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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Big Brother is Watching You.’ Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people ...Show more
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Chartwell Classics HB) by Jules Verne
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
First serialized in a French magazine from 1869 to 1870, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an incredible adventure story that popularized science fiction throughout the world.Professor Aronnax, a marine biologist, joins harpoonist Ned Land in search of a mysterious sea creature in the open ocean, ...Show more
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Collins Classics) by Jules Verne
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the monster turns out to be the Nautilus, a giant submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom ...Show more
50 Philosophy Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon
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Category: Religion | Series: 50 Classics Ser.
For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sar ...Show more
A Book of Nonsense (Alma Quirky Classics) by Edward Lear
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
"There was an Old Derry down Derry, Who loved to see little folks merry;So he made them a Book, And with laughter they shookAt the fun of that Derry down Derry." First published in 1846 under the pseudonym "Old Derry down Derry," A Book of Nonsense is a collection adapted from the limericks and illu ...Show more
A Christmas Carol (HarperCollins Children's Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: HarperCollins Children's Classics Ser.
This beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is the perfect addition to any bookshelf. Complete your child’s library with HarperCollins Children’s Classics.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
A Fantasy of Dr Ox by Jules Verne; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
In the somnolent Flemish town of Quiquendone disagreements are unheard of, courtships might last a decade and not a ripple of activity can be seen at all. But when the mysterious Dr Ox is tasked with providing lighting for the town, strange things begin to happen: animals become aggressive, fruits grow ...Show more
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
This essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language. Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more
A Perfect Hoax by Italo Svevo; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into thinking that a representative of a prestigious Viennese publishing house wants to commission a German translation of a long-forgotten novel Samigli had written and published at h ...Show more