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Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen Synopsis Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters at Longbourn in Hertfordshire. Jane, the eldest, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich bachelor who takes a house nearby with his two sisters and friend Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is attracted to the... read more about this title check for other copies

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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte Publisher Comments Published a year before her death at the age of thirty, Emily Brontë's only novel is set in the wild, bleak Yorkshire Moors. Depicting the relationship of Cathy and Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights creates a world of its own, conceived with an instinct for... read more about this title check for other copies

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The Quiet American (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene Powells.com Staff Pick This fabulous novel by one of the 20th century's greatest writers explores issues of guilt, complicity, and redemption in the context of the very early years of America's intervention in Vietnam. Recommended by Chris Faatz, Powells.com... read more about this title check for other copies

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) by Padmasambhava (cop) Publisher Comments The first complete translation of the classic Buddhist text One of the greatest works created by any culture and overwhelmingly the most significant of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has had a number of distinguished... read more about this title check for other copies

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Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen Synopsis This complete and unabridged edition contains a biography of the author and a new introduction and afterword. Anne falls in love with Wentworth, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining influence, so persuaded by friends... read more about this title check for other copies

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Power and the Glory (90 Edition) by Graham Greene Publisher Comments In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to... read more about this title check for other copies

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) by Ken Kesey Publisher Comments An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the... read more about this title check for other copies

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The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck Publisher Comments Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americas greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature... read more about this title check for other copies

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Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Mary Wollst Shelley Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [li]-lvii).... read more about this title check for other copies

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Jane Austen: The Complete Novels (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jane Austen Publisher Comments Now in Penguin Classics — a treasure trove of Jane Austen's novels. Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Here in one volume are her seven great novels: Sense... read more about this title check for other copies

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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) by N K Sandars Publisher Comments The Epic of Gilgamesh, which dates from the third millenium BC, is one of the finest surviving epic poems in world literature. Miraculously preserved on clay tablets deciphered only in the last century, the cycle of poems collected around the character... read more about this title check for other copies

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East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by John Steinbeck Synopsis Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americas greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching... read more about this title check for other copies

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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Publisher Comments Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, a poor orphaned boy who wishes to transcend his humble upbringing. He finds himself unexpectedly given the opportunity to live a life of wealth and respectability but learns as his life advances that his money... read more about this title check for other copies

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The Three Theban Plays: Antigon/Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus (Penguin Classics) by Sophocles And Fagles Synopsis Sophocles' Theban plays: "Antigone", "Oedipus the King" and "Oedipus at Colonus". They depict Oedipus's fierce heroic encounter with his gods, and reveal Sophocles' masterful characterizations, dramatic speech and use of irony. Bernard Knox introduces... read more about this title check for other copies

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Koran ((Rev)03 Edition) by N. J. Dawood Synopsis The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible word of God as first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel 1400 years ago. This translation is the result of N.J. Dawood's life-long study of the Koran's language and style.... read more about this title check for other copies

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On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and... read more about this title check for other copies

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Cannery Row (94 Edition) by John Steinbeck Synopsis Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americas greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching... read more about this title check for other copies

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain Publisher Comments Revered by all of the town's children and dreaded by all of its mothers, Huckleberry Finn is indisputably the most appealing child-hero in American literature. Unlike the tall-tale, idyllic world of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is... read more about this title check for other copies

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The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics) by Plato Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index.... read more about this title check for other copies

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The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Paul Auster Publisher Comments Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room — haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller. City of Glass As a result of... read more about this title check for other copies

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