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Emma by Jane Austen
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Category: FICTION | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Oft-copied but never bettered, Jane Austen's Emma is a remarkable comedy of manners that follows the charming but insensitive Emma Woodhouse as she sets out on an ill-fated career of match-making in the little town of Highbury. Taking the pretty but dreary Harriet Smith as her subject, Emma creates mis ...Show more
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
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Category: FICTION | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce's life. The Penguin Modern Classics edition of includes an introduction by Seamus Deane'riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: FICTION | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
Frankenstein (Word Cloud Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Category: FICTION | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Horror. Romance. Science. A classic tale that would be a fright to miss!The idea for the story came to the author, Mary Shelley, in a dream she had about a scientist who had created life and was horrified by what he had made. This Gothic-style romance is among the first of true science fiction novels, i ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: FICTION | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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Category: No Category | Series: Pulp! the Classics Ser.
Heart of Darkness is a novel by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, London, England. This setting provides ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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Category: FICTION | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz- dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. Travelling upriver to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, w ...Show more
Into the War by Italo Calvino
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Category: FICTION | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the title story, "Into the War", we are given an insight into what life was really like for those too young to ...Show more
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Vintage Classic) by Jules Verne
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Category: CHILDREN | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans desc ...Show more
Kings in Grass Castles by Mary Durack
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Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
When Patrick Durack left Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a dynasty of pioneers, and build an empire of cattle-land across the great stretches of Australia. His grand-daughter, Mary Durack, with a profound sense of family history, has rebuilt the saga of the Duracks, a saga that is the sto ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: FICTION | Series: Classics Ser.
Features Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four 'little women' enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England.
Little Women (Clothbound Classic) by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: FICTION | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Top 10 Finalist on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 Louisa May Alcott's heartwarming tale of the indelible bond between sisters This treasured novel, drawn in part from Louisa May Alcott's personal experience, brings to life the provincial yet abundantly full lives of the March sisters. Meg, Jo, Be ...Show more