Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men s ...Show more
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Classics
In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything was transformed. Huxley described his experience in The Doors of Perception and its sequel Heaven and Hell.
The Franchise Affair (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Josephine Tey
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Category: Classics
One of the great country house detective novels, entertaining and ingenious Marion Sharpe and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country home, the Franchise. Everything changes when a local schoolgirl accuses them of kidnap and abuse, describing the attic room ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson
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Category: Classics
The Odyssey is a poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. In his absence, it is assumed Odysseus has died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemac ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories by Lahiri, Jhumpa
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Category: Classics
'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, including well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello, alongside many cap ...Show more
Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Presents the portrait of Stephen Dedalus' Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Vintage Classics) by Lewis Carroll; John Tenniel (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy wo ...Show more
Call for the Dead (Green Crime Modern Classics) by John le Carre
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Category: Classics
George Smiley becomes tangled in a case of suicide and espionage in le Carre's first novelAfter a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigatio ...Show more
Candide and Other Works by Voltaire
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against religious persecution, bigotry and injustice throughout his life, and is one of the thinkers who prepared the ...Show more
Chinese Myths & Folk Tales
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Collectible Editions Ser.
Chinese culture is rich with marvelous folklore, and this exquisitely designed collection draws on that magnificent historical repository. It features more than 200 fables and tales chosen from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and other classic compendiums. Here are legends of ancient demons, str ...Show more
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
No library is complete without the classics This leather-bound edition includes the complete works of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare, considered by many to be the English language's greatest writer. Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth--the works o ...Show more