The Sayings of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Duckworth Sayings Series
This series collects together the best-known aphorisms, epigrams and reflections of a wide variety of figures from antiquity to our own age: humorists and novelists, poets and philosophers, politicians and playwrights.
The Castle by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics/Literature
K is the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K's struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal a truth about the nature ...Show more
Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure by A. N. D. Haksar (Translator)
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Category: Classics/Literature
'Modest, caring for each other, when a couple thus carry on, their mutual love will never fade' The word 'kama' means the desire, especially for sensual pleasure, in Sanskrit. Its proper pursuit was considered an essential part of the well-rounded education of a young patrician. Treating enjoyment as an ...Show more
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Graham Greene’s classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused, Graham Greene’s narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous Quiet American of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle ...Show more
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - Complete Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Routledge Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Within these covers you will find every one of the 210 tales collected by the brothers Grimm. These were stories kept alive by German peasants, the legacy of a vibrant oral tradition, passed down from generation to generation and often preserving hints of a mythology dating back to pre-Christian times. ...Show more
Loser Takes All by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Luck seems to have eluded Betram altogether. He doesn't even believe in chance. But when his wedding plans are moved to Monte Carlo, he is drawn to the Casino and is seduced by good fortune. A Miramax film starring Robert Lindsay and Molly Ringwald.
The Saga of Grettir the Strong by Leifur Eiricksson
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Category: Classics/Literature
Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great Icelandic sagas. It relates the tale of Grettir, an eleventh-century warrior struggling to hold on to the values of a heroic age becoming eclipsed by Christianity and a more pastor ...Show more
No Man's Land by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Hesperus Classics
No Man's Land is a profoundly chilling tale of espionage, superstition, and betrayal, and bears all the hallmarks of Greene's most famous works. Arriving in the Harz Mountains, within striking distance of the Iron Curtain, 'civilian' Brown appears to be enjoying a small vacation. Yet one night he crosse ...Show more
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, H. Rider Haggard
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an unknown land cut off from the world, where terrible dangers threaten anyone who ventures near the spectacular diamond mines of King Solomon...
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics/Literature
Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both have left earlier marriages. Ironically, when tragedy tests their union it is Sue, the modern emancipated woman, who proves unequal ...Show more
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young ...Show more