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| F. Scott Fitzgerald | A young man newly rich tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact that she has married. |
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| H. G. Wells | The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Edward Prendick, a young naturalist, finds himself stranded on a remote Pacific island run by the sinister Dr. Moreau, a mad scientist intent on creating a strain of beast men. |
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| Agatha Christie | A killer stalks ten strangers on an isolated island off the Devon coast, in a suspenseful story of murder and retribution set to a sinister nursery rhyme |
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| Henry David Thoreau |
Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next two years, he lived there as simply as possible, learning to eliminate the unnecessary material and spiritual details that intrude upon human happiness. Thoreau described his experiences in Walden, using vivid, forceful prose that transforms his reflections on nature into richly evocative metaphors. In a world obsessed with technology and luxury, this American classic about seeking "the essential facts of life" seems more relevant today than ever. This beautiful, fully illustrated edition of Walden brings a rarely seen visual and artistic dimension to Thoreau's philosophical masterpiece.
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| Jules Verne |
In the mid-nineteenth century, a French professor and his two companions become trapped aboard a fantastic submarine as prisoners of the deranged Captain Nemo and come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above. |
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| Charles Dickens | Presents the classic tale of love, courage, and sacrifice set against the cataclysmic events of the French Revolution, and the story of the orphan Pip and his rise in Victorian society when a mysterious benefactor allows him to be educated as a gentleman. |
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| Bram Stoker | Presents the tale of a bizarre Carpathian count who drinks human blood to stay alive, and the Englishman who knows his secret. |
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| Aldous Huxley | Far into the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever us of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all of its members are happy consumers. Except for Bernard Marx. |
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| Thomas More | Presents the English statesman's classic denunciations of sixteenth-century tyranny and corruption and vision of an ideal society, along with historical and biographical notes. |
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| Virginia Woolf |
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. |
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| J.R.R. Tolkien |
Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services - as a burglar - on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo's life is never to be the same again. |
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| Dana Thomas Bowen | Focuses on the ships that cruise and cruised the Great Lakes. |
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| Lewis Carroll | Prints from the original wood engravings of Carroll's classic work complement the tale of Alice's fantastic trip down the rabbit hole and into a bizarre world. |
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| John Steinbeck | A poor fisherman dreams of wealth and happiness for his family when he finds a priceless pearl. |
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| Herman Melville | The story of Captain Ahab's obssession with the great white whale that crippled him. |
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| Viktor E. Frankl | A prominent Viennese psychiatrist recounts his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp that led to the development of his existentialist approach to psychotherapy. |
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| L. M. Montgomery |
When Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, decide to adopt a child from a distant orphanage, they don't get quite what they bargained for. The child who awaits them at the tiny Bright River train station is not the strapping young boy they'd imagined--someone to help Matthew work the fields of their small farm--but rather a freckle-faced, redheaded girl named Anne (with an e, if you please). nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Matthew and Marilla may not be sure about Anne, but Anne takes one look at Prince Edward Island's red clay roads and the Cuthberts' snug white farmhouse with its distinctive green gables and decides that she's home at last. But will she be able to convince Marilla and Matthew to let her stay?
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| Jenny Gray and Robert Louis Stevenson | While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune. |
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| Frances Hodgson Burnett | A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. |
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| Sunzi | An ancient Chinese treatise on war stresses the importance of speed, sound tactics, subterfuge, discipline, appropriate forms of attack, and accurate intelligence |
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