Classics

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Oxford bookworms library. Classics. Stage 6

Jane Eyre was sent to work as a governess to the ward of Mr. Rochester. Thornfield Hall is a spooky and mysterious place with many secrets. Jane and Mr. Rochester became fond of each other and grow very fond of each other after Jane saves Mr. Rochester from a fire that broke out in his room while he was sleeping. Their bond is sealed when Jane is able to keep Mr. Rochester's secret. Their fondness for each other is drawn short because the secret of...

2) Pride and prejudice

Author

Austen, Jane

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Formats:

Book, Audiobook, Book Club Kit, eAudiobook, eBook

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A new, beautifully laid-out, easy-to-read edition of Jane Austen's timeless classic.

3) Emma

Author

Austen, Jane

Series

Cover to Cover classics

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This special edition of Emma includes the famous illustrations by Charles Edmond Brock, created in 1898. Brock and his brothers were all successful illustrators of the day and often posed for each other using costumes, props and furniture in their Cambridge studio. Brock's younger brother, Henry, also illustrated Austen's books and joined him in illustrating other Austen releases for this set of 1898 editions. In conceiving Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen...

4) Sense and sensibility

Author

Austen, Jane

Series

Xist Classics

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Book, Audiobook, Children's Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Romance at its finest from Jane Austen
"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!" ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility follows the life and loves of the Dashwood Sisters. The two women experience love, romance and heartbreak in this classic from Jane Austen. This story has been shared with audiences through television

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5) Little women

Author

Alcott, Louisa May

Series

Little Women series volume 1

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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

6) Of mice and men

Author

Steinbeck, John

Series

Penguin Audio Classics

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A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression
A Penguin Classic
Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they...

7) East of Eden

Author

Steinbeck, John

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Book, eBook

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A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition

In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two...

8) The Mill on the Floss

Author

Eliot, George

Formats:

eAudiobook, eBook

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The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (the pen name of author Mary Ann Evans), published in 1860. The novel was originally published in three parts. It was very successful and was adapted into a film as early as 1937. It was Eliot's second novel and one of her most successful of all time. The novel tells the story of Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom as they grow from children to young adults in the small rural town of St. Ogg's, England....

9) Far from the madding crowd

Author

Hardy, Thomas

Series

Vintage classics

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Thomas Hardy's classic tale of a woman brave enough to defy convention: Now a major motion picture starring Carey Mulligan
Spirited, impulsive, and beautiful, Bathsheba Everdene arrives in Wessex to live with her aunt. She strikes up a friendship with a neighbor, Gabriel Oak, and even saves the young shepherd's life. But when he responds by asking for her hand in marriage, she refuses. She cannot sacrifice her independence for a man she...

10) Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Author

Hardy, Thomas

Series

Vintage classics

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Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of an impoverished family, must navigate a world of desire and romance once she meets Alec d'Urberville. The son of a rich widow, he takes a fancy to her and gets her a position as the poultry keeper on his family's estate. However, her good fortune is soon complicated by Alec's libertine ways, and Tess returns home shamed. Once recovered, she separates herself from the gossip by finding work at a dairy farm outside...

11) To kill a mockingbird

Author

Lee, Harper

Series

To kill a mockingbird volume 1

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Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred

One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served

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12) The great Gatsby

Author

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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13) In cold blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences

Hailed as one of the Great American Novels, The Great Gatsby delves into the dark corners of the Jazz Age to tell a tragic tale of obsession, love, and the gritty underbelly of the American Dream. Through the eyes of unassuming narrator Nick Carraway, the story follows the enigmatic Jay Gatsby as he chases the object of his hopeless desire, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Years after first meeting Daisy, when he was merely a penniless soldier, Gatsby...

Author

Capote, Truman

14) Beloved

Author

Morrison, Toni

Series

Vintage International

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. This spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.
Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the...

15) If Beale Street could talk: a novel

Author

Baldwin, James

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Book, eAudiobook

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In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad.Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and is imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they...

16) One hundred years of solitude

Author

García Márquez, Gabriel

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Book, eAudiobook

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One of the twentieth century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is awidely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimateachievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.

The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of themythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich andbrilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind.In the beautiful,

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17) The alchemist

Author

Coelho, Paulo

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Penguin classics deluxe edition

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho.

Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian

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18) Crime and punishment

Author

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Series

Formats:

Book, eBook

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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is one of the world's first psychological thrillers. A mesmerizing detective story with an intriguing and multifarious central character, Crime and Punishment hinges on the ethical dilemmas and angst of the student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov who plans and implements the murder of a ruthless pawnbroker. Rodion convinces himself that in killing her he will both solves his financial problems

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19) Anna Karenina

Author

Tolstoy, Leo

Series

Oxford world's classics

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Referred to by Tolstoy as his first true novel, "Anna Karenina" (1877) is widely considered to be one of the greatest literary works ever produced. Originally released as a serial between 1873 and 1877 in "The Russian Messenger", this fantastically intricate novel in eight parts chronicles the lives and relationships of over a dozen characters and deals with such themes as marriage, faith, fidelity, betrayal, Russian society, and desire. The story...

20) The Secret History

Author

Tartt, Donna

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