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A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knavewas published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and ...Show more
A Little Princess (Word Cloud Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Classic Hardcover | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Captain Crewe, a wealthy English widower, has been raising his only child, Sara, in India where he is stationed with the British Army. Because the Indian climate is considered too harsh for children, British families living there traditionally send their children to boarding school back home in England. ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable fo ...Show more
A Nietzsche Reader by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Selected and Translated with an Introduction by R. J. Hollingdale.The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1 ...Show more
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
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Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspire ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by James Joyce
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait ...Show more
A Room with a View: Penguin Classics by E M Forster
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Classics Ser.
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentin ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series | Reading Level: very good
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (Collins Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, and first published in 1859. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of literary fiction.Dickens's famous opening sentence introduces t ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (PB Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens; Hablot Knight Browne
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Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
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
A Treasury of Irish Literature (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Various Authors ..
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Category: Classic Hardcover | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classics Ser.
A Treasury of Irish Literature celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the Ireland with a generous selection of poetry and prose that spans two centuries.Ireland's celebrated poetic legacy is represented by more than 200 poems from twenty-five of the nation's most distinguished poets, including Thomas ...Show more
Adventure Word Cloud Boxed Set (Peter Pan, Jungle Book, Treasure Island, Call of the Wild) by Editors of Canterbury Classics
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Category: Classic Hardcover | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Jump into thrilling adventures with this Word Cloud Boxed Set There are so many adventures to choose from in this exclusively selected boxed set Four special-edition Word Cloud Classics are included: Call of the Wild and Other Stories, The Jungle Book, Peter Pan, and Treasure Island. Readers will b ...Show more