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  1. Macbeth

    Author: William Shakespeare

    The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition Gold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14 This edition of Macbeth is edited with an introduction by series editor Stephen Orgel. and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators for the Pelican Shakespeare series. Cover artist Manuja Waldia received a Gold Me

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    • Published on 2016
    • 146 pages

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  2. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

    Author: William Shakespeare

    In The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father's will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, he may never marry at all. Bassanio and Portia also face a magnificent villain, the moneylender Shylock. In creating Shylock, Shakespeare seems to have shared in a widespread prejudice against Jews. Shylock would have been regarded as a villain because he was a Jew. Yet he gives such powerful express

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    • Published on 2021
    • 152 pages

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  3. 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.

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    • Published on 1936
    • 198 pages

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  4. 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.

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    • Published on 2016
    • 898 pages

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  5. 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

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    • Published on 2004
    • 865 pages

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  6. 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.

    in Classics

    • Published on 1999
    • 114 pages

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  7. Les Miserables

    Author: Victor Hugo

    Encompassing a multitude of plots, the narrative is bounded by the character of the protagonist, Jean Valjean. Expressing the author's ideas about society, religion and politics, it is in the backdrop of Napoleonic Wars and ensuing years that the story unravels. Grace, moral philosophy, law and history of France are discussed.

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    • Published on 2006
    • 210 pages

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  8. Brothers Karamazov

    Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

    In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a grip

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    • Published on 2003
    • 1,074 pages

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  9. The Iliad of Homer

    Author: Homer

    "Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses—with their memorably phrased heroi

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    • Published on 2011
    • 607 pages

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  10. The Odyssey

    Author: Homer Homer

    Homer's Odyssey is a ancient Greek epic poem and the sequel to The Iliad. Attributed to Homer, the edition has been translated as prose by Samuel Butler. The Odyssey tells the story of the Greek hero, Odysseus, and his journey home after the fall of Troy. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends,

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    • Published on 2015
    • 322 pages

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  11. The Catcher in the Rye

    Author: J.D. Salinger

    J.D. Salinger's classic of adolescent angst is now available for the first time in trade paperback. Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.

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    • Published on 2001
    • 232 pages

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  12. Wuthering Heights

    Author: Emily Brontë

    Wuthering Heights is a moody 19th-century triumph, lauded for its dark imagery, austere setting, and depiction of fraught romance. Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte’s account of the tormented love story between orphan Heathcliff and the daughter of his benefactor, Catherine Earnshaw. Troubled, stark, and violent, Wuthering Heights was hugely controversial at its publication in 1847, but has since become a classic of English literature. This Essential Classics edition includes a new introduction

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    • Published on 2019
    • 477 pages

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  13. Jane Eyre

    Author: Charlotte Brontë

    Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name “Currer Bell”, on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. Jane Eyre follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall. The novel revolutionised prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist’s moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative, where action

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    • Published on 1847
    • 169 pages

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  14. War and Peace

    Author: Leo Tolstoy

    "Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that AntichristI really believe he is AntichristI will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened yousit down and tell me all the news."It was in July, 1805, and the speaker

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    • Published on 2021
    • 2,387 pages

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  15. Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

    Author: Harold Bloom

    Herman Melville was already considered to be a successful author when he wrote Moby-Dick in just under two years. Yet despite his earlier success, the novel was widely misunderstood by its 19th-century readers, who expected a more traditional adventure novel. Today Moby-Dick is considered to be an undisputed classic, and many believe it to be the epitome of the great American novel. With an unforgettable cast of characters, inluding the mad Captain Ahab, Melville skillfully documents the Pequod

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    • Published on 2007
    • 255 pages

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  16. The Great Gatsby

    Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Complete edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in and describing the decadent period of 1920's America, Fitzgerald's lyrical verse is a tragically simple love story that is strangely profound. This is a haunting classic that stays with the reader.

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    • Published on 1925
    • 88 pages

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  17. To Kill a Mockingbird

    Author: Harper Lee

    Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twent

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    • Published on 2014
    • 342 pages

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  18. 1984

    Author: George Orwell

    Nineteen Eighty-Four, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, and mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, model

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    • Published on 2021
    • 184 pages

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  19. Pride and Prejudice

    Author: Jane Austen

    On the verdant plains of 18th-century England, in the heart of the Hertfordshire countryside, a timeless story of passion, pride and prejudice unfolds. Elizabeth Bennet, a lively, intelligent young woman, is the second of five sisters in a family of modest means. Her sharp mind and independent spirit set her apart in a society where propriety and matrimonial alliances are central concerns.When she crosses paths with Mr. Darcy, an aristocrat as wealthy as he is arrogant, Elizabeth is immediately

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    • Published on 2024
    • 442 pages

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  20. Candide

    Author: By Voltaire

    Candide is a French satire by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply Optimism) by his mentor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism

    in Humor & Satire

    • Published on 2019
    • 169 pages

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  21. Animal Farm

    Author: George Orwell

    Animal Farm is George Orwell’s brilliant political satire and allegorical fable about the corrupting effects of power. Published in 1945 it is, to this day, one of the most famous and influential works of fiction ever written. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful hardbacks make perfect gifts for book lovers, or wonderful additions to your own collection. This edition features

    in Humor & Satire

    • Published on 2021
    • 100 pages

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  22. Slaughterhouse 5

    Author: Kurt Vonnegut

    Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time. 'An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York Times Book Review Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, Billy finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And

    in Humor & Satire

    • Published on 2020
    • 178 pages

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  23. Catch-22

    Author: Joseph Heller

    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 American Read. Now a Hulu limited series starring Christopher Abbott, George Clooney, Kyle Chandler, and Hugh Laurie. Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American

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    • Published on 2010
    • 644 pages

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  24. The Half Mother

    Author: Shahnaz Bsahir

    `With delicately drawn characters, Shahnaz Bashir tells the heartbreaking story of one woman?s battle for life, dignity and justice.? ? Mirza Waheed, author of The Collaborator `The night is tired now, the old moon, hanging in the dark sky, is tired too? It is the 1990s, and Kashmir?s long war has begun to claim its first victims. Among them are Ghulam Rasool Joo, Haleema?s father, and her teenage son Imran, who is picked up by the authorities only to disappear into the void of Kashmir?s missing

    in Novels

    • Published on 2014
    • 152 pages

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  25. The Oath of the Vayuputras

    Author: Amish Tripathi and Amish

    EVIL HAS RISEN. ONLY A GOD CAN STOP iT. Shiva is gathering his forces, he reaches the Naga capital, Panchavati, and Evil is finally revealed. The Neelkanth prepares for a holy war against his true enemy, a man whose name instils dread in the fiercest of warriors. India convulses under the onslaught of a series of brutal battles. it's a war for the very soul of the nation. many will die. But Shiva must not fail, no matter what the cost in his desperation, he reaches out to the ones who have never

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    • Published on 2013
    • 575 pages

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