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Hamlet by William Shakespeare; G. R. Hibbard (Editor)
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Category: Shakespeare | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Arguably Shakespeare's finest and most important play, Hamlet is also one of the most misunderstood masterpieces of world literature. To be or not to be, may be the question, but the answer has eluded many generations of critics. What does it mean to be? And is everything as it seems to be? These are th ...Show more
Headlong Hall and Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock; Michael Baron (Editor); Michael Slater (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Joseph Andrews and Shamela by Henry Fielding; Douglas Brooks-Davies (Editor); Martin C. Ballestin (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
'I beg as soon as you get Fielding's Joseph Andrews, I fear in Ridicule of your Pamela and of Virtue in the Notion of Don Quixote's Manner, you would send it to me by the very first Coach.'(George Cheyne in a letter to Samuel Richardson, February 1742)Both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741) were p ...Show more
Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari; Julia Conway Bondanella (Translator); Peter Bondanella (Translator)
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Category: History & Theory | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Georgio Vasari's original vision of the arts was to see the artist as divinely inspired. This historical work describes the lives of forty-five artists, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, with striking immediacy conveyed through charact ...Show more
Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins; Norman Page (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This classic text from Wilkie Collins is a romance novel that showcases the author's thorough knowledge of English law.Man and Wife was Wilkie Collins' ninth published novel. It is the second of his novels (after No Name) in which social questions provide the main impetus of the plot. Collins increasing ...Show more
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen; James Kinsley (Editor); Marilyn Butler (Introduction by); John Lucas (Notes by)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Fanny Price is a child still when her uncles welcome her in their mansion in Mansfield Park, rescuing her from a life of hardship and need. There, before her frightened gaze, she will parade a world of leisure and refinement in which innocent diversions will feed machinations and seduction strategies. ...Show more
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens; Margaret Cardwell (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: fair to good
At the center of Martin Chuzzlewit--the novel Angus Wilson called "one of the most sheerly exciting of all Dickens stories"--is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of Iris close and distant relations, now converging in droves ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe; G. A. Starr (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers o ...Show more
Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo; Charles Stanley Ross (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: The\World's Classics Ser.
Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Boiardo's chivalric verse tale, dating from the 1480s, first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-striken pursuit of Angelica through a fairyland that combines the military valours of ...Show more
Ovid - Sorrows of an Exile - Tristia by Ovid; A. D. Melville (Translator); E. J. Kenney (Introduction by)
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Category: Latin Literature | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In AD 8 Ovid's brilliant career was abruptly ruined when the Emperor Augustus banished him, for reasons never satisfactorily explained, to Tomis (Constanta) on the Black Sea. The five books of Tristia (Sorrows) express his reaction to this savage and, as he clearly regarded it, unjust sentence. Though t ...Show more
Propertius - The Poems by Propertius; Guy Lee (Translator); Oliver Lyne (Introduction by)
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Category: Latin Literature | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Of the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 B.C.) is one of those who holds the most immediate appeal for the twentieth-century reader. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry, and is analyzed with a tormented but witty gr ...Show more
Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac; Alban J. Krailsheimer (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
- Sa bibliographie- Ses principales oeuvres- Paris, automne 1819. Dans une pension miteuse de la rue Neuve-Sainte Geneviève, la maison Vauquer (du nom de sa tenancière), se côtoient des pensionnaires et des habitués du quartier qui ne viennent y prendre que le dîner . Ils ont pour nom Mlle Michonneau, V ...Show more