The Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton
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Category: Classics | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
No library's complete without the classics This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects the beloved tales of Arabian Nights, translated by Sir Richard Burton. They are ancient stories, but they still enchant our imaginations today. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Sinbad the Sailor. Aladdin. The ...Show more
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
This is a new to Penguin Classics, the great underwater adventure story in a stunning clothbound edition with original images. In this thrilling adventure tale by the 'Father of Science Fiction', three men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard his submarine the ...Show more
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics 119 | Reading Level: very good
"Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. "
On The Beach by Nevil Shute
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Category: Classics
After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left sheltering in Australia, preparing with the locals for the inevitable. Despite his memories of his wife, he becomes cl ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions) by Emily Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Flexibound Editions Ser.
Wuthering Heightsby Emily BrontePerhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness, however, when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy ...Show more
Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Classics
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALEA clever and addictive thriller from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Rennie Wilford is a young journalist running from her life. When she takes an assignment to a Caribbean island she tumbles into a world wh ...Show more
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without ref ...Show more
The Qur'an by Tarif Khalidi
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Category: Penguin Black Classics
Considered in Islam to be the infallible word of God, The Qur'an was revealed to the prophet Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel in a series of divine revelations over many years after his first vision in the cave. In 114 chapters, or surahs, it provides the rules of conduct that remain fundamental to Mus ...Show more
Critique Of Pure Reason by IMMANUEL KANT
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) made history by bringing together two opposing schools of thought: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowled ...Show more
Plays by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, including The Seagull--now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Elizabeth Moss, and Annette Bening At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of dr ...Show more
Republic by Plato
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The Republic (Politeia; Latin: De Re Publica) is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man-for this reason, ancient readers used the name ...Show more
The Theban Plays (King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) by Sophocles
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles' three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement. Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle ...Show more