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84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
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Category: Default | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
84, Charing Cross Road with introduction by Anne Bancroft. 'A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with [humankind].'
A Burnt-out Case by Graham Greene
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art of pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. ...Show more
A Christmas Carol: A Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classic by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
The classic seasonal tale of self-discovery, with 80 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen.
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writingscollects stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings. This Penguin Classics is edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Slater.Since it was first published in 1843 A Christmas Carol ...Show more
A Christmas Carol and Other Stories (HB Clothbound) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
'Bah,'said Scrooge, 'Humbug.'But that was before he was presented with visions of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come, which gave him a whole new lease of life:'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A ...Show more
A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell
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Category: Penguin | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s ...Show more
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy: An Inspector Ramsay Novel 3 by Ann Cleeves
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, and would plan to visit people she wanted to see as a welcome respite from the routine duties that being a vicar's wife entailed. But one Thursday in June was to be more special than an ...Show more
A Different Sound - Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers by Elizabeth Bowen; Daphne du Maurier; Elizabeth Taylor; Lucy Scholes (Editor)
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Ireland--many being published in America for the first time These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and pro ...Show more
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social ...Show more
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Vintage Classics | 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 Guinea Pig Nativity by BLOOMSBURY
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Category: Default | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
You know the story ...Mary and Joseph make the journey to Bethlehem, only to find there's no room at the inn. Then along come angels, shepherds and three kings from afar to worship the baby Jesus in the manger. A Guinea Pig Nativity is the classic Christmas story as you've never seen it before: with (yo ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Dafoe; Jason Goodwin (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
A Vivid Recounting of the Great Plague of London "But it was impossible to make any impression upon the middling people and the working labouring poor. Their fears were predominant over all their passions, and they threw away their money in a most distracted manner upon those whimsies." ? Daniel Defoe, ...Show more