Inferno by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” read the now-famous words above the gate through which Dante, the protagonist of Inferno, crosses the threshold. But that forbidding inscription applies only to those without faith; and though Dante's journey through the nine circles of Hell begins with terror and c ...Show more
Meditations - Signature Classics (PB) by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
When we sit alone, thinking, and journaling, we must be brutally honest with ourselves. The result is often the peak of our wisdom, written only to ourselves, in sacred, private reflection.When Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the Emperor of Rome, penned the words in these pages, that's what he was doing.It w ...Show more
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
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Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Many academics consider My Antonia to be her first masterpiece, and it follows the story of a young orphan named Jim Burden who is transferred from Virginia to Nebraska to live with his grandparents on their farm. He befriends Antonia Shimerda, a Bohemian girl who is going through her own problems as sh ...Show more
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Barnes and Noble Collectible Classics: Pocket Edition) by Frederick Douglass
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Pocket Editions Ser.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass encompasses eleven chapters that recount Douglass's life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolit ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is ...Show more
Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; 'Lois the Witch', a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and je ...Show more
The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
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Category: Classics | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction Mill Valley, Marin County, California. Dr Miles Bennell has lived there all his life. But one day Miles sees a patient who claims her Uncle isn't himself. He's a different person, despite being identical in every way ex ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Vintage Classics) by Emily Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Wuthering Heights" is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cru ...Show more
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Agnes Grey is an 1847 novel written by English author Anne Brontë. The novel is about a governess of that name and is said to be based on Brontë's own experiences in the field. It was Brontë's first novel. Similar to her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, this is a novel that addresses what the precari ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
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Category: Classics
We grow up on fairy tales but it is only later we realise what we have been fed. Angela Carter saw the power of these dark stories - stories in which objects betray, children threaten, men turn into animals and women are unsafe. Erotic, subversive, ancient, modern- the tales in this book pulse with a vi ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!' A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Os ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare' Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scienti ...Show more