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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years
Carl Sandburg
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Originally published in six volumes, Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln was called "the greatest historical biography of our generation." Sandburg distilled this work into one volume that became the definitive life of Lincoln. Index; photographs. |
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Mark Twain
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, 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 |
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The Aeneid (Vintage Classics)
Virgil - Vintage; REVISED edition
Format: Paperback
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Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. |
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton - Blackstone Audio, Inc.; Unabridged LIBRARY edition
Format: Audio CD
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Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for literature ever awarded to a woman, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York. In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870s, Newland... |
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Now repackaged--the timeless classic of World War I Germany that speaks to generation after generation. |
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All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on american politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power. New Foreword by Joseph Blotner for this fif |
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An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser - Turtleback
Format: Book
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The classic depiction of the harsh realities of American life, the dark side of the American Dream, and one mans doomed pursuit of love and success., |
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin - Dover Publications
Format: Paperback
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Blessed with enormous talents and the energy and ambition to go with them, Franklin was a statesman, author, inventor, printer, and scientist. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later was involved in negotiating the peace treaty with Britain that ended the Revolutionary... |
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Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
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Prosperous and socially prominent, George Babbitt appears to have everything a man could wish: good health, a fine family, and a profitable business in a booming Midwestern city. But the middle-aged real estate agent is shaken from his self-satisfaction by a growing restlessness w |
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Beowulf
Anonymous - Barnes & Noble Classics; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Beowulf by Anonymous is part of the Barnes amp Noble Classicsnbspseries 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 features of Barnes... |
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley's tour de force Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a 'utopian' future - where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthesized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers |
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The Caine Mutiny: A Novel
Herman Wouk - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a perennial favorite of readers young and old, Herman Wouks masterful World War II drama set aboard a U.S. Navy warship in the Pacific is "a novel of brilliant virtuosity" (Times Literary Supplement) . . Herman Wouks boldly dramatic, brilliantly... |
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Candide (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Voltaire
Format: Hardcover
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Candide, by Voltaire, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, 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 featu |
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The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer - BBC Audiobooks America; Unabridged Edition edition
Format: Audio CD
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Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid... |
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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 Chosen
Chaim Potok - Fawcett Crest
Format: Paperback
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"Anyone who finds it is finding a jewel. Its themes are profound and universal."THE WALL STREET JOURNALIt is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys... |
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty
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This complete collection includes all the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are forty-one stories in all, including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories. With |
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load of debt; and he was threatened with debtor's prison. With an |
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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
Arthur Miller - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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Based on historical people and real events, Arthur Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism. |
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A Death in the Family
James Agee
Format: Paperback
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Forty years after its original publication, James Agee's last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man's death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how q |
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The Divine Comedy (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
Dante Alighieri
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A landmark of world literature, "The Divine Comedy" tells of the poet Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in search of salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for the heavenly Beatrice, he learns the meaning of evil, sin, damnation and forgiveness t |
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Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds... |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway - Blakiston
Format: Paperback
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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls.The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International... |
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The Good Earth
Pearl S Buck
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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A poignant tale about the life and labors of a Chinese farmer during the sweeping reign of the countrys last emperor. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: * A concise intr |
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens - Barnes and Noble
Format: Book
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"Great Expectations, " by Charles Dickens, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"""series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted... |
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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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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
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Tantor Audio&eBooks Include PDF eBooks "Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long a continuance, as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent. " - Gulliver's Travels Shipwrecked and cast adrift, English surgeon |
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Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare - Washington Square Press
Format: Paperback
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Hamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father's murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination, however, lies in its uncertainties.... |
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers - Isis Large Print Books; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeWhen she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real,... |
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How Green Was My Valley
Richard Llewellyn - Amereon Ltd
Format: Hardcover
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Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons. Looking back, where difficult days are faced with courage and the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory. |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou - Random House
Format: Paperback
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A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women,... |
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I, Claudius
Robert Graves - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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Here is one of the best historical novels ever written. Lame, stammering Claudius, once a major embarrassment to the imperial family and now emperor of Rome, writes an eyewitness account of the reign of the first four Caesars: the noble Augustus and his cunning wife, Livia; the reptilian... |
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeRalph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal,... |
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The Iliad of Homer
Homer.
Format: Paperback
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One of the greatest stories ever told, Iliad has survived for thousands of years because of its insightful portrayal of man and its epic story of war, duty, honor, and revenge.
