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84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
84, Charing Cross Road with introduction by Anne Bancroft. 'A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with [humankind].'
A Bird in the Hand (#1 George and Molly Palmer-Jones) by Ann Cleeves
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Category: Crime Thriller Horror | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
Originally published in 1986, A Bird in the Hand announced Ann Cleeves, now the bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series, as a brilliant new voice in contemporary crime fiction.Who could have known birdwatching was such a dangerous sport?Young Tom French has been found dead in a marsh ...Show more
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writingscollects stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings. This Penguin Classics is edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Slater.Since it was first published in 1843 A Christmas Carol ...Show more
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy: An Inspector Ramsay Novel 3 by Ann Cleeves
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Category: Crime Thriller Horror | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, and would plan to visit people she wanted to see as a welcome respite from the routine duties that being a vicar's wife entailed. But one Thursday in June was to be more special than an ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictiona ...Show more
A Kindness Cup: Text Classics by Thea Astley
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"A writer of astonishing gifts." --Publishers Weekly "Smart, compassionate." --New York Times Text Classics presents four key works from Thea Astley, including two never previously released in the United States. Two decades after a massacre of local Aboriginal people, the former residents of a Queens ...Show more
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a myste ...Show more
A Room with a View: Penguin Classics by E M Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentin ...Show more
A Treatise of Human Nature : Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects by David Hume
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the princip ...Show more
Aesop's Fables Illustrated (Leatherbound Classics) by Aesop
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Category: Classics | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
This illustrated collection includes hundreds of fables that have influenced our world for centuries.The stories attributed to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in Greece around 620-564 BCE, were originally passed on through oral tradition before first being transcribed several centuries after hi ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Kids Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Delve into this stunning edition boasting the unabridged versions of both fantasy novels, an introduction, and John Tenniel's original illustrations.Part of the Knickerbocker Classics series, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is unabridged and complete, and comprised of both ...Show more
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass (Collins Classics) by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
This edition contains the original, unabridged text.John Tenniel's iconic illustrations bring the worlds of Wonderland and the Looking Glass to life.57,500 words.