Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Elizabeth Porges Watson (Editor); Charlotte Mitchell (Introduction by, Notes by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and ot ...Show more
QUARAN by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
One of the most influential books in the history of literature, recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, the Qur'an is the supreme authority and living source of all Islamic teaching, the sacred text that sets out the creed, rituals, ethics, and laws of Islam. Yet despite the growing i ...Show more
CORINNE by Madame de Staël; Sylvia Raphael (Edited and Translated by); John Isbell (Introduction by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
`Look at her, she is the image of our beautiful Italy.'Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. On arriving in Italy, Oswald immediately falls under Corinne's magical spel ...Show more
CRIMES OF LOVE by Sade Marquis De
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Who but the Marquis de Sade would write not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories--tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depra ...Show more
OLD ENGLISH BARON by Clara Reeve; James Trainer (Editor); James Watt (Introduction by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Old English Baron is an early Gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. It was first published under this title in 1778, although it had anonymously appeared in 1777, and is considered a major influence in the development of Gothic fiction.Reeve noted in the 1778 preface that..."This Story is ...Show more
WANDERING STARS by Sholem Aleichem; Aliza Shevrin (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Wandering Stars"--Aleichem's sprawling love story set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater--this literary classic is presented in a vibrant new translation.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oprah's Classics Book Club Selections | Reading Level: very good
The must-have Pevear and Volokhonskytranslation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as flawless, "Anna Karenina" tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing o ...Show more
WOMEN WHO DID by zzz
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Category: Classic Fiction
"A lady? decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather." Daring and dynamic, the "new woman" came to represent the very spirit of the age. The stories in this anthology take up this phenomenon and examine society through the eyes of the new woman, as she encountered new choices ...Show more
Flappers and Philosophers: The Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin F. Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection
Published soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: i ...Show more
Julian of Norwich - Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
Julian (or Juliana, no one is quite sure) was a Christian mystic born in 1342 at Norwich, England. Devout and sincere she prayed for three boons - a personal understanding of Christ's passion, physical illness to the point of death, and 'three wounds' sincere contrition, loving compassion, and a true ye ...Show more
The Wild Ass's Skin by Honoré De Balzac
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Human Comedy Ser. | Reading Level: good
"Who possesses me will possess all things, but his life will belong to me..." Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in the gaming parlours of the Palais Royal in Paris, and contemplates ending his life by throwing himself into the Seine. He is distracted by the bizarre array of ...Show more