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Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Jane Austen Publisher Comments Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover 
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Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Jane Austen Publisher Comments When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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Cranford (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Publisher Comments Gaskell's best known work is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister Miss Matty.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Treasure Island (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson Publisher Comments The story grew out of a map that led to imaginary treasure, devised during a holiday in Scotland by Stevenson and his nephew. The tale is told by an adventurous boy, Jim Hawkins, who gets hold of a treasure map and sets off with an adult crew in search... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Lewis Carroll Publisher Comments The Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat -- characters each more eccentric than the last that could only have come from Lewis Carroll, the master of sublime nonsense. In these two brilliant burlesques, he... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Hardcover
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Jane Eyre (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Charlotte Bronte Publisher Comments Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield, falls in love with Mr... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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Great Expectations (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Charles Dickens Publisher Comments Pip doesn't expect much from life... His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an escaped criminal, is summoned to... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Hardcover
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Thomas Hardy Publisher Comments When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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Emma (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Jane Austen Publisher Comments Beautiful, clever, rich -- and single -- Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Oscar Wilde Publisher Comments The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succes de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher Comments Perhaps the most popular of all Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles combines the traditional detective tale with elements of horror. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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The Odyssey (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Homer Synopsis "I long to reach my home and see the day of my return. It is my never-failing wish." The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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The Woman in White (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Wilkie Collins Publisher Comments "There in the middle of the broad, bright high-road-there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven-stood the figure of a solitary woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments." Thus young Walter Hartright... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Charles Dickens Publisher Comments Dicken's Christmas writings-in a new, sumptuous, and delightful clothbound edition. Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol has had significant influence on our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Little Women (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Louisa May Alcott Synopsis Based on Louise May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of 19th-century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers.... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Emily Bronte Publisher Comments In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere … As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by D.H. Lawrence Publisher Comments One of the most extraordinary literary works of the twentieth century, Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned in England and the United States after its initial publication in 1928. The unexpurgated edition did not appear in America until 1959, after one of... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments An elaborately annotated edition of Shakespeare's masterpieces of wit and erotic word-play. When a volume of poetry entitled Shakespeare's Sonnets. Never before Imprinted appeared in 1609, Shakespeare was forty-five and most of his greatest plays had... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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Oliver Twist (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Charles Dickens Publisher Comments Dickens's classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England's Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgettable cast of characters Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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The Divine Comedy, Volume 1: The Inferno (Penguin Hardcover Classics) by Dante Alighieri Publisher Comments Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, the Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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