The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
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Category: Classics | Series: Picador 40th | Reading Level: 16
Starting at the moment The Swimming-Pool Library ended, The Line of Beauty traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, it is a major work by one of the finest writers in the English language. In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Ni ...Show more
Barchester Towers (Barsetshire #1) by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
After the death of old Dr. Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr. Proudie, rather than the son of the old bishop, Archdeacon Grantly, resentment and suspicion threaten to cause deep divisio ...Show more
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I've worn that mask so long I don't feel safe without it.' The Man in the Iron Mask sees D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis return to meet their destinies in their final adventure. D'Artagnan still remains in the serv ...Show more
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Lord Dorincourt had occasion to wear his grim smile many a time as the days passed by. Indeed, as his acquaintance with his grandson progressed, he wore the smile so often that there were moments when it almost lost its ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
COLLINS CLASSICS - A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT by TWAIN, MARK
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Early critical views are by Sylvester Baxter, William Dean Howells, Andrew Lang, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Whibley, Albert Bigelow Paine, John B. Hoben, and anonymous reviewers in the London Daily Telegraph and the Boston Literary World. The later critical essays are by Howard G. Baetzhold, James D. Will ...Show more
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
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Category: Classics
This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary-notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in 'Trout and Salmon' - who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to t ...Show more
Hard Times (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: good
'Facts alone are wanted in life': the children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky, troubled industrial town so entertainment is hard to come by and resentments run deep. The effects of Gradgrind's t ...Show more
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
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Category: Classics
Takes reader into the heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty percent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as abominations.
Answered Prayers by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
P B Jones discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way that prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remain ignored.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" - now a major new film from director Mike Newell ("Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Harry Potter") - charts the course of orphan Pip Pirrip's life as it is transformed by a vast, mysterious inheritance. Adapted from Dickens' novel by bestselling author David Nicholls ...Show more
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'He was sickened also with all these lies. His very soul was dismayed by the dirt through which he was forced to wade. He had become unconsciously connected with the lowest dregs of mankind, and would have to see his name mingled with theirs in the daily newspapers'. Mark Robarts is a clergyman with amb ...Show more