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With an essay by Peter Ackroyd. `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…
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…
The Penguin English Library Edition of Persuasion by Jane Austen. «Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect». Persuasion, Jane Austen’s last novel, is a moving, masterly and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of…
