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Jane Austen
Though the domain of Jane Austen's novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16, 1775, she was educated m
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The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin · Ace Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula AwardsA groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization....
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Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Margaret Atwood's classic novel, THE HANDMAID'S TALE, is about the future. Now, in ORYX AND CRAKE, the future has changed. It's much worse. And we're well on the road to it now. The narrator of Margaret Atwood's riveting new novel is Snowman, self-named though not self-created....
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Dracula

Bram Stoker · Puffin
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

Jonathan Harker is sent by his law firm to Count Draculas castle to discuss business, but he soon finds himself plunged into a nightmarish race against time to free his love and other lost souls from the Counts horrifying spells...,
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde · Oxford University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their...
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Carrie

Stephen King · Anchor
Format: Book

Stephen Kings legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular, but she had a gift. Carrie could make things move by concentrating on them. A candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her power...
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain · Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet,"...
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