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Malcom Heath
Penguin Classics
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In one of the most perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history, Aristotle examines the literature of his time, describing the origins of poetry as an imitative art and drawing attention to the distinctions between ... more.


Ivan Turgenev
Penguin Classics
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Drawn from his first-hand observation of the countryside and its ways of life, Turgenev's anecdotes, portraits and lyrical impressions depict the peasants and the tyranny of serfdom with such immediacy that when the first of these ... more.


Lucretius
Penguin Classics
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Epicureans discarded both the idea of immortality and the superstitious worship of wilful gods for a life of serene contentment in the available pleasures of nature. Lucretius, in elucidating this belief, steers the reade ... more.


Charles Robert Maturin
Penguin Classics
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Melmoth, one of the most fiendish characters in literature, was created by an Irish clergyman determined, as he put it, to 'display all my diabolical resources'. In a satanic bargain, Melmoth has sold his soul in exchang ... more.


Miguel DeCervantes Saaverdra
Signet Classics
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Complete and unabridged, in the memorable Walter Starkie translation, this is the epic take of Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of 16th century Spain ... more.


Victor Hugo
Random House, Inc
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Les Miserables is the great epic masterpiece of the mid-nineteenth century. Begun in 1845, the year Louis Philippe conferred a peerage and a lifetime seat in the Senate upon Victor Hugo, it was completed when the author was living in exile ... more.


Jane Austen
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The first volume in this two volume series contains Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park. ... more.


Thomas Malory
Random House, Inc
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The legends of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table have inspired some of the greatest works of literature - from Cervantes's Don Quixote to Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Although many versions exist, Malory's stands as ... more.


J.M. Rodwell
Tuttle Publishing
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The Koran, the holy scripture of Islam, is the record of Muhammad's oral teaching delivered between the years immediately preceding the Hegira in AD 622 and the Prophet's death in AD 632.
It has exerted untold influence upon the hi ... more.



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One of the most universally studied of the English classics, Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem of Old English. Written ten centuries ago, it celebrates the character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of the Greats, a people of s ... more.


Emmuska Orczy Orczy
Puffin
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Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of inocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine. His friends and foes know hi ... more.


George Orwell
Plume
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In his story of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality, Orwell gave us one of the most scathing satiric fables ever written. ... more.


Mikhail Bulgakov
Penguin Classics
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Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. Bulgakov's crowning achievement, this luminous work skillfully blands magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations and major ethical concerns. ... more.


Sigrid Undset
Penguin Classics
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When the final volume of Kristin Lavransdatter was first published in English in 1927, Commonweal wrote 'Sigrid Undset's trilogy embodies more of life, seen understandingly and seriously... than a ... more.


Sigrid Undset
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The second volume in the trilogy, The Wife (1921) continues the story of a passionate and willful woman in medieval Norway. Kristin is now married to Erland Nikulausson, a man whose single-minded determination to ... more.


Alain Fournier
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The only novel by a brilliant young man who was killed in action in 1914 at the age of twenty-seven, this is a masterly exploration of the twilight world between boyhood and manhood, with its mixture of idealism, realism, and shee ... more.


Daniel Defoe
Oxford University Press
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Robinson Crusoe has been read as a gripping adventure story, as myth of economic man, as a political and social allegory, and as a symbolic statement using the conventions of spiritual autobiograp ... more.


Alexandre Dumas
Oxford University Press
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It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan, meanwhile, ... more.


Jane Austen
Oxford University Press
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Jane Austen began writing in her early teens, filling three notebooks with her fiction. The characters of these stories have a jaunty, never-failing self-devotion. They perpetually lie, cheat, steal--and occasionally murd ... more.



Oxford University Press
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Between the great rivers Tigris and Euphrates lies the rich alluvial land of Mesopotamia (now in modern Iraq), which supported a complex and prosperous society over 4,000 years ago.
The stories translat ... more.


H.G. Wells
Dover Publications
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English novelist, historian and science writer Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) abandoned teaching and launched his literary career with a series of highly successful science-fiction novels. The Time Machine was the first of a numb ... more.


Joseph Conrad
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Living a double life behind a Soho shop front, agent Verloc pornography salesman and indolent terrorist is provoked by his contemptuous Russian controller into planning a bomb outrange at the Greenwhich Observatory. The ac ... more.



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The Mabinogion's stories are amongst the most compelling and beautiful in European literature. Composed in a golden age of Celtic story-telling in the eleventh century or earlier, they bring together the grotesque and the warmly human, the entertai ... more.


Robert Louis Stevenson
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The threat of a black spot starts young Jim on a journey of adventure as he travels to Treasure Island, guided by the map from old Flint. Pirates, cutlasses, and good old fashioned adventure have made this tale a classic for ge ... more.


Erich Maria Remarque, A. W. Wheen
Random House, Inc
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I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow...This is the testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists ... more.


Rudyard Kipling, Robert Gottlieb
Random House, Inc
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As a young writer living in Lahore during the time of the British Raj, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was possessed by an enormous subject - India; and his genius for rendering it's beauty and strangene ... more.


Edited by William Kelly Simpson
Yale University Press
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Edited and with an introduction by William Kelly Simpson with translations by Robert K. Ritner, William Kelly Simpson, Vincent A. Tobin, and Edward F. Wente Jr. The latest edition of th ... more.




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