crew of the Pequod, a 19th century whaling ship. The Pequod is on its last voyage out of New Bedford, Mass, in pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale which has been Ahab's obsessional quarry and bitter adversary for many years. Narrated by sole survivor Ishmael, the tale forms a complex fictional fusion, combining a wealth of literary symbolism, hidden meaning and philosophical debate with adventure narrative and a detailed historical account of the 19th century whaling trade. --<I>Emily Lowson</I>
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Penguin Books Ltd The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Candide (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Tales from Shakespeare (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Kama Sutra: The Classic Hindu Treatise on Love and Social Conduct (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Lady Windermere's Fan (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Father Brown Stories (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Greyfriars Bobby (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Moonfleet (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd King Solomon's Mines (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol,The Chimes,The Cricket on the Hearth (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Fanny Hill: Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Persuasion
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Penguin Books Ltd Heart of Darkness
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Penguin Books Ltd The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Around the World in Eighty Days (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Woman in White (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Diamond as Big as the Rtiz and Other Stories (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Daisy Miller (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Aesop's Fables (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd North and South
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Penguin Books Ltd Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Hound of the Baskervilles (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Railway Children (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Sons and Lovers (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Peter Pan (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Wind in the Willows (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd A Misummer Night's Dream (Penguin Popular Classics)
Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeare's more romantic and enchanting plays, <I>A Midsummer Night's Dream</I> has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale with confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena escape parental control and the sharp Athenian law of their elders by eloping into the forest outside the city. Unfortunately they stumble into civil war in fairyland, where King Oberon and Queen Titania fight over possession of a beautiful young Indian changeling boy. The appearance of the rude mechanicals, a group of Athenian workers, including the weaver Nick Bottom, compounds the confusion. Chaos, confusion and shaping fantasies reign before the final settlement of the play, but underneath all the hilarity many critics have discerned more ambivalent attitudes towards coercive parental control, bestial sexuality and the destructive power of desire. These approaches in no way detract from the exquisite lyricism of many sections of the play, but make it a more complex and effective comedy than has often been appreciated. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Penguin Books Ltd Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Popular Classics)
This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical <I>West Side Story</I>, Franco Zeffirelli's <I>Romeo and Juliet</I> filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version <I>Romeo + Juliet</I>. The tragic feud between Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona, the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young star-crossed lovers and their death-marked love creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--she doth teach the torches to burn bright! to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose plague o' both your houses begins the play's descent into tragedy, For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Penguin Books Ltd Through the Looking Glass (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Vanity Fair (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Mansfield Park (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Ivanhoe (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Popular Classics)
Though not the first novel she wrote, <I>Sense and Sensibility</I> was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she loves him tenderly, she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:<blockquote>Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!</blockquote&g t;Soon, however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr Willoughby, a new neighbour. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behaviour begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. misfortunes and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --<I>Alix Wilber, Amazon.com</I>
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Penguin Books Ltd Emma (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd A Little Princess: The Story of Sara Crewe (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Age of Innocence (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Black Beauty (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd Little Women (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Penguin Books Ltd The Tempest (Penguin Popular Classics)
One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that now my charms are all o'erthrown, appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But <I>The Tempest</I> is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his rough magic to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.<p> However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the poisonous slave Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me. This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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