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Charlotte's Web

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:05:08 PST

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Some Pig These are the words in Charlotte's web, high in the barn. Her spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, as well as the feelings of a little girl named Fern ... who loves Wilbur, too. Their love has been shared by millions of readers.

The Death of Ivan Ilych

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:01:51 PST

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By the time he dies, Ivan Ilych has come to understand the worthlessness of his life. Paradoxically, this elevates him above the common man, who avoids the reality of death and the effort it takes to make life worthwhile. In Tolstoy's own words, "Ivan Ilyich's life had been . . . most ordinary and therefore most terrible." Newly designed and typeset in a modern 5.5-by-8.5-inch format by Waking Li ...

Let's All Kill Constance

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:54:38 PST

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On a dismal evening, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door -- and once again admits a dangerous icon into his life. Constance Rattigan, an aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, stands soaked and shivering in his foyer, clutching two anonymously delivered books that have sent her running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge: ...

The Year of the Flood

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:26:33 PST

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Starred Review. SignatureReviewed by Marcel TherouxIn her 2002 speculative novel, Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood depicted a dystopic planet tumbling toward apocalypse. The world she envisaged was in the throes of catastrophic climate change, its wealthy inhabitants dwelling in sterile secure compounds, its poor ones in the dangerous pleeblands of decaying inner cities. Mass extinctions had taken ...

Valley of the Dolls

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:21:45 PST

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Its three protagonists--Anne Welles, the uptight-but-full-of-a-strange-yearning New England beauty; Neely O'Hara, the Judy Garland clef; and Jennifer North, who is sort of the Marilyn Monroe clef and also sort of the Brigitte Bardot clef but mainly sort of the least realized character in the book--all spend most of the novel with what they want excruciatingly just out of reach, and all are ult ...

Orlando !! SCHEDA INCOMPLETA !!

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 9:42:18 PST

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The Crying of Lot 49

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 2:20:07 PST

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Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, "The Crying of Lot 49" opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oe ...

The Last of the Mohicans

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 2:19:39 PST

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At the centre of the novel is the celebrated 'Massacre' of British troops and their families by Indian allies of the French at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built a romantic fiction of captivity, sexuality, and heroism, in which the destiny of the Mohican Chingachgook and his son Uncas is inseparable from the lives of Alice and Cora Munro and of Hawkeye the fron ...

The Origin of Species

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 2:18:17 PST

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It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that is truly readable. To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now cliché ...

Oroonoko

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 2:13:13 PST

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Aphra Behn, the poet, playwright, novelist and political satirist was the first truly professional woman writer in English. This selection, edited and introduced by Professor Janet Todd, demonstrates the full sophistication and vitality of Aphra Behn's genius. It contains the plays "The Rover" and "The Widow", "Ranter" (the first English play to be set in the American colonies) together with "Lov ...

Effie Briest.

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 2:12:02 PST

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Death in Venice

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 2:09:48 PST

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The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after "Buddenbrooks" had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, "Death in Venice" tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that in ...

Fahrenheit 451

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 2:08:36 PST

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Tender is the Night

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 2:05:12 PST

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Earthly Powers

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 2:04:56 PST

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Don Quixote

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 2:02:41 PST

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The best-known book in Spanish literature, telling the story of the adventurous knight-errant and his squire Sancho Panzo, who set out to right the wrongs of the world.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 2:02:11 PST

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'Shoot al the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this enchanting classic - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the De ...

Lolita

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 2:01:22 PST

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"Lolita" tells the story of aging Hubert Humbert who has an obsessive, devouring , and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze.

Phantom Of The Opera

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 2:01:01 PST

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He lurked in the shadows of the Paris Opera House--a man with the voice of an angel but the face of a monster. His only hope for love is a beautiful soprano who draws him . . . to disaster.

