Return of the Spirit by Tawfiq al-Hakim; Russell Harris (Translator); Alaa Al Aswany (Foreword by); William M. Hutchins (Introduction by); William Maynard Hutchins (Translator, Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
First published in Arabic in 1933, Egyptian playwright and novelist Tawfiq Al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit follows a patriotic young Egyptian and his extended family as they grapple with the events leading up to the 1919 Egyptian revolution. Though often cited as an apprenticeship novel in the vein of J ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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The greatest love story in English, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a play of star-crossed lovers who take a valiant stand against social convention, with tragic consequences. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with notes by T.J.B. Spencer, and an introduction by Adrian Poole. 'What's ...Show more
SS-GB (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Len Deighton
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A chilling alternative history in which the Nazis have conquered Britain, now in the iconic Penguin Crime seriesIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job ...Show more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This edition has a NEW introduction by PAULO COELHO. Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and mo ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable.
Tess of the d'Urbevilles by THOMAS HARDY
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Thomas Hardy, never one to be conventional, took a very unconventional moral stance in this novel, which shocked Victorian readers. In doing so, he created one of the great romantic novels of all time, the story of a striking and tragic character who came to life for the reader as she did for the author ...Show more
The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights
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Starting in 1999 with the publication of The Definitive Annotated Alice, the Norton and Liveright annotated books have become the leading series of classic, illustrated works in the English language. The long-anticipated publication of The Annotated Arabian Nights extends this tradition with a strikingl ...Show more
The Complete Tales of HP Lovecraft (Timeless Classics) by H. P. Lovecraft
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Category: Classics | Series: Timeless Classics Ser.
A must-have classic that every Lovecraft fan and collector will love. Another excellent edition in the Knickerbocker Classics series, The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collectio ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby?s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he?s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy dur ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men s ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
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After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches in medias res towards the end of the Trojan War between the Trojans and the besieging Greeks. Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, offers the Greeks wealth for the return of his daughter Chryseis, held captive by Agamemnon, the Greek leader. Although m ...Show more
The Iliad and The Odyssey: (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
"Sing, Goddess, sing..." Homer's two epic poems have formed the basis of Western education since antiquity and survive today as enthralling tales of magnificent gods, legendary heroes, daring adventures, and mythical creatures. Their beautiful language and stories impart timeless themes. In this edition ...Show more