The Spire by William Golding
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Category: Classics
Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. Tolstoy's epic masterpiece captures with unprecedented immediacy the broad sweep of life during the Napoleonic wars and the brutal invasion of Russia. Ball ...Show more
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics
The Invisible Man stands out as possessing one of the most complicated heroes, or perhaps anti-heroes, in literature. Griffin is not a naïve dreamer such as Moreau’s Pendick or a hapless victim of circumstances like the unnamed narrator of The War of the Worlds. He is a man of great genius and great fau ...Show more
Fahrenheit 451 [FTI] by Ray Bradbury
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Category: Classics
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by h ...Show more
Tales from Shakespeare: Illustrated Edition by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions Ser.
'We are such stuff as dreams are made on…' While the language of William Shakespeare's plays can make them challenging for some readers, their plots are filled with fantastical, almost fairytale-like plot devices — misunderstandings involving identical twins, magical forests, ghosts and witches, and ...Show more
Edgar Allan Poe - Illustrated Tales by Edgar Allen Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions Ser.
Sprung from the shadowed recesses of Edgar Allan Poe’s imagination, these nineteen tales of mystery and the macabre testify to the brilliance of their author’s dark artistry. Each story is colourfully illustrated by the classic artwork of Harry Clarke, in whom Poe found one of his most sensitive and sym ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Essential Gothic, SF and Dark Fantasy Ser.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde.The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel by popular playwright Oscar Wilde. Published in 1891 the book immediately caught attention of censorship for it was not at par with reader's sensibilities (then British and foreign readers and reviewers).Originally pu ...Show more
Bleak House by DICKENS, CHARLES
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Category: Classics | Series: Essential Gothic, SF and Dark Fantasy Ser.
A "legal dispute novel" written in days gone by, sophisticated in a way modern "crime stories" are lacking. Bleak House by Charles Dickens is an example of classic fiction first published in 1853 in the United Kingdom. A true book of worth, a classic that lives on in an era of timeless distinction. Earl ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - In Poetry and Prose by Jessie L. Weston (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
While the knights of King Arthur's Round Table are toasting the new year, a colossal stranger clad in green armor bursts in to deliver a formidable challenge: Any of them may strike off the intruder's head as long as he is prepared to receive a similar blow from the Green Knight in one year. Of all the ...Show more
Myths of Babylon by Jake Jackson (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
Babylonian myths, inherited in Mesopotamia from Sumeria, influenced by the ancient Assyrians represent a pinnacle of human achievement in the period around 1800 BC. Here we find humankind battling with the elements in their Flood myth, a grim creation story and the great Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the ea ...Show more