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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: International Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.' When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a deba ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Popular Penguin) by Lewis Carroll
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Category: International Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author: Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and enemies) ...Show more
Animal Farm (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell; Jason Cowley (Introduction by)
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Category: International Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artis ...Show more
Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works by Ann Thompson (Editor); David Scott Kastan (Editor); H. R. Woudhuysen (Editor); Richard Proudfoot (Editor)
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Category: International Classics | Series: The\Arden Shakespeare Third Ser.
This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes the complete plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by Shakespeare- Double Falsehood, Sir Thomas More and King Edward ...Show more
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
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Category: International Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in which his autobiographical hero Jac ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
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Category: International Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It describes corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally ... an inferior people'. When Flor ...Show more
Burmese Days (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell; David Eimer (Introduction by)
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Category: International Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Literary titan George Orwell penned Animal Farm and 1984, as well as this classic. In Burmese Days, Orwell drew upon his own time in India to craft a biting look at the days of British Imperialism. When a whites-only European club decides to allow one native membership, Dr. Veraswami is first in line to ...Show more
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category: International Classics | Series: Great Works That Shape Our World Ser.
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. "Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire ...Show more
Catch-22 (50th Anniversary edition) by Joseph Heller
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Category: International Classics
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great Ameri ...Show more
Clockwork Orange (Popular Penguin) by Anthony Burgess
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Category: International Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (HB) by Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm K. Grimm; Brothers Grimm
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Category: International Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together wit ...Show more