Maybe Not by Colleen Hoover
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Maybe Someday | Reading Level: near fine
Colleen Hoover, the New York Times bestselling author of Maybe Someday, brilliantly brings to life the story of the hilarious and charismatic Warren in this new novella. When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he instantly agrees. It could be an exciting change. Or maybe not. ...Show more
Love and Friendship: And Other Youthful Writings (Clothbound Classic) by Jane Austen
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Love and Freindship by Jane Austen Love and Freindship sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. These still exist, one in the Bodleian Library and the other two in the British Museum. They contain, amon ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Classics
Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and ...Show more
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Reading Level: very good
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli campaign and the subsequent bitter struggle between Greeks and Turks, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed ...Show more
Beowulf: Popular Penguins by Michael Alexander
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"Alexander's translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful and] ...communicates the poem with a care which goes beyond fidelity-to-meaning and reaches fidelity of implication. May it go on ... to another half-million copies." - Tom Shippey, Bulletin of the I ...Show more
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mista ...Show more
The Time Machine: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins
A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have reason to be afraid: in tunnels bene ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies d ...Show more
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century, and an influence on writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. "Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written" ...Show more
Another Country by James Baldwin
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
This Scholastic Classics edition of Shakespeare's well-known tragi-comedy is perfect for students and Shakespeare enthusiasts alike. These violent delights have violent ends... When Romeoand Julietmeet during a chance encounter, they have no idea what lies ahead - for these star-crossed loversbelong t ...Show more
Great Italian Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS
A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the ...Show more