While Iliad recounts the war between the Trojans and Achaeans, it also is the tragic story of the fie |
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted ext |
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The Jungle (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Upton Sinclair
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The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, 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 remarka |
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King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare - Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Folger Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene... |
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The Iliad of Homer
Homer.
Format: Paperback
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One of the greatest stories ever told, Iliad has survived for thousands of years because of its insightful portrayal of man and its epic story of war, duty, honor, and revenge.
While Iliad recounts the war between the Trojans and Achaeans, it also is the tragic story of the fie |
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Les Misrables
Victor Hugo - Modern Library
Format: Paperback
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Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world... |
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Long Day's Journey into Night
Eugene O'Neill
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Here on Compact Disc - a full-cast recording starring Robert Ryan, Stacy Keach, and Geraldine Fitzgerald - Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night.O'Neill's painful view of his own life forms the core of Long Day's Journey Into Night, one of the greatest of all Am |
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Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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The stunning, classic coming-of-age novel written by one of America's foremost Southern writers A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look Homeward, Angel, his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave... |
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding - Berkley
Format: Print book
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The 50th Anniversary Edition of the Lord of the Flies is the volume that every fan of this classic book will have to own!Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature.... |
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The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
J.R.R. Tolkien - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power... |
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert - Books on Tape
Format: Audio CD
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Emma Bovary, the bored wife of a French provincial doctor, scans her solitude with desperate eyes, like a shipwrecked sailor searching for a white sail on the distant horizon. And when Emma's ship finally comes in, it carries with it vast and tragic consequences upon which her own life... |
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The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann - Capricorn Pr
Format: Library Binding
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A vast intellectual drama of the forces that play upon modern man, The Magic Mountain is set in a sanitorium in the Swiss Alps--a community organized with exclusive reference to ill health, and a symbol of the diseased society of Europe before 1914.
--This text refers to an out of print... |
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Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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The stunning, classic coming-of-age novel written by one of America's foremost Southern writers A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look Homeward, Angel, his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave... |
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Moll Flanders (Modern Library Classics)
Daniel Defoe - Modern Library; Modern Library edition
Format: Paperback
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Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself... |
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The moonstone
Wilkie Collins - Signet Classics
Format: eBook : Document : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The Moonstone was published in 1868 and concerns the huge yellow diamond of the title that was once stolen from an Indian shrine. Rachel Verrinder receives the stone as a gift and does not realize that it has been passed to her in a sinister form of revenge by John Herncastle who, it transpires,... |
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Much Ado about Nothing (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)
William Shakespeare - Arden; 3rd edition
Format: Hardcover
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Much Ado About Nothing boasts one of Shakespeare's most delightful heroines, most dancing wordplay, and the endearing spectacle of intellectual and social self-importance bested by the desire to love and be loved in return. It offers both the dancing wit of the "merry war"... |
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Murder in the Cathedral
T S Eliot
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A dramatization in verse of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury. "The theatre as well as the church is enriched by this poetic play of grave beauty and momentous decision" (New York Times) . "Within its limits the play is a masterpiece.... Mr. Eliot has writte |
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My Antonia
Willa Cather - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Willa Cather's My ntonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child... |
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Native Son
Richard Wright - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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Now an HBO Film!"If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son." - Henry Louis Gates Jr.Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail.... |
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Night
Elie Wiesel - Hill and Wang
Format: Paperback
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Alert: This product may be shipped with or without the inclusion of the Oprah Book Club sticker. Please note that regardless of the cover, the books are identical. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival... |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, Centennial Edition
George Orwell - Plume; Reprint edition
Format: Deckle Edge]
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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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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck's tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America's most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant... |
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The Once and Future King
T H White - Putnam
Format: Print book
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T.H. White, whose The Sword in the Stone has been read by hundreds of thousands, now at last has turned his hand to retelling the entire Arthurian Epic. The Once and Future King takes Arthur from the glorious lyrical phase of his youth through the disillusioning early years of his reign... |
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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For the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobelist’s most accessible novelOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an undisputed classic of contemporary literature. First published (in censored form) in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in... |
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Our Town: A Play in Three Acts
Thornton Wilder - Perennial
Format: Print book
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This beautiful new edition features an eyeopening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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A Passage to India
E. M. Forster - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Book
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In this hard-hitting novel, first published in 1924, the murky personal relationship between an Englishwoman and an Indian doctor mirrors the troubled politics of colonialism. Adela Quested and her fellow British travelers, eager to experience the "real" India, develop a friendship... |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde - Troll Communications Llc
Format: Paperback
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The wish spoken by Dorian Gray as he looks at his portrait forms the basis of the plot of this story of a gilded and spoilt hedonist who is willing to sell his soul for his beauty.
