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Mary Barton - A Tale of Manchester Life by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: good-very good
"The rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds" Mary Barton, the heroine of Elizabeth Gaskell ...Show more
Middlemarch by George Eliot
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
'the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts'The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her portrait of a Midlands town, George Eliot address ...Show more
Moby Dick by Herman. Melville; Harold Beaver (Contribution by)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
This Norton Critical Edition includes: ⁊ Melville's classic novel of whaling and revenge, based on Hershel Parker's revision of the 1967 text edited by Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker.⁊ Twenty-six illustrations, including maps, contemporary engravings, and diagrams of whaleboat rigging.⁊ Background ...Show more
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerl ...Show more
Nightmare Abbey; Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
Thomas Love Peacock is literature's perfect individualist. He has points in common with Aristophanes, Plato, Rabelais, Voltaire, and even Aldous Huxley, but resembles none of them; we can talk of the satirical novel of ideas, but his satire is too cheery and good-natured, his novel too rambling, and his ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
Jane Austen takes a satirical swipe at the gothic novel in this classic book bursting with sly subversive wit. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY P.D. JAMES The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Au ...Show more
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
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Category: Philosophy | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign'. To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay "On Liberty" is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who or ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
'All the privilege I claim for my own sex...is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.'. Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and its tone is more intimat ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes...' ...Show more
Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets by Thomas de Quincey; David Wright (Contribution by)
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Category: Literary biography | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16 1/2) as they come of age. They have an older, st ...Show more
Silas Marner by George Eliot
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important ...Show more