1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (Collins Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, and first published in 1859. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of literary fiction.Dickens's famous opening sentence introduces t ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Book Club Edition Ser.
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' Drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm has neglected his livestock for too long. In a burst of insurgent fervour they rise up and he is deposed, with the pigs taking charge of the newly named Animal Farm. Everything runs smoothly, productivi ...Show more
Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
TRANSLATED BY LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE. Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it with that of Levin, an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials fo ...Show more
April Fool's Day: Popular Penguins by Bryce Courtenay
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In the end, love is more important than everything and it will conquer and overcome anything. Or that's how Damon saw it, anyway. Damon wanted a book that talked a lot about love. Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering ...Show more
Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers by Joseph Heller
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Dracula (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Flexi Edition) by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Flexibound Editions Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
This is one of several titles in Barron's series of Graphic Classics, famous literary works retold in graphic novel form for young readers. Wonderfully atmospheric color illustrations and fast-paced narratives will keep older boys and girls absorbed, and many students will be inspired to delve into the ...Show more
Dubliners (Collector's Edition) by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of dome ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd (Collector's Edition) by THOMAS HARDY
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Thomas Hardy brings us an England that once existed but no more. It is rural, traditional, pastoral - a society of mannered conduct that flows like a deep river where powerful currents eddy and swirl. In this powerful novel of love and disillusion, Hardy's heroine is torn between the three men in her li ...Show more
Flush : Little Black Classic by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Li ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness. "The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the d ...Show more
Frankenstein: (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Flexi Edition) by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions
Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back on his creation, only to learn the danger of such neglect. Written when Mary Shelley was only 20 years old, Frankenste ...Show more