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A Burnt-out Case by Graham Greene
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art of pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. ...Show more
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more
A Rose for Winter: Travels in Andalusia by Laurie Lee
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Category: Default | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashes slums, the cult of t ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (PB Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens; Hablot Knight Browne
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Category: Default | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was theseason of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Category: Default | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Before the concept of equality between the sexes was even conceived, Wollstonecraft wrote this book, a treatise of proto-feminism that was as powerful and original then as it is now. In it she argues with clarity and originality for the rational education of women and for an increased female contributio ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Vintage Classics) by Lewis Carroll; John Tenniel (Illustrator)
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Category: Default | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy wo ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Art and Decoration - Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies by Oscar Wilde
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Category: No Category | Series: Art / Books Vintage Classics Ser.
The essence of Oscar Wilde's aesthetic credo: a gorgeous, pocket-sized, clothbound facsimile of a key 1920 collectionOscar Wilde was one of the most influential writers on art and design in the late 19th century. Alongside his acclaimed plays, novel and short stories, he wrote and lectured extensively o ...Show more
Bright Star The Complete Poems and Selected Letters (Vintage Classics) by John Keats
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Category: Default | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This book includes an introduction by director Jane Campion. John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 26. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his l ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson
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Category: Australian History | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout o ...Show more