 | Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book.
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 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
When thinking about Alice and her dreamy surrealistic adventures down the rabbit hole and behind the looking-glass, who can help picturing the golden-haired girl in her lilac dress and striped stockings, gazing up at the Cheshire Cat or arguing with Tweedledum and Tweedledee?
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 | Dracula by Bram Stoker
Stoker takes his story beyond sheer melodrama, eliciting sympathy for the afflicted victims of Dracula while also recreating the religious atmosphere of the period and the beliefs and doubts of average citizens. The novel is far more compelling than I expected, creating suspense at the same time that it develops the character of the count with his supernatural powers.
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 | The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 | Emma by Jane Austen
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. So begins Jane Austen's comic masterpiece Emma.
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 | Little Women (Sterling Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father is off to war.
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 | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Ben Franklin's life, in his own words. Journalist, statesman, scientist, inventor, rabble-rouser, ambassador, carouser. The remarkable life of a remarkable man.
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 | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye.
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 | Gulliver's Travels (Classic StartsTM) by Jonathan Swift
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 | Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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 | The Art of War by Sunzi
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 | The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Sir James Knowles
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 | A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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 | Common Sense by Thomas Paine
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 | Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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 | Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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 | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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