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Best Seller Free Classics Books of 2023
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Discourses Book Reviews
EpictetusRaised a slave in Nero’s court, Epictetus would become one of the most influential philosophers in the Stoic tradition. While exiled in Greece by an emperor who considered philosop...
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Little Women Book Reviews
Louisa May AlcottWhile their father is away at war, the four March sisters try their best to maintain life in their New England home. Fifteenyearold Jo, modeled after author Louisa May Alcott, is a...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Reviews
Mark TwainThe irrepressible Tom Sawyer drives his Aunt Polly to distraction; she can’t decide whether to cry or laugh at his antics. He fights, falls in love, and finds adventure with two of...
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Oliver Twist Book Reviews
Charles DickensCharles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's bestknown fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest nove...
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1984 Book Reviews
George Orwell1984 is a dystopian novel by George Orwell written in 1948, which follows the life of Winston Smith, a low ranking member of ‘the Party’, who is frustrated by the omnipresent eyes ...
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Brave New World Book Reviews
Aldous HuxleyBrave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environm...
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Book Reviews
Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American classic, a book that has inspired troves of writers in its wake, and that has sparked generations of discussion and debate. It is a no...
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The Odyssey Book Reviews
HomerThe Odyssey is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical antiquity. Homer’s epic poem belongs in a collection called the Epic Cycle, which includes th...
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The Brothers Karamazov Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoevskyDmitri Karamazov and his father Fyodor are at war over both Dmitri’s inheritance and the affections of the beautiful Grushenka. Into this feud arrive the middle brother Ivan, recen...
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The Mysterious Island Book Reviews
Jules VerneIn this classic tale by French science fiction writer Jules Verne, a group of Americans escape the American Civil War by flying in a balloon and land on a mysterious island in the ...
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The Sound and the Fury Book Reviews
William FaulknerThe tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason,...
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Anna Karenina Book Reviews
Leo TolstoyAn Apple Books Classic edition. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Thus begins what many consider the world’s greatest novel. Leo Tolst...
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From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon Book Reviews
Jules VerneA team of nineteenthcentury American engineers builds a rocket to the moon in this visionary novel from the author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in ...
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The Whisperer in Darkness Book Reviews
H. P. LovecraftAn unspeakable horror lurks in the secluded hills of rural Vermont, and after the historic floods of 1917, mixed in with news stories of human loss and suffering are multiple repor...
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The Bell Jar Book Reviews
Sylvia PlathThe Bell Jar chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going undermaybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath mast...
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The Great Gatsby Book Reviews
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with myste...
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Burmese Days Book Reviews
George OrwellSet in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Orwell's book describes corruption and imperial bigotry. Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswam...
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The Getting of Wisdom Book Reviews
Henry Handel RichardsonAn Apple Books Classic edition. Writing as Henry Handel Richardson, Ethel Richardson drew on her personal experience to tell the story of her fictional heroine, Laura Rambotham. At...
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The Portrait of a Lady Book Reviews
Henry JamesHenry James’s beloved novel about a young woman’s search for freedom in a world that seeks to tie her to convention In the wake of her father’s death, young Isabel Archer decides t...
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The Old Man and the Sea Book Reviews
Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and the year after, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Ernest Hemingway in 1954. It was the la...
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We Book Reviews
Yevgeny ZamyatinAn Apple Books Classic edition. What happens when feelings get in the way of order? What is the price of perfecting society? Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We , like many of the dystopian nove...
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A Room With a View Book Reviews
E. M. Forster’sA Room With a View, perhaps E. M. Forster’s lightest novel, was also one long in gestationhe began it as early as 1901, and only published it in 1908. In it we meet young Lucy Hone...
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The Old Man and the Sea Book Reviews
Ernest HemingwayThis short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and losesspecifically referred ...
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Peter Pan Book Reviews
J. M. BarrieThis classic story of the boy who never grows old, was published by Shrewsbury High School for our SHS Covers the Classics.  Cover Designed by Chatya Bommu
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The Great Gatsby Book Reviews
F. Scott FitzgeraldAn Apple Books Classics edition. The Roaring Twenties are in full effect in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s riveting classic. Manabouttown Jay Gatsby seems to have it all, including loads of...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Reviews
Mark TwainIn this classic 1876 novel by Mark Twain, pseudonym of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, young Tom Sawyer and his friend Huck Finn find adventure in the town of St. Petersb...
