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The Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!' she exclaimed. 'Nor will I for a minute' Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a proud working woman whose life is complicated by three different men - respectable farmer Boldwood, seductive Sergeant Troy and devoted Gabriel - making her the object of scandal and betrayal. Vividly portraying the superstitions and traditions of a small rural community, Far from the Madding Crowd shows the precarious position of a woman in a man's world. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Joe and Maya travel back to ancient Egypt to solve a new mystery. A precious jewel has been stolen from King Tutankhamun, and he believes he is cursed. They must try to work out who the real thief might be and exactly why the boy king is so sick. Will they uncover the secret of Tutankhamun's lost treasure and lift the king's curse?

This title contains a selection of Hodja's best-known stories including tales about how Hodja deals with his wife's hot soup, a thirsty village and a thief in the night.

A younger, smaller brother discovers that he can do things his older, taller brother can't.

After a curse is placed upon her as a baby, a princess pricks her finger on a spinning wheel and falls into a deep sleep on her 16th birthday. The rest of he palace falls asleep with her. 100 years later, a handsome prince rides past the forgotten palace. Will the prince be able to undo the curse?

The Wizard of Oz was written by L Frank Baum in 1900. Dorothy, a young girl who lives with her uncle and aunt on a poor farm on the Kansas prairie, is picked up by a sudden storm and dropped in a magical land of tin men, cowardly lions, scarecrows without a brain and the wonderful, terrifying Wizard of Oz. Essential Classics is a wonderful new series that offers a quick way into a range of exciting stories. Fast-moving and accessible, each story is a shortened, dramatically illustrated version of the classic novel, which loses none of the strength and flavour of the original.