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Great Expectations
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ISBN-10: 0766612139
ISBN-13: 9780766612136
Published: 2004-07-30
Publisher: Modern Pub
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Book Description:
Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up with her unhappy past and living with her ward, the arrogant, beautiful Estella. Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels. This edition includes the original, discarded ending, Dickens's brief working notes, and the serial instalments and chapter divisions in different editions. It also uses the definitive Clarendon text.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Children's Classics)
Author: Mark Twain
ISBN-10: 0517205769
ISBN-13: 9780517205761
Published: 1999-08-17
Publisher: Children's Classics
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MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual - he is a combina tion of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of archi tecture.
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Secret Garden (Childrens Classics)
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
ISBN-10: 0883632020
ISBN-13: 9780883632024
Published: 1998-08-04
Publisher: Universe
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Book Description:
After losing her parents and being shipped from India to the Yorkshire Moors, Mary Lennox is terribly lonely. Living in her uncle's gloomy mansion, she has nobody to play with. But one day, she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that her uncle won't allow anyone to enter. Then Mary uncovers an old key in a flowerbed - and a gust of magic leads her to the hidden door. Slowly, she turns the key and enters a world she could never have imagined...
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Little Women (Penguin Classics)
Author: Louisa May Alcott
ISBN-10: 0141192410
ISBN-13: 9780141192413
Published: 2010-09-28
Publisher: Penguin Classics Hardcover
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Book Description:
Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have become a part of this remarkable family and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the circle of sisters to be married at the end of Part I. Part II, chronicles Meg's joys and mishaps as a young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a writer, Beth's tragedy, and Amy's artistic pursuits and unexpected romance. Based on Louise May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth- century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers.
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Jungle Book (Templar Classics)
Author: Rudyard Kipling
ISBN-10: 1840117133
ISBN-13: 9781840117134
Published: 2003-04-01
Publisher: Templar Publishing
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Book Description:
The Jungle Book is Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of a lost boy raised by animals in the wilds of India. Mowgli is a young boy in the jungle. He has no human parents or companions. But what he does have is a bear, a panther, and other creatures who advise and befriend him. Together they face many dangers and adventures, as Mowgli finds himself in the clutches of the Monkey People, and confronts the wrath of Shere Khan, the tiger who separated him from his human family. Generating numerous stage and screen adaptations since it was written in the 1890s, The Jungle Book is one of the best-known and best-loved works of fiction in the world.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Unabridged Classics)
Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN-10: 1403739080
ISBN-13: 9781403739087
Published: 2007-08
Publisher: Dalmatian Press
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The wish spoken by Dorian Gray as he looks at his portrait forms the basis of the plot of this story of a gilded and spoilt hedonist who is willing to sell his soul for his beauty.
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Emma (Signet Classics)
Author: Jane Austen
ISBN-10: 0808509608
ISBN-13: 9780808509608
Published: 1996-04
Publisher: Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval
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Lively young socialite Emma Woodhouse likes nothing more than interfering in the romantic lives of others and when she appoints herself matchmaker to her gentle friend Harriet, she has no idea just how much chaos she will create, and soon her carefully laid plans unravel with consequences that she never expected. Might this social disorder bring about a match for Emma herself?
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain
ISBN-10: 060600100X
ISBN-13: 9780606001007
Published: 1959-06
Publisher: Demco Media
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Book Description:
Wild child Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again, raising Cain. He won't rest until he has Huck's money. So the enterprising boy fakes his own death and sets out in search of adventure and freedom. Teaming up with Jim, an escaped slave with a price on his head, the two fugitives go on the run, travelling down the wide Mississippi River. But Huck finds himself wrestling with his conscience. Should he save Jim, or turn his friend over to a terrible fate?
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (Giant Courage Classics)
Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN-10: 1561386537
ISBN-13: 9781561386536
Published: 1995-09
Publisher: Courage Books
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When her family learns that they may be descendants of the wealthy D'Urbervilles, young Tess is unwittingly packed off and directed to win favor, and her fate is sealed when she meets the handsome Alec D'Urberville.
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Persuasion (Penguin Longman Reader Bk/Tape)
Author: Jane Austen
ISBN-10: 0582401372
ISBN-13: 9780582401372
Published: 1999-03-31
Publisher: Pearson Elt
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Book Description:
In this witty story of love and marriage, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth meet again after many years. They are in love, but will they marry? "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class.
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