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Anna Karenina Book Reviews
Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina is certainly somewhat unhappy in her life, but presents a strong and vivacious character when called in to smooth over a major crack that’s appeared in her brother’s ...
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Dracula Book Reviews
Bram StokerDracula is one of the most famous publicdomain horror novels in existence, responsible not just for introducing the eponymous Count Dracula, but for introducing many of the common ...
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And Then There Were None Book Reviews
Agatha ChristieThe world's bestselling mystery with over 100 million copies sold! Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a lonely mansion on Indian Isl...
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Emma Book Reviews
Jane AustenEmma Wodehouse is rich, spoiled, and meddlesome. Jane Austen famously declared that nobody would like her heroine except herself. Yet Emma remains as popular and beloved as Austen&...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God Book Reviews
Zora Neale HurstonFair and longlegged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person no mean feat for a Black woman in the ‘30s. Zora Neale Hurston's classic 1937 no...
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Moby Dick Book Reviews
Herman MelvilleAn Apple Books Classic edition. Herman Melville’s classic begins with one of the most famous opening lines in world literature: “Call me Ishmael.” Moby Dick was a commercial failur...
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Siddhartha Book Reviews
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha during a period in his life in which he suffered what he described as a “sickness with life.” He claimed to be unable to complete the book because he...
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The Scarlet Letter Book Reviews
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter is generally considered to be Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece. Set in 17th century Boston, it follows the plight of Hester Prynne, a young woman who bears a ch...
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The Scarlet Letter Book Reviews
Nathaniel HawthorneAn Apple Books Classic edition. Hester Prynne lives in infamy. After committing adultery and bearing a child with a man whose name she refuses to divulge, the heroine of Nathaniel ...
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Dracula Book Reviews
Bram StokerDracula is a Gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, considered to be one of the most enduring and skillful examples of the modern vampire genre. It tells the story of Count Dracula, a...
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Reflections on War and Death Book Reviews
Sigmund FreudIt is a Fiction Classic Story Book. The Book Says that Caught in the whirlwind of these war times, without any real information or any perspective upon the great changes that have ...
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Don Quixote Book Reviews
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraDon Quixote is a novel that doesn’t need much introduction. Not only is it widely considered the greatest Spanish literary work of all time, one of the greatest literary works in h...
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Mansfield Park Book Reviews
Jane AustenThe Author There was nothing of the literary woman in the external affairs of her life and its conduct. Born on 16 December, 1775, at Steventon in Hampshire, of which her father wa...
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All Quiet on the Western Front Book Reviews
Erich Maria RemarqueOne by one the boys begin to fall.. In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, freshfaced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war...
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The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald Book Reviews
F. Scott FitzgeraldEbook comes with main table of contents and interlinked sub table of contents. Each chapter is clearly marked so user knows which book within the boxset is being read. The Novels o...
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The Count of Monte Cristo Book Reviews
Alexandre DumasAn Apple Books Classic edition. Alexandre Dumas’ classic paints a portrait of Edmond Dantès, a dark and calculating man who is willing to wait years to exact his perfect plan for r...
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Great Expectations Book Reviews
Charles DickensAn Apple Books Classic edition. Charles Dickens’ classic explores potent themes like good versus evil, crime, repentance, love and betrayal. At the center of the story is Pip, an i...
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1984 Book Reviews
George Orwell1984 is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, 1984 ...
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1984 Book Reviews
George Orwell1984 is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, 1984 cen...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray Book Reviews
Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray was first published as a serial in Lippencott’s Monthly Magazine, and the publishers thought it would so offend readers that they removed nearly 500 word...
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1984 Book Reviews
George Orwell1984 is a dystopian novel by George Orwell written in 1948, which follows the life of Winston Smith, a low ranking member of ‘the Party’, who is frustrated by the omnipresent eyes ...
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Slaughterhouse-Five Book Reviews
Kurt VonnegutSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, SlaughterhouseFive, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on t...
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Wuthering Heights Book Reviews
Emily BrontëAn Apple Books Classic edition. If you’ve only ever seen Wuthering Heights on screen, you may have an image of Catherine and Heathcliff as the ultimate starcrossed lovers. But that...