A Farewell to Arms

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 2:00:05 PST

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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. In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the way with conviction and bru ...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:59:36 PST

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Published in 1916 to immediate acclaim, James Joyce's semi-autobiographical tale of his alterego, Stephen Dedalus, is a coming-of-age story like no other. A bold, innovative experiment with both language and structure, the work has exerted a lasting influence on the contemporary novel.

Madame Bovary

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:59:10 PST

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Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall, with a preface by Michele Roberts. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental ...

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:58:44 PST

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Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mum with a baseball and believes--correctly, it transpires--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John Irving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery O'Connor' ...

Brideshead Revisited

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:58:18 PST

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One of Waugh's most famous books, Brideshead Revisited tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder, and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. Taking place in the years after World War II, Brideshead Revisited shows us a part of upper-class English culture that has been disappearing steadily.

Dead Souls

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:57:41 PST

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Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated ...

I, Claudius

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:57:03 PST

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Considered an idiot because of his physical infirmities, Claudius survived the intrigues and poisonings of the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and the Mad Caligula to become emperor in 41 A.D. A masterpiece.

The Bell Jar

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:56:03 PST

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The Bell Jar chronicles the breakdown of the brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful Esther Greenwood, a woman slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's demise with such intensity that the character's insanity becomes completely real, even rational -- as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Suc ...

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:55:45 PST

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An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a majo ...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:55:16 PST

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A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its we ...

Sons and Lovers

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:54:49 PST

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With the publication in 1913 of his third novel, Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence was established as an important and controversial writer. Autobiographical in origin, it is the story of the Morels, an English coal-mining family at the turn of the century, and focuses on the coming of age of one of the sons, Paul. The relationships of his family prefigure the famous Lawrence theme of the eternal s ...

The Catcher in the Rye

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:54:19 PST

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Knickerbocker's History of New York

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:50:58 PST

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Things Fall apart

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:49:07 PST

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This is Chinua Achebe's classic novel, with more than two million copies sold since its first U.S. publication in 1969. Combining a richly African story with the author's keen awareness of the qualities common to all humanity, Achebe here shows that he is "gloriously gifted, with the magic of an ebullient, generous, great talent." -- Nadine Gordimer

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:48:27 PST

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was anAmerican humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:45:37 PST

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Kim

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:45:12 PST

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Cry, the Beloved Country

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:44:28 PST

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Set in the troubled South Africa of the 1940s, this is the deeply moving story of a Zulu pastor, his son, and a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Passionately African, yet timeless and universal, it is a work of searing beauty.

Dandelion Wine

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:43:58 PST

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Paradise Lost

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:32:23 PST

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John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence, "Paradise Lost" has been fully revised with an introduction by John Leonard in "Penguin Classics". In "Paradise Lost" Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time, populated by a memorable gallery of grotes ...

The Communist Manifesto

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:30:15 PST

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A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' "The Communist Manifesto" is edited with an introduction by Gareth Stedman-Jones in "Penguin Classics". Marx and Engels' revolutionary summons to the working classes, "The Communist Manifesto" is one of the most important political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, they produced ...

The Picture of Dorian Grey

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:29:18 PST

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Published just before he reached the height of his fame, Wilde's only novel has endured as surely as the great plays for which he is celebrated. By exploring the actions of a young man who contracts to retain his outward beauty at the expense of inward corruption - symbolized in a portrait that ages as he stays the same - Wilde achieved a seminal novel that is part fable, part comedy of manners a ...

The Souls of Black Folk

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:28:53 PST

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Enduring Liturature Illuminated by Practical ScholarshipA revolutionary collection of essays about the African-American experience at the turn of the twentieth century.This Enriched Classic Edition includes:• A concise introduction that gives readers important background information• A chronology of the author's life and work• A timeline of significant events that provides the book's ...

Wise Blood

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:28:26 PST

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Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher names Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Lily Sabbath. In an ironic, malicious gesture ...

Heart of Darkness

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:28:09 PST

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In Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the local people. Marlow's struggle to fathom his experience involves him in a radical questioning of not only his own nature and valu ...

