The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Reading Level: very good
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not -- strong, beautifu ...Show more
Little Prince (Cloth-bound HB) by A. DE SAINT-EXUPERY
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exup ry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinati ...Show more
A Christmas Carol: Popular Penguins by Charles Dickens
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The classic holiday tale is presented with two other Dickens Christmas stories, "The Chimes" and "The Haunted Man"Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed b ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Pride and PrejudiceBy Jane AustenElizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: ...Show more
Irish and Fairy Folk Tales (Chartwell Classic) by W B Yeats
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
From Trooping Fairies to the enigmatic Irish Leprechaun, this elegantly designed hardcover edition includes Irish folk stories from one of the world 's greatest poets, W.B. Yeats.
To Kill A Mockingbird - Vintage Classics by Harper Lee
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbidd ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Reading Level: very good
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. - "After Ford" - in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and operant conditioning that combine to profoun ...Show more
1984 & Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS
George Orwell's novels about the dangers of tyranny, the corruption of the state and the enslavement of the individual are essential reading. In an era of doublespeak, they remain chillingly prophetic.Introductions by Charlotte Wood, 1984and Don Watson, Animal Farm.
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Modern
If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more