The Suburbs of Hell: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
'His eyes are on the one eye of the rifle. His mouth splits open his brown beard. He throws up a hand, palm outward, in an unwilled, futile gesture to ward off death.' A killer is hounding the seaside town of Old Tornwich. Residents are gripped by fear and suspicion, and the finger of blame is pointed i ...Show more
The Girl Green as Elderflower: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Knickerbocker Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics
What does it mean to be free? The first black hero of literature, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Tom is a slave who suffers for refusing to obey his white oppressors. Few books have changed the world as much as Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was published in 1852, nine years before the start of the American Civil Wa ...Show more
Building Waves by Taeko Tomioka
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Category: Classics
In her early forties, Kyoko has no compunction about getting what she wants. But when she begins a relationship with a traditional and conformist man, the result in Building Waves is uncomfortable, comical, and ultimately fatal.It is the early eighties, and the housing industry is booming. Previously un ...Show more
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales (Leather Bound) by Brothers Grimm
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics
With the words "Once upon a time", the Brothers Grimm transport readers to a timeless realm where witches, giants, princesses, kings, fairies, goblins and wizards fall in love, try to get rich, quarrel with their neighbours and have magical adventures of all kinds and in the process reveal essential tru ...Show more
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
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Category: Classics
One of Paine's greatest and most widely read works, considered a classic statement of faith in democracy and egalitarianism, defends the early events of the French Revolution, supports social security for workers, public employment for those in need of work, abolition of laws limiting wages, and other s ...Show more
The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A giant of American humor makes his Penguin Classics debut with "probably the best book in the world" (Neil Gaiman, from the Introduction), in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring the original, full-color illustrations The hands of all thirteen clocks stand still in the gloomy castle on a lonely hill whe ...Show more
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics
On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passion to jealousy and resentfulness, culminating in a mad act of desperation while she practised Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata with her violin teacher. An uncompro ...Show more
Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
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Category: Classics | Series: Mary Poppins
The original best-loved classic about the world's most famous nanny - Mary Poppins. When the Banks family advertise for a nanny, Mary Poppins and her talking umbrella appear out of the sky, ready to take the children on extraordinary adventures. Mary Poppins is strict but fair, and soon Michael and Jane ...Show more
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
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Category: Classics
Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies ...Show more
Stories to Share by Various
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Category: Classics
A beautifully illustrated anthology of stories just made for sharing! Help Hare on his hunt for a grizzly bear, take part in a woodland animal race, and discover why being different can be a very good thing! Packed with stories from favourite authors and illustrators, including Tina Macnaughton, Tim War ...Show more
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mista ...Show more