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Great expectations
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Charles Dickens
The tale of the orphan, Pip, and his mysterious benefactor provides a grotesque but pointed comedy that explores the many levels of English society with insight and sympathy as well as a satiric eye. Considered by many to be Dickens's best novel, GREAT EXPECTATIONS is the story of a young man who rises out of a rough, deprived childhood to a life ...
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Anna Karenina
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count
Tolstoy's great novel, one of his last works of fiction, tells the story of a harmless flirtation that gradually develops into a destructive passion: the love affair between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky. Anna turns to Vronsky, a dashing military man, as a refuge from her passionless marriage to a pompous, chilly bureaucrat--a move that results ...
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Persuasion
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen's last and most melancholy novel was published posthumously in 1818. In PERSUASION, Austen creates a strong, mature, and independent heroine, Anne Elliot. Having foolishly broken off an engagement eight years earlier to Frederick Wentworth, a penniless naval officer, Anne at the age of 27 has remained unmarried--and secretly devoted to ...
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War & Peace
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count
Leo Tolstoy's WAR AND PEACE is an epic war novel, an exploration of family ties, and a manifesto of Tolstoy's beliefs. Against the background of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in the early 1800s, WAR AND PEACE spans the social spectrum, depicting three families--their love affairs, intellectual struggles, and personal conflicts--and the cataclysmic ...
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Madame Bovary
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Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert's portrait of an adulteress who seeks freedom from a prosaic, disappointing life and ultimately is destroyed by her selfishness was considered scandalous when it was published. Flaubert chose his subject to illustrate his belief that any aspect of life, however trivial or vulgar, could be a subject for literature, and could be raised to ...
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The Civil War
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Bruce Catton
Covers the clash that caused the war, the battles, the end of the war, and the aftermath.
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House of the Seven Gables
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
An intense psychological drama devoted to the burden of inherited guilt and the work of retribution. As always in Hawthorne, the greatest sin is the violation of the integrity of another person's soul.
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Lost Books of the Bible
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Rh Value Publishing, Bell Publishing Company (Creator)
The books of the Bible that have been shrouded in silence for centuries are translated from their original tongues. Here are the Apostles' Creed, the girlhood and betrothal of Mary and the childhood of Jesus--told in all their warmth, intimacy and humanity. 32 illustrations.
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Guns of August
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Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Winner of a 1963 Pulitzer Prize, this profile of World War I captures the changes that took place at the turn of the 20th century, up until the tense days of the summer of 1914. Tuchman details these first several days of the conflict, paying special attention to people and events in the major capitals of Europe. She examines why the war began, as ...
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Origin of Species
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Professor Charles Darwin
Voyage with Darwin as he gathers the raw material that ushered in the greatest intellectual revolution in nearly 2,000 years.
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Mill on the Floss
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George Eliot
Based on George Eliot's own growing-up years, this 1860 novel is her most overtly autobiographical work. Even the precisely described scenery reflects the area in Warwickshire where she was raised. THE MILL ON THE FLOSS is the story of affectionate, willful Maggie Tulliver, who is hungry for knowledge and experience, and her more conventional and ...
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Life on the Mississippi
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Mark Twain
In Twain's history/memoir/travel book, he writes about his early life, his experiences as a river pilot, and his return to those scenes many years later, evaluating the changes in the landscape, the political and social climate, and himself.
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Tale of Peter Rabbit
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Beatrix Potter
A collection of stickers inspired by the Beatirx Potter's story.
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The day Christ died
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Jim Bishop
A journalist/historian's approach to the most dramatic day in Christian history. Beginning with the start of the Hebrew day at six p.m. and moving toward the time Jesus partook of the Last Supper with his apostles, this book takes readers through to four p.m. of the next day, the sorrowful moment when he was removed from the cross.
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Inside the Third Reich
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Albert Speer
The author was a personal friend of Adolf Hitler for 12 years until he turned against him. This is an inside account of The Third Reich and the man who invented it.
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Longhorns
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J Frank Dobie
A chronicle of the great days of the Texas Longhorn from the days of the Spanish conquistadores to the time of the Western cowboy.
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Mary Queen of Scots
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Antonia Fraser
More than four hundred years after her death, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history. Antonia Fraser's classic biography of her won the James Tait Prize when it was first published in 1969, became an international bestseller and was translated into nine languages. Mary passed her ...
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Freckles
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Gene Stratton-Porter
Freckles, raised in a city orphanage and deprived of love, enters the fairy-tale world of the Limberlost forest in Indiana to protect it from the destruction of civilisation. The author also wrote "A Girl of the Limberlost".
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Virginian
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Owen Wister
Set in the cattle country of Wyoming in the 1870s, this work tells of the rivalry of the eponymous hero and the villain Trampas, and the wooing of the pretty Vermont schoolteacher, Molly Wood. It portrays the contrast between the pioneering standards of the West and encroaching civilization.
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Ugly Duckling
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Hans Christian Andersen
Nell Calder's life is shattered by an assassin's bullet which kills her husband and child, and leaves her fighting for her life. She recovers from her injuries transformed into a beautiful woman bent on revenge. With the help of a handsome stranger, Nell proceeds full speed ahead with her quest for vengeance.
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Rainbow Valley
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
The six children of Anne and Gilbert Blythe (from the Anne of Green Gables books) befriend the children of their new neighbors and together they have many adventures.
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Le Morte Darthur
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Malory
Based on the Winchester Manuscript, this edition of the famous mediaeval romance offers substantial critical and contextual support for the student. Using the original spelling, the editor has restored the paragraphing and the narrative structure of the romance. Four chronologies, including one of the Wars of the Roses, contemporary accounts of ...
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Pollyanna
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Eleanor H Porter
"Once you start looking for the happy things, you don't think about the bad ones as much." That's the joyful way Pollyanna sees the world: no matter what happens, she plays her "Just Be Glad" game and finds the sunny side of any situation. But when she's orphaned and forced to live with her rigid Aunt Polly, will high-spirited Pollyanna succeed in ...
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Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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William L Shirer
Before the Nazies could destroy the files, famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. Shirer sifted through the massive self-documentation of the Third Reich, to create a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of mankind.... "One of the most ...
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Works of Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens
Dickens's second novel, OLIVER TWIST, the story of an orphan who flees the workhouse only to fall in with a gang of thieves and prostitutes in London's sleazy underworld, was a trenchant criticism of England's poor laws. Enacted in the 1830s, these laws provided assistance for the poor only through workhouses, which were deliberately squalid and ...
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