The Prince (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
As a young Florentine envoy to the courts of France and the Italian principalities, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) was able to observe firsthand the lives of people strongly united under one powerful ruler. His fascination with that political rarity and his intense desire to see the Medici family assume ...Show more
Frankenstein (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this ...Show more
The Rescue by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vuln ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics | Reading Level: good
Frances Hodgson Burnett's engrossing story of secrets and discoveries, brought to life in a new edition.Mary Lennox doesn't want to move to England to live with her uncle, but she has no choice. At first she hates her uncle's cold house, the gardens and moors that surround it and the servants with their ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
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Category: Classics | Series: Picador 40th | Reading Level: 16
Starting at the moment The Swimming-Pool Library ended, The Line of Beauty traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, it is a major work by one of the finest writers in the English language. In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Ni ...Show more
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I've worn that mask so long I don't feel safe without it.' The Man in the Iron Mask sees D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis return to meet their destinies in their final adventure. D'Artagnan still remains in the serv ...Show more
COLLINS CLASSICS - A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT by TWAIN, MARK
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Early critical views are by Sylvester Baxter, William Dean Howells, Andrew Lang, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Whibley, Albert Bigelow Paine, John B. Hoben, and anonymous reviewers in the London Daily Telegraph and the Boston Literary World. The later critical essays are by Howard G. Baetzhold, James D. Will ...Show more
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
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Category: Classics
This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary-notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in 'Trout and Salmon' - who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to t ...Show more
Hard Times (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: good
'Facts alone are wanted in life': the children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky, troubled industrial town so entertainment is hard to come by and resentments run deep. The effects of Gradgrind's t ...Show more
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
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Category: Classics
The Great War changes everything. In this epic tale, spanning over a decade, war turns the world of privileged, English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens upside down. It forces him to question everything he holds dear - social order, morality, marriage and loyalty. And it rocks the very foundations of Eng ...Show more