In Ghostly Japan: Japanese Legends of Ghosts, Yokai, Yurei and Other Oddities by Lafcadio Hearn
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Category: Classics
'Think not that dreams appear to the dreamer only at night, the dream of this world of pain appears to us even by day.' In this book, famed author Lafcadio Hearn presents 14 fascinating stories — including deathless ghosts and yokai, local folklore and haunted places, as well as Buddhist traditions. Th ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer; T. E. Lawrence
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Category: Classics
The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
In The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a rand ...Show more
The Swann Way by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...' The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an introduction to its unforgettable ...Show more
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage American Gothic Ser.
Nine spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics -- VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fi ...Show more
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: Faber Stories by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Classics | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. 'It i ...Show more
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Classics | Series: VMC
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in making Philip his heir, knowing he will treasure his beautiful Cornish estate. But Philip's world is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love a ...Show more
Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
Lev Nikolaevic Tolstoj: Anna Karenina Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2013 Vollst ndiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Erstdruck in: Russkij vestnik, Petersburg 1875-1877. Erste Buchausgabe: Moskau 1878. Hier in bers. v. H ermann] ...Show more
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Big Brother is Watching You.’ Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people ...Show more
The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Classics | Series: VMC
How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . . 'A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a ...Show more
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
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Category: Classics
This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the titl ...Show more
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
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Category: Classics | Series: PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY
Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman, decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they can be executed. Showing great daring and aided by ...Show more