Little Women (Puffin Cloth HB) by Louisa May Alcott

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Category: International Classics | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11

A beautiful hardback cloth cover edition of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - a novel loved by adults and children alike. Come laugh and cry with the March family. Meg - the sweet-tempered one. Jo - the smart one. Beth - the shy one. Amy - the sassy one. Together they're the March sisters. Their fathe r is away at war and times are difficult, but the bond between the sisters is strong. The family may not have much money, but that doesn't stop them from creating their own fun and forming a secret society. Through sisterly squabbles, happy times and sad, their four lives follow very different paths, and they discover that growing up is sometimes very hard to do... ***PLUS a behind-the-scenes journey, including an author profile, a guide to who's who, activities and more...*** Louisa May Alcott (1832-88) was brought up in Pennsylvania, USA. She turned to writing in order to supplement the family income and had many short stories published in magazines and newspapers. She was reluctant to write a children's book but then realized that in herself and her three sisters she had the perfect models. The result was Little Women (1868) which became the earliest American to become a classic. ...Show more

Little Women (V&A Collector's Edition) by Louisa May Alcott

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Category: International Classics

This new hardback edition is one of five special Puffin Classic editions created in partnership with the world-famous V & A Museum, with exquisite cover designs from their William Morris collection. Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-na tured Beth always puts others first, and finally there's Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together they are the March sisters. Even though money is short, times are tough and their father is away at war, their infectious sense of fun sweeps everyone up in their adventures - including Laurie, the boy next door. And through sisterly squabbles, their happy times and sad ones too, the sisters discover that growing up is sometimes very hard to do. ...Show more

Little Women: Official Movie Companion by Gina McIntyre

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Category: International Classics

Go behind the scenes with the March sisters in this in-world guide to Little Women, as adapted and directed by Greta Gerwig Greta Gerwig's 2019 adaption of Little Women is bringing new fans to Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic, and this comprehensive, in-world guide follows the making of this highly anticipated film, starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timoth e Chalamet, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep, Bob Odenkirk, and Chris Cooper. Readers will see the character sketches and costumes that brought these cherished characters to life; the real-life locations that were transformed into iconic sets for the film, how storyboards took key scenes from page to screen, and more ...Show more

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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Category: International Classics

Celebrating International Women's Day with the original sisterhood Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there's Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together they are the March sisters. Eve n though money is short, times are tough and their father is away at war, their infectious sense of fun sweeps everyone up in their adventures - including Laurie, the boy next door. And through sisterly squabbles, their happy times and sad ones too, the sisters discover that growing up is sometimes very hard to do. Little Women is one of six unforgettable Puffin Classics, brought together for International Women's Day in a stunning set in celebration of some of the most iconic female writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. ...Show more

Edgar Allan Poe - Illustrated Tales by Edgar Allen Poe

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Category: International Classics | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions Ser.

The Little Prince (HB) (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

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Category: International Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

The little prince is a poetic tale that comes accompanied by illustrations made with watercolors by Saint-Exupéry himself. In it, a pilot is lost in the Sahara desert after his plane suffered a breakdown, but to his surprise, it is there that he meets a little prince from another planet. History has a philosophical theme, which includes social criticisms directed at the "strangeness" with which adults see things. These criticisms of "important" things and the world of adults are appearing in the book throughout the narrative.It includes a brief biography of the author. ...Show more

The Snow Leopard (Vintage Classics) by Peter Matthiessen

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Category: International Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good

'In 1973 (Matthiessen) joined with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region called bharal. They also hoped to see the rare snow leopard, an almost mythical creature which Schaller once glimpsed on a previous visit. Matthiessen i s a student of Zen Buddhism and for his this was as much an inner journey as a field trip. He succeeds well in blending the spiritual with the earthly and his book is an evocative account of a remote and timeless place and its people.' - Sunday TimesPeter Matthiessen is a naturalist, explorer and writer. His works of fiction include At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Far Tortuga and the acclaimed Watson Trilogy. His explorations have resulted in many fine works of non-fiction, among them The Snow Leopard, The Cloud Forest and The Tree Where Man was Born. ...Show more

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; Margaret Atwood (Introduction by)

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Category: International Classics

Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. - "After Ford" - in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and operant conditioning that combine to profoun dly change society. ...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 y, a white timber merchant, befriends Indian Dr Veraswami, he defies this orthodoxy. The doctor is in danger: U Po Kyin, a corrupt magistrate, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is membership of the all-white Club, and Flory can help. Flory's life is changed further by the arrival of beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen from Paris, who offers an escape from loneliness and the 'lie' of colonial life. ...Show more

Complete Novels of James Joyce (HB) by James Joyce

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Category: International Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection

This collection comprises of Joyce's three novels, plus the short story collection Dubliners. Dubliners, about Joyce's native city, is faithful to his country, seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety in Irish literature. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, hoste sses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, struggling musicians, poets, patriots, and many more simply striving to get by. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man falls between the realism of Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses. The novel is a highly autobiographical account of the youth of Stephen Dedalus, who comes to realize that before he can become a true artist, he must rid himself of the stultifying effects of the religion, politics and essential bigotry of his life in late 19th century Ireland. Written with a light touch, it is perhaps the most accessible of Joyce's works. Ulysses is James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece. Scandalously frank, it tells of the events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like Ulysses, but, rather, formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape. It also remains the most hilarious, 'obscene', book of innuendos ever to be imagined. ...Show more

Dubliners & Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Other Works by James Joyce

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Category: International Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.

Unflinching, fictional accounts of life in Ireland during the early twentieth century. This collection by James Joyce includes two of his most famous works: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners. Joyce spent years writing an autobiographical novel that he later turned into his first novel , A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It was first published as a book in 1916, shortly after its success as a magazine serial. Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories relating the often-gritty reality of Dublin's middle class in the early twentieth century. With famous titles such as "The Dead" and "Eveline," this collection is a must-read for enthusiasts of classic literature. ...Show more

Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Stories (Barnes & Noble Fexibound Classics) by Edgar Allen Poe

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Category: International Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Flexibound Editions Ser.

Few authors' names conjure up such an air of ghoulish terror as that of Edgar Allan Poe. The best of his chilling horror stories and other suspenseful tales, 27 short stories in total, are presented here in one fantastic volume, providing an ideal introduction to this master of the macabre for those un familiar with Poe's work, or a welcome return to Poe's dark and mysterious world for committed enthusiasts. Although best known for his classic gothic horror tales such as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher or The Premature Burial, he also wrote mystery thrillers like The Murders in the Rue Morgue or The Mystery of Marie Roget and curious stories like The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether. ...Show more