Africa's Tarnished Name (Mini Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
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Category: Classics | Series: Mini Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others. Electrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature.
The Cracked Looking-Glass (Mini Modern Classics) by Katherine Anne Porter
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere'A tender story of devotion, resentment and ennui from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.
Statesman and Sophist - Two Dialogues by Plató
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
These two dialogues by the greatest of the ancient Greek philosophers explore a vital concern of a democratic society: how to define the special abilities and qualities that make a genuine statesman. They further examine the distinction between an authentic statesman and the sophist, an individual who p ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time. Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, ...Show more
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young ...Show more
Great Gatsby by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge ), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, The Great Gatsbyis F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess and tragic reality of 1920s America. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The most famous of Jane Austen's novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature -- "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife". Its manuscript was initially called First Impressions, but was never pub ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by EMILY BRONTE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?' Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of his new landlord, Heathcliff. The intense and ...Show more
Tragedy of Macbeth: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Indeed, for 250 years - until early this century - it was performed with grand operatic additions set to baroque music. In his introduction Nicholas Brooke relates the play's changing fortunes to changes with ...Show more
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Collector's Edition) by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Containing a fascinating variety of stories, from narratives by Holmes himself to a meeting with his brilliant brother and the climactic and seemingly fatal meeting between Holmes and the criminal mastermind Moriarity, this volume sealed Holmes' immortality as a literary figure. About the Series: F ...Show more
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Category: 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 forbid ...Show more
Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Greene's fine sense of humor is displayed in this warm and far-reaching comic novel, Travels with My Aunt, a bestseller when it appeared originally. At his mother's funeral, Henry Pulling, a stuffy, retired bank manager with an interest in dahlias, meets his Aunt Augusta. The indomitable Aunt Augusta p ...Show more