The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman
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Category: Classics
One of four books in Vintage Classics' HARLEM RENAISSANCE series - flapped cut-down b paperbacks of some of the most influential books of the 1920s and 30s placeholder copy VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIESEmma Lou Morgan's skin is black - 'too black', as the narrator writes at the beginning o ...Show more
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: near fine
This volume includes "Family Happiness"; "The Kreutzer Sonata"; "The Devil" and "Father Sergius". The four stories are all about love, but they take very different attitudes towards it. Tolstoy knows that his readers have fallen in love and also, often, fallen out of it; they have wanted to kill their l ...Show more
Hell by Henri Barbusse; Mint Editions (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Mint Editions--Tragedies and Dramatic Stories Ser.
No one who has ever read this remarkable novel and looked at human life through Barbusse's peephole can ever forget the experience.--Robert Baldick It is Barbusse, not Gide, not Proust and not Maurois whose work marks the great turning point in French twentieth-century literature.--Jean Favrille Hell i ...Show more
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The novel was first published in 1862 in serial form. This production read by Juliet Stevenson marks the first audio release of one of Victorian England's most sensational reads. Dealing with bigamy, murder and madness it begs the question: can women and men ever really depend on one another, even withi ...Show more
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
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Category: Classics
One of the greatest novels ever written, now in a wonderful new clothbound editionLaurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'h ...Show more
Plato - Complete Works by Plato
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
This edition includes the entire surviving corpus attributed to Plato in antiquity. In addition to the texts, it contains introductions to the works, discussion on the chronology of their composition, comments on the dialogue form in which Plato wrote, and guidance on reading and studying Plato.
Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
The first ever graphic novel adaptation of George Orwell's timeless dystopiaWinston Smith, an outwardly obedient citizen of Airstrip One, dreams secretly of truth and freedom - but his rebellion will come at a terrible cost. George Orwell's dark masterpiece has enthralled readers for over seventy years. ...Show more
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
Metamorphoses by Ovid; Stephanie McCarter (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Ovid's epic poem--whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages--is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. The text is accompanied ...Show more
The Man Upstairs by P. G. Wodehouse
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
Wodehouse's well-known gift for satisfying plots and comic surprises is evident on every page, but there are also signs of his debt to earlier writers in the realistic tradition. Set mainly in London or New York, many of the stories concern ordinary people - shopassistants, schoolmasters, secretaries, s ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
Dostoyevsky's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues-brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality-that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-centur ...Show more
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann
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Category: Classics
A stirring novel of idealist loyalty and sibling love, by one of East Germany's most important writers The border between East and West Germany has closed. For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's chance to build an egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a plac ...Show more