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Villette by Charlotte Brontë; Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Villetteis Charlotte Bronte's powerful autobiographical novel of one woman's search for true love, edited with an introduction by Helen M. Cooper in Penguin Classics. With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Vi ...Show more
Walden - Everyman's Library by Henry Thoreau (Illustrator); Verlyn Klinkenborg (Introduction by)
Category: Nature | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Henry David Thoreau was just a few days short of his twenty-eighth birthday when he built a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond and began one of the most famous experiments in living in American history. Originally he was not, apparently, intending to write a book about his life at the pond, but nine year ...Show more
Walden, or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous experiment in simple living in American history. On the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin, successor to Thoreau's original publisher, is proud to publish a n ...Show more
War and Peace by L.N. Tolstoy
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes.At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly en ...Show more
Washington Square by Henry James; Arthur Phillips (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
'She will do as I have bidden her.'Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and the social eminence associated with Washington Square. She attracts the attention of a good-looking but penniless young man, Morris Townsend. His suit is encouraged by Catherine's romantically-minded aunt, Mrs Penniman, but ...Show more
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live : Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem ...Show more
Wedding Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics
A bouquet of wonderful wedding stories - by turns funny, passionate, bittersweet, and romantic, by famous writers from across the past two centuries. From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Lorrie Moore, and from Stephen Crane to Edwidge Danticat. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET CLASSICS. The stories collected here--inc ...Show more
Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Michael Irwin (Intro and Notes by)
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Wessex Tales is a collection of tales written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardy's birth in 1840In addition to his great "Wessex Novels," Thomas Hardy wrote Wessex Tales (1896), a collection of six stories written in the 1880s and 1890s that, for the most part, ...Show more
Wind In The Willows by GRAHAME Kenneth
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Since its beginnings as a series of stories told to Kenneth Grahame's young son, The Wind in the Willows has gone on to become one of the best-loved children's books of all time. The timeless story of Toad, Rat, Mole, and Badger has delighted readers of all ages for more than eighty years.Friendly Rat, ...Show more
Winnie-The-Pooh - Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard by A. A. Milne; Ernest H. Shepard (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
A gorgeous, full-color, hardcover edition of one of the most beloved children's classics in literature The iconic adventures of Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh, and their animal friends--Piglet, Kanga and Roo, Owl, Rabbit, Tigger, and Eeyore--have delighted generations of children. In this beauti ...Show more
Women In Love by D. H. Lawrence
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and ot ...Show more