Frankenstein: (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Flexi Edition) by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions
Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back on his creation, only to learn the danger of such neglect. Written when Mary Shelley was only 20 years old, Frankenste ...Show more
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Classics
Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal reoccurrence. To read Labyrinths is to glide through time, space, mythology and philosophy, as Borges' ch ...Show more
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Classics
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAULA HAWKINS, AUTHOR OF GIRL ON A TRAIN "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?" From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a ...Show more
The Old Plantation Melodies (Classic Reprint) by Stephen Collins Foster
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Category: Classics
Excerpt from The Old Plantation Melodies Weep no more, my lady; Oh, weep no more to-day We will sing one song for the old Kentucky Home, For the old Kentucky Home far away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com ...Show more
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo; Gavin Richards (adapted by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Classics
In its first two years of production in Italy, Dario Fo's notorious Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world, and become a classic of twentieth-century drama. A sharp and hilarious satire on police corruption, it concerns the ...Show more
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill; Stephen Mallatratt
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Category: Classics | Series: Acting Edition Ser.
Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that a cre ...Show more
Selected Short Stories by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
It is universally acknowledged that Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was as much a master of the short story as of the full-length novel. This original collection, which features some of his most hard-to-find tales, will enchant longtime enthusiasts of Tolstoy's work as well as n ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Worth Literary Classics
Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent and spirited survivor - qualities that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secr ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
These spiritual reflections of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) show a leader trying to make sense of himself and the universe, and cover diverse topics such as the question of virtue, human rationality and the nature of the gods. In developing his personal beliefs, Aurelius created one of the ...Show more
Mystery & Suspense: Short Stories by Great Writers by Various
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Library of Classic Short Stories #4
Mystery & Suspense contains stories by Edith Wharton — Charles Dickens — R H Barham — Edgar Allan Poe — Arthur Conan Doyle — Oscar Wilde — James Hogg — Edith Nesbitt — H H Munro (Saki) — Gertrude Atherton — Edgar Wallace — Mary E Wilkins Freeman — Jack London. Sad, funny, chilling, myst ...Show more
The Cardboard Crown - Text Classics by Martin Boyd
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
This remarkable novel, first published to a chorus of acclaim in 1952, is one of the lost classics of Australian literature. Martin Boyd is a deeply humane novelist, a writer of family sagas without peer. Set in Australia and England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, The Cardboard Crow ...Show more
Outbreak of Love - Text Classics by Martin Boyd
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full of unilluminated directions. But when we know where we want to go and press the right button, the route is illuminated before us in electric clarity. Diana von Flugel warned her husband: a piece of toast that har ...Show more