Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

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Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good

Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, children. But in after the chaos of Civil War, secrets from his own past threaten to destroy everything he has worked for. ...Show more

Cranford and Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell

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Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good

Here are two of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novels. 'Cranford' depicts the lives and preoccupations of the inhabitants of a small village. 'Cousin Phillis' depicts a fleeting love affair in a rural community at a time when old values are being supplanted by the new.

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The World's Classics | Reading Level: very good

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Harvill Panther S. | Reading Level: good

At the head of the family is the prince, Don Fabrizio. Proud and stubborn, he is accustomed to knowing his own place in the world and expects his household to run accordingly. This book memorialises the details of a vanishing world while retaining its melancholic and ironic sense of time passing and the frailty of human emotions. ...Show more

Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner

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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: very good

This is a post war story of a wounded, helpless and dying officer returning home to his father and his fickle sweetheart in Georgia.

Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner

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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. William Faulkner, on receiving the Nobel Prize "Go Down, Moses" is composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in Faulkner s mythic Yoknapatawpha County. From a variety of perspectives, Faulkner examines the complex, changing relationships between blacks and whites, between man and nature, weaving a cohesive novel rich in implication and insight. "From the Trade Paperback edition."" ...Show more

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

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Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good

The story of the dissolution of the once aristocratic Compson family, told through the minds of three of its members, including the imbecilci Benjy - 'the tale told by an idiot'. In very different ways they prove inadequate to their own family history, unable to deal with either the responsibility of th e past or the imperatives of the present . The structure of the book - three monologues followed by an objective account of the family history - operates in the same way as a classical symphony, as each 'movement' reacts against, enlarges and qualifies the others. The title implies a tale 'signifying nothing', but this is a ruse - Faulkner's vision is tragic in the full sense of the word. His honesty and his craft separate us from the fate of his characters - by teaching us to understand them he gives us a chance to prevail. ...Show more

The Complete Stalky and Co by Rudyard Kipling

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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: good

Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the stories is the question 'What happened to these fifteen-year-old boys, and how did the lessons they learned at school apply to the world of warfare and imperial governme nt?' The stories are based on Kipling's own school, the United Services College at Westward Ho! in Devon, which prepared boys destined for the army or for colonial service; Kipling himself appears as the subordinate character, Beetle. This edition includes five Stalky stories which did not appear in the original volume, and thus constitutes a Complete Stalky & Co. ...Show more

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good

With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic o bserver. Although subtitled A Novel without a Hero, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world. When Vanity Fair was published in 1848, Charlotte Bronte commented: 'The more I read Thackeray'sworks the more certain I am that he stands alone - alone in his sagacity, alone in his truth, alone in his feeling...Thackeray is a Titan.' ...Show more

Fathers & Sons by Ivan Turgenev

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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good

The controversial portrait of Bazarov, the energetic, cynical, and self-assured 'nihilist' who repudiates the romanticism of his elders, shook Russian society. Indeed the image of humanity liberated by science from age-old conformities and prejudices is one that can threaten establishments of any politi cal or religious persuasion. ...Show more

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good

This Norton Critical Edition includes: · The first London edition (1759) of Sterne's revolutionary and influential novel. · Textual notes, explanatory footnotes, and a preface by Judith Hawley. · Three illustrations. · The Author on the Novel, fourteen judiciously chosen lett ers from the latest scholarly edition. · A wide range of early responses that demonstrate Tristram Shandy's changing reception from its publication through the nineteenth century. · Eleven major critical interpretations, ten of them new to this edition. · A Chronology of Laurence Sterne's life and work and a Selected Bibliography. Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format annotated text, contexts, and criticism helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need. ...Show more