Classics Books


Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics)Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics)
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In this 1910 story of Edwardian England, Forster illustrates the conflicts between the superior...
Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics)Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics)
Whether one believes or not: Satan disguises as a foreign magician, and along with his...
Little Women (Penguin Classics)Little Women (Penguin Classics)
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Louisa May Alcott wrote many books, but "Little Women" retains a special place in the...
MiddlemarchMiddlemarch
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I am very unhappy with this product. Although it is described as 'unabridged' that was...
The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Best Price: $7.34
I get so tired of this worn-out formula: 1) loser gets tangled up with a saintly married woman,...


Tess of the d'UrbervillesTess of the d'Urbervilles
My favorite book of classic literature, Tess had me crying and begging for more. Hardy unfolds...
Emma (Oxford World's Classics)Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
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Emma is basically a darling snob. She has a kind, loving heart, and really wants to do good, but...
The PearlThe Pearl
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The novella, midway in length between the novel and the short story, was a popular literary form...
Howard's EndHoward's End
Most of us connect the notion of "home" or "childhood home" with one...
Puck of Pook's Hill (Penguin Classics)Puck of Pook's Hill (Penguin Classics)
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This is Kipling "tripling" through British history and concocting a...


ULYSSESULYSSES
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It seems Ulysses touches on every theme experienced in human life. But it doesn't dwell on...
The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics)The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics)
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When I was first assigned to read John Steinbeck's book The Grapes of Wrath in English...
The House of Mirth (Twentieth-Century Classics)The House of Mirth (Twentieth-Century Classics)
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this is my favorite book. absolute favorite. it's not unusual for me to get caught up in a...
Heart of Darkness (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)Heart of Darkness (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
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'Heart of Darkness', the tale of a European seaman journeying up an African river, is a...
Ethan Frome (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)Ethan Frome (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
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This brief but tragic novel casts a weirdly mesmeric spell, helped greatly by the fact that you...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Twentieth-Century Classics)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Twentieth-Century Classics)
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, by James Joyce, is about growing up Irish Catholic in...
The Red Pony (Twentieth-Century Classics)The Red Pony (Twentieth-Century Classics)
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For much of my life, I have, despite the enthusiasm for Steinbeck by best friend/hero, avoided...
Sense & Sensibility (Everyman's Library)Sense & Sensibility (Everyman's Library)
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Jane Austin is one of my favorite authors. I think that "Persuasion" is her best...
Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)
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I've noticed that the negative reviews of the novel are focused on the sexual content...
Flappers and Philosophers (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)Flappers and Philosophers (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
``Flappers and Philosophers'' was F. Scott Fitzgerald's first short-story...

King Henry V (Cambridge School Shakespeare)King Henry V (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
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Henry V remains today as the most heroic of English Kings. The battle of Agincourt in English...
Fahrenheit 451 (Spanish) (Spanish Edition)Fahrenheit 451 (Spanish) (Spanish Edition)
This tale is as important today as it was when I first read this book 17 years ago. Back then I...
ImmortalityImmortality
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Milan Kundera is one of the most important writers in post war Europe. Each of his novels is...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is Mark Twain's most popular book, and its hero is a...
Nostromo (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)Nostromo (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)
Best Price: $18.85
Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, this work is an illustration of the...

White FangWhite Fang
Jack London's classic companion novel to Call of the Wild is now available through Buki...
Nemesis (Agatha Christie Collection S.)Nemesis (Agatha Christie Collection S.)
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Even the unflappable Miss Marple is astounded as she reads the letter addressed to her on...
Oliver Twist (Oxford Illustrated Dickens)Oliver Twist (Oxford Illustrated Dickens)
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Right off the bat, I've never been a fan of Dickens. To me, there's always been...
Dracula (World's Classics)Dracula (World's Classics)
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This classic is by far one of the most thrilling of the many books that I have read. From the...
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Oxford World's Classics)The Mayor of Casterbridge (Oxford World's Classics)
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The Mayor of Casterbridge focuses mainly on Michael Henchard, but it's the little characters...

