Coriolanus (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (ed Jonathan Crewe)
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Category: Classics | Series: The Pelican Shakespeare
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the d ...Show more
The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky; A. D. P. Briggs (Introduction by); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Constance Garnett (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosh ...Show more
Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith; Weedon Grossmith (Illustrator); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Michael Irwin (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter. It originated as an intermittent serial in Punch magazine in 1888-89 and first appeared in book form, with extended text and added illustrations, in 1892. The Diary reco ...Show more
Three Cheers For The Paraclete by Tom Keneally
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Winner of the 1968 Miles Franklin Award From the moment he allows his young cousin and bride to spend the night in his room, Father Maitland causes raised eyebrows and dark mutterings amongst the brothers at St Peter's. Time and again his efforts to do the right thing for his fellow men lead him into co ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
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Category: Classics | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
This Scholastic Classics edition of Shakespeare's well-known tragi-comedy is perfect for students and Shakespeare enthusiasts alike. These violent delights have violent ends... When Romeoand Julietmeet during a chance encounter, they have no idea what lies ahead - for these star-crossed loversbelong to ...Show more
Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (HB) by Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm K. Grimm; Brothers Grimm
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together wit ...Show more
Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
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Category: Classics | Series: No Fear Shakespeare Ser.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness-from overwh ...Show more
Fall Of The Roman Republic by Plutarch
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Category: Classics
Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from The Lives, a series of biographies spanning the Graeco-Roman age ...Show more
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
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Category: Classics
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, ...Show more
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for youn ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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Category: Classics
Kenneth Graham's "The Wind in the Willows" is one of the most celebrated works of literature for children, and this "Penguin Classics" edition contains notes and an introduction by Gillian Avery. Meek little Mole, wilful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant, boastful Toad: over one hundred ...Show more
The Secret History by Procopius
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Category: Classics
So Justinian and Theodora ascended the imperial throne three days before Easter, a time, indeed, when even making visits or greeting one's friends is forbidden. And not many days later Justin died of an illness, after a reign of nine years. Justinian was now sole monarch, together, of course, with Theod ...Show more