Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
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Category: Classics
Presenting the apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, this title offers a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and an account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.
Road Not Taken and Other Poems by Robert Frost
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
A deluxe edition of Frost s early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of The Road Not Taken For one hundred years, Robert Frost s The Road Not Taken has enchanted and challenged readers with its deceptively simple premise a person reaches a fork in the road, facing a choice full of doub ...Show more
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbidd ...Show more
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not -- strong, beautifu ...Show more
Persuasion (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Flexi Edition) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Flexibound Editions Ser.
Persusion by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classic series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &a ...Show more
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa; Charles Terry (Translator)
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Category: Classics
The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai-without really knowing what it meant-he regains ...Show more
The Three Musketeers (Word Cloud Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
First released in serial form in 1844, a year before Dumas' publication of The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers was an instant success, largely due to Dumas' transformation of the historical fiction genre. In The Three Musketeers, contrary to popular practice at the time, history acted as a b ...Show more
Calypso in London by Sam Selvon
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Category: Classics
Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Sam Selvon is now widely considered to be one of the greatest chroniclers of the West Indian emigrant experience. His evoc ...Show more
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explo ...Show more
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
** The Sunday TimesNumber One bestseller **A Daily Telegraph / Financial Times / Guardian / Sunday Times / The Times /New Statesman/ Observer Book of the Year'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE.' - OBSERVERIn May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through t ...Show more
The Beautiful and the Damned & Other Stories (Word Cloud Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Feel the swing and sway of the Jazz Age in this collection of stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned explores the world of America's upper class during World War I and the beginning of the Jazz Age. Loosely based on Fitzgerald's relationship with his wife, Zel ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Classics | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKSIf a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.In this extraordinary book, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to a ...Show more