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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks; Atul Gawande (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
In his most extraordinary book, the bestselling author of Awakenings and "poet laureate of medicine" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders, from those who are no longer able to recognize common objects to those who gain ext ...Show more
The Master of Ballantrae and Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson; John Sutherland (Introduction by)
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Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
In these two historical tales of the Scottish lowlands in the eighteenth century, Robert Louis Stevenson brought to the novel of adventure a psychological sophistication it had never before possessed - a subtlety that, far from impeding the action, everywhere intensifies its speed and credibility. A do ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Michael Henchard knew he deserved the pain he felt. Henchard is a handsome farm laborer. When he gets drunk at a country fair, he sells his wife and child to a sailor. The next day, ashamed by what he has done, he lets people believe that his wife has died. Thus begins a chain of events which leads Henc ...Show more
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens; Peter Washington (Introduction by)
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Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
'Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. 'Where is your nephew?' repeated Neveille. 'Why do you ask me?' 'I ask you,' retorted Jasper, 'because you were the last person in his company, and he is not to be found.' The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's last novel, lay unfinished at his death. Specul ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer, trans. Robert Fitzgerald
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Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of Odysseus' adventurous wanderings as he returns from the long wa ...Show more
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens; Peter Washington (Introduction by)
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Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
An unforeseeable story about life If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.-Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop The adventures of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London, that go on a journey with no destination. The novel focuses on the p ...Show more
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi; Raymond Rosenthal (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the author's experiences in Fascist Italy, and later in Auschwitz, with his passion for scientific knowledge and discovery. This Penguin Modern Classics edition of is translated by Raymond Rosenthal with an essay o ...Show more
The Poppy Seed Cakes by Margery Clark; Maud Petersham (Illustrator); Miska Petersham (Illustrator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
The Poppy Seed Cakes is a beloved children's classic first published in 1924: eight charming and humorous linked stories about little Andrewshek and his Auntie Katushka, with colorful woodcuts by Caldecott Award-winning illustrators Maud and Miska Petersham. Auntie Katushka has just come from the Old Co ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolao Machiavelli
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended and indeed applauded as the firs ...Show more
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro; John Sutherland (Introduction by); Salman Rushdie (Introduction by)
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Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go Winner of the Booker Prize ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. In the summer o ...Show more
The Republic by Plató; A.D. Lindsay (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The Republic (Politeia; Latin: De Re Publica) is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man-for this reason, ancient readers used the ...Show more
The Sea, the Sea; a Severed Head by Iris Murdoch; Sarah Churchwell (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
These two major novels--by one of the most influential British writers of the twentieth century--are ferociously dark comedies that combine playfulness with profundity. A Severed Head (1961) is one of Iris Murdoch's most entertaining works, tracing the turbulent emotional journey of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, ...Show more