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Nineteen Eighty-Four, Centennial Edition
George Orwell - Plume; Centennial edition
Format: Paperback
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"Thought Police." "Big Brother." "Orwellian." These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, 1984. The story of one man's nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring... |
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A Confederacy of Dunces: A Novel
John Kennedy Toole - LSU Press; 20th Anniversary Edition
Format: Hardcover
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A popular Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy follows the adventures of New Orleans lower denizens of the French Quarter. |
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A Separate Peace
John Knowles - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World... |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book
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The American classic about a young girl's coming of age at the turn of the century. "A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. It cuts right to the heart of life...If you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn you will deny yourself a rich experience...It is a poignant and deeply... |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
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The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
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Lewis Carroll's timeless classic brought to life by one of the most revered children's book illustrators of our time!Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit... |
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Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand Leonard Peikoff
Format: Print book
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At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most... |
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Beloved
Toni Morrison - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Print book
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Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend... |
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Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya
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With exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling, this coming of age classic follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture.Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera,... |
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Catch-22
Joseph L Heller - Simon & Schuster Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary. At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive... |
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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories--particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme With Love and Squalor--will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children.... |
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Charlotte's Web Signature Edition
E. B. White - HarperCollins; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of a little girl named Fern who loved a little pig named Wilbur—and of Wilbur's dear friend Charlotte, a beautiful large grey spider who lived with Wilbur in the barn. With the help of Templeton, the rat who never did anything for anybody unless there was something... |
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The Magician's Nephew (Book 1) (Narnia)
C. S. Lewis
Format: Hardcover
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Narnia . . . a land frozen in eternal winter . . . a country waiting to be set freeWitness the creation of a magical land in The Magician's Nephew, the first title in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, which has captivated readers of all ages for over sixty years. This beautiful hardcover... |
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused... |
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
Alexandre Dumas père - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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Alexandre Dumass epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment - nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress... |
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadA desperate young man plans the perfect crime - the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime,... |
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Doa Barbara: A Novel
Rómulo Gallegos
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Rmulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela's first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela's literary treasures, the novel Doa Barbara. Published in 1929 and all but forgotten by A |
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The New Annotated Frankenstein
Mary Shelley - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Two centuries after its original publication, Mary Shelley's classic tale of gothic horror comes to vivid life in "what may very well be the best presentation of the novel" to date (Guillermo del Toro) ."Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale... |
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Gone with the Wind, 75th Anniversary Edition
Margaret Mitchell - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind - winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time - has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel.Widely considered The Great American Novel, and often remembered for its epic... |
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized - and sometimes outraged - millions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma... |
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
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One of Charles Dickens's most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman. From the young Pip's first terrifying e |
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Scribner; Classic Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds third book, The Great Gatsby , stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the first step American fiction had taken since Henry James H. L. Mencken praised the charm and beauty... |
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift - Norton
Format: Paperback
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This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726 text -- the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. "Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel,... |
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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"This is the best Norton Critical Edition yet! All my students have become intensely interested in reading Conrad -- largely because of this excellent work." -- Elise F. Knapp, Western Connecticut State University This Norton Critical Edition includes: - A newly edited text based... |
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph... |
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Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Charlotte Brontë - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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Charlotte Bronte's moving masterpiece - the novel that has been "teaching true strength of character for generations" (The Guardian) A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a woman's quest for freedom.... |
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The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard's translation of the beloved classic beautifully reflects Saint-Exupry's unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators... |
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott - Sterling
Format: Print book
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The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical... |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
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For this Sesquicentennial Norton Critical Edition, the Northwestern-Newberry text of Moby-Dick has been generously footnoted to include dozens of biographical discoveries, mainly from Hershel Parker's work on his two-volume biography of Melville. A section of "Whaling |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel GarciÌa MaÌrquez - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Print book
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One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical... |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused |
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen - The Modern Library
Format: Print book
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's perfect comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring... |
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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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A bold translation of Nobel Prize-winner Herman Hesse's most inspirational and beloved work in a Penguin Classics deluxe edition Hesse's famous and influential novel, Siddartha, is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating... |
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway - Original Classic Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Step into the vibrant and disillusioned world of Ernest Hemingways "The Sun Also Rises." Set against the backdrop of 1920s post-World War I Europe, this iconic novel takes you on a journey through the lives of a group of expatriates as they grapple with the complexities of love,... |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston - Harper; 1st HarperCollins hardcover ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth... |
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world.... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the deep south defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girlOne of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated... |
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy's master epic.War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon's... |
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte - Norton
Format: Paperback
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The text of the novel is based on the first edition of 1847. For the Fourth Edition, the editor collated the 1847 text with the two modern texts (Norton's William J. Sale collation and the Clarendon) , and found a great number of variants, including accidentals. This discovery led to changes... |
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The pilgrim's progress : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism
John Bunyan
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John Bunyan was a Baptist preacher and author with little education but much vision and purpose.Briefly imprisoned for preaching without a license, he is believed to have begun writing the most famous Christian allegory, The Pilgrims Progress, while in jail. The Pilgrims Progre |
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, in an expanded P.S. editionWidely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Man |
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