The Magus by John Fowles
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games. John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Bernard O'Donoghue
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Category: Classics/Literature
Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, this work describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. Blending Celtic myth and Christian faith, it is among the Middle English poems: a tale of magic, chivalr ...Show more
Howards End by David (INT) E. M.; Lodge Forster
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics, | Reading Level: very good
In "Howard's End", E.M. Forster unveils the English character as never before, exploring the underlying class warfare involving three distinct groups - a wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man living on the edge of poverty. The sou ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: The Penguin English Library
'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?' Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move ...Show more
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Mary Barton is the pretty daughter of a factory worker who finds herself dreaming of a better life when the mill-owner's charming son, Henry, starts to court her. She rejects her childhood friend Jem's affections in the hope of marrying Henry and escaping from the hard and bitter life that is the fate o ...Show more
The Collector by John Fowles
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables his to capture the art student Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the windfall. The situation is seen first from the collector's point of view: he th ...Show more
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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Category: Classics/Literature | Reading Level: good
When "Lord of the Flies" appeared in 1954 it received unprecedented reviews for a first novel. Critics used such phrases as "beautifully writeen, tragic and provocative... vivid and enthralling... this beautiful and desperate book... completely convincing and often very frightening... its progress is ma ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Greene's fine sense of humor is displayed in this warm and far-reaching comic novel, Travels with My Aunt, a bestseller when it appeared originally. At his mother's funeral, Henry Pulling, a stuffy, retired bank manager with an interest in dahlias, meets his Aunt Augusta. The indomitable Aunt Augusta p ...Show more
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes' classic, "Monsignor Quixote" offers enduring insights into our life and times.
Claudius the God by Robert Graves; Barry Unsworth (Foreword by)
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Read in the style of a secret diary, this famous sequel toI, Claudiusgives a wry and human view of the Roman world, bringing to life some of the most scandalous and violent times in history.Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. He reco ...Show more
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOODScobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.