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Wuthering Heights (Puffin Classics)
Author: Emily Bronte
ISBN-10: 0141326697
ISBN-13: 9780141326696
Published: 2010-03-04
Publisher: Speak
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Heathcliff, an orphan, is raised by Mr. Earnshaw as one of his own children. Hindley, Mr. Earnshaw?s son, despises him, but his sister, wild Cathy, becomes Heathcliff?s constant companion, and he falls violently in love with her. When Cathy will not marry Heathcliff, his terrible vengeance ruins them all and carries over to a second generation? but still their love will not die.
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Great Expectations: 150th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics)
Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 0451531183
ISBN-13: 9780451531186
Published: 2009-02-03
Publisher: Signet Classics
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Dickens’ epic literary Masterpiece From the agony of Charles Dickens’ disenchantment with the Victorian middle class comes a novel of spellbinding mystery and a profound examination of moral values—this is the story of the orphan Pip’s trials and tribulations among London’s high society circles. @piMp The walk was a bad idea. I met a prisoner who demanded bread and a file. He looks like a pederast. And a murderer. Amber alert? From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less
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Emma (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: Jane Austen
ISBN-10: 0393972844
ISBN-13: 9780393972849
Published: 1999-02
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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The text reprinted in this new edition of Austen’s comedic novel is based on the 1816 text, which has been carefully edited in light of later editions, including the Chapman edition."Backgrounds" supplies an abundance of documents that shed light on Austen's life and reveal some of her private attitudes toward her writing. "Reviews and Criticism" presents a wide variety of perspectives, both contemporary and recent, including essays by Sir Walter Scott, Henry James, A. C. Bradley, E. M. Forster, Robert Alan Donovan, Marilyn Butler, Mary Poovey, Claudia Johnson, Juliet McMaster, Ian Watt, and Suzanne Juhasz. New to this edition are essays by Maggie Lane, Edward Copeland, and Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield, the last of which discusses film adaptations of Emma. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.
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Persuasion: (Classics hardcover)
Author: Jane Austen
ISBN-10: 0141197692
ISBN-13: 9780141197692
Published: 2012-04-24
Publisher: Penguin Classics Hardcover
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View our feature on Jane Austen. Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate. Al the tension of the novel revolves around one question: Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love? Jane Austen once compared her writing to painting on a little bit of ivory, 2 inches square. Readers of Persuasion will discover that neither her skill for delicate, ironic observations on social custom, love, and marriage nor her ability to apply a sharp focus lens to English manners and morals has deserted her in her final finished work.
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Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics)
Author: Jane Austen
ISBN-10: 0375759174
ISBN-13: 9780375759178
Published: 2002-01-08
Publisher: Modern Library
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Jane Austen’s first novel, Northanger Abbey—published posthumously in 1818—tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen’s fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature. The satirical Northanger Abbey pokes fun at the gothic novel while earnestly emphasizing caution to the female sex.This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the first edition of 1818.
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The Call of the Wild (Puffin Classics)
Author: Jack London
ISBN-10: 0141336544
ISBN-13: 9780141336541
Published: 2011-09-08
Publisher: Puffin
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Savage struggles and timeless bonds between man, dog, and wilderness are played to their heart-rending extremes. 2 cassettes.
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Ender's Game (Ender 1)
Author: Orson Scott Card
ISBN-10: 1904233023
ISBN-13: 9781904233022
Published: 2002-07-04
Publisher: Little Brown Childrens Books
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Ender Wiggin is Battle School's latest recruit. His teachers reckon he could become a great leader. And they need one. A vast alien force is headed for Earth, its mission: the annihilation of all human life. Ender could be our only hope. But first he must survive the most brutal military training program in the galaxy...
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Mansfield Park (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: Jane Austen
ISBN-10: 0393967913
ISBN-13: 9780393967913
Published: 1998-01-17
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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The text is that of a new authoritative text, which closely follows the one Austen oversaw when the novel was revised and reprinted in 1816.Supporting materials include an introduction, annotations, and a map. "Contexts" includes contemporary materials on the slave trade, religion, conduct literature for women, and landscape design that illuminate this dark and often disturbing novel. Elizabeth Inchbald’s adaptation of Lovers’ Vows (the play staged by the characters in Mansfield Park) is included, as are writings by Humphry Repton, Thomas Gisborne, Hannah More, and Mary Wollstonecraft, among others. "Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel. The critics include Jan Fergus, Lionel Trilling, Alistair Duckworth, Nina Auerebach, Claudia L. Johnson, Joseph Litvak, Edward Said, B. C. Southam, and Joseph Lew. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.
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The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry
ISBN-10: 0385732554
ISBN-13: 9780385732550
Published: 2006-01-24
Publisher: Ember
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Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world.When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does Jonas begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.
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Bleak House (Crime Classics)
Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 1843548534
ISBN-13: 9781843548539
Published: 2011-05-01
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The first detective novel, with Inspector Bucket the prototype of the literary detective—Bleak House is both a literary classic and a classic of crime The case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce—a dispute over a vast fortune left by a miser who died intestate—has occupied the Court of Chancery for years. When Lady Dedlock faints upon recognizing the handwriting in one of the documents pertaining to the case, her sinister lawyer, Tulkinghorn, immediately suspects a hidden secret, and an opportunity for blackmail—but he is playing a dangerous game, and is soon found dead: a victim of murder. It is down to Detective Inspector Bucket to solve the mystery. Dickens was fascinated by the sensational crime cases of his day. His preoccupations—with crime and the legal system, with social injustice—are dramatically evident in Bleak House: at once a classic crime novel and a classic of world literature.
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