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  • George Orwell (2 Book Boxed Set)
    George Orwell (2 Book Boxed Set)
    Orwell, George
    George Orwell’s towering classics, now in a two-book mass market boxed setToday it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece classics have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.The 75th Anniversary Edition of 1984Orwell’s chilling dystopian vision of ...

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  • Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The
    Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The
    Christie, Agatha / Ware, Ruth (intro.)
    This Signet Classics edition of Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd includes an exclusive Introduction by Ruth Ware.In the small English village of King’s Abbot, a widow’s suicide has stirred up dreadful rumors of blackmail and deception. Most shocking of all is the subsequent murder of her lover Roger Ackroyd, stabbed to death in his own study by an unknown assailant...

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  • Treasure Island
    Treasure Island
    Stevenson, Robert Louis
    For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From young Jim Hawkins’s first encounter with the sinister beggar Pew to the climactic battle with the most memorable villain in literature, Long John Silver, this novel has fired readers’ imaginations for generations. A rousing tale of treachery, greed, and daring, Treasure Island cont...

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  • Iliad
    Iliad
    Homer
    Humans and gods wrestling with towering emotions. Men fighting to the death amid devastation and destruction. Perhaps the Western world’s first and best storyteller, Homer draws the reader in with bated breath. His masterful tale contains some of the most famous episodes in all of literature: the curse on the prophet Cassandra; the siege of Troy; the battle between Hector and A...

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  • Time Machine, The
    Time Machine, The
    Wells, H.G.
    The revolutionary novel that catapulted readers into the future, from the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells.“I’ve had a most amazing time....” So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey eight hundred thousand years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H. G. Wells’s successful career. With a speculative leap that still fires the ima...

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  • Leaves of Grass
    Leaves of Grass
    Whitman, Walt
    Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with Leaves of Grass. Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of America’s greatest poets—an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country and wrote o...

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  • Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories, The
    Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories, The
    Tolstoy, Leo
    Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep aside the sham of surface appearances and lay bare man’s intimate gestures, acts, and thoughts. Murder and sacrifice…greed and devotion…lust and affection…vanity and love—one by one, in this volume of great stories, Tolstoy dissects the basic drives, emotions, and motives of ordina...

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  • Little Women
    Little Women
    May Alcott, Louisa
    Louisa May Alcott shares the innocence of girlhood in this classic coming of age story about four sisters--Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy are responsible for keeping a home while their father is off to war. At the same time, they must come to terms with their individual personali...

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  • Walden and Civil Disobedience
    Walden and Civil Disobedience
    Thoreau, Henry David
    u003cbu003eHenry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks: u003ciu003eWaldenu003c/iu003e and u003ciu003eCivil Disobedienceu003c/iu003e.u003c/bu003e u003cpu003e In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of hu...

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  • Communist Manifesto, The
    Communist Manifesto, The
    Marx, Karl / Engels, Friedrich / Malia, Martin (intro.) / Kotkin, Stephen (afterword)
    Featuring an extensive, provocative introduction by historian Martin Malia, this authorized English translation of The Communist Manifesto, edited and annotated by Engels, with prefaces to editions published between 1872 and 1888, provides a new opportunity to examine the document that shook the world.In 1848, two young men published what would become one of the defining docume...

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  • Wuthering Heights
    Wuthering Heights
    Brontë, Emily
    There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of passionate love than the story of the tormented Heathcliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other. ...

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  • Idiot, The
    Idiot, The
    Dostoyevski, Fiódor
    Prince Myshkin, the idiot, is an almost comically innocent Christ figure in a land of sinners, one whose faith in beauty contrasts sharply with that of his society’s. ...

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  • Atlas Shrugged / The Fountainhead
    Atlas Shrugged / The Fountainhead
    Rand, Ayn
    Two Ayn Rand classics—Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead—together for the first time in a boxed set.Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the w...

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  • Scarlet Letter, The
    Scarlet Letter, The
    Hawthorne, Nathaniel
    This tragic novel of sin and redemption is Hawthorne's masterpiece of American fiction. An ardent young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging vengeful husband--these are the central characters in this stark drama of the conflict between passion and convention in the harsh world of seventeenth-century Boston. Tremendously moving and rich in psychological insight, this dramati...