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:27:32 PST

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The Maltese Falcon

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:25:44 PST

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The Maltese Falcon is considered Dashiell Hammett's finest novel. The story introduces detective Sam Spade, a man of few words who displays little emotion. Hired by a woman - Miss Wonderly - to locate her sister, Spade gives the assignment to his partner Miles Archer. Archer tails the missing sister's companion, and within a single evening both Archer and the man have been shot dead. As Spade pur ...

The Princess Bride

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:25:17 PST

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Beautiful, flaxen-haired Buttercup has fallen for Westley, the farm boy, and when he departs to make his fortune, she vows never to love another. So, when she hears that his ship has been captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts (no survivors) her heart is broken. But her charms draw the attention of the relentless Prince Humperdinck who wants a wife and will go to any lengths to have Buttercup. So s ...

Of Mice and Men

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:23:19 PST

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The diviners

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:22:16 PST

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Candide or Optimism

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:16:26 PST

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"Candide" is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolen ...

Howards End

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:15:59 PST

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Sense and Sensibility

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:15:24 PST

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Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willougby, she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their paral ...

House of Sand and Fog

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:14:19 PST

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"Elegant and powerful...an unusual and volatile...literary thriller." --Washington Post Book World In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity. K ...

Blindness

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:13:07 PST

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A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and ...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:12:43 PST

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In the first volume of an extraordinary autobiographical series, one of the most inspiring authors of our time recalls--with candor, humor, poignancy and grace--how her journey began.... From the Trade Paperback edition.

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:12:24 PST

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The best, the fastest, the hippest and the most unorthodox account ever published of the US presidential electoral process in all its madness and corruption. In 1972 Hunter S. Thompson, the creator and king of Gonzo journalism, covered the US presidential campaign for Rolling Stone magazine alongside the establishment newsmen of Washington. The result is a classic piece of subversive reportage a ...

Of Human Bondage

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:11:52 PST

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Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a clergyman, but Philip sheds his religious faith and begins to study art in Paris.

Music for Chameleons

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:11:25 PST

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In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders then with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise; and a proper Connecticut householder with a ruinous obsession fo ...

The Man in the Iron Mask

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:11:05 PST

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Christopher Cazenove, formerly Ben Carrington on TV's Dynasty, distinguishes himself with a career in film and television. He performs this adventure with the flair and style he is known for. Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan, the intrepid adventurers of The Three Musketeers, return in this story bristling with what author Alexandre Dumas considered life' essential, "l'action et l'amour." ...

David Copperfield

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:10:25 PST

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Among the most-read novels of all time, this classic tale showcases memorablecharacters, skillful plotting, and Dickens's passionate concern with social...

Jailbird

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:09:25 PST

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Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government. . .and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate's least known co-conspirator. But the humor turns dark when Vonnegut shines his spotlight on the cold hearts and calculated g ...

Metamorphosis

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:09:10 PST

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL. One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the other famous stories included here, Kafka explores the confusing nature of human experience with sly wit and compelling originality.

Gulliver's travels

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:08:18 PST

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:07:53 PST

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With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John ...

Letters from the Earth

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:07:28 PST

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Winner of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize in Humor. Nominated for 2001 Grammy for the Spoken Word.

The Age of Innocence

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:07:07 PST

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A novel of thwarted love set against the backdrop of New York City society of the 1870s.

Jane Eyre

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 1:06:43 PST

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Since its publication in 1847 Jane Eyre has never ceased to be one of the most widely read of English novels. Transmuted by the rare Bronte imagination, the romance of Jane and Rochester takes on a strange and unforgettable atmosphere that lifts it above the level of mere melodrama. But Charlotte Bronte intended more. She portrayed the refusal of a spirited and intelligent woman to accept her app ...

