The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places; brilliant and pl ...Show more
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
A century has passed since the Norman Conquest, and England is still a colony of foreign warlords. Prince John is plotting to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lion-Hearted, and Robin Hood and his merry band are making fools out of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Wilfred, knight of Ivanhoe, th ...Show more
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young ...Show more
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante Dante, Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
The first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in whi ...Show more
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
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Category: Classic Fiction
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look cover for Orwell's timeless satire. 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs ...Show more
History of the Peloponnesian War by THUCYDIDES
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Translated by Rx Warner. Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c. 460-400 BC) was an Athenian and a ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Ros Ballaster, University of OxfordMarianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the ...Show more
Picnic At Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES - STARRING NATALIE DORMER It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pr ...Show more
The Place on Dalhousie PB by Melina Marchetta
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Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'You look the type to break your father's heart.''Yeah, but he broke mine first.' When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed. Two years lat ...Show more
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' - Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbid ...Show more
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more