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Fifth Business
Robertson Davies
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Robertson Davies had long been known in Canada as a newspaper journalist and playwright, but after ...
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
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Feb 25 2003
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Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy an...
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Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
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Jan 28 2003
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Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford'...
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Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham
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Mar 26 1992
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The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London t...
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Penguin Classics Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
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Dec 31 2002
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Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spend...
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Dangerous Liaisons
Choderlos de Laclos
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Mar 27 2007
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses has been made into a play and twice filmed within the last decade. None of these versions did much to explain what makes this epistolary novel of cynical seduction a masterpiece. This recording should help. The letters are read by ...
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Penguin Classics Lady Chatterleys Lover
D. H. Lawrence
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Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 ...
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Day of the Locust and The Dream Life of Balso
Nathanael West
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Feb 24 2000
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Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an ...
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Penguin Classics Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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This is an award-winning new translation of the great Russian novel....
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Penguin Classics Master And Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Sep 25 2007
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Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than ...
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Modern Classics At Swim Two Birds
Flann Obrien
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Feb 17 2000
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In a 1938 letter to a literary agent, Flann O'Brien described his first novel as "a very queer affair, unbearably queer perhaps." The book in question was ...
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Penguin Classics Bleak House
Charles Dickens
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Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the ...
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Penguin Classics Count Of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure a...
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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May 31 2004
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Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Dostoyevsky set out to create a protagonist with 'a truly beautiful soul' and to trace the fate of such an individual as he comes into contact with the brutal reality of contemporary society. The novel begins whe...
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Penguin Classics Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
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In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the o...
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Penguin Classics Don Quixote
Miguel Cervantes
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Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote's fancy lea...
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Modern Classics On The Road
Jack Kerouac
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Feb 1 2000
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"On the Road" swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American...
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Modern Classics Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
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On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reach...
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A Clockwork Orange
Blake Morrison
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Feb 17 2000
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William S. Burroughs
I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language as Mr. Burgess has done here-the fact that this is also a very funny book may pass unnoticed. ...
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Lives of Girls and Women (Penguin Modern Classics)
Jane Smiley
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Lives of Girls and Women is the intensely readable, touching, and very funny story of Del Jordan, a young woman who journeys from the carelessness of childhood through an uneasy adolescence in search of love and sexual experience. As Del dreams of becoming famous, suffers embarrassment about her ...
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Penguin Classics Tales From The Thousand And One Nights
N Dawood
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Feb 2 2004
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The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" to the ...
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Penguin Classics Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
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Grade 8 Up-British actor Martin Shaw reads this shortened version of the classic Emily Bronte novel. His easily-understood accent is appropriate and helps to set the mood. Shaw reads at a very steady pace, pausing effectively for emphasis or when his chara...
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Modern Classics Ulysses
James Joyce
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Mar 23 2000
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Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen D...
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Penguin Classics Picture Of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he ...
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Penguin Modern Classics Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
Ann Macdonald
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Sep 30 2005
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a novel about costs. How much will Duddy sacrifice to get what he wants? "Born with a rusty spoon in his mouth," Duddy is a hustler and a schemer, scrambling to acquire the idyllic lakefront property he thinks will raise him out of ...
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Penguin Classics Lady With The Little Dog And Other Stories
Anton Chekhov
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Jun 28 2004
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In the final years of his life, Chekhov had reached the height of his powers as a dramatist, and also produced some of the stories that rank among his masterpieces. The poignant 'The Lady with the Little Dog' and 'About Love' examine the nature of love out...
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