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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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Recognized as one of the finest work of Hemingway, the novel revolve around a love story between the protagonist Jake Barnesand the promiscuous divorcée Lady Brett Ashley. The book displays and embodies the new sexual freedom that became typical of the 1920s.The book is set in the backdrop of Paris and ...Show more
The Tain by Joseph Dunn (Translator)
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The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius; J. C. Rolfe
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De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies, each about one of the Roman emperors, including one on Julius Caesar. It was written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius, in 121. Considered highly significant in antiquity, The Twelve Caesars ha ...Show more
The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
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Renowned as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts a young peasant's recruitment into Pancho Villa's army. Demetrio Macías is compelled to defend his home from attacks by the Federales who serve Mexico's hated dictator. Forced into a fugitive existence, he encounters a rebe ...Show more
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
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A coded warning from an associate of the devious Professor Moriarty directs Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard to a secluded manor house in Sussex. There the trio discover a gentleman shot dead at close range, surrounded by a m lange of mystifying clues -- a peculiar t ...Show more
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
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A young woman learns about life, and love found and lost, in this thought-provoking debut novel by one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and prolific writers. Rachel Vinrace is a motherless young woman who, at twenty-four, embarks on a sea voyage with a party of other English folk to South Amer ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.' One of the earliest works of 'detective' fict ...Show more
Theaetetus by Plato
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Theaetetusby PlatoM. J. Levett's elegant translation of Plato's Theaetetus, first published in 1928, is here revised by Myles Burnyeat to reflect contemporary standards of accuracy while retaining the style, imagery, and idiomatic speech for which the Levett translation is unparalleled. Bernard William' ...Show more
There Once Was a Limerick Anthology: Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Mark Twain, Carolyn Wells, Woodrow Wilson and Others by Michael Croland (Editor)
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Humor buffs and poetry lovers will laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks. A limerick is a five-line rhyming poem with a bouncy rhythm, and common varieties include geographical and bawdy limericks as well as tongue twisters and creative misspellings. Limerick legends ...Show more
Three Men in a Boat - (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome
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George, William, and J. agree on one thing: They're overworked and need a rest. A week on the "the rolling deep," they decide, may be just the thing Off they go with Montmorency, a fox terrier, in joyful anticipation of long, lazy days during a glorious Victorian summer. What happens to these bungling b ...Show more
Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway
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Experience a taste of one of the English language's foremost writers of the 20th century. Originally published in 1923, Ernest Hemingway's Three Stories and Ten Poems feature some of the expatriate's lesser known, but still wonderful, works. The stories and poems include: "Up in Michigan""Out of Season" ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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An experimental work that pushes the limits of what we know about the world and ourselves, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is one of the most beautifully crafted of all novels written in the English language.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized cla ...Show more