Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

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Category: classics | Series: Penguin Essentials

'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad'. Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without: the tedious and ridiculous Professor Welch, a neurotic and unstable girlfriend, Margaret, burnt sheets, medieval recorder music and over-enthusiastic students. If he can just deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England', a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck, life is never simple... ...Show more

Jules Verne's Mikhail Strogoff by Jules Verne, Stephanie Smee (translator)

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Category: classics

Russia, late 19th century. The Empire is in great peril, and only one man can save it: the bold and resourceful young messenger Mikhail Strogoff. In a desperate race against time, he must face great dangers if he is to deliver his warning, as foreign armies mass on the border and a traitor lurks ready t o strike. But is it already too late? The first full English translation in over a hundred years of legendary author Jules Verne's thrilling adventure novel, which in his native France is judged to be his greatest work. ...Show more

Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley

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Category: classics | 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. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship ... and horror. Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story, as well as her 1831 introduction and Percy Shelley's preface to the first edition. This revised edition includes as appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 and 1831 together with 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre- A Tale'. ...Show more

Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

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Category: classics

"The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale." - Barbara VanDenburgh, USA TodayNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf —and fifty years after t he translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world— there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine, justice is rarely served, and dragons live among us. A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history—Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment, powerful men seeking to become more powerful, and one woman seeking justice for her child, but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation. ...Show more

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and the Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Category: classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.

Boasting 24 of Sherlock Holmes's finest adventures, this edition combines two classic collections first published in 1894 and 1905. Highlights include "The Final Problem," where arch-criminal Moriarty apparently killed off the detective as well as his miraculous return in "The Adventure of the Empty Hou se." Also features "Silver Blaze," "The Greek Interpreter," "The Dancing Men," "The Six Napoleons," and "The Missing Three Quarter." ...Show more

Mansfield Park CE by Austen J

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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.

Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results.   The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheer ful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her. ...Show more

Persuasion CE by Austen J

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Category: classics

What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances.   ...Show more

Ghost Stories - Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense by Leslie S. Klinger (Editor); Lisa Morton (Editor)

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Category: classics

A masterful collection of ghost stories that have been overlooked by contemporary readers--including tales by celebrated authors such as Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton--presented with insightful annotations by acclaimed horror anthologists Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Mor ton.   The ghost story has long been a staple of world literature, but many of the genre's greatest tales have been forgotten, overshadowed in many cases by their authors' bestselling work in other genres. In this spine-tingling anthology, little known stories from literary titans like Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton are collected alongside overlooked works from masters of horror fiction like Edgar Allan Poe and M. R. James.   Acclaimed anthologists Leslie S. Klinger (The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes) and Lisa Morton (Ghosts: A Haunted History)set these stories in historical context and trace the literary significance of ghosts in fiction over almost two hundred years--from a traditional English ballad first printed in 1724 through the Christmas-themed ghost stories of the Victorian era and up to the science fiction-tinged tales of the early twentieth century.   In bringing these masterful tales back from the dead, Ghost Stories will enlighten and frighten both longtime fans and new readers of the genre.   Including stories by:   Ambrose Bierce, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James, Arthur Machen, Georgia Wood Pangborn, Mrs. J. H. Riddell, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Walter Scott, Frank Stockton, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton. ...Show more

Frankenstein - Puffin Clothbound Classics by Mary Shelley

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Category: classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.

Puffin Clothbound Classics - stunningly beautiful hardback editions of the most famous stories in the world Victor Frankenstein has made a terrible mistake. In his desperate pursuit to create life, he has created a monster. A monster which, abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone it meets, foll ows Dr Frankenstein to the very ends of the earth with horror and murder in its recycled heart. Mary Shelley takes the reader on a journey through St Petersburg, to the beautiful Swiss Alps, to the desolate waste of the Arctic Circle, in a story that has sent a chill down the spines of generations. 'A masterpiece' - Philip Pullman Also in Puffin Clothbound Classics: Black Beauty The Secret Garden A Christmas Carol The Wizard of Oz Treasure Island Dracula The Little Prince Wuthering Heights Tales from Shakespeare ...Show more

Friendship Word Cloud Boxed Set (Little Women, Alice in Wonderland, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables) by Editors of Canterbury Classics

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Category: classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.

Books are friends you can always count on.   Find new friendships in literature with this exclusively selected boxed set Four special-edition Word Cloud Classics are included: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, and The Secret Garden. Rea ders will be proud to display these works on their bookshelf when not following Alice down the rabbit hole, growing up with Anne in Avonlea, suffering through life's dramas with the March sisters, or discovering secret hideaways with Mary and Colin--and the montage of flowers spread across the spines is sure to provoke many an interesting conversation. ...Show more

Discovery Word Cloud Boxed Set (The Wizard of Oz, The Wind in the Willows, Hans Christian Anderson Tales, Aesop's Fables) by Editors of Canterbury Classics

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Category: classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.

Discover the world of classic literature   Discover new realms of thought and fantasy in this exclusively selected boxed set Four special-edition Word Cloud Classics are included: The Wizard of Oz, The Wind in the Willows and Other Stories, Hans Christian Andersen Tales, and Aesop's Fables. Readers w ill be proud to display these works on their bookshelf when not reading folktales and detecting morals set forth by our ancestors--and the hot-air balloon cruising across the spines is sure to provoke many an interesting conversation. ...Show more

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?' Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of his new landlord, Heathcliff. The intense and wildly passionate Heathcliff tells the story of his life, his all-consuming love for Catherine Earnshaw and the doomed outcome of that relationship, leading to his revenge. Poetic, complex and grand in its scope, Emily Bront 's masterpiece is considered one of the most unique gothic novels of its time. ...Show more