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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

A Guide to Reading and Reflecting

by Karen Swallow Prior, Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Read and Reflect with the Classics
Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literature. You have seen plenty of Frankenstein costumes, watched the film adaptations, and may even be able to rattle off a few quotes, but do you really know how to read these books? Do you know anything about the authors who wrote them, and what the authors were trying to teach readers through ... Read more

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Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literature. You have seen plenty of Frankenstein costumes, watched the film adaptations, and may even be able to rattle off a few quotes, but do you really know how to read these books? Do you know anything about the authors who wrote them, and what the authors were trying to teach readers through
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Harvard Classics Volume 40

English Poetry 1: Chaucer To Gray

by Geoffrey Chaucer, Golden Deer Classics, Anonymous, Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, George Gascoigne, Edward Dyer, John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, George Peele, Robert Southwell, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Henry Constable, Edmund Spenser, William Habington, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Rowlands, Thomas Nashe, William Shakespeare, Robert Greene, Richard Barnfield, Thomas Campion, Robert Devereux, Henry Wotton, Edward de Vere, Ben Jonson, John Donne, Joshua Sylvester, William Alexander, Richard Corbet, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, William Drummond, George Wither, William Browne, Robert Herrick, Francis Quarles, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Francis Bacon, James Shirley, Thomas Carew, John Suckling, William D'Avenant, Richard Lovelace, Edmund Waller, William Cartwright, James Graham, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Jordan, Abraham Cowley, Alexander Brome, Andrew Marvell, Earl of Rochester, Charles Sedley, John Dryden, Matthew Prior, Isaac Watts, Lady Grisel Baillie, Joseph Addison, Allan Ramsay, John Gay, Henry Carey, Alexander Pope, Ambrose Philips, Colley Cibber, James Thomson, Thomas Gray, George Bubb Dodington ...

Series Book 40 - Harvard Classics
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics) ... Read more

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Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
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Poets & Their Trades – Diplomats

Poems from writers who were also members of the clergy

by Sir Thomas Wyatt, James Russell Lowell, James Weldon Johnson, James Bayard Taylor, Matthew Prior, Sir Robert Ayton, Joel barlow, Henry van Dyke, Sir Richard Fanshawe, Arthur Sherburne Hardy ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Michael Lyons ...

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The life and career of a Poet is often thought of as musing at a desk, or lying in a meadow, or on long journeys to find inspiration for their next masterwork. But more often than not a poet was a part-time profession in subservient submission to their actual, salary-paying job.In this volume we bring together those professionals whose skills are based on using words to achieve the ambitions, ... Read more

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The life and career of a Poet is often thought of as musing at a desk, or lying in a meadow, or on long journeys to find inspiration for their next masterwork. But more often than not a poet was a part-time profession in subservient submission to their actual, salary-paying job.In this volume we bring together those professionals whose skills are based on using words to achieve the ambitions,
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Far from the Madding Crowd

by Hardy, Thomas ...

"Far from the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy is a timeless classic set in rural England. It follows the story of Bathsheba Everdene, a headstrong and independent woman, and her relationships with three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a steadfast shepherd; William Boldwood, a wealthy and mature landowner; and Sergeant Francis Troy, a charming yet reckless soldier. As Bathsheba navigates her ... Read more

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"Far from the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy is a timeless classic set in rural England. It follows the story of Bathsheba Everdene, a headstrong and independent woman, and her relationships with three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a steadfast shepherd; William Boldwood, a wealthy and mature landowner; and Sergeant Francis Troy, a charming yet reckless soldier. As Bathsheba navigates her
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Harvard Classics Volume 41

English Poetry 2: Collins To Fitzgerald

by William Collins, Golden Deer Classics, George Sewell, Alison Rutherford Cockburn, Jane Elliot, Christopher Smart, Anonymous, John Logan, Henry Fielding, Charles Dibdin, Samuel Johnson, Robert Graham of Gartmore, Adam Austin, William Cowper, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Isobel Pagan, Lady Anne Lindsay, Thomas Chatterton, Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, Alexander Ross, John Skinner, Michael Bruce, George Halket, William Hamilton of Bangour, Hector MacNeil, William Jones, Susanna Blamire, Anne Hunter, John Dunlop, Samuel Rogers, William Blake, John Collins, Robert Tannahill, William Wordsworth, William Lisle Bowles, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, James Hogg, Robert Surtees, Thomas Campbell, J. Campbell, Allan Cunningham, George Gordon, Thomas Moore, Charles Wolfe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, James Henry Leigh Hunt, John Keats, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Hood, Aubrey De Vere, Hartley Coleridge, Joseph Blanco White, George Darley, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Hugh Miller, Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin, Charles Tennyson Turner, Samuel Ferguson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edward Fitzgerald ...

Series Book 41 - Harvard Classics
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics) ... Read more

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Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
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Harvard Classics Volume 42

English Poetry 3: Tennyson To Whitman

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Golden Deer Classics, Richard Monckton Milnes, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, J. Wilson, Robert Browning, Emily Brontë, Robert Stephen Hawker, Coventry Patmore, William (Johnson) Cory, Sydney Dobell, William Allingham, George Mac Donald, Edward, Earl of Lytton, Arthur Hugh Clough, Matthew Arnold, George Meredith, Alexander Smith, Charles Dickens, Thomas Edward Brown, James Thomson (B. V.), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Georgina Rossetti, William Morris, John Boyle O'Reilly, Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Robert Williams Buchanan, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Sidney Lanier, Bret Harte, Walt Whitman ...

Series Book 42 - Harvard Classics
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics) ... Read more

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Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
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The Great Gatsby

by F Fitzgerald ...

Excerpt from the book:In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."He didn't say any more, but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood ... Read more

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Excerpt from the book:In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."He didn't say any more, but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood
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The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green ...

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning-author ... Read more

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Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning-author
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Animal Farm

New Edition of Orwell's Brilliant Political Satire

by George Orwell ...

Introduced by Alan Johnson.'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.'Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is ... Read more

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Introduced by Alan Johnson.'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.'Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is
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Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)

by Suzanne Collins ...

Series series The Hunger Games
The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins will have hearts racing, pages turning, and everyone talking about one of the biggest and most talked-about books and ... Read more

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The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins will have hearts racing, pages turning, and everyone talking about one of the biggest and most talked-about books and
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Twelve Years a Slave (Illustrated) (Inkflight)

Narrative of Solomon Northup

by Solomon Northup ...

Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. Northup was transported by ship to New Orleans where he was sold into slavery. He spent the next 12 years working as a carpenter, driver, and cotton picker. This narrative reveals how Northup survived the harsh conditions of slavery, including smallpox ... Read more

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Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. Northup was transported by ship to New Orleans where he was sold into slavery. He spent the next 12 years working as a carpenter, driver, and cotton picker. This narrative reveals how Northup survived the harsh conditions of slavery, including smallpox
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The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway ...

Step into the world of "The Sun Also Rises", Ernest Hemingway’s groundbreaking novel that defined the spirit of the Lost Generation. A tale of love, disillusionment, and self-discovery, this timeless classic follows a group of expatriates as they navigate the vibrant nightlife of 1920s Paris and the thrilling bullfights of Spain, searching for meaning in a world forever changed by war.At the heart ... Read more

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Step into the world of "The Sun Also Rises", Ernest Hemingway’s groundbreaking novel that defined the spirit of the Lost Generation. A tale of love, disillusionment, and self-discovery, this timeless classic follows a group of expatriates as they navigate the vibrant nightlife of 1920s Paris and the thrilling bullfights of Spain, searching for meaning in a world forever changed by war.At the heart
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