The Taming of the Shrew (Oxford School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. The Taming of the Shrew is a popular text for study by secondary students the ...Show more
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Burmingham
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Category: Classics
In the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in a cheap hotel in Wiesbaden, unable to leave until he'd paid the bill. Having lost the last of his money at the roulette table, his debts hung heavy over his head, his epileptic seizures were worsening, and his wife and beloved b ...Show more
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Flexibound Editions Ser.
For use in schools and libraries only. A humane scientist attempts to explore the most loathsome forces of evil behind the doors of his London laboratory.
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
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Category: Classics
Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Gripis regarded as a masterpiece - the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music, friendships, ...Show more
From the Earth to the Moon & Around the Moon by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on 'extraordinary voyages.' His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote past for their dreams of adventure. The popularity of his novels led dire ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels.Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime ...Show more
I Heard the Owl Call My Name [Picador Classic] by Margaret Craven
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Category: Classics | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by author Cynan Jones Amid the grandeur of British Columbia stands the village of Kingcome, a place of salmon runs and ancient totems. Yet in this Eden of such natural beauty and richness, the old culture is under attack - slowly being replaced by prefab houses and alcoholism. Into ...Show more
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics
Mixing a bit of seventeenth-century French history with a great deal of invention, Alexandre Dumas tells the tale of young D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades, Porthos, Athos, and Aramis. Together they fight to foil the schemes of the brilliant, dangerous Cardinal Richelieu, who pretends to support th ...Show more
Jonah by Stone Louis
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
One side of the street glittered like a brilliant eruption with the light from a row of shops; the others, lined with houses, was almost deserted, for the people, drawn like moths by the glare, crowded and jostled under the lights. It was Saturday night, and Waterloo, by immemorial habit, had flung itse ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition | Reading Level: very good
A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translation Nothing in the whole of literature compares withThe Master and Margarita.One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and ...Show more
A Christmas Party - A Seasonal Murder Mystery/Envious Casca by Georgette Heyer
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Category: Classics
"Georgette Heyer has given me such great pleasure over the years in my reading, and rereading, of her stories. --#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts'Tis the Season--for murder... A colorful assortment of guests at a festive holiday house party discover there is a killer in their midst when ...Show more