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Americanah (Collins Modern Classics) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Category: No Category | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘A delicious, important novel' The Times ‘Alert, alive and gripping' Independent ‘Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both.' Guardian As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifem ...Show more
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A wonderful, unsparing epic ... an intimate human story of loss and love' New Statesman, Books of the Year The epic novel of love, war and revolution from Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature An extraordinary Russian masterpiece, And Quiet Flows the Don follows the turbulent fortu ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Anna Karenina (Word Cloud Classics) by Leo Tolstoy; Constance Garnett (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
No home library is complete without the classics Anna Karenina is a keepsake to be read and treasured. First published in the late 19th century, Anna Karenina, by famed Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of all time. Chronicling the turbulent affair between ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables by L. Montgomery
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Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are in for a big surprise. They are waiting for an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables - but a skinny, red-haired girl turns up instead. Feisty and full of spirit, Anne Shirley charms her way into the Cuthberts' affection with her vivid imagination and constant ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables (Word Cloud Classics) by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Table of Contents CHAPTER I Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Surprised CHAPTER II Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised CHAPTER III Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised CHAPTER IV Morning at Green Gables CHAPTER V Anne's History CHAPTER VI Marilla Makes Up Her Mind CHAPTER VII Anne Says Her Prayers CHAPTER VIII Anne's Bringing-Up ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies d ...Show more
Australia: A Cultural History by John Rickard
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Category: History | Series: Monash Classics Ser.
`A perceptive, balanced, wide-ranging interpretation of the evolution of modern Australia which is both erudite and well-written' - Duncan Bythell John Rickard's Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It has also ...Show more
Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, ...Show more
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. It opens with the Bishop of Barchester lying on his death bed; soon a battle begins over who will take over power, with key players including the rather incompetent Dr Proudie, his fiendishly u ...Show more
Because A White Man'll Never Do It by Kevin Gilbert
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Category: No Category | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Kevin Gilbert's powerful expose of past and present race relations in Australia is an alarming story of land theft, attempted racial extermination, oppression, denial of human rights, slavery, ridicule, denigration, inequality and paternalism. First published in 1973, Gilbert's controversial account of ...Show more
Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh; Jane Goodall (Foreword by)
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Category: Mind Body and Spirit | Series: Thich Nhat Hanh Classics Ser.
First published in 1987 and translated into more than thirty languages, this spiritual classic reveals the connection between our own personal happiness and the state of the world around us.Thich Nhat Hanh's key practices are resented in simple and clear language, offering practical suggestions for how ...Show more