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  The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby

  Francis Scott Fitzgerald 

  Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter...

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  Much Ado About Nothing Much Ado About Nothing

  William Shakespeare 

  Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is wittily combative until love prevails. Broader comedy is provided by Dogberry, Verges and the watchmen. The drama ranges between the destructively sinister and the lyrically romantic, giving the whole a...

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  Twelfth Night Twelfth Night

  William Shakespeare 

  'I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth. And that no woman has, nor never none.' Blending high spirits and mistaken identities with the suffering of loss and unrequited love, Twelfth Night is the most poignant of Shakespeare's comedies. Disguised as a young man, Viola becomes the page to Orsino, Duke of lllyria. Her duty is to win the love of the...

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  The Tempest The Tempest

  William Shakespeare 

  The Tempest is the most lyrical, profound and fascinating of Shakespeare's late comedies. Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his former enemies. Eventually, having proved merciful, he divests himself of that magic, his 'art', and prepares to return to the mainland. The Tempest has often...

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  Three Men in a Boat and Three... Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

  Jerome Klapka Jerome 

  Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many languages but has also been staged, filmed,...

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  Travels With Charley Travels With Charley

  John Steinbeck 

  In 1960, when he was almost sixty years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of its people. Accompanied only by his dog, Charley, he travelled all across the United States in a pick-up truck. His journey took him through almost forty states, and he saw...

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  Tortilla Flat Tortilla Flat

  John Steinbeck 

  Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, Tortilla Flat is also his funniest novel. Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, California, centuries before. He values friendship above money and possessions, so that when he suddenly inherits two houses, Danny is quick to offer shelter to his...

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  The Egg and I The Egg and I

  Betty MacDonald 

  When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to...

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  Middlesex (Collins Modern... Middlesex (Collins Modern Classics)

  Jeffrey Eugenides 

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  Ivanhoe Ivanhoe

  Walter Scott 

  Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father’s wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his return, his passionate desire is to be reunited with the beautiful but forbidden lady Rowena, but he soon finds himself playing a more dangerous game as he is drawn into a bitter power struggle between...

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  Down and Out in Paris and London Down and Out in Paris and London

  George Orwell 

  George Orwell's first published work, Down and Out in Paris and London, is a vivid, sensitive account of the time he lived as one of the poor in the late twenties. In a bug-infested hotel, surviving only between the pawnbroker and a little teaching and writing, Orwell shocked the middle-class establishment with his observation of the misery, the...

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  Homage to Catalonia Homage to Catalonia

  George Orwell 

  Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion...

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  Other Voices, Other Rooms Other Voices, Other Rooms

  Truman Capote 

  Truman Capote’s first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a story of hallucinatory power, vividly conjuring up the Gothic landscape of the Deep South and a boy’s first glimpse into a mysterious adult world. After the death of his mother, thirteen - year - old Joel Knox is summoned to live with a father he has never met in a vast decaying...

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  The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde 

  Celebrated novel traces the moral degeneration of a handsome young Londoner from an innocent fop into a cruel and reckless pursuer of pleasure and, ultimately, a murderer. As Dorian Gray sinks into depravity, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait reflects the ravages of crime and sensuality. Mesmerizing tale of...

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  Dubliners (Penguin English... Dubliners (Penguin English Library)

  James Joyce 

  A sequence of stories depicting middle-class Catholic life in Dublin. The frustrations of childhood, disappointments of adolescence and mystery of sexual awakening are related with clarity and sensitivity.

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  Emma Emma

  Jane Austen 

  Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married. Her matchmaking maps out relationships that Jane...

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