Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperial po ...Show more
Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Cambridge School Shakespeare Ser.
An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are en ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. - "After Ford" - in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and operant conditioning that combine to profoun ...Show more
As You Like it: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role. In this edition, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. He examines S ...Show more
Harmonium by Wallace Stevens
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
"There are in Harmonium six or eight of the most beautiful poems an American has written. The poems see, feel, and think with equal success." -- Randall Jarrell, Poetry and The Age An executive with a Connecticut-based insurance company, Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) wrote poetry in the evenings and durin ...Show more
Between the Acts & The Years by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two novels, The Years(1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts(1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer preceding the Second World War which successfully interweave ...Show more
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Gogol's stories are admired for their skillful mingling of fantasy and reality, quiet good humor and use of mundane details -- as Gogol put it -- "to extract the extraordinary from the ordinary." Imaginative and timeless, they remain as fresh and significant today as they were to readers generations ago ...Show more
Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire (FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguins Classics Ser.
Theo Cuffe's marvelous translation of Voltaire's satirical masterpiece. With its vibrant new translation and perceptive introduction this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of ...Show more
A John Brown Reader by Dover Dover Publications
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
This original collection gathers a remarkably diverse body of literature about John Brown, the strident anti-slavery leader. Besides a selection of letters by the abolitionist himself, the book includes a significant excerpt from W. E. B. Du Bois's biography, John Brown, addresses by Frederick Douglass, ...Show more
The Call of the Wild (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Jack London; Judith John (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
- Deluxe foiled and embossed cover, with gilded edges.- Gift editions of much-loved classics.- Accessible and timeless unabridged text.- Features a glossary of Victorian and Literary terms. Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home libr ...Show more
The Merchant of Venice (Oxford School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. The Merchant of Venice is a popular text for study by secondary students the w ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945 this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.