Sonnets and Poems of William Shakespeare (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
Shakespeare's sonnets are amongst the most admired, complex and beautiful poems ever written. This gorgeous new collection includes sonnets from Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Love's Labour's Lost, to create a comprehensive collection from the greatest writer of the English poetic form. Little treasures ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Luxe Collection
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent h ...Show more
The Invisible Man - A Grotesque Romance by H. G. Wells; Arthur C. Clarke (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Bantam Classics Ser.
So he lapses into a dream, the undying wonderful dream of his life. And though Kemp has fished unceasingly, no human being save the landlord knows those books are there, with the subtle secret of invisibility and a dozen other strange secrets written therein. And none other will know of them until he di ...Show more
The Rediscovery of North America by Barry López
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Category: Classics | Series: Clark Lectures
" The Spanish incursion into the New World, with its brutal destruction of indigenous peoples and their cultures and its material exploitation of much of two continents, reverberates in our history down to the present century. So contends prize-winning writer Barry Lopez in this beautifully written book ...Show more
About This Life by Barry Lopez
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Category: Classics
Once, when asked for advice on how to become a writer, Lopez found himself replying: "Read. Find out what you truly believe. Get away from the familiar." This collection of essays stems directly from that philosophy. Here is far-flung travel (the beauty of remote Hokkaido Island, the over-explored Galap ...Show more
King Lear by William Shakespeare; John Gilbert (Illustrator); Robert Mighall (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
King LearBy William ShakespeareKing Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear's failure as a father engulfs himself and his world in turmoil and traged ...Show more
The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics
Arranged alphabetically by topic, from Adam to Youth, and culled from his novels, speeches, letters, and conversations, this anthology of quotes is timeless and represents the very essence of Mark Twain -- hilarious, cranky, and insightful.
Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics
2016 CHARLOTTE BRONTE BICENTENARY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield ...Show more
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics
Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted "The Picture of Dorian Gray" for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor, who ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Tolstoy's epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition from Penguin Classics. Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count ...Show more
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo; William Weaver (Translator)
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Category: Classics
Known for inspiring James Joyce's Leopold Bloom from Ulysses, Zeno Cosini is the bumbling yet charming alter ego of Italo Svevo, who here lays bare a hilarious litany of neuroticisms about his health, friendships, family and women. Having submitted himself to Freudian psychoanalysis, the narrator keeps ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics
Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, ...Show more