Rose Boys - Text Classics by Peter Rose
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Text Classics
What exactly is the message of Robert Rose? One year after his death, twenty-six years after just another of our crashes, knowing the effect it had on his family and friends, and thousands of others who hardly knew him, I want to go back there, I want to examine my brother's life and reanimate him... ...Show more
Aesop's Fables Illustrated (Leatherbound Classics) by Aesop
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
This illustrated collection includes hundreds of fables that have influenced our world for centuries.The stories attributed to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in Greece around 620-564 BCE, were originally passed on through oral tradition before first being transcribed several centuries after hi ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
Mark Twain: Five Novels by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
No library's complete without the classics This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects some of the most popular works of legendary humorist and novelist Mark Twain. Mark Twain wrote his greatest works more than one hundred years ago, but he's never far from the minds of Americans. Whether it's ...Show more
H. G. Wells by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
No home library is complete without the classics H. G. Wells is a keepsake collection of the author's greatest work to be read and treasured. He was the first to popularize the concept of time travel. He disturbed--and fascinated--us with a frightening doctor's island. He wrote of an invisible man, ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Secon ...Show more
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, usually known just as A Christmas Carol is a fairy-tale novel by a British classic Charles Dickens, that was published in 1843. It consists of five chapters, or staves as the author named them. Among all the stories about Christmas, A Christm ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse delights in interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences tha ...Show more
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