The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette he leaves the certainties of England to forge a life in Brussels. But as a man, William has freedom of ...Show more
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by BROTHERS GRIMM,
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
No library's complete without the classics This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects the legendary fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. They are the stories we've known since we were children. Rapunzel. Hansel and Gretel. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. But the works originally collected by the B ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic dystopian tale. 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Poli ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank, Anne Frank
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic--a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her f ...Show more
Richard II by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate England's national identity. Today, to some of us, Richard II may appear cons ...Show more
Chekhov: Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov (intro & notes Joe Andrews)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader's imagination. This collection contains some of the most important of his earliest and shortest comi ...Show more
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young ...Show more
Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics
Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who can save her is the mysterious Mrs Erlynne whose scandalous relationship with Lord Windermere has prompted her fatal imp ...Show more
Night and Day & Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day (1919), portrays the gradual changes in a society, the patterns and conventions of which are slowly disintegrating; where the representatives of the younger generation struggle to forge their own way, for '...life has to be faced: to be rejected; then accepte ...Show more
A View from the Bridge and All My Sons by Arthur Miller
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"A View From the Bridge" features Eddie, an illiterate longshoreman. His progress towards self discovery and fall is detailed in this drama. The second play, "All My Sons", is a merciless exposure of wartime profiteering and the capitalist ethic.
Dracula by BRAM STOKER
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University. 'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips ...Show more