The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: CLASSICS
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 masterpiece roars into life in this sweeping, dreamy graphic novel – among the first adaptations of the book in this genre. Painted in lush watercolours, the inventive interpretation emphasizes both the extravagance and mystery of the characters, and excerpts from the original ...Show more
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: HS
Few novels have caused as much controversy as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece. Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, it tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these trouble ...Show more
Ex Libris: 100 Books for Everyone's Bookshelf by Michiko Kakutani
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Category: CLASSICS
From 'the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world' (Vanity Fair) comes an inspiring and beautifully illustrated selection of the life-changing books that none of us should miss 'Why do we love books so much?' For legendary literary critic Michiko Kakutani, books have always been an esca ...Show more
Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry by Cassandra Atherton; Paul Hetherington
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Category: CLASSICS
Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have gathered a broad and representative selection of the best Australian prose poems written over the last fifty years. The Anthology of ...Show more
Poems of the Irish People (Leather Bound) by Various
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Pocket Editions Ser.
This volume celebrates the poetic heritage of the Emerald Isle, with more than 50 classic poems about Ireland's people, history, character and myths and legends. Its contributors include William Butler Yeats, William Allingham and other well-known Irish poets. The book is one of Barnes & Noble's 'Co ...Show more
The Essence of the Thing: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize In The Essence of the Thing, Madeleine St John takes us deep into the territory of the human heart. Nicola should never have stepped out to buy that pack of cigarettes, because the man she discovers in her living room on her return is not the Jonathan she has been shar ...Show more
A Stairway to Paradise: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Alex and Andrew are friends. And Barbara...Barbara is a goddess. Here is the eternal triangle, the story of three people in an unhappy tangle of emotions, none able to articulate the precise quality of their longing and dissatisfaction.Are any of them truly interested in reaching the 'paradise' they cla ...Show more
Collected Poems of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction by Antonia Till. William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the e ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determine ...Show more
Dubliners: Collins Classics by James Joyce
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.' From a child coming to terms with the death of a priest to a young woman torn between leading an uneventful life in ...Show more
Collins Classics - the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Collins Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A Collection of 12 Short Stories. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: CLASSICS
The four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father has been drafted to fight in the Civil War. As the four come of age and their distinct personalities develop, destiny has contrasting fortunes in store for them - in the form ...Show more