The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This collection of short stories centers around one character, space traveller Ijon Tichy. In these stories, Stanislaw Lem's "Candide of the Cosmos" encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride.
The Golden Volcano - The First English Translation of Verne's Original Manuscript by Jules Verne; Edward Baxter (Translator, Editor); Olivier Dumas (Preface by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Bison Frontiers of Imagination Ser.
The Golden Volcano thrusts two Canadian cousins--unexpectedly bequeathed a mining claim in the Klondike--into the middle of the gold rush, where they encounter disease, disaster, extremes of weather, and human nature twisted by a passion for gold. A deathbed confidence sends the two searching for a fabu ...Show more
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature by Annemarie Bilclough
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Category: Classics | Series: Drawn to Nature
This beautiful book explores the beloved writer's achievements as a storyteller, artist, and naturalist.Beatrix Potter's universe of characters--Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddleduck--have delighted audiences for over a century. A creative pioneer and determined entrepreneur, she combined sci ...Show more
Little Prince by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Exclusive Collection
The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the other hand it is a thought-provoki ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's just book. It was first distributed in 1847 under the alias Bell, and an after-death second release was altered by her sister Charlotte. The name of the original comes from the Yorkshire estate on the fields on which the story habitats (as a descriptor, wuthering is a ...Show more
Novels and Stories 1932-1937 - The Pastures of Heaven / to a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / in Dubious Battle / of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Library of America
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. ...Show more
HENRY VI PARTS 1-3 by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: The RSC Shakespeare
From the Royal Shakespeare Company -- a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's epic retelling of the Wars of the Roses THIS EDITION INCLUDES: * An illuminating introduction to Henry VI by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate * The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page * A helpfu ...Show more
THE 30-MINUTE SHAKESPEARE: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR by Shakespeare, William
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Category: Classics | Series: The\30-Minute Shakespeare Ser.
"Wonderfully informative and fun. You can't do better."--Charles P. Lord, headmaster, St. Timothy's School, Baltimore, Maryland
The Pickwick Papers (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Charles Dickens; Judith John (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
In The Pickwick Papers.[6] The novel's main character, Samuel Pickwick, Esquire, is a kind and wealthy old gentleman, the founder and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club. To extend his researches into the quaint and curious phenomena of life, he suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" (Mr N ...Show more
Jane Austen, Ada Lovelace, Mary Shelley Handwriting Notebook Set: 3 A5 ruled notebooks with stitched spines by Bodleian Library
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Category: Classics
Drawn from the manuscript collections at the Bodleian Library, this delightful softback notebook set features the distinctive handwriting of three remarkable women writers and thinkers: Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace.The Library holds part of the manuscript of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel, ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with insight and humour the interaction between Catherine and the various characters whom she meets there, and tracks ...Show more