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
Emma (Collins Classics) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself...' Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse delights ...Show more
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
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Category: Classics
One by one the boys begin to fall...In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war?. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier? experiencing th ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by OSCAR WILDE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection | Reading Level: very good
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture o ...Show more
The Best Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct ...Show more
Turn of the Screw & The Aspern Papers by Henry James; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Claire Seymour (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
In these two chilling stories, Henry James shows himself to be a master of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension. The Turn of the Screw tells of a young governess sent to a country home to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil within the house, she soon b ...Show more
The Vigilante by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
The papers all said he was a fiend. I read all the papers. That's what they all said.'One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence, voyeurism and betrayal in these unforgettable tales of Californian life.
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw' ...Show more
Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
These stories and poems come from the mind of one of the earliest masters of macabre literature.From the mysterious to the macabre, the works of Edgar Allan Poe have the power to evoke readers' deepest emotions. Poe's stories and poems explore the darker side of life and still offer lessons and insight ...Show more
The Haunted Boy (Mini Modern Classics) by Carson McCullers
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.'These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our search for happiness and understanding.
Middlemarch (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library Classics
'If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life...? Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they, and the other inhabita ...Show more