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LibriVox recording of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Read in English by Kara Shallenberg Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition,...

Beauty and the Beast (Classic Reprint) [Charles Lamb] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Beauty and the Beast (Classic Reprint)

When all was ready, Van Helsing said:— “Before we do anything, let me tell you this; it is out of the lore and experience of the ancients and of all those who have studied the powers of the Un-Dead…

Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries to direct Macabéa's fate but comes to realize that, for all her outward misery, she is inwardly free. Slyly subverting ideas of poverty, identity, love and the art of writing itself, Clarice Lispector's audacious last novel is…

Jane Eyre [Bronte, Charlotte] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Jane Eyre

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'The best modern prose translation of The Iliad' Robin Lane Fox, The Times The first of the world's great tragedies, The Iliad centres on the pivotal four days towards the end of the ten-year war between the Greeks and the Trojans. In a series of dramatic set pieces, it follows the story of the humiliation of Achilleus at the hands of Agamemnon and his slaying of Hektor: a barbarous act with repercussions that ultimately determine the fate of Troy. The Iliad not only paints an intimate…

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Penguin Classic first edition published in 1953