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  Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies

  William Golding 

  Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive.

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  The Mill on the Floss The Mill on the Floss

  George Eliot 

  This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards...

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  King Solomon's Mines King Solomon's Mines

  Henry Rider Haggard 

  Praised as "the most amazing story ever written," this 1885 story tells the tale in which Allan Quatermain, a gentleman adventurer, is hired to locate a man who has disappeared into the heart of Africa while hunting for the legendary lost diamond mines of King Solomon.

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  Great Short Stories by... Great Short Stories by American Women

  Candace Ward 

  A choice collection of 13 short stories from some of America's greatest women writers. Includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, "Transcendental Wild Oats" by Louisa May Alcott, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, and many others.

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  The Last of the Mohicans The Last of the Mohicans

  James Fenimore Cooper 

  A massacre at a colonial garrison, the kidnapping of 2 pioneer sisters by Iroquois tribesmen, the treachery of a renegade brave, and the ambush of innocent settlers create an unforgettable picture of American frontier life in this imaginative, innovative, and classic 18th-century adventure — the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales.

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  At Fault At Fault

  Kate Chopin 

  An intrepid explorer of taboos, Chopin wrote some of America's boldest and best 19th-century fiction. Divorce and alcoholism are among the daring subjects of her first novel, set in the rural post-Reconstruction South against a backdrop of economic devastation and simmering racial tension.

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  The Mayor of Casterbridge The Mayor of Casterbridge

  Thomas Hardy 

  A cruel joke at a country fair goes too far when a drunken laborer auctions off his wife and child to the highest bidder. So begins The Mayor of Casterbridge. Rich in descriptive powers and steeped in irony, this timeless tale offers a spellbinding portrayal of ambition, rivalry, revenge, and repentance.

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  The Portrait of a Lady The Portrait of a Lady

  Henry James 

  Young Isabel Archer, a beautiful American, travels to Europe where her naivete — and recent inheritance — attracts many suitors. But despite her great promise, she falls victim to her own provincialism. Exposing the differences between the New and the Old Worlds, James's masterpiece examines the themes of freedom, sexuality, and betrayal.

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  Classic Mystery Stories Classic Mystery Stories

   

  Thirteen classics devoted to genuine tale of ratiocination. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Charles Dickens' "Three Detective Anecdotes," Jack London's "The Leopard Man Story," 10 others. Introduction. Notes.

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  Kim Kim

  Rudyard Kipling 

  With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing priest; and both embark on a...

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  Lolita Lolita

  Vladimir Nabokov 

  Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?

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  The Castle The Castle

  Franz Kafka 

  The story of K and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K's isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers, epitomises Kafka's vision of twentieth-century alienation and anxiety.

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  Closely Observed Trains Closely Observed Trains

  Bohumil Hrabal 

  The story of Milos Hrma, a gauche young Candide of the occupied countries, apprentice in a small railway station in Bohemia who, before meeting his heroic death, loses his burdensome innocence, masters the social complexities of the small world he inhabits, and discovers his manhood.

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  I Served the King of England I Served the King of England

  Bohumil Hrabal 

  Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, "I Served the King of England" is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its remarkable hero, Ditie, is a hotel waiter who rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against the backdrop of events in Prague from the German invasion to the victory of Communism. Ditie's fantastic...

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  The Education of Hyman Kaplan The Education of Hyman Kaplan

  Leonard Q. Ross 

  Hyman Kaplan, the irrepressible student at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults, has captivated readers ever since he appeared in the pages of The New Yorker. Few immigrants have prepared themselves for the responsibilities of citizenship with such ebullience as Hyman Kaplan, and few have played such havoc with the English language. As he...

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  Women Women

  Charles Bukowski 

  Low-life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, at the age of 50, he is living the life of a rock star, running 300 hangovers a year and a sex life that would cripple Casanova. This follow-up to "Post Office" and "Factotum" is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.

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