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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized - and sometimes outraged - millions of readers. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great... |
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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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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Scribner
Format: eBook
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The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925) , 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... |
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Beloved
Toni Morrison - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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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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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott - Barnes & Noble Classics
Format: Paperback
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Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, is part of the Barnes Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable... |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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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 Buendia family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women - brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic... |
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Emma
Jane Austen - Norton
Format: Paperback
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The text reprinted in this new edition of Austen's comedic novel is based on the 1816 text, which has been carefully edited in light of later editions, including the Chapman edition. "Backgrounds" supplies an abundance of documents that shed light on Austen's life and reveal... |
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte - Barnes Noble Classics; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Jane Eyre is often considered ahead of its time due to its portrayal of the development of a thinking and passionate young woman who is both individualistic, desiring for a full life, while also highly moral. Jane evolves from her beginnings as a poor and plain woman without captivating... |
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And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Book
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First, there were ten - a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling... |
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The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper - Bantam Classics
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends... |
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens - Dover Publications
Format: Paperback
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Test? Paper? Class discussion? Don't worry, this book has everything you need. Not only does it feature the complete text of A Tale of Two Cities, it offers a comprehensive study guide that will easily help you understand Dickens' classic novel.You'll make the grade with:* Complete... |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle - Modern Library
Format: Print book
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Introduction by Laurie R. King The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly of a heart... |
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Format: Ebook
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The Count of Monte Cristo is a relatively fast read with lots of action and a clear plot. Edmond Dantes was wrongfully sent to prison. After fourteen years, he escapes and begins to execute his plans to revenge himself on the four men who sent him there. This is perhaps the greatest revenge... |
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook
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William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and riveting works in modern fiction. The tale begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys, aged six to twelve on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive... |
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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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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee - Warner
Format: Paperback
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Harper Lee's Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south-and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred. |
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley - Dover Publications
Format: Paperback
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Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers... |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength... |
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson - Bantam Classics
Format: Paperback
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Masterfully crafted, Treasure Island is a stunning yarn of piracy on the fiery tropic seas - an unforgettable tale of treachery that embroils a host of legendary swashbucklers from honest young Jim Hawkins to sinister, two-timing Israel Hands to evil incarnate, blind Pew. But above all,... |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Library of America Paperback Classic
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Library of America
Format: Paperback
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"The most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about American slavery." -Alfred Kazin When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862, he greeted her as "the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war." He was exaggerating only slightly.... |
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh translation of the classic Russian novel retells the tale of rebellious Anna and her ill-fated romance with Count Vronsky amid the turmoil of nineteenth-century Russia. 15,000 first printing. |
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Around the World in 80 Days (The World's Best Reading)
Jules Verne - Readers Digest
Format: Hardcover
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Chapter I IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER, THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS MAN Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though... |
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The War of the Worlds
Herbert George Wells - Penguin
Format: Paperback
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The first modern tale of alien invasion, H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential science fiction novels ever published.The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first,... |
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