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
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Gothic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A fantastic masterpiece of mystery and science fiction. The mysterious recluse Mr Griffin wanders into town, keeping his whole body hidden and shutting himself away with his scientific equipment. So begins another incredible tour de force by the master of science fiction H.G. Wells. When the village is ...Show more
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics
An incredible adventure from the master of science fiction. Jules Verne’s imagination plays out beautifully in this thrilling tale of discovery. On translating an ancient manuscript which professes to tell the reader of a passageway into the very centre of the earth, a professor and his reluctant nephew ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past (#2) by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: World Literature S.
Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Stephen Hudson Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth ce ...Show more
The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics
"The Queen's Nicklace" dramatizes an unsavory incident in the 1780s at the court of King Louis XVI of France involving the King'swife, Marie Antoinette. Her reputation was already tarnished by gossip and scandal, and her implication in a crime involving a stolen necklace became one of the major turning- ...Show more
The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1940, the author sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. This book offers a log of the expedition, combining combines science, philosophy and adventure.
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
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Category: Classics | Series: Pan 70th Anniversary Ser.
The inspiration for the Syfy miniseries. Childhood's End is one of the defining legacies of Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and many other groundbreaking works. Since its publication in 1953, this prescient novel about first contact gone wrong has come to be regarded not only a ...Show more
Snow Falling on Cedars: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by David Guterson
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Category: Classics
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The Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing . . . 'Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of unease.
Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? (Mini Modern Classics) by Hans Fallada
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
It was what we call in the trade a potato . . . 'Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.
Leaving the Yellow House (Mini Modern Classics) by Saul Bellow
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an elderly and self-destructive dipsomaniac in a Western desert town, who finds herself faced with a final, impos ...Show more