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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a major Russian novelist and playwright. His novel ",Fathers and Sons", is regarded as a major work of 19th-century fiction....
SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY RUTH RENDELLM. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform...
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of...
'Facts alone are wanted in life': the children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold,...
'This is the story of one man who went to Spain with an intellectual sympathy for socialist doctrine and came back...with a fervent, almost religious...
'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumberedBecause the song's what makes her...
Belonging in the company of the works of Homer and Virgil, ",The Inferno", is a moving human drama, a journey through the torment of Hell,...
'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'...
Kim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore. One day he befriends an aged Tibetan Lama who, although content...
'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct,...
The first of Sinclair Lewis s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism....
Introduction by Elizabeth HardwickIllustrations by Rockwell KentFirst published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The...
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