The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works
This is the world of William Shakespeare, in the most authoritative edition ever published. It includes all plays and poems, in a newly updated edition with an index of characters, a glossary, a list of contemporary allusions to Shakespeare and more.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
This is the single best edition of Wilde's complete works. Along with the author's full canon of plays, poems, essays, and novels, this also contains numerous appendixes of biographical information and chronologies of Wilde's work as well as examples of his famous one-liners divided into categories.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman.
By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often.
Brave New World
"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today - let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come.
Animal Farm
Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a great piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy.
1984
Orwell's classic continues to deliver its horrible vision of totalitarian society. Once considered futuristic, it now conjures fear because of how closely it fits the reality of contemporary times. in 1984, George Orwell created a whole vocabulary of words concerning totalitarian control that have since passed into our common vocabulary.
The Great Gatsby
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." It is his finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.
The Catcher in the Rye
A classic novel by J.D. Salinger, published in 1951. The influential and widely acclaimed story details the two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school.
Confused and disillusioned, he searches for truth and rails against the "phoniness" of the adult world. He ends up exhausted and emotionally ill, in a psychiatrist's office. After he recovers from his breakdown, Holden relates his experiences to the reader.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories
Four novels and fifty-six short stories to follow Sherlock Holmes through the mysteries in London and the English countryside. This is a special deluxe edition that you can't miss!
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature, though its hold on our imagination has been less secure.
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