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41) The Great Gatsby
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The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald's family and from his lifelong publisher.
This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the author's own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published...
This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the author's own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published...
42) More Tish
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Tish Carberry, Aggie, and Lizzie embark on three more outrageous adventures in More Tish. After successfully taking on a band of train bandits, the women return home and search for ways to help with the war effort-a search that ultimately takes them to the battlefields of Europe, much to the chagrin of the military.
More Tish is the third book in the Tish Carberry series. It includes the stories "The Cave on Thunder Cloud," "Tish Does Her Bit," and...
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Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.
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Fictionwise, Inc
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Volume 5 Contents: Philosophy of Furniture--A Tale of Jerusalem--The Sphinx--Hop-Frog--The Man of the Crowd--Never Bet the Devil Your Head--Thou Art the Man--Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling--Bon-Bon--Some Words with a Mummy--The Poetic Principle--Old English Poetry--[POEMS OF LATER LIFE]--The Raven--The Bells--Ulalume--To Helen--Annabel Lee--A Valentine--An Enigma--To my Mother--For Annie--To F--To Frances S. Osgood--Eldorado--Eulalie--A...
46) A separate peace
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing...
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing...
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Project Gutenberg
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Translated from the Russian with an introduction by Julius West. Contents: On the High Road (1884) -- The Proposal (1889) -- The Wedding (1889) -- The Bear (1890) -- A Tragedian in Spite of Himself (1889) -- The Anniversary (1891) -- The Three Sisters (1901) -- The Cherry Orchard (1904). Cover image of Three Sisters by not identified [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons found at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Sisters_cover_1901.jpg...
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Project Gutenberg
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Published in 1867. Stories: La Mère Bauche -- The O’Conors of Castle Conor -- John Bull on the Guadalquivir -- Miss Sarah Jack of Spanish Town Jamaica -- The Courtship of Susan Bell -- Relics of General Chassé -- An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids -- The Château of Prince Polignac -- Aaron Trow -- Mrs. General Talboys -- The Parson’s Daughter of Oxney Colne -- George Walker at Suez -- The Mistletoe Bough -- Returning Home -- A Ride Across...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Published in 1908. From the preface, "In a previous volume, "The Green Flag," I have assembled a number of my stories which deal with warfare or with sport. In the present collection those have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible—such tales as might well be read "round the fire” upon a winter’s night. This would be my ideal atmosphere for such stories, if an author might choose his time and place...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Selections of short stories from the second edition of the short story collection Mosses from an Old Manse published in 1854. The stories were originally published from 1832 - 1854. Stories include: The Birthmark -- Young Goodman Brown -- Rappaccini's Daughter -- Mrs. Bullfrog -- The Celestial Railroad -- The Procession of Life -- Feathertop: A Moralized Legend --Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent -- Drowne's Wooden Image -- Roger Malvin's Burial -- The...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Published in 1889. From the author's preface, "I have reason to believe that “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” has been read by some hundreds of English Children, aged from Five to Fifteen: also by Children, aged from Fifteen to Twenty-five: yet again by Children, aged from Twenty-five to Thirty-five: and even by Children—for there are such—Children in whom no waning of health and strength, no weariness of the solemn mockery, and the gaudy...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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This collection was originally published in 1920. Poems include: Gerontion -- Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a cigar -- Sweeney erect -- A cooking egg -- Le directeur -- Mélange adultčre de tout -- Lune de miel -- The hippopotamus -- Dans le restaurant -- Whispers of immortality -- Mr. Eliot's Sunday morning service -- Sweeney among the nightingales -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock -- Portrait of a lady -- Preludes -- Rhapsody on...
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Project Gutenberg
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Published in 1905. From the Cumulative Book Review Digest, Volume 1 (1905), "The events recorded here transpire in the shut-away section of the mountains of northern Georgia, where two women seek seclusion. 'The story concerns a mysterious crime, and a strong-willed, long-suffering religious woman is the central figure. It recalls, in the solution of the mystery, and in one powerfully dramatic passage, Miss Braddon's famous "Henry Dunbar." It also...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Published in 1927. From the foreword, "My object in writing this "Story of the Golden Age" has been to pave the way, if I dare say it, to an enjoyable reading of Homer, either in translations or in the original. I have taken the various legends relating to the causes of the Trojan war, and, by assuming certain privileges never yet denied to story-tellers, have woven all into one continuous narrative, ending where Homer's story begins. The hero of...
60) Tuck everlasting
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The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
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