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Sons and lovers
500 LGertrude and Walter Morel’s marriage has turned into a battlefield. Gertrude, a special and respectable woman, rejected by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, decides to devote herself fully to her children, especially her sons William and Paul. She is determined not to let them become miners like their father. But the conflict is inevitable when Paul tries to escape from his mother’s suffocating embrace and starts having his first relationships with women.
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Tales of horror
1,150 LThemes of guilt, fear and revenge abound as the master of gothic horror transports readers into mysterious worlds, carries them on dangerous sea voyages, and investigates gruesome murders in tales such as The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum and The Cask of Amontillado.
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles
3,250 LAlec Stoke-d’Urberville rapes Tess. She returns home, where she gives birth to a child who soon dies. Tess becomes a milkmaid at the Talbothays Dairy, where she falls in love with Angel Clare, a young intellectual she met years before.
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer
1,350 LThis volume includes Tom Sawyer, Detective, a sequel and pastiche of the detective genre, first published in 1896.
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The age of innocence
500 LThe Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and thus Wharton the first woman to win the prize.The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s.
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The art of war
1,000 LThe Art of War is a book of conflict knowledge and tactics revolving around several key concepts, including: Knowing when to fight and when not to fight. Knowing how to mislead the enemy. Knowing oneself and one’s enemy.
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The Art of War
3,250 LThis book has matching lined and blank journals (sold separately) . They make a great gift when paired together but are also just as beautiful on their own.
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The Atheists Mass
500 LThis is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.’ A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love.
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The awakening
500 LKate Chopin (1850–1904) was an American author of short stories and novels for both adults and children. She is now considered by many to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century.
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The Beautiful and Damned
500 LGloria and Anthony Patch party until their money runs out; then their goal becomes Adam Patch’s fortune. Gloria’s beauty fades and Anthony’s drinking takes its horrible toll. Fitzgerald here once again displays a wariness of the upper classes.
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The call of the wild
500 LThe Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively more primitive and wild in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs. By the end, he sheds the veneer of civilization, and relies on primordial instinct and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild.
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The Castle
1,500 LThe tale of K’s arrival in the village below the castle that seems to rule it is Kafka’s Magnum Opus.
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The Castle
1,650 LThe Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
3,100 LA beautiful clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge.
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
500 L“Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?” suddenly came into his head. “But how not so, when I’ve done everything as it should be done?”― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
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The Devil’s Dictionary
1,150 LA celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce’s began circulating his own sardonic, mischievous definitions of words in his various columns for San Francisco newspapers.
