The Republic (Hero Classics) by Plato
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Category: Classics | Series: Hero Classics Ser.
I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston, that I might offer up my prayers to the goddess (Bendis, the Thracian Artemis.); and also because I wanted to see in what manner they would celebrate the festival, which was a new thing. I was delighted with the procession of the inha ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce
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Category: Classics
This title is edited by Hans Walter Gabler. It comes with introductions by Scarlett Baron and John Banville. In this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and homes of his native city. In doing so, he conjur ...Show more
Selected Essays by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
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Johnno by David Malouf
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. Seen through the eyes of the narrator, he is a figure of legendary proportions. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of gothic Brisbane, or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek landscape. But what is the truth about Johnno? Semi-auto ...Show more
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
The ultimate Camp statement - 'it's good because it's awful'. These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.
The Sorrows Of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguins Classics Ser.
A key work in the German 'Sturm und Drang' movement, Johann Goethe's autobiographical epistolary novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" is a defining moment in early Romanticism, which has influenced writers from Mary Shelley to Thomas Mann. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated from with an intro ...Show more
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal reoccurrence. To read Labyrinths is to glide through time, space, mythology and philosophy, as Borges' ch ...Show more
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Classics | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' - The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' - Daily Telegraph 'He is using you for what you are worth.' Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life - and he's willing to kill for it. Struggling to stay one step ahead ...Show more
Moby-Dick (Word Cloud Classics) by Herman Melville
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab...