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1) A tale of two cities

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Dickens, Charles

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A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's great historical novel, set against the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author's novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores...

2) Roughing it

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Half-title The writings of Mark Twain. Author's national ed. v.7-8
Author's national edition The writings of Mark Twain; v.7
Classics of the Old West
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Originally published over one hundred years ago, "Roughing It" tells the (almost) true story of Mark Twain's rollicking adventures across the United States. A hilarious account of how the author tried finding wealth in the rocks of Nevada, it was published before his most famous works and shows why he would grow to become one of the most beloved American writers of all time. The story follows many of Twain's early adventures, including a visit to...

3) Ben-Hur: a tale of the Christ

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Oxford world's classics
Norilana Books classics
World's best reading
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A deluxe Harper Perennial Legacy Edition, with an introduction from John Swansburg, Deputy Editor at SlateOne of the best-selling books of all time, Lew Wallace's enduring epic is a tale of revenge, betrayal, honor, compassion and the power of forgiveness, set during the life of Christ. At the beginning of the first century, Judah Ben-Hur lived as a prince, descended from the royal line of Judea and one of Jerusalem's most prosperous merchant families....

4) The prince and the pauper: a tale for young people of all ages

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World Juvenile Library
Children's illustrated classics volume no. 80
World's best reading
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In this amusing satire of Renaissance England, Mark Twain relates a story of Edward IV, son of Henry VIII who was England's boy king, and Tom Canty, his pauper look-alike. In the story the boys become acquainted and exchange clothes and life styles in order to learn how the other lives.

5) Life on the Mississippi

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American century
Harper's modern classics
Signet classic
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A memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The first half details a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541 and describes Twain's career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood dream. The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain's return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New Orleans. By then the competition from...

6) Uncle Tom's cabin ; or, life among the lowly

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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100 greatest books ever written
John Harvard library
Aladdin classics
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The controversial novel, published in 1852, in which author Harriet Beecher Stowe offers an indictment of the pre-Civil War South through the story of Uncle Tom, an elderly slave who maintains his human dignity in the face of cruelty, suffering, and death.

7) The scarlet letter

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Perma-Bound Classics
Barnes and Noble classics
Norton critical ed
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In seventeenth-century Boston, Hester Prynne shoulders the scorn of her fellow Puritan townsfolk for bearing a child out of wedlock. For her refusal to name the father of her daughter Pearl, Hester is made to wear a scarlet 'A' stitched conspicuously upon her dress. But though she bears the stigma of the shame her peers would confer upon her, others feel the guilt for her transgression more acutely--notably the pious Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the...

8) Twice-told tales

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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World's best reading
Everyman's library volume no. 531
American Authors in Prose and Poetry volume 4
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Collects brief fictional works and legends by the nineteenth-century New England literary master.

9) The old curiosity shop

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Dickens, Charles

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Charles Dickens works
World's best reading
Oxford illustrated Dickens
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Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfless devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the stunted, lecherous and demonic money-lender Daniel Quilp, the shop is seized and they are forced to flee, thrown into a shadowy world in which there seems to be no safe haven. Dickens's portrayal of the innocent, tragic Nell made The Old Curiosity Shop an instant...

10) The return of the native

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Oxford world's classics
Harper's modern classics
HRW library
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An enduring tale of love, desire, and the universal longing both to leave one's home and to return to it, this novel is one of Hardy's greatest and most affecting works. Hardy's passionately drawn characters and his vivid rendering of their valiant but ultimately ineffective struggle in destiny's web result in a masterpiece of melancholy brilliance.

11) Sense and sensibility

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Oxford World's Classics
Harper's modern classics
Rittenhouse classics
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Jane Austen's first published novel, sparkling with wit and artistry, captures the inequities of birth, class, and marriage faced by the sisters Dashwood. Published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Forced to leave their home after their father's death, Elinor and Marianne must rely on making good marriages as their means of support....

12) Captains courageous: a story of the Grand Banks

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Kipling, Rudyard

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World's best reading
Charnwood library

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This vintage book contains Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel, "Captains Courageous". A fifteen-year-old boy called Harvey Cheyne Jr. is rescued by a Portuguese sailor in the North Atlantic. After refusing to deliver Harvey to the nearest port, the captain of the boat suggests that the boy join the crew on their fishing trip, which turns out to be full of adventures and travails. This book is highly recommended for those who have read and enjoyed other...

13) Silas Marner

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Lake English classics
Winston companion classics
New pocket classics
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A miser finds redemption through caring for an abandoned child.

14) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court

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The complete novels of Mark Twain
First Avenue Classics
Modern library volume 162
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"The book relates the tale of Hank Morgan, an engineer from 19th century Hartford Connecticut, who is inexplicably transported to the early medieval England of King Arthur. While there he uses his knowledge of modern technology to appear as though he is a magician. Despite his best intentions, Hank?s attempts to modernize the past bring about a tragic end. A bittersweet depiction of the Arthurian legend through the eyes of a 19th century American..."...

15) Kim

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Kipling, Rudyard

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Signet classic
Classics volume CL75
World's best reading
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Rudyard Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Born in India and growing into early manhood, Kim is the son of an Irish soldier born under British Imperial rule in 19th century India. Left in the care of a half-caste woman, Kim is free to explore the back allies and bazaars of Lahore. But when he meets with his father's old regiment he trades his native clothes for European suits and abandons his...

16) Treasure Island

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Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Rainbow classics
Best loved classics
Penguin classics
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When a mysterious seafarer puts up at the Admiral Benbow, young Jim Hawkins is haunted by his frightening tales; the sailor's sudden death is the beginning of one of the most exciting adventure stories in literature. The discovery of a treasure map sets Jim and his companions in search of buried gold, and they are soon on board the Hispaniola with a crew of buccaneers recruited by the one-legged sea cook, Long John Silver. As they near their destination,...

17) The Virginian

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Oxford world's classics
Educator classic library volume 6
Recorded Books classics library
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His background is shadowy, his presence commanding. He brings law and order to a frontier town and wins the love of a pretty schoolteacher from the East. He is the Virginian -- the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks his first appearance in popular culture -- the birth of a legend that lives with...

18) The sea wolf

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Dover thrift editions
Bantam pathfinder editions
Classic literature with classical music
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A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas. The Sea Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. The vivid story of a gentleman scholar's rescue and subsequent ordeal at the hands of a hunting schooner's brutal captain and devious crew. It remains one of Jack London's finest achievements.

19) Around the world in 80 days

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Classic collection)
Timeless Classics
Studio book
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