Author: Charlotte Brontë
Publisher: Royal Classics
ISBN: 9781774760741
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Jane Eyre follows the emotions of its heroine and her love for Mr. Rochester. The focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral sensibility and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
Publisher: Royal Classics
ISBN: 9781774378625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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The story follows the adventures of Don Quixote, who decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world. He recruits a farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire and imagines that he is living out a knightly story.
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher: Royal Classics
ISBN: 9781774378342
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Little Women follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood. The family struggles to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence.
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Submarines (Ships)
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: Royal Classics
ISBN: 9781774378564
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Rodion Raskolnikov kills an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash, defending his actions by arguing that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a vermin.
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Publisher: Royal Classics
ISBN: 9781774378335
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Marcus Aurelius' private notes are a significant source of the modern understanding of ancient Stoic philosophy, and have been praised by fellow writers, philosophers, monarchs, and politicians centuries after his death.
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Royal Classics
ISBN: 9781774761571
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes has twelve stories, including the cases of The Red-Headed League, The Speckled Band, and A Scandal in Bohemia. Holmes will need to use his various skills to solve cases of blackmail, treachery and murder.
Author: Epictetus
Publisher: Engage Classics
ISBN: 9781774760062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Discourses of Epictetus are a series of practical informal lectures. Epictetus directs his students to focus attention on their opinions, anxieties and desires so they may never fail to get what they desire. Also included is the Enchiridion.
Author: Alexander Hamilton
Publisher: Engage Classics
ISBN: 9781774761793
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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The Founding Documents of the United States of America includes the Constitution of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, all Amendments to the Constitution, The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, and Common Sense by Thomas Paine. The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution. The Federalist Papers are notable for their opposition to what later became the United States Bill of Rights. The idea of adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution was originally controversial because the Constitution, as written, did not specifically enumerate or protect the rights of the people, rather it listed the powers of the government and left all that remained to the states and the people. Alexander Hamilton, the author of Federalist No. 84, feared that such an enumeration, once written down explicitly, would later be interpreted as a list of the only rights that people had. Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, and became an immediate sensation.
Author: Emily Bronte
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature. A fiend of a book -- an incredible monster... The action is laid in hell, -- only it seems places and people have English names there. --Dante Gabriel Rossetti A monument of the most striking genius that nineteenth-century womanhood has given us. --Clement Shorter The greatest work of fiction by any man or woman Europe has produced to date. --Anthony Ludovici There is no "I" in 'Wuthering Heights'. There are no governesses. There are no employers. There is love, but it is not the love of men and women. Emily was inspired by some more general conception. The impulse which urged her to create was not her own suffering or her own injuries. She looked out upon a world cleft into gigantic disorder and felt within her the power to unite it in a book. --Virginia Woolf
