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Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales by the celebrated playwright and poet include "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" and "A House of Pomegranates. " Revised reissue.

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The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries

Includes an Introduction by Anne Perry and a New Afterword by Regina Barreca. Indisputably the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes lives on - in films, on television, and of course through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inimitable craft. These twenty-two stories show Holmes at his brilliant best.

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Fall of the House of Usher and Other, Th
Fall of the House of Usher and Other, Th

Fall of the House of Usher and Other, Th

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The Time Machine. The Invisible Man
The Time Machine. The Invisible Man

Together in one indispensable volume, "The Time Machine "and "The Invisible Man "are masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from H. G. Wells, the father of science fiction. "The Time Machine" conveys the Time Traveller into the distant future and an extraordinary world. There, stranded on a slowly dying Earth, he discovers two bizarre races: the effete Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks a ha...

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Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories
Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories

Spanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories by Washington Irving * Nathaniel Hawthorne * Edgar Allan Poe * Herman Melville * Harriet Beecher Stowe * Bret Harte * Bayard Taylor * Rose Terry Cooke * Ambrose Bierce * Hamlin Garland * Mary E. Wilkens Freeman * Henry James * Charlotte Perkins Gilman * Sarah Orne Jewett * Grace Elizabeth King * Harold Frederic * ...

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The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Sorrows of Young Werther brings to life an idyllic German village where a youth on vacation meets and falls for lovely Charlotte. The tragedy unfolds in the letters Werther writes to his friend about Charlotte’s charms, even after he realizes his love will remain unrequited. “Reflections on Werther” and “Goethe in Sesenheim,” collections of excerpts from the author’s own memoirs, reveal the ge...

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Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural

They are the fearful images that have stalked humanity's nightmares for centuries, supernatural creatures that feast on flesh and haunt the soul, macabre and uncanny beings that frighten and fascinate the imagination. VAMPIRES, ZOMBIES, WEREWOLVES, AND GHOSTS collects classic stories from literary masters inspired by folklore and mythology who dared to explore the darker side of human natu...

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Signet Classics (Paperback))
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Signet Classics (Paperback))

Book DescriptionOne of the most important documents in American history. In this wrenching, classic autobiography, Douglass describes himself as a man who became a slave-and, later, a slave who became a man.

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Four Great Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Twelfth Night. The Tempest
Four Great Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Twelfth Night. The Tempest

"Comedies", as one of Shakespeare's contemporaries wrote, "begin in trouble and end in peace". This is certainly true of the four masterworks selected for this collection - The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest - each of which represents a significant stage in the development of the world's greatest dramatist. Reading these plays, we samp...

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Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet. Othello. King Lear. Macbeth
Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet. Othello. King Lear. Macbeth

What is tragedy? The Elizabethans defined it as a "lofty" play showing "personages of great state" caught up in a "lamentable" action that "beginneth prosperously and endeth unfortunately" Whether judged by this or any other standard, the plays selected for this collection - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth - are considered to be the four central works of Shakespearean tragedy and must be i...

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O. Henry: 41 Stories
O. Henry: 41 Stories

Readers the world over recognize O.Henry as the best short story writer of the early twentieth century. Even today a masterful surprise at the end of a story is described as "an O.Henry twist," and a prominent short fiction award bears his name. Widely known as a master of irony, O.Henry also displayed in his stories dazzling wordplay and a wry combination of pathos and humor. Including his most f...

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Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville family's home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted.? Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead' and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Wil...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

A fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty in Oscar Wilde’s fascinating gothic tale. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde’s only full-length novel, is the enduringly eerie story of a naïve and irresistible young man lured by decadent Lord Henry Wotton into a life of depravity. Though Dorian is steeped in sin, his face remains perfect, unlined as years pass—while only...

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The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories
The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories

Impressed into service aboard the seal-hunting Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant board drama. With a wary eye, he watches the captain, Wolf Larsen, an enigma who can abandon the open water, then return to reading the moral philosophers. One of the best sea novels ever written, The Sea-Wolf tells of mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation.

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Two Gothic Classics by Women
Two Gothic Classics by Women

These two examples of Gothic literature, The Italian, by Ann Radcliffe and Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen, are each acknowledged classics in their own right, but as presented here they offer a rare insight into women's literature--and lives--in the 19th century.

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What to Listen For in Music (Signet Classics)
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A Room with a View and Howards End
A Room with a View and Howards End

Wit and intelligence are the hallmarks of these two probing portraits of the English character written by E.M.Forster. Both are stories of extreme contrasts - in values, social class and cultural perspectives. Romantic relationships lead to conventional happiness in the delightful social comedy "A Room With a View", and to unexpected scandal in the richer, deeply moving novel "Howards End". "Ho...

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King John/Henry VIII
King John/Henry VIII

King John/Henry VIII

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Poems by Robert Frost (Centennial Edition)
Poems by Robert Frost (Centennial Edition)

Poems by Robert Frost (Centennial Edition)

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Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

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Ramona
Ramona

One of the greatest ethical novels of the nineteenth century, this is a tale of true love tested. Set in Old California, this powerful narrative richly depicts the life of the fading Spanish order, the oppression of tribal American communities and inevitably, the brutal intrusion of white settlers. Ramona, an illegitimate orphan, grows up as the ward of the overbearing Senora Moreno. But her desir...

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The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden

"Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way – or always to have it." When her parents die, Mary, spoiled, yet unloved, is shipped from India to England to live with her absent uncle. When she discovers a secret garden, and starts to tend to it, like the flowers, she comes to life. One day she hears a cry from within the mansion, and soon learns that she is not the ...