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100 Novels That Changed the World
A look at 100 inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture.
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100 Symbols That Changed the World
100 Symbols That Changed The World looks at the genesis and adoption of the world’s most recognizable symbols.
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100 Posters That Changed The World
A collection of the world's most memorable, provocative, best-selling and groundbreaking posters from Johannes Gutenberg to Barack Obama.
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100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World
Arranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100 Science Dis
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100 Plants that Almost Changed the World
Renowned garden expert Chris Beardshaw takes us on a journey through history's most fascinating plants, flowers, vegetables and herbs.
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Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World
Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World shows a whole new side to the story of Tutankhamun's treasures, exploring the 100 years of research th
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100 Events That Made History
Bringing the major moments of the past to life, this book offers a lowdown on events that have changed the course of history and shaped the world. It
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The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
<p>Sylvia Plath is a major cultural icon who continues to inspire new generations of female readers. The Bell Jar is one of the defining novels of the 20th century.I was supposed to be having the time of my life . . . Working as an intern for a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet she is also on the edg...
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The Quiet American - Graham Greene
<p>Discover Graham Green’s prescient political masterpiece‘The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American’ Ian McEwanInto the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynica...
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Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James"I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?"This edition contains two of Henry James's most popular short works. Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fe...
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The Seventh Cross - Anna Seghersová
<p>'It was [Seghers] who taught my generation and anyone who had an ear to listen after that not-to-be-forgotten war to distinguish right from wrong. The Seventh Cross shaped me; it sharpened my vision' GUNTER GRASS</p> <p>'A masterpiece. Written in the midst of terror, but with such clarity, such acuity; Seghers is a writer of rare insight' RACHEL SEIFF...
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The Secret Agent, 1. vydání - Joseph Conrad
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world'In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian s...
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The Warden, 1. vydání - Anthony Trollope
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of The Warden by Anthony Trollope'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ... that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive corner of the world which been allotted to him ... made miserable and unsound'Trollope's witty, satirical story of a quiet cat...
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On The Road, 1. vydání - Jack Kerouac
<p>Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stewart (Twilight), Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen....
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I Capture the Castle: A special edition of the coming-of-age classic - Dodie Smith
<p>Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere.Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fading glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas, and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block.However, all their lives ...
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The Great Gatsby - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
<p>'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars' The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he wa...
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The House of Mirth, 1. vydání - Edith Wharton
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions'A searing, shocking tale of women as consumer items in a man's world, The House of Mirth sees Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy fam...
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We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe
We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe is an interactive fiction adventure game about refugees, set in contemporary Europe and North Africa. Illustrated with dreamlike comic-book graphics. Inspired by true events - the creators actually visited a refugee camp, interviewed dozens of refugees and made their stories the foundation of the game. Key Features: 10 hours of gameplay...
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We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe (PC)
We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe is an interactive fiction adventure game about refugees, set in contemporary Europe and North Africa. Illustrated with dreamlike comic-book graphics. Inspired by true events - the creators actually visited a refugee camp, interviewed dozens of refugees and made their stories the foundation of the game.Key Features:10 hours of gameplay&am...
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1. vydání - Anne Bronteová
<p>One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte'She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it'In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a 'wicked woman'...
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The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1) - Pratchett Terry
Anotace: `His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction` Mail on SundayNAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC`S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . _____________...
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The Color Purple: A Special 40th Anniversary Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel - Walker Alice
Anotace: ONE OF THE BBC `100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD``A lush celebration of all that it means to be a black female`Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie`A story about Black women living in the intersections of racialized and gendered violence, who find liberation through community with each other. A brutal and beautiful novel`Brit Bennett`Every single time I read this book, I ...
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The Storm We Made: The spellbinding WW2 sweeping book club novel ´One of the most powerful debuts I´ve ever read´ Tracy Chevalier - Vanessa Chan
<p>Destined to become a modern-day classic, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the horrors of war and the power of familial love, for fans of Pachinko, All the Light We Cannot See and Wandering Souls. Her decision changed history. Now her family must survive it. British Malaya, 1930s Discontented housewife Cecily is seduced by Japanese general Fujiwara ...
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Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide - Robert Louis Stevenson
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson'"One more step, Mr Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out"'In Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins's parents - and it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could hav...
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1. vydání - Anne Bronteová
<p>One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' A beautiful edition of Anne Bronte's most enduring novel, to accompany her sisters' greatest books in Penguin Clothbound Classics. Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen hi...
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The Invisible Man, 1. vydání - Herbert George Wells
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells'People screamed. People sprang off the pavement ... "The Invisible Man is coming! The Invisible Man!"'With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to ...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1. vydání - Oscar Wilde
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!'A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Oscar Wilde's only novel tells of Dorian Gray, a beautiful yet cor...
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The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1), 1. vydání - Terry Pratchett
<p>NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS'It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination . . .'Somewhere between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a magical world not totally unlike our own. Except for the fact that it travels through space on the shoulders of four ...
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The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1), 1. vydání - Terry Pratchett
<p>'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on SundayNAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . ______________...
