Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau
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Category: Classics/Literature
When the Ibbotson sisters, Hester and Margaret, arrive at the village of Deerbrook to stay with their cousin Mr Grey and his wife, speculation is rife that one of them might marry the local apothecary Edward Hope. Although he is immediately attracted to Margaret, Hope is ultimately persuaded to marry th ...Show more
The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage classics
Arthur and his beautiful, innocent fiancee Margaret look forward to an idyllic life together, until they encounter the mesmerising and repulsive Oliver Haddo.
The First Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oneworld Classics S.
"Oneworld Classics" will include the greatest masterpieces of all time, from every literature and genre and will also redefine and enrich the classics canon by promoting unjustly neglected works of enduring significance. This text is the famous 'first' "Women In Love", Lawrence's preferred and unexurgat ...Show more
The Koran With Parallel Arabic Text by N.J. Dawood
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Category: Classics/Literature
This edition uses N.J.Dawood's translation of "The Koran" rearranged into the traditional Koranic order with a parallel Arabic text.
Tales from Shakespeare by Mary Lamb
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Category: Classics/Literature
As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took great delight in exploring their benefactor's extensive library; as adults they began writing children's books together that also appealed to all generations. In "Tales of Shakespeare", they wished to bring their favourite plays to life for children too young to r ...Show more
The Gods of the Greeks by Carl Kerenyi
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Category: Classics/Literature
After a brief introduction, the complex genealogies of the gods lead him from the begettings of the Titans and from Aphrodite under all her titles and aspects, to Apollo, Hermes and the reign of Zeus, touching upon the Affairs of Pan, nymphs, satyrs, cosmogonies and the birth of mankind, until he reache ...Show more
Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
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Category: Classics/Literature
A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomt ...Show more
Aloft : Thoughts on the experience of flight by William Langewiesche
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
In the essays collected here William Langewiesche considers how flying has altered not only how we move about the earth, but also how we view our world and our place in it. With vivid descriptions of the aesthetics and excitement of flight, Langewiesche also writes of the risks that go with this beauty: ...Show more
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Classics S.
An epistolary novel chronicles the cruel seduction of a young girl by two ruthless, 18th-century aristocrats.
Heroes of the Greeks by Carl Kerenyi
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Category: Classics/Literature
The heroes of Greek mythology - Achilles, Orpheus, Herakles, Oedipus and others - preoccupied the minds of the ancient Greeks no less than the gods themselves. This study uses original sources, archaeological findings and psychological insight to provide an account of the lives of these mythical figures ...Show more
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This continues the story of Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen begun in "The Rainbow". The Brangwen sisters are now teachers in Beldover, a small town dominated by a colliery. Ursula falls in love with Birkin, while Gudrun has a tragic affair with Gerald, son of the colliery owner.
A Rose for Winter: Travels in Andalusia by Laurie Lee
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashes slums, the cult of t ...Show more