The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions'. A searing, shocking tale of women as consumer items in a man's world, "The House of Mirth" sees Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of ...Show more
The Death Ivan Ilych and other stories (riverrun editions) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other StoriesTolstoy wrote in many genres for different audiences. In this, the first ...Show more
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin World War II Collection
The highly acclaimed 'Cruel Sea' is one of the all-time great naval and war thrillers. The film was a smash hit when released and both it and the book continue to enjoy undiminished popularity. It covers not just the details of the battle of the Atlantic, but deals with the people who fought it - their ...Show more
Kim (Penguin English Library) by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'He knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in glove with men who led lives stranger than anything Haroun al Raschid dreamed of; and he lived in a life wild as that of the Arabian Nights...' Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in Ind ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
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Category: Classics | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
This Scholastic Classics edition of Shakespeare's well-known tragi-comedy is perfect for students and Shakespeare enthusiasts alike. These violent delights have violent ends... When Romeoand Julietmeet during a chance encounter, they have no idea what lies ahead - for these star-crossed loversbelong to ...Show more
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
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Category: Classics
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeAs close to perfect a moral fable as we are ever likely to get in American literature. --Russell BanksThere are books that haunt you down the years, books that seem to touch and stir something deep inside you. . . . Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey is of this kind. --The I ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Leather-bound Classics) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
The novels included in the collection - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan - represent all of Austen's complete novels, and provide the reader with an entrance into the world she and her memorable characters inhabited.
The Concept Of Anxiety A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation In View Of The Dogmatic Problem Of Hereditary Sin by Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Classics
Brilliantly synthesizing human insights with Christian dogma, Soren Kierkegaard presented, in 1844, The Concept of Anxiety as a landmark "psychological deliberation," suggesting that our only hope in overcoming anxiety was not through "powder and pills" but by embracing it with open arms. While Kierkega ...Show more
The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe
If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, ...Show more
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Erato the Mid-nineteenth Century by Donald Keene (ed.)
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Category: Classics
The sweep of Japanese literature in its infinite variety and unusual beauty – from earliest times to the mid-nineteenth century – is the focus of this impressive volume. Every genre and style of Japanese literature, from the somber beauty of Noh plays to the eroticism of seventeenth century novels is in ...Show more
The Good Soldier Svejk (Penguin Classics) by Jaroslav Hasek
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Jaroslav Hasek's black satire, the inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller's Catch-22 Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austro-Hungarian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War - although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Colombian novelist Juan Fernando Hincapié translated this illustrated edition of the classic.