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The Canterville Ghost: A Hylo-Idealistic Romance
By: Wilde, Oscar
Published by: Electric Book Company
Although first published in 1891, this ghost story remains a classic of Wildean wit and Victorian sentimentality. True, some of the references to melodrama and nineteenth-century Anglo-American attitudes may elude modern readers, but the basic story of a hardheaded American family that buys a haunted British manor house and proceeds to drive the resident ghost nearly crazy with its skepticism is still a delight, as are Wilde's epigrams: 'We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.'
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Complete Plays of Aristophanes
By: Aristophanes
Published by: Bantam Books
A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world has known.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
By: Dumas, Alexandre
Published by: Bantam Books
Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, The Count of Monet Cristo recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and carefully wrought revenge offers up a vision of France that has become immortal.
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Cranford
By: Gaskell, Elizabeth
Published by: Electric Book Company
Elizabeth Gaskell's second published story, originally contributed to Household Words from 1851-3 in a series of papers, and republished in 1853 under the collective title Cranford . This witty and poignant comedy of early Victorian life in a country town richly deserves its position as a great 19th Century classic. The narrator, Mary Smith, describes the lives of Cranford's inhabitants with affection and amusement as we follow the ups and downs of her life.
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The Dialogues of Plato
By: Plate
Published by: Bantam Books
Socrates’ ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato’s Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person’s education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today’s reader, as well as an incisive introduction by Erich Segal, which reveals Plato’s life and clarifies the philosophical issues examined in each dialogue.
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Emma
By: AUSTEN, JANE
Published by: Bantam Books
Introduction by Marilyn Butler From the Hardcover edition.
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Emma
By: Austen, Jane
Published by: Electric Book Company
Jane Austen began writing Emma in 1814, and it was published anonymously in 1816. The heroine is the charming and clever Emma Woodhouse, who manages to deceive herself in a number of ways. The book describes a year in the life of the village of Highbury and its vicinity, during which Emma manages to overcome her self delusion. Along the way there is much in the way of heartbreak, romance and detailed, character portraiture. It is widely considered to be Austen's finest work.
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Great Short Works of Herman Melville
By: Melville, Herman
Published by: HarperCollins
A complete collection of Melville's short works of fiction includes The Encantadas, Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, Sailor, and Bartleby, the Scrivener, as well as seventeen other short stories. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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Henry IV Shakespeare Made Easy
By: Shakespeare, William; Laurel And Associates (ed.)
Published by: Saddleback Educational Publishing
These activity guides are designed by teachers for teachers to help students navigate the complexity. Each guide contains a total of 30 activities divided into six sections of four activities and one review. At the end of each guide is a final test, a variety of culminating activities, and an answer key. Each reproducible activity book is approximately 68-pages.
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Ivanhoe
By: Scott, Sir Walter
Published by: Bantam Books
Hailed by Victor Hugo as ''the real epic of our age,'' Ivanhoe was an immensely popular bestseller when first published in 1819. The book inspired literary imitations as well as paintings, dramatizations, and even operas. Now Sir Walter Scott's sweeping romance of medieval England has prompted a lavish new television production.
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