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
Little Prince by ANTOINE 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
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
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
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
1984 by George Orwell
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su ...Show more
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
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Seneca
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A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC, but it was in Seneca (c. ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer Homer, Homer, Homer
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
The Odyssey is a classic poem written by Homer that consists of 12.110 verses. It is unique already in that it has reached our days in its original form. This poem is a genuine revelation of the poetic thought of ancient Hellas....After the Trojan War, most of the survived Greek leaders returned by sea ...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.
1984 by George Orwell
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Reading Level: very good
A well-priced edition of one of the greatest twentieth century novels, with a striking new jacket and an introduction by Charlotte Wood.Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in what remains of a Britain ravaged by revolution. His every move is monitored by the Thought Police, who are responsible ...Show more
The Beach by Alex Garland
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The Khao San Road, Bangkok -- first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his w ...Show more