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Beloved: A special edition of the award-winning classic - Toni Morrison
<p>A beautiful hardback edition of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel, from the great Toni Morrison.Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone...
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Dune
The most famous, widely acclaimed and popular of all science fiction novels, named one of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, and the inspirat
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Dune
The most famous, widely acclaimed and popular of all science fiction novels, named one of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, and the inspirat
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Dune
The most famous, widely acclaimed and popular of all science fiction novels, named one of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, and the inspirat
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Tales from Earthsea
The highly acclaimed collection of Earthsea short storiesNAMED ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD
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Color Purple
The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel with a new introductory letter from Alice Walker. NAMED ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD
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Interesting Times
A beautiful gift-edition hardback of the classic Discworld novel. NAMED ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD
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Children of Men
ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'The year is 2021. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Wa
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Ivanhoe
**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**Read this timeless tale of medieval romance and adventure. It is the dark days of King Ric
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A Court of Frost and Starlight - Maasová Sarah J.
Anotace: A companion tale to Sarah J. Maas's #1 New York Times bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses series that takes place several months after the explosive events of A Court of Wings and Ruin<br><br> Narrated by Feyre and Rhysand, this story bridges the events in A Court of Wings and Ruin and the upcoming novels in the series. <br> Feyre, Rh...
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Middlemarch, 1. vydání - George Eliot
<p>One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'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 sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irr...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1. vydání - George Orwell
<p>George Orwell's masterwork, now in the Penguin Clothbound Classics series with a cover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World' 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rew...
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Ivanhoe (anglicky), 1. vydání - Walter Scott
<p>One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott'Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!'Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his return, his passionate desire is to be reunited with...
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A Court of Frost and Starlight, 1. vydání - Sarah Janet Maas
<p>A companion tale to Sarah J. Maas's #1 New York Times bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses series that takes place several months after the explosive events of A Court of Wings and Ruin<br /><br /> Narrated by Feyre and Rhysand, this story bridges the events in A Court of Wings and Ruin and the upcoming novels in the series. <br /> Feyre, Rh...
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Evelina - Frances Burney
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of Evelina by Frances Burney'O Sir, how much uneasiness must I suffer, to counterbalance one short morning of happiness!'In this comic and sharply incisive satire of excess and affectations, beautiful young Evelina falls victim to the rakish advances of Sir Clement Willoughby on her entrance to the world of fashionable London. ...
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Wuthering Heights, 1. vydání - Emily Bronte
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte"May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then"Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the te...
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Robinson Crusoe, 1. vydání - Daniel Defoe
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ... reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self ... 'Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle,...
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Moby-Dick (0141198958)
Kniha - autor Herman Melville, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain...' Moby-Dick is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literatu...
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Moby-Dick, 1. vydání - Herman Melville
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain...'Moby-Dick is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature: the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane...
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Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife...
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Gulliver´s Travels, 1. vydání - Jonathan Swift
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a Mile distant'A savage and hilarious satire, Gulliver's Travels sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift, subject to bi...
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David Copperfield (0141199164)
Kniha - anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná 'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show' Dickens's epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfield's extraordinary journey through life, as he encounters villains, sav...
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Emma (9780141199528)
Kniha - autor Jane Austenová, anglicky The Penguin English Library Edition of Emma by Jane Austen 'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall' Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than inter...
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Seventh Cross - Anna Seghersová
Anotace: Seven prisoners escape from Westhofen concentration camp. Seven crosses are erected in the grounds and the commandant vows to capture the fugitives within a week. Six men are caught quickly, but George Heisler slips through his pursuers' fingers. It becomes a matter of pride to track him down, at whatever cost.<br> Who can George trust? Who will betra...
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Villette, 1. vydání - Charlotte Brontë
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of Villette by Charlotte Bronte'That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol - blind, bloodless, and of granite core. I felt, too, that the trial God had appointed me was gaining its climax, and must now be turned by my own hands, hot, feeble, trembling as...
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Silas Marner, 1. vydání - George Eliot
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of Silas Marner by George Eliot"God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine: you've no right to her!"Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his prec...
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A Man Called Ove, 1. vydání - Fredrik Backman
<p>The international phenomenon: quirky and bittersweet, heartbreaking yet outrageously funny. Perfect for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Jonas Jonasson's The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Disappeared. The million-copy bestselling phenomenon, Fredrik Backman's heartwarming debut is a funny, moving, uplifting tale ...
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Heaven Official´s Blessing 1: Tian Guan Ci Fu - Xiu Mo Xiang Tong
<p>The blockbuster danmei/Boys' Love novels from China that inspired the animated series! This epic historical fantasy about a prince and the mysterious man by his side is now in English, for the very first time. Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedicated study and noble deeds ...
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Pride and Prejudice - Austenová Jane
Anotace: This is 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...` When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwill...
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Pride and Prejudice
This is 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...' When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy,...
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Pride and Prejudice, 1. vydání - Jane Austenová
<p>This is 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...' When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligibl...
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