A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" portrays Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, providing an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Ex ...Show more
Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe (HB) by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University o ...Show more
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics
The young Gascon d'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are ready to sacrifice everything for love, glory and the common good. The wicked machinations of Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice, the magnetic Milady de Winter, propel the devoted friends across seas and battlefiel ...Show more
The Odyssey of Homer by Richmond Lattimore
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Category: Classics | Series: P. S. Ser.
The most eloquent translation of Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus and his arduous journey home after the Trojan WarThis is Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' triumph over Troy and arduous journey home: Odysseus survives a storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and ...Show more
The Iliad of Homer (trans Lattimore) by Homer
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Category: Classics
"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the "Iliad" in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation--the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's "Il ...Show more
The Collected Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (HB) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Few American novelists of the twentieth century have stayed as modern as F. Scott Fitzgerald. He gave a name to his age, 'the Jazz Age', but his reputation has outlived it. Gathered here are the five novels he wrote in his relatively short career, together with a number of the many short stories he ...Show more
Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens by DICKENS CHARLES
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Category: Classics | Series: Special Editions
This collection brings together perhaps the finest of Dickens' shorter novels, filled with event, character, and the unsurpassed brilliance of his story-telling. Oliver Twist enhanced and strengthened Dickens' reputation and contains classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, tempt ...Show more
Classic Short Stories (Wordsworth Collection) by VARIOUS
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Category: Classics | Series: Special Editions
Poignant, wry, chilling, challenging, amusing, thought-provoking and always intriguing, these accomplished tales from the pens of great writers are object-lessons in the art of creating a literary masterpiece on a small canvas. From the straightforwardly anecdotal to the more analytical of human behavio ...Show more
Best of Sherlock Holmes by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davie ...Show more
Les Miserables (#1) by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, ...Show more
Mansfield Park by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. Sense and Se ...Show more