The Country Wife by William Wycherley
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Category: Classics
Originally performed and published in 1675, this five-act play parodies the vices and hypocrisies of Restoration London. The plot centers on the eponymous country wife, Margery, whose suspicious husband, Mr. Pinchwife, keeps her isolated. On a rare outing to the theater, Margery encounters the aptly nam ...Show more
As You Like it: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role. In this edition, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. He examines S ...Show more
Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Cambridge School Shakespeare Ser.
An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are en ...Show more
Harmonium by Wallace Stevens
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
"There are in Harmonium six or eight of the most beautiful poems an American has written. The poems see, feel, and think with equal success." -- Randall Jarrell, Poetry and The Age An executive with a Connecticut-based insurance company, Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) wrote poetry in the evenings and durin ...Show more
Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A cavalry unit, having crossed the Sahara to relieve a besieged French Foreign Legion fort, arrives to an eerie silence -- the enemy has vanished, and the post's walls and ramparts are defended by dead men. The fort's commander, slain by a bayonet through the heart, clutches a letter that links the ridd ...Show more
Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire (FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguins Classics Ser.
Theo Cuffe's marvelous translation of Voltaire's satirical masterpiece. With its vibrant new translation and perceptive introduction this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of ...Show more
A John Brown Reader by Dover Dover Publications
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
This original collection gathers a remarkably diverse body of literature about John Brown, the strident anti-slavery leader. Besides a selection of letters by the abolitionist himself, the book includes a significant excerpt from W. E. B. Du Bois's biography, John Brown, addresses by Frederick Douglass, ...Show more
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
This bittersweet tale begins when the successful Professor Godfrey St. Peter and his wife move into a comfortable new house. On the eve of the move, Godfrey analyzes his life, family, and friends: his two daughters' marriages have removed them from the home, and the loss of his most outstanding student ...Show more
The Call of the Wild (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Jack London; Judith John (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
- Deluxe foiled and embossed cover, with gilded edges.- Gift editions of much-loved classics.- Accessible and timeless unabridged text.- Features a glossary of Victorian and Literary terms. Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home libr ...Show more
The Merchant of Venice (Oxford School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. The Merchant of Venice is a popular text for study by secondary students the w ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945 this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. - "After Ford" - in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and operant conditioning that combine to profoun ...Show more