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Cinderella and Other Stories from the Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang (Editor)
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Six popular tales -- "Cinderella," "The Bronze Ring," "Felicia and the Pot of Pinks," "The White Cat," "The Story of Pretty Goldilocks" and "Snow-white and Rose-red" -- not only introduce today's youngsters to the enchanting world of fairyland but also give adults an opportunity to return to the wonderf ...Show more
Civil War Poetry - An Anthology by Paul Negri (Editor)
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The long agony of the American Civil War inspired a wealth of contemporary verse -- from sentimental doggerel to sublime lyrics that rank among the finest American poetry. This inexpensive anthology brings together a superb selection of poems from both North and South, comprising the best and most repre ...Show more
Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, Charles Dickens and Others by John Grafton (Editor)
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Assembled from the works of the finest masters of the genre, these compelling narratives promise to raise gooseflesh and accelerate pulses with their supernatural scenarios.Featured stories include J. S. LeFanu's "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street," with a mysterious old mansion ...Show more
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
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"In Common Sense a writer found his moment to change the world," Alan Taylor writes in his introduction. When Paine's attack on the British mixed constitution of kings, lords, and commons was published in January 1776, fighting had already erupted between British troops and American Patriots, but many P ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey
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In 1804, while a student at Oxford, Thomas De Quincey was looking for relief from excruciating pain when a college acquaintance recommended opium. "Opium!" De Quincey wrote. "Dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain! I had heard of it as I had of manna or of ambrosia, but no further: how unmeaning ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by F.M. Dostoevsky
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.
Reprint of the standard 1914 C. Garnett translation. Cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
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`Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ... My panache.'The first English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, in 1898, introduced the word panache into the English language. This single ...Show more
Daisy Miller by Henry James
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"What the European male fails to understand is that the American Girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent; and that her purity depends upon nothing she says or does..."--Leslie Fiedler When Frederick, an American expatriate traveling in Europe, meets the newly rich Miller family from New York ...Show more
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
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De Profundis by Oscar Wilde De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is an epistle written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to Lord Alfred Douglas.
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
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The Dead Souls written by Nikolay Gogol in 1842 is not only a masterpiece of Russian literature but also a deep timeless social satire.The plot is evolving around enterprising protagonist Mr. Chichikov who is being sent to a small town NN where he is buying from local landlords "dead souls or the rights ...Show more
Detection by Gaslight by Douglas G. Greene (Editor)
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Fourteen extraordinary Victorian and Edwardian crime stories by Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jacques Futrelle, G. K. Chesterton, and others -- many never before published in book form.
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son is a darkly witty tale of two siblings' struggle to achieve happiness in the shadow of their father's pride, edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders in Penguin Classics.To Paul Dombey, business is all and money can do anything. He runs his family life as ...Show more