A Confederacy of Dunces

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:05:33 PST

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"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and po ...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:46:03 PST

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Before a huge crowd that packed the cathedral square, Esmeralda stood between two executioners. Suddenly Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, rushed at the executioners and felled them with his enormous fists. He snatched the gypsy girl in one arm and ran into the church. A moment later he appeared at the top of the bell tower. Holding the girl above his head, he showed her triumphantly to all ...

Atlas Shrugged

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:40:01 PST

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Cyrano De Bergerac

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:19:42 PST

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Translated by Anthony Burgess.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:41:31 PST

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Alexandre Dumas' epic tale of suffering and revenge inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Count of Monte Cristo" is translated with an introduction by Robin Buss. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitter years imprisoned in the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hid ...

Life of Pi

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:39:40 PST

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Some books defy categorisation: Life of Pi, the second novel from Canadian writer Yann Martel, is a case in point: just about the only thing you can say for certain about it is that it is fiercely and admirably unique. The plot, if that's the right word, concerns the oceanic wanderings of a lost boy, the young and eager Piscine Patel of the title (Pi). After a colourful and loving upbringing in g ...

A Passage to India

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:39:30 PST

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Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century and the basis for director David Lean’s Academy Award-winning film, A Passage to India tells of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century. In exquisite prose, Forster reveals the menace that lurks just beneath the surface of ordinary life, as a common misunderstanding erupts into a devastating affair.

A Handful of Dust

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:39:18 PST

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A HANDFUL OF DUST satirizes that stratum of English life where all the characters have money, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal boredom and becomes enamored of a social parasite and professional lunch-goer. The depravity and polished savagery of these characters o ...

The Sea Wolf

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:38:48 PST

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A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas, The Sea Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. The vivid story of a gentleman scholar's rescue and subsequent ordeal at the hands of a hunting schooner's brutal captain and devious crew, it remains one of Jack London's finest achievements.

The great Gatsby

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:37:42 PST

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The Stranger

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:37:19 PST

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Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.

Catch-22

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:37:05 PST

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:36:51 PST

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Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

Oliver Twist

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:36:30 PST

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Memoirs of a Mangy Lover

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:36:10 PST

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Groucho on romance! Twenty-seven "superbly silly sallies by the master of the double entendre"-Kirkus Reviews. Here are Groucho's improbable tales of true romance, narrated with his characteristic panache and illustrated with splendid New Yorker -esque cartoons.

Vintage Wodehouse

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:35:24 PST

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A collection of short stories featuring familiar Wodehouse characters such as Bertie Wooster and the inimitable Jeeves, Lord Emsworth and The Empress, Uncle Fred and Pongo Twistleton, Mr Mulliner, The Oldest Member, a whole bouquet of aunts, and a magnum of fizzy girls.

Blood Meridian

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:32:38 PST

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Pulp

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:32:21 PST

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Naked Lunch

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:31:52 PST

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Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the 20th century. Exerting its influence on the work of authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson, on the relationship of art and obscenity, and on the shape of music, film, and media generally, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American cult ...

Pride and Prejudice

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:31:36 PST

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For some readersPride and Prejudiceis a delightful comic novel, for others it is a studyof social and personal valuesno other English novel is as popular.

Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:30:10 PST

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Penguin Readers 시리즈 LEVEL 1『THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER』. 펭귄 리더스( Penguin Readers) 시리즈는 세계적으로 유명한 교육 출판사인 롱맨과 공동으로 ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:29:39 PST

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Jude the Obscure

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:28:25 PST

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Anna Karenina

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:27:57 PST

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Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity, a husband and an adored son. But she risks losing it all when she meets the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Although she tries to resist, Anna is gradually drawn into a passionate, all-consuming affair that scandalizes everyone around them and threatens to destroy her. Books that save lives come in one colour Choose (Penguin Cl ...

The Scarlet Letter

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:26:29 PST

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Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester ...

Moby Dick

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:25:19 PST

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Nineteen eighty-four

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:23:36 PST

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On the Road

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:22:33 PST

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chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lastin ...