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  1. Little Women

    Author: Louisa May Alcott

    One of the best loved books of all time. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read 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

    • Published on 1989
    • 546 pages

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  2. The Metamorphosis

    Author: Franz Kafka

    “When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feeli

    • Published on 1972
    • 224 pages

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  3. Metamorphosis

    Author: Franz Kafka

    Franz Kafka, the author has very nicely narrated the story of Gregou Samsa who wakes up one day to discover that he has metamorphosed into a bug. The book concerns itself with the themes of alienation and existentialism. The author has written many important stories, including ‘The Judgement’, and much of his novels ‘Amerika’, ‘The Castle’, ‘The Hunger Artist’. Many of his stories were published during his lifetime but many were not. Over the course of the 1920s and 30s Kafka’s works were publis

    • Published on 2021
    • 71 pages

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  4. Neuromancer

    Author: William Gibson

    Children love to express themselves through movement—and with this great new resource, you can guide them through a range of actions and dances that will help them develop both physically and mentally. Lesson Plans for Creative Dance: Connecting With Literature, Arts, and Music is a resource for physical educators, classroom teachers, and dance specialists as well as a useful supplement to college level elementary education courses. Author Sally Carline has tested and refined the creative moveme

    • Published on 1986
    • 248 pages

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  5. Siddhartha - Bilingual Edition, German & English

    Author: Hermann Hesse

    Siddhartha ? Bilingual Edition, German & EnglishFacing Page TranslationHermann Hesse?s Siddhartha is a literary classic. It continues to be the most popular of the many novels by the prolific Nobel Prize laureate. The touching story of one man?s search for the meaning of life, for enlightenment and knowledge is related with a graceful simplicity that is common only to great literature.Written in German, Siddhartha has been translated into most of the world?s languages and has enjoyed great s

    • Published on 2005
    • 280 pages

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  6. The House of the Spirits

    Author: Isabel Allende

    "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy inf

    • Published on 1986
    • 452 pages

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  7. The Divine Comedy

    Author: Dante Alighieri

    Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, published in a single volume, is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader coming to this great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first time The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a bril

    • Published on 2012
    • 760 pages

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  8. Down and Out in Paris and London

    Author: George Orwell

    Reprint. Originally published: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933.

    • Published on 2012
    • 171 pages

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  9. Ulysses

    Author: James Joyce

    "Ulysses," James Joyce's magnum opus, is a groundbreaking literary work that immerses readers into a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin on June 16, 1904. Joyce delves into the depths of the human psyche through complex and experimental prose, setting new standards for modern fiction. Across its 18 chapters, Joyce employs a variety of narrative styles, including stream of consciousness, interior monologue, and even parodies of existing literary styles, to explore the thoughts, desi

    • Published on 2024
    • 954 pages

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  10. The Grapes of Wrath

    Author: John Steinbeck

    The Grapes of Wrath is a novel written by John Steinbeck that tells the story of the Joad family's journey from Oklahoma to California during the Great Depression. The novel highlights the struggles and hardships faced by migrant workers during this time, as well as the exploitation they faced at the hands of wealthy landowners. Steinbeck's writing style is raw and powerful, with vivid descriptions that bring the characters and their surroundings to life. The novel has been widely acclaimed for

    • Published on 1939
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  11. Madame Bovary

    Author: Gustave Flaubert

    Madame Bovary tells the tragic tale of a beautiful young woman who tries to escape the narrow confines of her life and marriage through a series of passionate affairs--all in hopes of finding the romantic ideal she has always longed for. But her recklessness comes back to haunt her, and the strong-willed and independent Emma finds herself in a desperate fight for existence. Flaubert's daring depiction of adultery caused a national scandal when it was first published, and the author was put on tr

    • Published on 2003
    • 440 pages

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  12. Lord of the Flies

    Author: William Golding

    A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the

    • Published on 2012
    • 301 pages

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  13. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic American novel The Scarlet Letter follows Hester Prynne, a woman living in the rigid Puritan society of 17th century Boston. Condemned as an adulteress and forced to wear a scarlet A on her dress, Hester refuses to name the father of her child, born out of wedlock. Her quiet dignity in the face of persecution only serves to further enrage many of the townspeople. Separated from society, Hester begins to ask questions about the nature of sin and redemption and comes

    • Published on 2021
    • 237 pages

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  14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Author: Mark Twain

    Huckleberry Finn, an abused outcast, rafts with Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River, where they have a variety of experiences.

    • Published on 2010
    • 372 pages

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  15. Brave New World

    Author: Aldous Huxley

    Brave New World is Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel. Borrowing from The Tempest , Huxley imagines a genetically-engineered future where life is pain-free but meaningless. The book heavily influenced George Orwell’s 1984 and science-fiction in general.  The novel examines a futuristic society, called the World State, that revolves around science and efficiency. In this society, emotions and individuality are conditioned out of children at a young age, and there are no lasting relationships be

    • Published on 1932
    • 42 pages

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  16. Brave New World (New Longman Literature)

    Author: Aldous Huxley

    Originally published in 1932, Huxley's terrifying vision of a controlled and emotionless future Utopian society is truly startling in its prediction of modern scientific and cultural phenomena, including test-tube babies and rampant drug abuse.

    • Published on 1991
    • 244 pages

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  17. Don Quixote

    Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

    The classic Spanish tale of humorous chivalry, depicting the exploits of a man who believes he's a knight bringing justice and truth to the world.

    • Published on 1998
    • 1,012 pages

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  18. Count of Monte Cristo

    Author: Alexandre Dumas

    Alexandre Dumas's classic tale of betrayal and revenge follows the life of Edmond Dantes. After young Dantes is falsely imprisoned in the Chateau d'If, he is taken under the wing of another prisoner and taught to be a gentleman. By deceiving his jailers, Dantes escapes prison and sets off to take revenge on those who had betrayed him. Follow the powerful story of friendship, betrayal, and revenge in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo.

    • Published on 2010
    • 114 pages

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  19. King Lear

    Author: William Shakespeare

    The Tragedy of King Lear, often shortened to King Lear, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between his daughters Goneril and Regan, who pay homage to gain favour, feigning love.

    • Published on 1987
    • 272 pages

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  20. Hamlet

    Author: William Shakespeare

    The story of Hamlet in production, from Burbage at the Globe to Branagh on film.

    • Published on 1999
    • 324 pages

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  21. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

    Author: William Shakespeare

    Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say", without any doubt this book can be considered a ClassicThis book is also a Bestseller because as Steinberg defined: "a bestsell

    • Published on 2017
    • 210 pages

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  22. Romeo and Juliet

    Author: William Shakespeare

    The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, often shortened to Romeo and Juliet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families.

    • Published on 1936
    • 198 pages

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  23. Anna Karenina

    Author: Leo Tolstoy

    One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina is the story of a beautiful woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties. This major translation conveys Tolstoy's precision of meaning and emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable and stylistically faithful.

    • Published on 2016
    • 898 pages

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  24. Anna Karenina

    Author: Leo Tolstoy

    The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of ninetee

    • Published on 2004
    • 865 pages

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  25. Great Expectations

    Author: Charles Dickens and Latif Doss

    Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith. His life is changed forever by two very different meetings--one with an escaped convict and one with an eccentric old lady and the beautiful girl who lives with her. But who is the mysterious person who leaves him a fortune? -- p. 4 of cover.

    • Published on 1999
    • 114 pages

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