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The Raid and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy; Aylmer Maude (Editor); Louise Maude (Editor); P. N. Furbank (Introduction by)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This collection of Tolstoy's stories includes "Sevastopol," "Two Hussars," "Albert," "What Men Live By," "Master and Man," "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," "The Death of Ivan Ilych," "The Three Hermits," and the title piece.
The Recruiting Officer and Other Plays - The Constant Couple; the Twin Rivals; the Recruiting Officer; the Beaux' Stratagem by George Farquhar; William Myers (Editor)
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Category: Drama | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
George Farquhar (1678-1707) wrote some of the most exhilarating comedies in English, recording with great frankness the brutality and disorder of his age as well as its wit and vivacity. This modern spelling edition of four of the least formal and most actable Restoration comedies discloses the brutal, ...Show more
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope; James R. Kincaid (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Small House At Allington, Volume 1; The Small House At Allington; Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope Dodd, Mead & company, 1893
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner; Joseph Bristow (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Story of an African Farm was South African author Olive Schreiner's first published novel. Published under the pseudonym Ralf Iron, it was an immediate success. We join Waldo, Em and Lyndall and follow them through three acts as they grow from childhood into adulthood while living on a farm in the s ...Show more
The Tempest by William Shakespeare; Stephen Orgel (Editor)
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Category: Shakespeare | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Shakespeare's valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard living on a remote island who uses his magic to shipwreck a party of ex-compatriots.]]>
The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy; Richard Nemesvari (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
During England's wars with Napoleon, lovely Anne Garland is pursued by an ardent trio: the cowardly but wealthy Festus Derriman; the wayward sailor Bob Loveday; and Bob's brother John, trumpet-major in a British regiment. This 1880 novel has the brothers follow Wellington and Nelson into battle and--i ...Show more
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf; Lorna Sage (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | 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
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler; Michael Mason (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Samuel Butler was among the most wide-ranging of the accomplished crew of late Victorian writers to which be belonged -- a forceful controversialist in the debates that surrounded Darwin's theory of evolution, a painter who sometimes exhibited at the Royal Academy, an idiosyncratic critic and a gifted t ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins; John Sutherland (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Mistaken identities, locked rooms, madness, and romance -- these are a few of the ingredients the author (one of the most successful and popular Victorian writers) used to inspire "the 'creepy' effect, as of pounded ice dropped down the back," that, according to one of his friends, was Wilkie Collins's ...Show more
Typhoon and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad; Cedric P. Watts (Editor, Introduction by)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Four classic sea-related tales by Joseph Conrad, two set on a ship and two in a coastal town, present, as critic Paul Kirschner has observed, "a chiaroscuro of sea and land life in an alternating rhythm of hope and despair."
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray; John Sutherland (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Subtitled "a novel without a hero," Vanity Fair offers an acidly satirical romp across all levels of English society during the Napoleonic wars. William Thackeray focuses on how the war affects people other than soldiers, the typical heroes. All of his characters are deeply flawed, from social climber B ...Show more