Pickwick Papers (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens’s first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr. Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds of scrapes and adventures. Funny, warm-hearted and f ...Show more
Great Expectations (Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. "What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her stick; 'that, where those cobwebs are?" "I can't guess what it is, ma'am." "It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!" "Great Expectations", Dickens' ...Show more
Bleak House (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics/Literature
'The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself'. 'Jarndyce and Jardyce' is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many different individuals have found their fortunes caught up in it. Esther Summerso ...Show more
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In Earthly Powers Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power--Kenneth Toomey, a past-his-prime author of mediocre fiction, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age, living in self-exile o ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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Category: Classics/Literature
"Don Quixote" has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray - he tilts at windmills, imagining them ...Show more
The Complete Enderby by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Classics/Literature
Enderby - poet, social critic, comrade and Catholic - is endlessly hounded by women. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectability by a glamorous wife, aftershave and the dolce vita.
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Dover Thrift S.
In this allegorical tale of "Everyman's" trials and temptations in life, Christian heads for the Celestial City to avoid self-destruction, but along the way confronts the Hill of Difficulty, the Giant Despair, and other obstacles. This enormously influential 17th-century classic is universally known for ...Show more
Byrne by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Classics/Literature
Michael Byrne is a minor modern composer with greater talent in bed than in the concert hall. A bigamist, a charmer and a thug, Byrne sells his talents as a composer and painter, ending up in Hitler's Third Reich. He moves opportunistically from country to country and from bed to bed, leaving a small tr ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Jane EyreBy Charlotte Brontëm grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fe ...Show more
Into the War by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the title story, "Into the War", we are given an insight into what life was really like for those too young to ...Show more
The Decameron: Selected Tales by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: Classics/Literature
"The Decameron" is a collection of novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic. Beyond its entertainment and literary popularity, it remains an important historic ...Show more