Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of ‘Poetry Review’. Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabo ...Show more
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of ...Show more
Sea Wolf by Jack London
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
The Sea-Wolf belongs in the honorific tradition of American sea fiction where the voyage motif became a means of exploring the meaning of life, as in Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast (1840), Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics | Reading Level: very good
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.' Considered the most light-hearted and satirical of Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey tells the story of an unl ...Show more
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.' The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The respected monk Ambrosio, the Abbot of a Capuchin monast ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics | Reading Level: very good
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?' Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of his new landlord, Heathcliff. The intense and w ...Show more
Time Machine by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Fantastic Fiction
A masterful tale from the founding father of science fiction. An ingenious inventor creates a machine which can hurtle through time.With no idea what to expect, the time traveller sets out on an epic adventure into the unknown. On his first journey into the future of the human race, the traveller encoun ...Show more
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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Category: Classics
A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Her memoirs conjure up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: near fine
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you ca'n't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.' The 'Alice' books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they? Apparently delightful, innocent fantasies for children, ...Show more
Tales of Norse Mythology (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by H.A. Guerber
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions
Scandinavians of the Viking Age explored the mysteries of life through their sagas. Folklorist Helene Adeline Guerber brings to life the gods and goddesses, giants and dwarves, and warriors and monsters of these stories in Tales of Norse Mythology. Ranging from the comic to the tragic, these legends tel ...Show more
Time Machine (Macmillan Collector's Library) by H. G. Wells; Mark Bould (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in ma ...Show more
Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics
A prize of 100,000 florins awaits the gardener who can produce a black tulip, a rich reward that incites a deadly competition. Set in 17th-century Holland, this historical novel by the author of The Three Musketeers forms a timeless political allegory in which the rare flower represents the triumph of j ...Show more