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The Mysterious Island by Jules VERNE
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The Mysterious Island is another exquisite novel written by the master of adventure writing, Jules Verne. The novel has been seen as the sequel to two other famous novels written by the same author: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaway. The story revolves around five Amer ...Show more
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark; Wallace Stegner (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivi ...Show more
The Song of Roland by W. S. Merwin (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
A contemporary prose rendering of the great medieval French epic, The Song of Roland is as canonical and significant as the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf. It extols the chivalric ideals in the France of Charlemagne through the exploits of Charlemagne's nephew, the warrior Roland, who fights bravely to his death i ...Show more
The Sonnets and Other Poems by William Shakespeare; Jonathan Bate (Editor); Eric Rasmussen (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language's most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions-desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration and disgust. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in ...Show more
The Toilers of the Sea by HUGO VICTOR
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
A new translation by Scot James Hogarth for the first unabridged English edition of the novel, which tells the story of a reculsive fisherman from the Channel Islands who must free a ship that has run aground in order to win the hand of the woman he loves, a shipowner's daughter