Category: Classics
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse.
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The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations…
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The Republic by Plato
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors…
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The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
One of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction.
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Watership Down by Richard Adams
Set in England’s Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures…
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Emma by Jane Austen
Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances’ love affairs.
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The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel.
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Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who heals with herbs and magic…
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Set in the deep American South between the wars, it is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation…
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Set in the author’s girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove.
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers’ imaginations for nearly four hundred years.
