 | 1984 (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
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by Everyman's Library
Hardcover
(03 November, 1992)
(1030 reviews) 
Customer Review: This is where we're at folks! Lies are Truth!: This 1949 classic has lost none of its punch. With his descriptive depiction of the future, |
 | A Christmas Carol (Bantam Classic)
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by Bantam Classics
Paperback
(01 November, 1986)
(115 reviews)
Customer Review: What the Christmas spirit is all about.: Just as Clement Moore gave us the definitive Santa Claus in "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (a.k |
 | A Christmas Carol (Reissue)
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by Simon & Schuster Audio
Audio CD
(01 November, 1992)
(26 reviews)
Customer Review: A wonderful rendition of an enduring classic.: An audio record of Patrick Stewart's one-man rendition of Charles Dicken'sTimeless Classic. |
 | A Christmas Carol read by Jim Dale
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by Listening Library (Audio)
Audio CD
(01 October, 2003)
(2 reviews) 
Customer Review: A SPLENDID READING OF A CLASSIC TALE: Since 1843 the timeless story A Christmas Carol has been as much a part of our holiday season as Santa and wreaths on the door. |
 | A Passage to India
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by Harvest Books
Paperback
(17 March, 1965)
(76 reviews) 
Editorial Review: What really happened in the Marabar caves? This is the mystery at theheart of E.M. Forster's 1924 novel, A Passage to India, the puzzle that sets in motion events highlighting an even larger question: Can an Englishman and an Indian be friends? |
 | A Room of One's Own
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by Harvest Books
Paperback
(27 December, 1989)
(27 reviews)
Editorial Review: Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing, |
 | A Tale of Two Cities
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by Signet Book
Mass Market Paperback
(01 May, 1997)
(318 reviews)
Customer Review: Master of language and style: A Tale of Two Cities is set in the two cities of London and Paris, in the fourth quarter of the eighteenth century. |
 | About Love and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback
(01 June, 2004)
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 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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by Signet Classics
Mass Market Paperback
(12 December, 2000)
(34 reviews)
Customer Review: Classic Storytelling: I have grown up watching Disney's Alice in Wonderland, and knowing what liberties Disney is known to take in their movies, |
 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-up Adaptation
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by Little Simon
Hardcover
(01 October, 2003)
(19 reviews)
Customer Review: Another Sabuda masterpiece.: As a huge fan of Sabuda's WIZARD OF OZ, I grabbed ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND as soon as I saw it in the store, |
 | Best Short Stories/Les Meilleurs Contes: A Dual-Language Book (Dual-Language Book
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by Dover Publications
Paperback
(01 May, 1996)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: Proper.: As a language teacher and researcher, I've come to the conclusion that the single best way to learn a foreign language's vocabulary is through these sorts of dual-language texts. |
 | Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey/Maturin Series (Cloth))
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by W.W. Norton & Company
Hardcover
(27 October, 1999)
(51 reviews)
Editorial Review: Almost three decades after commencing his maritime epic with Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian is still at it. The 20th episode, Blue at the Mizzen, is another swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, |
 | Brideshead Revisited
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by Back Bay Books
Paperback
(September, 1999)
(47 reviews)
Editorial Review: One of Waugh's most famous books, Brideshead Revisited tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder, and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. |
 | Bridget Jones's Diary
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by Viking Books
Hardcover
(27 May, 1998)
(1007 reviews)
Editorial Review: In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridgetconfides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not tomention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) |
 | Cal
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by W. W. Norton & Company
Paperback
(01 June, 1995)
(13 reviews)
Editorial Review: First published in 1983, this lyrical novel, superficially straightforward but full of stories within stories, first brought Bernard MacLaverty's work to public attention. In the novel, a young Irish Republican Army operative who wants to break the cycle of violence seeks out a woman whose Ulster policeman husband he helped to murder. |
 | Case Histories : A Novel
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by Little, Brown
Hardcover
(09 November, 2004)
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 | Claudius the God : And His Wife Messalina (Vintage International)
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by Vintage
Paperback
(23 October, 1989)
(30 reviews)
Editorial Review: Picking up where the extraordinarily interesting I, Claudius ends, Claudius the God tells the tale of Claudius' 13-year reign as Emperor of Rome. Naturally, it ends when Claudius is murdered--believe me, |
 | Cloudstreet : A Novel
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by Scribner
Paperback
(06 June, 2002)
(15 reviews)
Customer Review: A masterpeice of Australian Literature: Tim Winton's work was recommended to me by an Australian friend who is an avid reader and it did not disappoint. |
 | Collected Short Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
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by Penguin Books
Paperback
(01 August, 1987)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: Superb Story-teller: Graham Greene just doesn't get the recognition he deserves as a short story writer. As a novelist, his reputation has been well-established, |
 | Collected Stories
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by Perennial
Paperback
(01 October, 1999)
(8 reviews)
Customer Review: Stories by a Master: This collection of twenty six stories by Nobel Laureate Garcia Marquez was first published as a whole in 1984, |
 | Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems and Essays
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by Perennial
Paperback
(01 September, 1989)
(11 reviews)
Customer Review: GET TO KNOW THE MAN: Oscar Wilde wrote some of the most brilliantly crafted, witty plays of all time. Get this book and read everything in it! |
 | Count Belisarius
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by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hardcover
(01 October, 1982)
(9 reviews) 
Customer Review: Great Story, Weak Novel: The story follows the Byzantine Empire's rule under Justinian and his greatest general, Belisarius. The narrator is the enuch servant of Belisarius' wife who follows him along on his campaigns. |
 | Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics)
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by Penguin Books
Paperback
(01 March, 1988)
(35 reviews)
Customer Review: Review on Daisy Miller: In the novel "Daisy Miller", Henry James shows the readers how Daisy, a young American girl, lives outside the social guidelines of the upper class in the 1800's. |
 | DAUGHTER OF TIME
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by Touchstone
Paperback
(29 November, 1995)
(96 reviews)
Editorial Review: Josephine Tey is often referred to as the mystery writer for people who don't like mysteries. Her skills at character development and mood setting, and her tendency to focus on themes not usually touched upon by mystery writers, |
 | David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
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by Penguin Books
Paperback
(01 September, 1997)
(86 reviews)
Customer Review: Life Is A Great Storm: David Copperfield, Dickens' favorite child, is an experience. Forget what your high school teacher or college professor told you. |
 | Desolation Island (Aubrey-Maturin (Paperback))
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by W. W. Norton & Company
Paperback
(01 August, 1991)
(32 reviews)
Editorial Review: Captain Bligh (yes, the guy from the Bounty) needs to be rescued, and the Royal Navy has the perfect man for the job: Captain Jack Aubrey. With his friend and cloak-and-dagger expert Stephen Maturin in tow, |
 | Eleven Short Stories/Undici Novelle: A Dual-Language Book (Dual-Language Book)
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by Dover Publications
Paperback
(01 June, 1994)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: A great tool: This book is a great version of these classic tales. Being a dual-language text makes it an excellent aid to Italian language study. |
 | Emma Brown
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by Viking Books
Hardcover
(12 April, 2004)
(6 reviews)
Customer Review: The mystery of "Emma Pilgrim.": The first two chapters of this novel are the work of Charlotte Brontë (JANE EYRE). When Brontë died in 1855, |
 | Emma
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by Bantam Classics
Mass Market Paperback
(01 January, 1984)
(150 reviews)
Customer Review: witty, hugely enjoyable read: I can never decide whether Pride and Prejudice or Emma is my favourite book by Jane Austen. Emma has all the Jane Austen hallmarks - wit, |
 | Emperor: The Death of Kings (Iggulden, Conn. Emperor Series, V. 2.)
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by Delacorte Press
Hardcover
(02 March, 2004)
(11 reviews)
Customer Review: Stick with Colleen McCullough: If historical fiction is your bag, be warned that Iggulden's works are more fiction than history and pale in comparison to Colleen McCullough's magnificent series on Caesar, |
 | Essential Shakespeare Handbook
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by DK Publishing Inc
Turtleback
(01 April, 2004)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: A Must for Every Library at Home and at School: Brimming with fabulous illustrations and information, The Essential Shakespeare Handbook is also a good read. |
 | Favorite Jane Austen Novels : Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion
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by Dover Publications
Paperback
(07 May, 1997)
(18 reviews)
Customer Review: Completely Absorbing: Pride and Prejudice is a story I could easily read once a year. Jane Austen's characters are expertly drawn; |
 | From Russia With Love: A James Bond Novel
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by Penguin Books
Paperback
(01 December, 2002)
(36 reviews)
Customer Review: A Great Cold War Thriller: By far the most realistic of the Bond books. Fleming's description of the MGB (later KGB) headquarters in Moscow's Dzherzinsky Square, |
 | Good-Bye to All That : An Autobiography (Anchor Books)
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by Anchor
Paperback
(01 February, 1958)
(29 reviews)
Editorial Review: The quintessential memoir of the generation of Englishmen who suffered in World War I is among the bitterest autobiographies ever written. Robert Graves's stripped-to-the-bone prose seethes with contempt for his class, |
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