The Book of Hymns by Martin H. Manser
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Reference
"The Wordsworth Book of Hymns" is a fresh anthology of favourite hymns. This inspiring selection has such time-honoured favourites as the harvest - 'We plough the fields and scatter', the Christmas 'O come all ye faithful', as well as hymns suitable for weddings - 'Love divine, all loves excelling' and ...Show more
The Tain by Joseph Dunn (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Ole Miss Juvenilia by William Faulkner
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Faulkner's prolific publication history began at the age of 16 with poems and sketches for the Ole Miss campus newspaper, The Mississippian. The author continued to contribute to the publication throughout his student days at the university as well as after dropping out. These early works of poetry and ...Show more
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Usually classified as a "problem comedy," All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible, and of ...Show more
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The book is written in the third person, but is mostly written from the perspective of Niel Herbert, a young man who grows up in Sweet Water and witnesses the decline of Mrs. Forrester, for whom he feels very deeply, and also of the West itself from the idealized age of noble pioneers to the age of capi ...Show more
My Life on the Plains - Or, Personal Experiences with Indians by George Armstrong Custer
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
An officer and cavalry commander during the Civil War and Indian wars, General George Armstrong Custer (1839-76) was well-known in his lifetime for his personal daring and his aggressive approach to warfare. After his "last stand" in 1876, he was even more famous as the commander who led his entire unit ...Show more
The Old Maid by Edith Wharton; Roxana Robinson (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Delia rejected passion in favor of a secure marriage but cousin Charlotte followed her own heart, even though it meant remaining unwed and giving up her baby. Charlotte's sacrifice has allowed the child, Tina, an advantageous position in New York City's fashionable society as Delia's adopted daughter. N ...Show more
Selected Stories by Sherwood Anderson
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Beginning with his 1919 masterpiece, Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson exercised an immense influence on American fiction writers. "Anderson was the father of all my works," declared William Faulkner, "and those of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, etc. ... He showed us the way." Written in a seemingly simple na ...Show more
Mosquitoes by William Faulkner
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.
William Faulkner's inspiration for his second novel, Mosquitoes (1927), was his involvement in the 1920s New Orleans creative community. Mosquitoes explores the themes of sexuality and the societal role of the artist as it follows a bohemian cast of characters on a four-day cruise aboard the yacht Nausi ...Show more
Twelfth Night (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Cambridge School Shakespeare Ser.
An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are en ...Show more
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A young woman learns about life, and love found and lost, in this thought-provoking debut novel by one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and prolific writers. Rachel Vinrace is a motherless young woman who, at twenty-four, embarks on a sea voyage with a party of other English folk to South Amer ...Show more