The Comedies (Oxford World's Classics)The Comedies (Oxford World's Classics)
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Terence was the outstanding comedic playwright of his generation and one of the founding fathers...
Le Morte D'Arthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World's Classics)Le Morte D'Arthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World's Classics)
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Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur is one of the better known texts of the Arthurian...
The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics)The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics)
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(I should note I read this novel without the benefit of the Penguin or World's Classics...
The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)
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This is a lesser-known classic that deserves more recognition that it gets. It is a novel about...
The Three Musketeers (The World's Classics)The Three Musketeers (The World's Classics)
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This is by far one of the best (if not the best) books ever written. The First in a Series of...

Tess of the D'UrbervillesTess of the D'Urbervilles
My review is based on the Oxford Classics Edition. Thomas Hardy seems to have been interested...
Sense & Sensibility (Everyman's Library)Sense & Sensibility (Everyman's Library)
Best Price: $2.72
Jane Austin is one of my favorite authors. I think that "Persuasion" is her best...
Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)
Best Price: $39.55
I've noticed that the negative reviews of the novel are focused on the sexual content...
Flappers and Philosophers (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)Flappers and Philosophers (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
``Flappers and Philosophers'' was F. Scott Fitzgerald's first short-story...
King Henry V (Cambridge School Shakespeare)King Henry V (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
Best Price: $0.99
Henry V remains today as the most heroic of English Kings. The battle of Agincourt in English...

Fahrenheit 451 (Spanish) (Spanish Edition)Fahrenheit 451 (Spanish) (Spanish Edition)
This tale is as important today as it was when I first read this book 17 years ago. Back then I...
ImmortalityImmortality
Best Price: $7.24
Milan Kundera is one of the most important writers in post war Europe. Each of his novels is...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)
Best Price: $27.99
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is Mark Twain's most popular book, and its hero is a...
Nostromo (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)Nostromo (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)
Best Price: $18.85
Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, this work is an illustration of the...
White FangWhite Fang
Jack London's classic companion novel to Call of the Wild is now available through Buki...

Nemesis (Agatha Christie Collection S.)Nemesis (Agatha Christie Collection S.)
Best Price: $105.44
Even the unflappable Miss Marple is astounded as she reads the letter addressed to her on...
The Moon Is DownThe Moon Is Down
Best Price: $6.75
The Moon Is Down The Moon Is Down, a novel by John Steinbeck, represents the principles of...
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
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Summarily, "The Good Soldier" is about domestic turmoil and cheating spouses,...
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Essentials)Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Essentials)
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If you haven't read it, you are to be envied. This is one of the great, rare little literary...
Sense and Sensibility (Puffin Classics)Sense and Sensibility (Puffin Classics)
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This was a great novel telling of the secretive and not so secretive anguish of two sisters. ...

Troilus and Criseyde (Penguin Classics)Troilus and Criseyde (Penguin Classics)
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There surely can't be many tragic love stories more affecting and involving than this. Nor,...
A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin English Library)A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin English Library)
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This is an extraordinary book!But,it isn't surprising,after all it's Dickens.This book...
Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
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This is a fantastic introduction to Hardy's work for those who have not yet plunged into his...
Jude the Obscure (English Library)Jude the Obscure (English Library)
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"Jude the Obscure" is a rare find! Jude Fawley is a kind, decent man who...
The Aspern Papers and The Turn of the ScrewThe Aspern Papers and The Turn of the Screw
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Well these are my two favorite works by Henry James. In both James displays his very neatly...

The Crying of Lot 49The Crying of Lot 49
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The Crying of Lot 49 is an amazingly rich and complex work, especially when you consider its...
A Room With A View LPA Room With A View LP
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A Room with a View is a prominent novel about a man and a woman, class, and societal...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A NovelThe Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
Best Price: $89.94
... and the vertigo that might accompany it. The fear of falling. Tereza saw "book...
The Bell JarThe Bell Jar
Best Price: $8.50
[3.6/5.0] Esther is an extraordinarily gifted girl. Pretty, intelligent, and talented, she...
Transparent ThingsTransparent Things
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If it’s true that the main reason Nabokov wrote ...“Lolita” was so...

