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100 Best-Loved Poems by Philip (EDT) Smith
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Popular, well-known poetry: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Emerson, Browning, Keats, Kipling, Sandburg, Pound, Auden, Thomas, and many o ...Show more
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, usually known just as A Christmas Carol is a fairy-tale novel by a British classic Charles Dickens, that was published in 1843. It consists of five chapters, or staves as the author named them. Among all the stories about Christmas, A Christm ...Show more
Anthem by Ayn Rand
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"One of the most unique and perceptive writers of our time." The New York Times. The author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged recounts the tale of a dystopia in which all traces of individualism have been eliminated from every aspect of life. In this brief, captivating novel, Ayn Rand anticipates t ...Show more
Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Antichrist is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. Although it was written in 1888, its controversial content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich K selitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo. The German title can be translated into English as both "The An ...Show more
Bernice Bobs Her Hair and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"It was an age of miracles," declared F. Scott Fitzgerald of the 1920s, "it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire." No author is more closely associated with the decade than Fitzgerald, who christened it the "Jazz Age" and chronicled its manners and morals. His lyrical, ...Show more
Bulfinch's Medieval Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
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Here, in a dazzling panoply, are the legendary figures from the age of chivalry: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Robin Hood, Richard the Lionhearted and his crusaders, and a host of other famous and lesser-known characters. This collection includes tales from Camelot, dramatic narratives ...Show more
Carry on, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
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Bertie Wooster's life is in disarray. He has just fired his personal valet for stealing and his fiancée Florence wants Bertie to destroy his uncle's memoirs. And then everything changes. He hires Jeeves as his valet and Jeeves takes charge. His taste is impeccable, his judgment infallible. Bertie and hi ...Show more
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son is a darkly witty tale of two siblings' struggle to achieve happiness in the shadow of their father's pride, edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders in Penguin Classics.To Paul Dombey, business is all and money can do anything. He runs his family life as ...Show more
Don Quixote by Tobias George (TRN) Miguel De; Smollett Cervantes
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Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixotewas voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines ...Show more
Droll Stories - Selected Tales by Honoré de Balzac
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These choice selections from Honor de Balzac's Droll Stories offer a lively and lusty portrait of sixteenth-century French life and manners. Told in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais, they allegedly originated in manuscripts from the abbeys of Touraine. Originally published in three sets ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
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Emma vit avec son père, un vieil homme veuf et malade. Elle est belle intelligente et riche. Avec le mariage de sa gouvernante qui la quitte, Emma décide de s'occuper du mariage de nombre de ses relations. Sûre d'elle, elle est persuadée d'avoir les talents pour cette activité. Mais son inexpérience de ...Show more
Faust Parts 1 & 2 by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Hailed as Germany's greatest contribution to world literature, Goethe's Faust drew upon a folktale and Marlowe's Dr. Faustus for inspiration. But in this epic version, Faust sells his soul not for magic powers but for a heightened sense of existence. Part One covers his pact with Mephistopheles and sedu ...Show more