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  • What to Listen for in Music
    What to Listen for in Music
    Copland, Aaron
    In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring readers a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms. ...

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  • Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
    Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
    Poe, Edgar Allan
    Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe's verse in this complete poetry collection. Although best known for his short stories, Edgar Allan Poe was by nature and choice a poet. From his exquisite lyric "To Helen," to his immortal masterpieces, "Annabel Lee," "The Bells," and "The Raven," Poe stands beside the celebrated English romantic poe...

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  • Sense and Sensibility
    Sense and Sensibility
    Austen, Jane
    Two sisters of opposing temperaments who share the pangs of tragic love provide the theme for Jane Austen’s dramatically human narrative.Elinor, practical and conventional, is the perfection of sense. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, is the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the t...

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  • Pride And Prejudice
    Pride And Prejudice
    Austen, Jane
    Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners is one of the most universally loved and admired English novels of all time. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." The Bennets are a family of five daughters, and with no male heir, the Bennet estate must someday pass to their priggish cousin Mr. Collins. Theref...

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  • Brothers Karamazov, The
    Brothers Karamazov, The
    Dostoyevski, Fiódor
    The final masterpiece from the celebrated author of Crime and Punishment and The Idiot...This extraordinary novel, Dostoyevsky’s last and greatest work, tells the dramatic story of four brothers—Dmitri, pleasure-seeking, impatient, unruly . . . Ivan, brilliant and morose . . . Alyosha, gentle, loving, honest . . . and the illegitimate Smerdyakov, sly, silent, cruel. Driven by i...

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  • Picture of Dorian Gray, The
    Picture of Dorian Gray, The
    Wilde, Oscar
    How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way!'Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful. The painting, which reflects each of Gray's sins ...

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  • Count of Monte Cristo, The
    Count of Monte Cristo, The
    Dumas, Alexandre
    In the post--Napoleonic era, a young sailor from Marseilles is poised to become captain of his own ship and marry his beloved. But jealous enemies provoke his arrest, condemning Edmond Dantès to lifelong imprisonment in the infamous Château d’If. There, his sole companion reveals his secret plan to escape, as well as the location of a trove of riches hidden on a remote island. ...

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  • Notes from Underground
    Notes from Underground
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
    A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating Fyodor Dostoyevsky's thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above all, humanity.From the primitive peasant who kills without understanding that he is destroying a human life, to the anxious antihero of Notes From Underground--a man who both craves and despises affection--this volu...

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  • Animal Farm: Anniversary Edition
    Animal Farm: Anniversary Edition
    Orwell, George
    Revisit Orwell’s classic satire Animal FarmAs ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As readers witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary ani...

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  • Origin of Species, The
    Origin of Species, The
    Darwin, Charles
    A special anniversary edition with a cover by controversial artist Damien HirstThis landmark work of scientific and philosophical thought sets forth Charles Darwin’s pioneering theory of evolution and the interdependence of species. On the Origin of Species had an immediate and profound impact on the literature and ideas of his contemporaries. Without setting out to be controve...

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  • Fountainhead, the
    Fountainhead, the
    Rand, Ayn
    When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat ...

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  • Atlas Shrugged
    Atlas Shrugged
    Rand, Ayn
    Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer o...

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  • Dracula / Frankenstein / Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    Dracula / Frankenstein / Dr. Jekyll and...
    Stoker, Bram / Shelley, Mary / Stevenson, Robert Louis
    Three horror icons come together in one indispensable tome--with an introduction by Stephen King. "Within the pages of this volume you will come upon three of the darkest creations of English nineteenth-century literature; three of the darkest in all of English and American literature, many would say...and not without justification...These three creatures, presented together fo...

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  • 1984
    1984
    Orwell, George
    The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip One. Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon current alignments, all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastas...

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  • Great Expectations
    Great Expectations
    Dickens, Charles
    An orphan living with his older sister and her kindly husband, Pip is hired by wealthy and embittered Miss Havisham as a companion for her and her beautiful adopted daughter, Estella. His years in service to the Havishams fill his heart with the desire to rise above his station in life. Pip’s wish is fulfilled when a mysterious benefactor provides him with “great expectations”—...

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  • Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
    Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
    Milton, John
    These controversial epic poems demonstrate Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and drama in profound explorations of the moral problems of God's justice-and what it truly means to be human. ...

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