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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; Peter Merchant (Introductions and notes by); Hablot K. Browne (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was theseason of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything ...Show more
Antidote to Venom by Freeman Wills Crofts; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
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Category: Bargains | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder Crofts makes great use of the 'inverted mystery' structure (he was among the first to employ the technique) in which the traditional whodunit is turned on its head, with the reader following the murderer through temptation and commission and the ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Roger Cardinal (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury. Translations are by Paul Desages (Around the World in Eighty Days) and Arthur Chambers (Five Weeks in a Balloon). JULES VERNE (1828-1905) POSSESSED that rare storyteller's gift of being able to present the fa ...Show more
Death of an Airman by Christopher Sprigg (Artist); Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
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Category: Bargains | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
George Furnace, flight instructor at Baston Aero Club, dies instantly when his plane crashes into the English countryside. People who knew him are baffled - Furnace was a first-rate pilot, and the plane was in perfect condition - and the inquest records a verdict of death by misadventure. An Australian ...Show more
Death on the Riviera by John Bude; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
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Category: Bargains | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder "There are occasional splashes of witty dialogue and luscious descriptions of the French Riviera; also, every suspect has at least one guilty secret." --Publishers Weekly When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera, De ...Show more
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Dombey and Son is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in monthly parts from 1 October 1846 to 1 April 1848 and in one volume in 1848. Its full title is Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. Dickens started writing the book in Lausanne, Switzerland, before ret ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; Tobias Smollet (Translator); David Whitlock (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: good
Don Quixote The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, S ...Show more
Hard Times by Charles Dickens; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Maurice Greiffenhagen (Illustrator); F. Walker (Illustrator); Dinny Thorold (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence, his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of huma ...Show more
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
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Category: Bargains | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society, Charles Dickens's Little Dorritis edited with an introduction by Stephen Wall in Penguin Classics.When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he take ...Show more
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics | Reading Level: very good
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus's insights and advice - on everything from living in the world to ...Show more
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: very good
As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same da ...Show more