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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; Joan Collins (Editor); Ladybird Books Staff
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Category: Children's | Series: Children's Classics Ser.
This story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visitations of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come.A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Ch ...Show more
A Confession and Other Religious Writings by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In "Confession" Tolstoy poses the question: Is there any meaning in my life that will not be destroyed by my death? In 1879 the fifty-year-old author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" came to believe that he had accomplished nothing in life. Either of these magnificant novels would have assured Tol ...Show more
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
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Category: Theatre | Series: Classics Ser.
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social ...Show more
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
asper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say. He knows two things about his own world. He'll never work down the mines and he does know about animals. His only cpompanion is his kestrel hawk and, like himself, with the will to destroy or be destroyed. Filmed as 'Kes' by Ken Loach.
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Children's | Series: Scholastic Classics Ser.
Sara Crewe, ten years old, leads a delightful life. Her father, a British officer, provides her with all of the comfort his wealth and charm allow. When he dies, a cold-hearted schoolmistress turns Sara into a drudge. How does she cope?
A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
George Smiley was simply doing a favor for Miss Ailsa Brimley, an old friend and editor of a small newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried reader: "I'm not mad. And I know my husband is trying to kill me." But the letter had arrived too late: its scribe, the wife of an assistant mas ...Show more
A Nietzsche Reader by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Selected and Translated with an Introduction by R. J. Hollingdale.The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1 ...Show more
A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays - Sweet Bird of Youth; The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Theatre | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
For use in schools and libraries only. Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle; Owen Dudley Edwards (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: The\World's Classics Ser.
The first of the Sherlock Holmes stories, this was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. In this fascinating and exciting tale, the two towering creations of detective fiction--Holmes, the master of the science of detection, and Watson, his faithful companion--make their auspicious debu ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (Collins Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, and first published in 1859. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of literary fiction.Dickens's famous opening sentence introduces t ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (PB Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens; Hablot Knight Browne
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
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