Amerika by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics
'He is the greatest German writer of our time' Vladimir Nabakov After an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, sixteen-year-old Karl Rossman is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the land of opportunity, Karl's youthful breeziness propels him into a series ...Show more
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics
Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood. This complete collection of all his short stories and ...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 Professor by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics
The Clarendon Edition of The Professor marks the first time this novel--or in fact any major novel by Charlotte Bront�--has appeared in an edition based directly on the author's manuscript. The editors provide a substantial introduction, giving a full account of the novel's composition, and include full ...Show more
Cicero - Selected Works by Cicero
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics. Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary ...Show more
Dubliners: Collins Classics by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.' From a child coming to terms with the death of a priest to a young woman torn between leading an uneventful life in ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Magic Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSON AND A CULTURAL HISTORY OF FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER What you create can destroy you. One freezing morning, a lone man wandering across the Arctic ice caps is rescued from starvation by a ship's captain. Victor Frankenstein's story is one of ambition, murder and ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" - now a major new film from director Mike Newell ("Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Harry Potter") - charts the course of orphan Pip Pirrip's life as it is transformed by a vast, mysterious inheritance. Adapted from Dickens' novel by bestselling author David Nicholls ...Show more
The Portable Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Category: Classics
A comprehensive collection of writings by “the most influential writer of the nineteenth century” (Harold Bloom) Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diverse body of work has done more than perhaps any other thinker to shape and define the American mind. Literary giants including Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawtho ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 3 by Marcel Proust / Moncrieff
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott M ...Show more
The Age of Innocence (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island. He remains there many years, building a life for himself in solitude, until the day he discovers another man's footprint ...Show more