Lady with the Dog and Other Love Stories by ANTON CHEKHOV
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Category: Classics
A master playwright and short story writer, Anton Chekhov is revered for his ability to examine the social forces in his characters' lives. His virtuosity with the written word is on full display in this collection of his best stories that explore the euphoria and despair inherent in the process of fall ...Show more
THE ONE DAY OF THE YEAR by Alan Seymour
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Category: Classics
Undoubtedly one of Australia's favourite plays, The One Day of the Year explores the universal theme of fatherson conflict against the background of the beery haze and the heady, nostalgic sentimentality of Anzac Day. It is a play to make us question a standard institution - Anzac Day, the sacred cow am ...Show more
TL;DR Shakespeare - Dynamically Illustrated Plot and Character Summaries for 12 of Shakespeare's Greatest Plays by SparkNotes
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Category: Classics | Series: Too Long; Didn't Read Ser.
This refresher reference volume features concise character and plot summaries for 12 of Shakespeare's best-known plays, drawn from the SparkNotes website and illustrated with colorful infographics. Each of the 12 chapters in this volume runs 6 to 8 pages of text taken from the SparkNotes website, and is ...Show more
The Symposium by Plato
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical challenge t ...Show more
Arsene Lupin vs. Sherlock Holmes by MAURICE LEBLANC
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Mystery Classics Ser.
Gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin conspires to match wits with the great Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes in Maurice Leblanc's second collection of short stories. Brilliantly capturing each character's extraordinary skills, Leblanc offers readers an array of entertaining adventures. The eigh ...Show more
Picture of Dorian Gray (Collector's Edition) by OSCAR WILDE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite ...Show more
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
Sonnets and Poems of William Shakespeare (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
Shakespeare's sonnets are amongst the most admired, complex and beautiful poems ever written. This gorgeous new collection includes sonnets from Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Love's Labour's Lost, to create a comprehensive collection from the greatest writer of the English poetic form. Little treasures ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Luxe Collection
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent h ...Show more
The Invisible Man - A Grotesque Romance by H. G. Wells; Arthur C. Clarke (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Bantam Classics Ser.
So he lapses into a dream, the undying wonderful dream of his life. And though Kemp has fished unceasingly, no human being save the landlord knows those books are there, with the subtle secret of invisibility and a dozen other strange secrets written therein. And none other will know of them until he di ...Show more
The Rediscovery of North America by Barry López
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Category: Classics | Series: Clark Lectures
" The Spanish incursion into the New World, with its brutal destruction of indigenous peoples and their cultures and its material exploitation of much of two continents, reverberates in our history down to the present century. So contends prize-winning writer Barry Lopez in this beautifully written book ...Show more
About This Life by Barry Lopez
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Category: Classics
Once, when asked for advice on how to become a writer, Lopez found himself replying: "Read. Find out what you truly believe. Get away from the familiar." This collection of essays stems directly from that philosophy. Here is far-flung travel (the beauty of remote Hokkaido Island, the over-explored Galap ...Show more