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Dubliners by JOYCE JAMES
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Dubliners is a landmark in modern literature, and one of the twentieth century's finest collections of short stories. In its remarkable portrait of a city and its people, it dramatises ordinary life in the modern world. Together, the stories form one interwoven tapestry which provides a rich and subtle ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up with her u ...Show more
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman; Polly Jones (Introduction by); Robert Chandler (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an immense ...Show more
Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Lolita" tells the story of aging Hubert Humbert who has an obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze. It is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. All in all, "Lolita" is filled with awe and exhilaration, along ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; Laura Thompson (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew t ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
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Michel De Montaigne: The Complete Works - Essays, Travel Journal, Letters by Michel De Montaigne
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Humanist, skeptic, acute observer of himself and others, Michel de Montaigne (1533--92) was the first to use the term "essay" to refer to the form he pioneered, and he has remained one of its most famous practitioners. He reflected on the great themes of existence in his wise and engaging writings, his ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, "The Pickwick Papers." Set against London's seedy back street slums, "Oliver Twist" is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorri ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Probably Garcma Marquez's finest and most famous work. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of a mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendma family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, alive with unforgettable men and women, and with a trut ...Show more
Poems by W. B. Yeats
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States' senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet produced. The present selection includes poetry from every period in life, dealing with all the topics clos ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by AUSTEN JANE
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young women in love, "Sense and Sensibility" is the answer to those critics and readers who believe that Jane Austen's novels, despite their perfection of form and tone, lack strong feeling. Its two heroines-so utterly unlike ...Show more
Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests
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Category: Anthologies | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards. This delightful collection ranges from Ovid to Austen and from Robin Hood's Sherwood For ...Show more