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1) Macbeth \

Author

Shakespeare, William

Series

Texana Jones mysteries volume 5
Plays
Folger Shakespeare Library
English classics Star
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English

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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

2) Riders of the purple sage

Author

Grey, Zane

Series

Dover thrift editions
Thorndike Press large print Western
A Lassiter novel volume 1
Modern Library classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18

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English

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This splendid, powerful, classic novel was written in 1911, but for over ninety years it has existed only in a profoundly censored version, one that undermines the truth of the characters and the integrity of Zane Grey's masterpiece. With a text based on Zane Grey's handwritten manuscript, the real Riders of the Purple Sage can be read at last as the author wrote it.

3) The old curiosity shop

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

Bad hair day mysteries volume 7
Everyman's library volume 209
Everyman's library volume 173
Dover giant thrift editions
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English

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Book, eBook

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Beautiful, honest Nell Trent lives with her devoted Grandfather in his Old Curiosity Shop, an enchanting shop of odds and ends. Desperate to make a better life for his Nell, Grandfather secretly gambles and gets deeply into debt with the unscrupulous Quilp. When what little money they have is lost in a game of cards, Quilp claims The Old Curiosity Shop as payment for the loans

Released in installments from 1840 to 1841, Charles Dicken's The

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4) The republic

Author

Plato

Series

Everyman's library
Oxford world's classics
Dover thrift editions
Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
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Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - discuss whether the just or unjust man is happier. They are the philosopher-kings of imagined cities and they also discuss the nature of philosophy and the soul among other things.

5) The war of the worlds

Author

Wells, H. G

Series

Dover thrift editions
Barnes and Noble classics
Penguin classics

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11

Language

English

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An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others, struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894.

6) Othello

Author

Shakespeare, William

Series

Dover thrift editions
New Cambridge Shakespeare
New Folger Library Shakespeare
Folger Shakespeare Library
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

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Othello tells the story of a Moorish general in command of armed forces of Venice who earns enmity of his ensign Iago by passing him over for a promotion. Partly for revenge, and partly out of pure evil, Iago plots to convince Othello that Desdemona, his wife, has been unfaithful to him.

7) Richard III

Author

Shakespeare, William

Series

Dover thrift editions
Folger Shakespeare Library
A Bantam classic
No fear Shakespeare

Language

English

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Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

8) A Shropshire lad

Author

Housman, A. E

Series

Dover thrift editions

Language

English

9) Sonnets from the Portuguese and other poems

Author

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Series

Dover thrift editions

Publisher

Dover Publications

Pub. Date

1992

Physical Desc

viii, 55 pages ; 21 cm.

Language

English

10) Great sonnets

Series

Dover thrift editions

Publisher

Dover Publications

Pub. Date

1994

Physical Desc

xiii, 96 pages ; 21 cm.

Language

English

11) This side of paradise

Author

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Series

Dover thrift editions
Everyman's library volume 227

Language

English

Formats

Book, Large Print

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"This Side of Paradise" is about the education of a youth, and to this story Fitzgerald brings the promise of everything that was new in America during the years following World War I. Amory Blaine-egoistic, versatile, callow, and imaginative-inhabits a book that is interwoven with songs, poems, playscripts, and questions and answers.

12) Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Author

Gilbert, Olive

Series

Dover thrift editions

Publisher

Dover Publications

Pub. Date

1997

Physical Desc

vi, 74 pages ; 21 cm.

Language

English

13) "The diamond as big as the Ritz" and other stories

Author

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Series

Dover thrift editions

Publisher

Dover Publications

Pub. Date

1998

Physical Desc

172 pages ; 22 cm.

Language

English

14) The waste land, Prufrock, and other poems

Author

Eliot, T. S

Series

Dover thrift editions

Publisher

Dover Publications

Pub. Date

1998

Physical Desc

vi, 49 pages ; 22 cm.

Language

English

15) Great American short stories

Series

Dover thrift editions

Publisher

Dover Publications

Pub. Date

2002

Physical Desc

v, 248 pages ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale "Young Goodman Brown" and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest Hemingway's 1927 classic, "The Killers."

16) Critique of Pure Reason

Author

Kant, Immanuel

Series

Dover Thrift Editions

Publisher

Dover Publications

Pub. Date

2018

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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In his monumental Critique of Pure Reason, German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) argues that human knowledge is limited by the capacity for perception. He attempts a logical designation of two varieties of knowledge: a posteriori, knowledge acquired through experience, and a priori, knowledge not derived through experience. Kant maintains that the most practical forms of human knowledge employ a priori...

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1) Macbeth \

2) Riders of the purple sage

3) The old curiosity shop

4) The republic

5) The war of the worlds

6) Othello

7) Richard III

8) A Shropshire lad

9) Sonnets from the Portuguese and other poems

10) Great sonnets

11) This side of paradise

12) Narrative of Sojourner Truth

13) "The diamond as big as the Ritz" and other stories

14) The waste land, Prufrock, and other poems

15) Great American short stories

16) Critique of Pure Reason

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