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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; Peter Merchant (Introductions and notes by); Hablot K. Browne (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was theseason of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Roger Cardinal (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury. Translations are by Paul Desages (Around the World in Eighty Days) and Arthur Chambers (Five Weeks in a Balloon). JULES VERNE (1828-1905) POSSESSED that rare storyteller's gift of being able to present the fa ...Show more
Basic Writings of Existentialism by Gordon Daniel Marino
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The perfect choice for those who wonder what existentialism is all about. Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because ...Show more
Collected Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Franz Kafka's imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent t ...Show more
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Dombey and Son is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in monthly parts from 1 October 1846 to 1 April 1848 and in one volume in 1848. Its full title is Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. Dickens started writing the book in Lausanne, Switzerland, before ret ...Show more
Hard Times by Charles Dickens; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Maurice Greiffenhagen (Illustrator); F. Walker (Illustrator); Dinny Thorold (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence, his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of huma ...Show more
IF THIS IS A MAN AND THE TRUCE by Primo Levi
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
"Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE covers his long journey to Italy at the end of the war through Russia and Central Europe. Levi never ra ...Show more
Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben
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Category: Science | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Mother deer that grieve? Horses that feel shame? Squirrels that adopt their grandchildren? We humans tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings intensely and consciously. But have you ever wondered what's going on in an animal's head? More and more researchers are real ...Show more
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society, Charles Dickens's Little Dorritis edited with an introduction by Stephen Wall in Penguin Classics.When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he take ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; Laura Thompson (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew t ...Show more
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus's insights and advice - on everything from living in the world to ...Show more
Middlemarch (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library Classics
'If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life...? Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they, and the other inhabita ...Show more