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1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has ...Show more
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul; Patrick Marnham (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the i ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Set in London and Paris at the time of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities (1859) sees the causes and effects of that great social upheaval from an essentially private point of view. Dickens's characters are fictional, their responses individual, their political activity minimal, but all are cau ...Show more
Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights by Robinson
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Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Everyman's library children's classics | Reading Level: From 2 to 99
For the past two hundred years, Western readers, young and old alike, have been transported to the fabulous Orient by means of these remarkable stories, in which the everyday mingles on an equal footing with the uncanny and the miraculous. Accompanying the text are illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, wh ...Show more
Anna Karenina by L.N. Tolstoy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
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Bedtime Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller's art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire. From the surreal night visions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman B ...Show more
Berlin Stories by Hensher Philip
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
A gorgeously jacketed hardback anthology of classic stories set in Berlin, by an array of writers from Germany, England, Ireland, the USA, Russia, Switzerland, Belgium and Mexico. Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, 'has always been a city of desperate modernity', both in ...Show more
Brave New World (Hardback) by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaini ...Show more
Buddenbrooks - The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann; John E. Woods (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929. Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story o ...Show more
Catch 22 by Heller
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Catch-22" is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World War II, in a ...Show more
Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
A beautiful hardcover edition of the collected stories of one of America's most revered and admired authors. Collected here for the first time in one volume are forty stories by Lorrie Moore--originally published in the acclaimed collections Self-Help, Like Life, Birds of America, and Bark and inclu ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by F.M. Dostoevsky
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Dostoevsky's drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman's murder into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is deter ...Show more