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Romantic Classics for the romantics at heart: Here is a selection of classics to get you in the mood for Valentine's Day.
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'A loving heart is the truest wisdom' David Copperfield, Charles Dickens Dickens, who was known to create some of the best-known fictional characters of all time, was born #onthisday in 1812.
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Perfect for fans of A Confederacy of Dunces, My Search for Warren Harding is Robert Plunket’s comic masterpiece: a breakneck, unhinged romp through 1980s LA. Out today.
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RT @holland_tom: Want to know more about Caligula? Want to know more about eleven other Caesars as well? Wish a new translation of the Live…
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The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux's classic tale of Gothic horror and tragic romance, is new to Penguin Clothbound Classics and will be released tomorrow.
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'Life is too short to read a bad book' Happy birthday to James Joyce who was born #onthisday in 1882.
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Excited for @BBCOne's Miss Austen adaptation tomorrow? Read The Beautifull Cassandra, a collection of hilarious short stories dedicated to Jane Austen's sister, Cassandra.
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Vladimir Nabokov's early novel, The Defense, is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin. Out today. Translated by Michael Scammell.
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Catch up on @BBCiPlayer to see @PaddyMcGuinness and @cherryhealey produce 20,000 copies of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice.
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Discover how 20,000 Clothbound editions of Pride and Prejudice are produced at Clays book factory. Watch Inside the Factory tonight at 8pm on @BBCOne with @PaddyMcGuinness and @cherryhealey.
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'I should infinitely prefer a book' Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice was published #onthisday in 1813.
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The first book of its kind, The Penguin Book of Demons is three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmares. Out 30 January.
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RT @Waterstones: To celebrate the release of THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS, we're giving away a pair of tickets to @holland_tom's event at The G…
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'An insightful exploration of class, gender and youthful frustration' Guardian The beloved Australian classic follows the vivacious and rebellious sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn as she fights to break free of restrictive bush life. The Clothbound Classic edition of My Brilliant Career is out next week.
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Beware; for I am fearless. And therefore powerful' Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
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In a special bonus episode taken from the Ask Penguin: Classics episode, author and editor @HenryEliot shares tips on tackling some of Classics' biggest tomes.
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'The secret of a poem, no less than a jest's prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it' Author of The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe, was born #onthisday in 1809.
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‘I don’t like to dine and hate crowds. I only like empty theaters, all-night diners, sex, and conversations. Most men don’t converse. That is why they have to keep doing things, I guess, like eating or jogging' Elaine Kraf's feminist cult classic, The Princess of 72nd Street is out now.
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