Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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Category: Classics/Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated eighteenth-century novel featuri ...Show more
The Complete Stories by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
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Category: Classics/Literature
'A tale of young love and disenchantment, of missed opportunities and passion's elusive, flickering flame' Financial Times 'The surprise bestseller ... read, loved and wept over by men and women of all ages' Guardian 'The magical novel about a Turkish man who falls in love with an artist in 1920s Berl ...Show more
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien ...Show more
Rose Boys - Text Classics by Peter Rose
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Text Classics
What exactly is the message of Robert Rose? One year after his death, twenty-six years after just another of our crashes, knowing the effect it had on his family and friends, and thousands of others who hardly knew him, I want to go back there, I want to examine my brother's life and reanimate him... ...Show more
Aesop's Fables Illustrated (Leatherbound Classics) by Aesop
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
This illustrated collection includes hundreds of fables that have influenced our world for centuries.The stories attributed to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in Greece around 620-564 BCE, were originally passed on through oral tradition before first being transcribed several centuries after hi ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
Mark Twain: Five Novels by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
No library's complete without the classics This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects some of the most popular works of legendary humorist and novelist Mark Twain. Mark Twain wrote his greatest works more than one hundred years ago, but he's never far from the minds of Americans. Whether it's ...Show more
H. G. Wells by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
No home library is complete without the classics H. G. Wells is a keepsake collection of the author's greatest work to be read and treasured. He was the first to popularize the concept of time travel. He disturbed--and fascinated--us with a frightening doctor's island. He wrote of an invisible man, ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Secon ...Show more
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, usually known just as A Christmas Carol is a fairy-tale novel by a British classic Charles Dickens, that was published in 1843. It consists of five chapters, or staves as the author named them. Among all the stories about Christmas, A Christm ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse delights in interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences tha ...Show more