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1984 by George Orwell
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has ...Show more
A Apple Pie and Traditional Nursery Rhymes by Kate Greenaway
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics
This charming volume brings back into print some of the finest illustrated children's books from the Arts and Crafts Movement: Kate Greenaway's much-loved alphabet book, A Apple Pie," " along with a selection of her illustrated nursery rhymes. Greenaway's drawings conjure up a never-never land of rural ...Show more
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul; Patrick Marnham (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the i ...Show more
A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND OTHER CHRISTMAS BO by DICKENS CHARLES
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
The final volume in the Everyman's Library Charles Dickens collection: the timeless story of everyone's favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens's Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham's classic illustrations. No holiday season is complete without the story of tightfi ...Show more
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
With an introduction by author Teju Cole, A House for Mr Biswas is Nobel Prize in Literature winner V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable masterpiece. Heart-rending and darkly comic, it has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the ...Show more
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland : With the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Allan (INT) James; Massie Samuel; Boswell Johnson
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library (Cloth)
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson; James Boswell
Category: Travel | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides recounts their tour of Scotland in 1773. While Johnson focuses on Scotland itself, Boswell is even keener on presenting his friend to the notables of his homeland. Together they form a co ...Show more
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to Indiais published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and pr ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Discover James Joyce's impressionistic portrait of a young man finding his artistic voice in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, reissued to coincide with 100 years since the first publication of his epic masterpiece, Ulysses EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER; WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY DR DIETER FUCHS AND ...Show more
A Room with a View - Where Angels Fear to Tread by Ann Pasternak Slater (Introduction by); E. M. Forster
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
E. M. Forster's beloved Italian novels, now in a single hardcover volume. Forster's most memorably romantic exploration of the liberating effects of Italy on the English, A Room with a View follows the carefully chaperoned Lucy Honeychurch to Florence. There she meets the unconventional George Emerson a ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Set in London and Paris at the time of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities (1859) sees the causes and effects of that great social upheaval from an essentially private point of view. Dickens's characters are fictional, their responses individual, their political activity minimal, but all are cau ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Vintage Feminism- classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE WILLIAMS