I Married A Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich
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Category: Classics
A wild and wildly compelling noir novel about a train crash and a case of a mistaken identity What if you woke up to discover everyone thought you were somebody else? Pregnant and abandoned, all Helen Georgesson has is five dollars and a one-way ticket to San Francisco. Then she is involved in a train ...Show more
Night at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon; Linda Coverdale (Translator)
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Category: Classics
Is Carl Andersen innocent of murder, or a very good liar? Detective Chief Inspector Maigret has been interrogating the enigmatic Danish aristocrat for seventeen hours. A diamond merchant was found dead, shot at point-blank range, in the garage of Andersen's mansion, yet he will not confess to the crime ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classics
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secretTaking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ...Show more
The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert Van Gulik
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Category: Classics
An intricate, puzzle-like murder mystery set in Imperial China, featuring the indefatigable Judge Dee Judge Dee is about to step into the shoes of a dead man... Most people would refuse the job of Magistrate at the lonely port town of Peng-lai - especially as the last occupant of the post has been fou ...Show more
Katerina by Aharon Appelfeld; Jeffrey M. Green (Translator)
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Category: Classics
The teenage Katerina flees her abusive home in a poor, Christian village in the 1880s, finding work and shelter in the home of a Jewish family, and in the warmth of their family life and beauty of their Jewish rituals she begins to know safety for the first time. Their life is brutally disrupted when a ...Show more
The Night Manager by John le Carré
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Category: Classics
To catch a criminal, he must become one Jonathan Pine, night manager of a luxury Swiss hotel, has a secret. He knows that the guest he awaits, billionaire trader Richard Roper, is 'the worst man in the world.' And he knows why. Pine will do whatever it takes to help the Intelligence services bring Rope ...Show more
Collins Classics - Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'So he rose and lighted one lamp after another, till he had lighted the whole eighty and the palace seemed to dance with brilliancy.' Beginning with the legend of King Shahryr, whose anger at his queen's infidelity le ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Crafted Classics Ser.
Pride and Prejudice is set in rural England in the early 19th century, and it follows the Bennet family, which includes five very different sisters. Mrs. Bennet is anxious to see all her daughters married, especially as the modest family estate is to be inherited by William Collins when Mr. Bennet dies. ...Show more
Portrait of the Artist As a Young Dog and Other Fiction - New Annotated Edition by Dylan. Thomas
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Set in the author's native Swansea in South Wales, the ten autobiographical stories in this much-loved collection chart his journey from boyhood - movingly and at times comically evoked in tales such as 'The Peaches' and 'A Visit to Grandpa's' - to early adulthood. Along the way, in 'Extraordinary Littl ...Show more
Arrowsmith - New Annotated Edition by Sinclair Lewis
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Category: Classics
Martin Arrowsmith, a young medical student at the University of Winnemac, is driven by a sincere passion and a desire to make a positive contribution to the world. But events get in the way, and a series of personal vicissitudes, love interests and societal pressures threaten to lead him away from the p ...Show more
The Jew's Beech by Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff; Lionel Thomas (Translator); Doris Thomas (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia - the first of a local forester and the second of a Jewish moneylender near a beech tree - and the impact these events have on the life of Friedrich Mergel, a local herdsman with a turbulent family history. A proto ...Show more
Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes; The Persians by Aeschylus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The S ...Show more