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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; Peter Merchant (Introductions and notes by); Hablot K. Browne (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was theseason of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything ...Show more
Adam Bede by Adam Bede; George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
With an Introduction by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury 'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...' Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot' ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Roger Cardinal (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury. Translations are by Paul Desages (Around the World in Eighty Days) and Arthur Chambers (Five Weeks in a Balloon). JULES VERNE (1828-1905) POSSESSED that rare storyteller's gift of being able to present the fa ...Show more
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Dombey and Son is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in monthly parts from 1 October 1846 to 1 April 1848 and in one volume in 1848. Its full title is Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. Dickens started writing the book in Lausanne, Switzerland, before ret ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; Tobias Smollet (Translator); David Whitlock (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: good
Don Quixote The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, S ...Show more
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
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Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation trilogy--one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction--in a single hardcover volume. It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see th ...Show more
Hard Times by Charles Dickens; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Maurice Greiffenhagen (Illustrator); F. Walker (Illustrator); Dinny Thorold (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence, his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of huma ...Show more
Lady Audley's Secret by MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel. Critic John Sutherland (1989) described the work as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels ...Show more
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society, Charles Dickens's Little Dorritis edited with an introduction by Stephen Wall in Penguin Classics.When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he take ...Show more
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: very good
As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same da ...Show more
Mysterious Island by VERNE JULES
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, "The Mysterious Island" is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. "Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable tr ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: very good
In nineteenth century England, clever, high-spirited Elizabeth Bennet is pursued by a suitor who she finds snobby and contemptuous.