The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world.B ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
Dostoyevsky's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues-brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality-that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-centur ...Show more
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated by the cu ...Show more
Little Poems by Michael Hennessy (Editor)
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Category: Poetry and Drama
Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes or Boris Pasternak; a compact love poem by Alexander Pushkin or Anne Bradstreet, Robert Herrick or C ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
When Mr. Earnshaw, master of Wuthering Heights, returns from a trip with an unkempt orphan in tow, he announces that the child, Heathcliff, is now a member of the family. While young Catherine Earnshaw becomes close with Heathcliff, her older brother Hindley sinks into bitter resentment. As Catherine an ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
Charlotte Brönte (1816-1855) fue una escritora británica, hermana de de Anna y Emily Brönte. Su obra más importante es la novela Jane Eyre, en la que se perciben ciertos rasgos autobiográficos.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buch ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
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Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse delights in interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences tha ...Show more
Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices by Dylan Thomas
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Category: Poetry and Drama
Under Milk Wood tells the story of a Welsh village during one spring day. It is populated by some of the best-loved characters in British literature. Lyrical, funny and moving, this is Dylan Thomas’s masterwork and a beloved Welsh classic. ‘It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and b ...Show more
Aesop's Fables Illustrated (Leatherbound Classics) by Aesop
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Category: Classics | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
This illustrated collection includes hundreds of fables that have influenced our world for centuries.The stories attributed to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in Greece around 620-564 BCE, were originally passed on through oral tradition before first being transcribed several centuries after hi ...Show more
Peter Pan (Signature Classics) by J. M. Barrie
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Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - including this highly anticipated edition of Peter Pan.The Darling children's lives take an extraordinary turn when Peter Pan loses his shadow in their nursery. . .'Second to the right ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
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Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
The calamities that befall the hapless creatures of Aesop's Fables! The fox can't reach his grapes, then gets attacked by biting flies and loses his tail in a trap. And things don't go much better for the hare, who is chased relentlessly by a hound, barely escaping with his life-only to be beaten in a r ...Show more