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Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"The title refers to an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. This game involves all branches of knowledge, and spiritual values - especially those of the east. Hesse's longing to find a dynamic fusion of mind with nature is set forth more pene ...Show more
Great Expectations (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens; F. W. Pailthorpe (Illustrator)
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Category: General | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative ac ...Show more
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"This is an essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. The text ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of plea ...Show more
Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Brontë Ser.
2016 CHARLOTTE BRONTE BICENTENARY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. But though they may be poor, life for the four March sisters is rich with colour, a ...Show more
Little Women & Good Wives (Vintage Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: General | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Life in the March" household is full of adventures and accidents as the four very different March sisters follow their varying paths to adulthood, always maintaining the special bond between them. Sensible Meg, impetuous Jo, shy Beth and artistic Amy each have to confront different challenges as they g ...Show more
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: General | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Mary Barton is the pretty daughter of a factory worker who finds herself dreaming of a better life when the mill-owner's charming son, Henry, starts to court her. She rejects her childhood friend Jem's affections in the hope of marrying Henry and escaping from the hard and bitter life that is the fate o ...Show more
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Kafka's most famous stories, including Metamorphosis, Investigations of a Dog and In the Penal Settlement.
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more
Patrick White: A life by David Marr
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Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster ...' Patrick White Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogra ...Show more
Pickwick Papers (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens’s first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr. Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds of scrapes and adventures. Funny, warm-hearted and f ...Show more