Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Finally, and for the encouragement of people troubled with accents that cut them off from all high employment, I may add that the change wrought by Professor Higgins in the flower girl is neither impossible nor uncommon. The modern concierge's daughter who fulfils her ambition by playing the Queen of Sp ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (Chartwell Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
A Tale of Two Cities is a classic tale of injustice and sacrifice set in London and Paris in the years surrounding the French Revolution. Explore Dickens' classic tale of order and disorder, death and resurrection with A Tale of Two Cities. Taking place in London and Paris in the eighteenth century, in ...Show more
The Republic by Plato
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Plato's Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions ar ...Show more
A Fortunate Life: Edition for Young Readers by A B Facey
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Category: Classics
Bert Facey saw himself as an ordinary man, but his remarkable story reveals an extraordinary life lived to the full.Bert Facey was a battler, ever optimistic and hopeful despite the hardships of his lfe. A true classic of Australian literature, his simply written autobiography is an inspiration.This edi ...Show more
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
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Category: Classics
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 America ...Show more
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville The voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab, who leads his crew on a hunt for the great whale Moby Dick, reveals a profound meditation on society, nature, and the human struggle for meaning, happiness, and salvation. Often considered the epitome of Ameri ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitxgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the ...Show more
Nicholas Nickleby by CHARLES DICKENS
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mr ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos ...Show more
Meet Snugglepot and Cuddlepie by May Gibbs
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Category: Classics | Series: May Gibbs Gumnut Babies Ser.
Before dawn, when everyone was still asleep, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie crept out of bed... 'I want to see a human!' said Snugglepot. 'But only in the distance,' added Cuddlepie. Join Snugglepot and Cuddlepie-May Gibbs' endearing gumnut babies-as they go on an Australian bush adventure.
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters - shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by p ...Show more
The Three Musketeers (Word Cloud Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
First released in serial form in 1844, a year before Dumas' publication of The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers was an instant success, largely due to Dumas' transformation of the historical fiction genre. In The Three Musketeers, contrary to popular practice at the time, history acted as a b ...Show more