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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more
A ROOM WITH A VIEW by FORSTER E M
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
One of English literature's most inspiring love storiesLucy Honeychurch is a young woman torn between the opposing values of gray old England and vibrant Italy in this unforgettable story of romance and rebellion. On a trip to Florence with her older cousin and chaperone, Lucy becomes enchanted by a fre ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Category: History | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Before the concept of equality between the sexes was even conceived, Wollstonecraft wrote this book, a treatise of proto-feminism that was as powerful and original then as it is now. In it she argues with clarity and originality for the rational education of women and for an increased female contributio ...Show more
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Agnes Grey is an 1847 novel written by English author Anne Brontë. The novel is about a governess of that name and is said to be based on Brontë's own experiences in the field. It was Brontë's first novel. Similar to her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, this is a novel that addresses what the precari ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of ...Show more
Bright Star The Complete Poems and Selected Letters (Vintage Classics) by John Keats
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Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This book includes an introduction by director Jane Campion. John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 26. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his l ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be ...Show more
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
Clouds of Witness - A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery by Dorothy L. Sayers
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Category: Crime/Mystery Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A witty and clever whodunit by one of the greatest mystery writers of the twentieth century, featuring her dashing amateur sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey. "Sayers brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, and wit. She gave it a new style and a new direction, and she did more than almost any ...Show more