Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions) by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Flexibound Editions Ser.
Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass… have entertained readers young and old for more than a century. Their magical worlds, amusing characters, clever dialogue, and playfully logical illogic, epitomise the whit and whimsy of Carroll's writing.
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
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
Maktub by Paulo Coelho
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Category: Classics
An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery. From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho's daily column ...Show more
The Stranger by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Albert Camus's spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. Possessing both the force of a ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. LAWRENCE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an ...Show more
Brave New World: Special 3D Edition by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Classics
As seen on tv and at the feelies. Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by EMILY BRONTE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?' Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of his new landlord, Heathcliff. The intense and ...Show more
The Trial: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Trial (Der Process in German) is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavi ...Show more
Viking Folk and Fairy Tales - Epic Tales by Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir (Foreword by); J. K. Jackson (General Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Gothic Fantasy Ser.
A joyful mix of folklore and fairy tales from Scandinavia, mining the Viking heritage for common sense of the everyday folk. Character-forming moral fables, Viking and Nordic folk and fairy tales take the magic of the natural world and combine it with the practical common sense of the everyday. Good fol ...Show more
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by H. F. Cary With an introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world ...Show more