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Penguin Classics' companion series to the Clothbound Classics, featuring short stories and novellas. Covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith
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Metamorphosis
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Lady Susan
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The prophet
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Breakfast at tiffany's
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The Nutcracker
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The Gift of the Magi
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Shooting an Elephant
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White Nights
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Of Mice and Men
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Bonjour Tristesse
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Cosmicomics
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Lolly Willowes
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The Queen of Spades
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The Masque of the Red Death
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Of Ghosts and Goblins
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The Lottery
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Hell Screen
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The Ballad of the Sad Café
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Passing
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Big Blonde
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Babette's Feast
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Street Haunting
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The Star-Child
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Reginald's Christmas Revel
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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
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The Cossacks
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Ice
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Snow country
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Territory of Light
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Dream Story
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Letters to a Young Poet
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Bliss
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The Enchanted April
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A Spy In The House Of Love
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The Lagoon
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Moonlight
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About Love
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The Library of Babel
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Death in Midsummer
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The fall
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Summer
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3.67 avg rating — 18,436 ratings
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Chess
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4.27 avg rating — 163,820 ratings
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Calypso in London
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4.04 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Imitation of the Rose
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3.83 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Babylon Revisited
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My Friend Maigret: Inspector Maigret #31
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3.59 avg rating — 1,963 ratings
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 224,257 ratings
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Nabokov’s Dozen
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