Oliver Twist

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9781402726651

Collation

160p; ill; bw; hc

Series Title

Classic Starts

Call Number

823 OLM O

Five Children and It

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780141321615

Collation

244p; bw; pbk

Series Title

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Call Number

823 NES F

Frankenstein

The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful …

The Penguin Complete Saki

Saki (Hector Hugo Munroe) is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's golden afternoon - the slow and peaceful years before World War I. This volume contains the whole of Saki's work - all the short stories, his three novels and three plays.

Anne of The Island

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780141327365

Collation

339p; bw; pbk

Series Title

-

Call Number

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Anne Of Avonlea

Now every child can celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery's ever-popular story! First introduced in Anne of Green Gables as a young orphan, Montgomery's feisty and imaginative heroine is now 16 years old and embarking on a new adventure: becoming a teacher in her old Avonlea school. It's an exciting year as Anne struggles to win over all her students, welcomes two new members …

Billy Budd and Other Stories

tung by the critical reception and lack of commercial success of his previous two works, Moby-Dick and Pierre, Herman Melville became obsessed with the difficulties of communicating his vision to readers. His sense of isolation lies at the heart of these later works. "Billy Budd, Sailor," a classic confrontation between good and evil, is the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himse…

Death in Venice and Other Tales

Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tell the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom. In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed wit…

Babbitt

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780375759253

Collation

405p; bw; pbk

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 LEW B

Sons and Lovers

Sons and Lovers is one of the landmark novels of the twentieth century. When it appeared in 1913, it was immediately recognized as the first great modern restatement of the oedipal drama, and it is now widely considered the major work of D. H. Lawrence's early period. This intensely autobiographical novel recounts the story of Paul Morel, a young artist growing to manhood in a British working-c…