Paradise by J. G. (TRN) Dante Alighieri; Nichols
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens | Reading Level: General Adult
In the third and final part of The Divine Comedy, Dante recounts his journey through heaven, after the travails and torments of Hell and the arduous ascent of Mount Purgatory, creating a cosmology of the highest realm of creation which is astonishing in its complexity. In Dante's imagining, Paradise is ...Show more
The Benefit of Farting Explained by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
What is the nature, essence and definition of a fart? What are the consequences and disadvantages of suppressing one? Why is farting considered to be taboo? Swift's The Benefit of Farting argues eloquently, in a forceful a posteriori fashion, that most of the distempers thought to affect the fairer sex ...Show more
The Crocodile (Alma Quirky Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Quirky Classics
The civil servant Ivan Matveich and his wife Yelena Ivanovna are spectators of an exhibition - in a shopping arcade - of a crocodile owned by a German, when Ivan is suddenly swallowed alive by the animal. Unsuccessful in his attempts to be freed from his prison, due to the German's concern for his croco ...Show more
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio-syncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, aesthetic and literary criticism, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John William ...Show more
Henry IV, Part 1: The Pelican Shakespeare by A. R. (EDT) Stephen (EDT); Braunmuller Claire (INT); Orgel Claire (EDT); McEachern William; McEachern Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Pelican Shakespeare | Reading Level: General Adult
These easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage appeared between 1956 and 1967. With these electrifying new covers, dependable texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remains a valued ...Show more
The House of Four Seasons by Roger Duvoisin
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Category: Classics
When Father, Mother, Billy, and Suzy go house hunting in the country, they fall in love with a grand old house nestled among tall weeds and trees. The house is in need of repair and soon a carpenter, mason, and tinsmith come to set things straight, but it needs new paint too. The family agrees it would ...Show more
Sherlock Holmes The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Bantam Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes with the aid of Dr. Watson investigates strange and baffling mysteries.
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
'If ever I forget your name let me forget home and heaven...But no, no, my love, I never can forget 'ee; for you was a good man, and did good things!'Love, and the erratic heart, are at the centre of Hardy's 'woodland story'. Set in the beautiful Blackmoor Vale, The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of ...Show more
The Red Sphinx (or The Comte Moret; a sequel to The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics
In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote ...Show more
The Last of the Mohicans (Knickerbocker Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper
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Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics
James Fenimore Cooper’s classic novel The Last of the Mohicans is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War of 1754-1763.Far and away the most popular volume of Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy, this is the thrilling account of a bloody ambush of 500 to 1,500 Anglo ...Show more
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A Town Like Alice The Legacy by Nevil Shute Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to ...Show more
The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, Henry Fielding
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighbouring squire though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls.