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Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: near fine
50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden b ...Show more
Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some witching power; the neighbourhood abounds with tales, haunted spots and twilight superstitions. But as hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane will discover, the wildest of all storie ...Show more
Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: very good
This is a post war story of a wounded, helpless and dying officer returning home to his father and his fickle sweetheart in Georgia.
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the hea ...Show more
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR RADIO 4 DRAMA 'One of the great novels of the 20th century, and now published in English for the first time' Observer 'A gripping panorama of the human experience' Kenneth Branagh In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front ...Show more
Stamboul Train by Graham Greene
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a na#65533;ve English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn into a ...Show more
Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully. Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto's famous Gol ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, ...Show more
The Art of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley (Artist); Arthur Symons (Text by)
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Category: Art | Series: Art / Books Vintage Classics Ser.
The Art of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley This gorgeous facsimile epitomizes fin-de-si cle book design and art English illustrator and author Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98) was a leading figure of the Aesthetic Movement and the most controversial artist of the 1890s. His delicate yet bold drawings in ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun Tzu; Peter Harris (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly thought of as a definitive work on military strategy and tactics. For the l ...Show more
The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
.A Vintage Classics edition of a feminist literary landmark- the daring story of a woman's search for personal freedom that was so controversial in 1899 that it ended its author's career.With an effortless, sure-handed artistry, Kate Chopin tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young mother and model wi ...Show more
The Bad Seed by William March
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Movie Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoy's classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything even murder. There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned in ...Show more