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Portrait of the artist as a young man
James Joyce - Tantor Media
Format: Audiobook
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"In 'A portrait of the artist as a young man, ' Joyce describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus: significant memories from infancy, schooldays, family life, his first taste of sin, guilt, repentance-- and his passage to freedom as he elects to leave Ireland forever. This... |
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The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene - Viking
Format: Paperback
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"Graham Greene's masterpiece" - John Updike) In a poor, remote section of Southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest is on the run.... |
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Pride & prejudice
Jane Austen - Duke Classics
Format: eBook
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In early nineteenth century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. |
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Profiles in Courage
John F Kennedy - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage served as a clarion call to every American. The inspiring true accounts of eight unsung heroic acts by American patriots at different junctures in our nation's history, Kennedy's... |
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Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Format: Book
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Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1912. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's... |
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Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy
John Updike
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When we first met him in Rabbit, Run (1960) , the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with some boys in an alley in Pennsylvania during the tail end of the Eisenhower era, reliving for a moment his past a |
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Stephen Crane: the Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane - Library of America
Format: Book
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"The Red Badge of Courage is the definitive fiction of the conflict that stands as the central trauma in American history." -- Larzer Ziff Before his untimely death at the age of 28, Stephen Crane produced the most innovative writing of his generation. Begun when he was just... |
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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When it first appeared in 1850, The Scarlet Letter enjoyed scandalous success. New England critics condemned its passionate subject matter. One critic complained that Hawthorne invested adultery "with all the fascination of genius, and all the charms of a highly polished style."... |
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Sons and Lovers
D. H. Lawrence - Everyman's Library
Format: Print book
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Introduction by David EllisThe struggle for power at the heart of a family in conflict, the mysteries of sexual initiation, and the pain of irretrievable loss are the universal motifs with which D. H. Lawrence fashions one of the world’s most original... |
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The Stranger
Albert Camus - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Albert Camus’s spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century... |
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
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A flippant, condescending remark by a country clergyman sets in motion a series of events leading inexorably to Tess Durbeyfield's downfall. |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Format: Paperback
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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 dont know how to live properly. Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their... |
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The Turn of the Screw (Library Edition)
Henry James - Blackstone Audio, Inc.; Unabridged LIBRARY edition
Format: Audio CD
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One of the world's most famous intellectual ghost stories, The Turn of the Screw is a haunting tale of suspected supernatural possession. A governess at a country house claims that Miles and Flora, two orphaned children in her care, are being controlled by spirits for some evil purpose.... |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Barnes & Noble Classics
Format: Book
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Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, 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... |
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Villette (Vintage Classics)
Charlotte Bronte - Vintage; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Charlotte Brontë's final masterpiece powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence.Having fled a harrowing past in England, Lucy Snowe begins a new life teaching at a boarding school in the great capital of a foreign country.... |
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau - Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
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On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous experiment in simple living in American history. On the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin, successor to Thoreau's original publisher, is proud... |
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Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope - Oxford University Press; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. Trollope was of course interested in the Church, that pillar of Victorian society - in its susceptibility... |
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The Cherry Orchard
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - W.W. Norton & Co.
Format: Paperback
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"Senelick's accomplishment is astounding." -- Library Journal Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In this stunning new translation of one of Chekhov's most popular and beloved plays,... |
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Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, Darkness At Noon, is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s. During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary,... |
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The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy - Oxford University Press; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthys masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also... |
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Animal Farm
George Orwell - Blackstone Audiobooks; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD
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Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's... |
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Anna Karenina
Laura Paton - Naxos Audiobooks; Abridged edition
Format: Audio CD
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A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina is the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Tolstoys masterful novel is one of the greatest works of world literature...it is a novel of social realism that... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Gregory Peck - Universal
Format: Audio CD
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Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece. |
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë - Listening Library
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0736687971
ISBN-13: 978-0736687973
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#8,906,288 in Books
Format: Audio CD
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Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte's only novel, is one of the pinnacles of 19th century English literature. It's the story of Heathcliff, an orphan who falls inlove with a girl above his class, loses her, and devotes the rest of his life to wreaking revenge on her family. |
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