Classic Literature


Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
1984
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Animal Farm
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Of Mice and Men
Sense and Sensibility
Crime and Punishment
The Catcher in the Rye
Emma

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The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son and 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'
The Diaries of Franz Kafka (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Opowiadania prawie wszystkie
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories
Snow White and Other Grimms' Fairy Tales (MinaLima Edition)
The Book of Rumi: 105 Stories and Fables that Illumine, Delight, and Inform
Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life
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Reimagining the classics
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The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumAlice in Wonderland by Jane CarruthPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieOh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss
Stories to Carry You Away
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Like Nietzsche once said: 'And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.' We writers were always like that. The damned, dancing like fools around the world - feeling everything around as if it were an ocean wave. ...more
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There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley
Jane Austen, Emma

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