Emma (Penguin Classics)Emma (Penguin Classics)
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No one reads a book like Fiona Shaw. No matter what she narrates, her voice weaves a golden...
Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
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This book was a major disapointment. I had never read a Jane Austen novel before I read this...
Sense and Sensibility - Audio BookSense and Sensibility - Audio Book
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I read (heard--on audiocassette) this book after seeing the film. I loved them both. Jane...
Clea (Alexandria Quartet)Clea (Alexandria Quartet)
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[NOTE: This review is intended for people who have read at least the first three volumes of THE...
Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (Rabbit Ears)Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (Rabbit Ears)
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Of course the story is a great one, but the illustrations in this book are just beautiful. Very...

The Painted VeilThe Painted Veil
Best Price: $3.00
Pity how many Amazon.com user's reviews are mostly those who are slamming the book AFTER...
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
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my language arts teacher had my class choose a book to read. I had no idea what I wanted,...
War and RemembranceWar and Remembrance
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When I read "The Winds of War", it was only after I had read the reviews of...
The Hobbit: An Illustrated Edition of the Fantasy ClassicThe Hobbit: An Illustrated Edition of the Fantasy Classic
Best Price: $6.50
"The Hobbit" is a great classic fantasy. Charles Dixon and Sean Deming risked the...
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1)The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1)
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The ring has once again found a new owner after spending many years in the hands of Bilbo it was...

The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3)The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3)
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One Ring to find them One Ring to bring them all And in the darkness bind them Each generation...
Fahrenheit 451Fahrenheit 451
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Sometime in the not-so-distant future, the world will change severely. Soon people's homes...
tom JOnestom JOnes
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Tackling 'Tom Jones' took a ton of time! Yet, I'm forced to admit, I really...
Romola (Oxford World's Classics)Romola (Oxford World's Classics)
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Romola is constantly called Eliot's weakest novel, with even serious critics reluctant to...
Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)
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It is twenty years after the first Musketeers saga and Athos, Aramis, Porthos and d'Artagnan...

The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics)The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics)
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While The Black Tulip lacks the swashbuckling, derring-do adventures of the other Dumas novels I...
Michael O'Halloran (Library of Indiana Classics)Michael O'Halloran (Library of Indiana Classics)
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Because of my name, many have asked me over the years if I was familiar with Gene...
The Castle (Oxford World's Classics)The Castle (Oxford World's Classics)
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This version, like the original manuscript, ends mid-sentence. Kafka was dying of tuberculosis....
Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics)Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics)
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In Jane Austen's time, young women were taught that it was practically their duty to...
Cranford (Oxford World's Classics)Cranford (Oxford World's Classics)
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A lovely book about a lovely village of lovely people. The inspiration for BBC/Masterpiece...

The House of the Seven Gables (Oxford World's Classics)The House of the Seven Gables (Oxford World's Classics)
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I have never read anything quite like this book. The authors style is very different and...
This Side of Paradise (Oxford World's Classics)This Side of Paradise (Oxford World's Classics)
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There was a time when if I used the name of the 20th century American writer Ernest Hemingway it...
Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics)Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics)
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"Daniel Deronda" was the last novel George Eliot wrote, and it's an appropriate...
Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
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Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy, shows that to follow the social and religious pressures of...
The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics)The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics)
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I have absolutely no doubts whatsoever that Charles Dickens, if he lived today, would still...

Bel-Ami (Penguin Classics)Bel-Ami (Penguin Classics)
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Georges Duroy is working as a railway clerk, earning a miserable 1,500 francs a year and...
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics)The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics)
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"The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade" is, as its title would suggest, a satirical...
Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics)Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics)
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This whale hunting job really drives me crazy. or, longer version: Take on really stupendously...
Phantom of the Opera (Penguin Popular Classics)Phantom of the Opera (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Gaston Leroux, born in 1868, was a French journalist and author. Although a successful writer of...
The OdysseyThe Odyssey
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This is an absolutely fabulous product, but if you are not used to listening to audio books, I...

Ethan Frome: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Ethan Frome: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Best Price: $5.00
Edith Wharton filled her novels with a feeling of ruin, passion and restriction. People can fall...
Animal Farm: A Fairy StoryAnimal Farm: A Fairy Story
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I found that the book Animal Farm was a bigger "American Classic " than I thought it...
   
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