The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm
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Category: Classics
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majo ...Show more
Collins Classics: Emma by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Emma vit avec son père, un vieil homme veuf et malade. Elle est belle intelligente et riche. Avec le mariage de sa gouvernante qui la quitte, Emma décide de s'occuper du mariage de nombre de ses relations. Sûre d'elle, elle est persuadée d'avoir les talents pour cette activité. Mais son inexpérience de ...Show more
Cannery Row Popular Penguins by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the ...Show more
The Pearl: Popular Penguins by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world', he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and violence the pearl arouses in him and ...Show more
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Through The Looking-Glass [Illustrated Edition] by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics
Lewis Carroll’s beloved classic stories are reimagined in this deluxe illustrated gift edition from the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise, MinaLima—designed with stunning full color artwork and several interactive features.Originally published in 1865, L ...Show more
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles; Fagles (trans)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.Collected here are Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at ...Show more
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll, author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass", in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, "Jabberwocky". This beautiful, clothbound new edition collects together the marv ...Show more
Great Ideas: Of The Abuse Of Words by John Locke
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. These writings on thought, ideas, perception, truth and language are some of the most influential in the history of Western thought. Throughout history, so ...Show more
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American moralityatwo classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts IN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with "The Winter of Our Discontent," he had aresumed his position as an indep ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one", said the lioness, "but it is very well bred!"' The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, e ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Oprah's Book Club (Paperback)
Two of the most beloved novels in all of English literature-together in one extraordinary volume. A TALE OF TWO CITIES After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of the two very di ...Show more
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
Jerome's delightful novel has kept readers smiling for years and his prose has found a perfect partner in Vic Reeves's witty illustrations, exclusive to Vintage Classics. What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmore ...Show more