Trimalchio: an Early Version of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
This first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby now appears in paperback. Fitzgerald wrote the novel as Trimalchio and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribner's, who had the novel set in type and the g ...Show more
Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often starting territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontel ...Show more
The Penguin Complete Jane Austen by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics
Sense and Sensibility | Pride and Prejudice | Mansfield Park | Emma | Northanger Abbey | Persuasion | Lady Susan Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, she pa ...Show more
Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance by Sholem Aleichem
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Category: Classics
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In The Art of the Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitio ...Show more
English Fairy Tales (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Arthur Rackham
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, ...Show more
The Odyssey by Halls-Bascomb Professor of Classics Emeritus Barry B Powell (University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA University of Wisconsin University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
$35.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Odysseus-soldier, trickster, and everyman-is one of the most recognizable characters in world literature. His arduous, ten-year journey home after the Trojan War, the subject of Homer's The Odyssey, is the most accessible tale to survive from ancient Greece, and its impact is still felt today across ma ...Show more
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics
The young Gascon d'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are ready to sacrifice everything for love, glory and the common good. The wicked machinations of Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice, the magnetic Milady de Winter, propel the devoted friends across seas and battlefiel ...Show more
Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens by DICKENS CHARLES
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Category: Classics | Series: Special Editions
This collection brings together perhaps the finest of Dickens' shorter novels, filled with event, character, and the unsurpassed brilliance of his story-telling. Oliver Twist enhanced and strengthened Dickens' reputation and contains classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, tempt ...Show more
Classic Short Stories (Wordsworth Collection) by VARIOUS
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Category: Classics | Series: Special Editions
Poignant, wry, chilling, challenging, amusing, thought-provoking and always intriguing, these accomplished tales from the pens of great writers are object-lessons in the art of creating a literary masterpiece on a small canvas. From the straightforwardly anecdotal to the more analytical of human behavio ...Show more
The Collected Short Stories of Saki by Hector Hugh Munro
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's'. Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which th ...Show more
The Travels of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The author of dozens of adventure novels and fantastical tales, Robert Louis Stevenson was also an enthusiast of travel, whether wandering on foot through France in the company of a donkey, crossing the plains of North America in a train crammed with emigrants, or cruising under sail with his wife in th ...Show more