Vanity Fair (TVTI) by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classics
Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends with the lovely Amelia Sedley at Miss Pinkerton?s Academy for Young Ladies. She may not have the natural advantages of her companion but she more than makes up for it with her wit, charm, deviousness and determination to make a success of herself ...Show more
Abridged Classics: Tiny Versions of Classic Tomes by John Atkinson
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Category: Classics
A collection of irreverent summations of more than 100 well-known works of literature, from Anna Karenina to Wuthering Heights, cleverly described in the fewest words possible and accompanied with funny color illustrations. Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read but Proba ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens' tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch- ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Pirates by Katherine Howe
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Category: Classics
Spanning three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles, and compiled by a direct descendant of a sailor who waged war with pirates in the early nineteenth century, The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger and into the ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar WildeOscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's mor ...Show more
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
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Category: Classics
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOANNA LUMLEY. When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented house in Hampstead where she revels in her new freedom, revive ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Vintage Classics) by Emily Brontë
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Category: Classics
Wuthering Heightsby Emily BrontePerhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness, however, when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy ...Show more
The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Geraldine McCaughrean
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual test of moral endurance, Homer's ancient Greek epic "The Odyssey" is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in "Penguin Classics". When Robert Fagles' translation of "T ...Show more
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (First Nations Classics) by Doris (Nugi Garimara) Pilkington
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Category: Classics | Series: First Nations Classics Ser.
A Stolen Generations story of astounding courage- three Aboriginal girls, taken from their mothers, escape barefoot back to their beloved homeland in East Pilbara.This is the true account of Nugi Garimara's mother, Molly, made legendary by the film Rabbit-Proof Fence. In 1931 Molly led her two sisters o ...Show more
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc
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Category: Classics
Leblanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat - witty, charming, brilliant, sly ... and possibly the greatest thief in the world. Inspiration for the Netflix series Lupin.
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native So ...Show more
The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer by Jesse L. Byock, Jesse L Byock
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Category: Classics
Based on Viking Age poems, "The Saga of the Volsungs" combines mythology, legend and sheer human drama. At its heart are the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer who acquires magical knowledge from one of Odin's Valkyries. Yet it is also set in a very human world, incorporating strands from the oral ...Show more