Down and Out in Paris and London - New Edition by George Orwell, Hugo Rifkind (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics/Literature
George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society.Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly docu ...Show more
The Shooting Party by A.P. Chekhov
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Anton Chekhov's only full-length novel, this "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Shooting Party" is translated and edited by Ronald Wilks, with an introduction by John Sutherland. "The Shooting Party" centres on Olga, the pretty young daughter of a drunken forester on a country estate, and her fateful re ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.' The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adv ...Show more
Amy's Children: Text Classics by Olga Masters
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Text Classics
Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her country town - and her three infant children - and try her luck in the big smoke. Life in wartime Sydney is far from easy, but for Amy there are the hard-won satisfactions of an office job and a house of her own. Until her ...Show more
Quo Vadis by SIENKIEWICZ
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, commonly known as Quo Vadis, is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Polish.
Coming Up For Air by George Orwell
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Category: Classics/Literature
George ""Tubby"" Bowling is a grimly successful middle-aged insurance salesman, diligently paying the mortgage on a typical English suburban row house and supporting an ungrateful family. As the years pass, he begins to see his wife and children as wardens and himself as a prisoner, feeling like a hosta ...Show more
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM MAGGIE O'FARRELL Janet lies murdered beneath the castle stairs, oddly attired in her mother's black lace wedding dress, lamented only by her pet jackdaw... In this, her first novel, Elspeth Barker evokes the unrelenting chill of Calvinism and the Scottish climate; it's a w ...Show more
Bush Studies: Text Classics by Barbara Baynton
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Text Classics
Barbara Baynton's short-story collection Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism - for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness. Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Baynton presents the Australian bush as dangerous and ...Show more
Virgil - Aeneid VII-XII by R. Deryck Williams (Editor); Virgil Staff
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Latin Texts
Latin text with English Introduction and Notes by the renowned Virgilian scholar R.D. Williams, aimed at upper school and university students.
Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Crime and punishment is probably Dostoevsky's most read and known novel and one of the most famous literary works of all time. Published in installments in 1866 in the journal «Russkij vestnik» («The Russian Messenger»), it is the story of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, which the author describes in a l ...Show more
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I pay very little regard!to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.' Humble and lowly, a young Fann ...Show more