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1) Madam Bovary
A shocking tale of one woman's quest to escape her boring marriage and provential life. Emma Bovary seeks passion, love and and glamour; everything she's missing her her marriage to a stuffy doctor. This novel scandalized readers in nineteenth century France for it's unabashed portral of the adulterous heroine but its beautiful prose has made it a classic that speaks to audiences today.
The ultimate bundle for Jane Austen Fans
This collection contains 10 of Jane Austen's works ranging from her most famous to her early letters and unfinished novels.
Included in this bundle:
6) 1984
75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
"Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power."—The New Yorker
In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger
...Aesop was an Ancient Greek story-teller and slave, famed and cherished for his short fables that often involve personified animals. In the renowned collection of works that is Aesop's Fables, he weaves moral education and entertainment together into tales that have been enjoyed by many, many generations. A lot of the stories in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox and the Grapes (giving us the term "sour grapes"), The Tortoise and the
...8) Kim
The orphan Kim, whose father was an Irish soldier, makes his living by begging on the streets of Lahore and running errands. An aged Tibetan Lama is on a journey to find the mythical "River of the Arrow" and in doing so free himself from the Wheel of Things. Becoming his disciple, Kim joins the Lama to travel along the Grand Trunk Road. But Kim also gets himself involved in the Great Game, Russia and Britain's political conflict in Central Asia,
...10) Atlas shrugged
Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why...
11) Middlemarch
12) Jane Austen: The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility / Pride and Prejudice / Emma / Persuasion
13) Meditations
Wisdom that has lasted the ages
"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are a beautiful compositions of the thoughts and meditations of Marcus Aurelius the wise, the last of the five great emperors of the Roman Empire. Composed in Greek while on a military campaign, Meditations is a reflection of stoic philosophy
...The Master and Margarita has been captivating readers around the world ever since its first publication in 1967. Written during Stalin's time in power but suppressed in the Soviet Union for decades, Bulgakov's masterpiece is an ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and...
16) Armadale
17) Lolita
“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the...
Mary Lennox is born in India. She is a sickly, sallow child, whose parents hide her away with her Ayah. After her parents die in a cholera outbreak she is sent to live in Yorkshire with her uncle. She is, once more, left mostly to herself. Her uncle still mourns his beautiful wife ten years after her death, and seeks to escape his grief by traveling. When a chambermaid tells Mary about her mistress's garden, which her master locked up on her death,
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