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Such Is Life Book Reviews
Joseph FurphyAn Apple Books Classic edition. Set in the Australian outback in the 19th century, Such Is Life is the fictional diary of Tom Collins, a bull driver with a penchant for philosophic...
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Notes from Underground Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoevskyNotes from Underground is a fictional collection of memoirs written by a civil servant living alone in St. Petersburg. The man is never named and is generally referred to as the Un...
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The Iliad of Homer Book Reviews
HomerThe Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Troja...
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A Study in Scarlet Book Reviews
Arthur Conan DoyleA Study in Scarlet was the careerstarting, first Sherlock Holmes story published by Arthur Conan Doyle. Set in 19thcentury London, it follows Dr. John Watson, a war veteran, and th...
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Persuasion Book Reviews
Jane AustenPersuasion was published in 1817, six months after Jane Austen’s death, and is the last novel she completed in full. The novel tells the story of Anne Elliot, now in her late 20s, ...
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The Idiot Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoyevskyPrince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly rea...
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Up From Slavery Book Reviews
Booker T. WashingtonBooker Taliaferro Washington began life as a slave in Virginia shortly before emancipation, but rose to become one of the most celebrated leaders the African American community has...
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Selections from Poe Book Reviews
Edgar Allan Poe & J. Montgomery GambrillIn 1907, editor J. Montgomery Gambrill published this collection of poems and short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, including “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
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Heart of Darkness Book Reviews
Joseph ConradA riverboat captain named Marlow receives a simple assignment: to float upriver, deep into the heart of the colonized Congo, and find a wayward ivory trader named Kurtz. Yet the jo...
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An Ideal Husband Book Reviews
Oscar WildeAn Apple Books Classic edition. Rumor has it that upon passing through customs, Oscar Wilde once proclaimed, “I have nothing to declare but my genius.” Wilde’s play An Ideal Husban...
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The Enchiridion Book Reviews
EpictetusBorn a slave and lamed by his master, Epictetus studied Stoic philosophy while in captivity. Once freed, he survived Domitian’s banishment of all philosophers from Rome to settle i...
Best Seller Paid Classics Books of 2023
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Discourses Book Reviews
EpictetusRaised a slave in Nero’s court, Epictetus would become one of the most influential philosophers in the Stoic tradition. While exiled in Greece by an emperor who considered philosop...
-
Little Women Book Reviews
Louisa May AlcottWhile their father is away at war, the four March sisters try their best to maintain life in their New England home. Fifteenyearold Jo, modeled after author Louisa May Alcott, is a...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Reviews
Mark TwainThe irrepressible Tom Sawyer drives his Aunt Polly to distraction; she can’t decide whether to cry or laugh at his antics. He fights, falls in love, and finds adventure with two of...
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Oliver Twist Book Reviews
Charles DickensCharles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's bestknown fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest nove...
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1984 Book Reviews
George Orwell1984 is a dystopian novel by George Orwell written in 1948, which follows the life of Winston Smith, a low ranking member of ‘the Party’, who is frustrated by the omnipresent eyes ...
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Brave New World Book Reviews
Aldous HuxleyBrave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environm...
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Book Reviews
Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American classic, a book that has inspired troves of writers in its wake, and that has sparked generations of discussion and debate. It is a no...
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The Odyssey Book Reviews
HomerThe Odyssey is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical antiquity. Homer’s epic poem belongs in a collection called the Epic Cycle, which includes th...
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The Brothers Karamazov Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoevskyDmitri Karamazov and his father Fyodor are at war over both Dmitri’s inheritance and the affections of the beautiful Grushenka. Into this feud arrive the middle brother Ivan, recen...
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The Mysterious Island Book Reviews
Jules VerneIn this classic tale by French science fiction writer Jules Verne, a group of Americans escape the American Civil War by flying in a balloon and land on a mysterious island in the ...
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The Sound and the Fury Book Reviews
William FaulknerThe tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason,...
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Anna Karenina Book Reviews
Leo TolstoyAn Apple Books Classic edition. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Thus begins what many consider the world’s greatest novel. Leo Tolst...
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From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon Book Reviews
Jules VerneA team of nineteenthcentury American engineers builds a rocket to the moon in this visionary novel from the author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in ...
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The Whisperer in Darkness Book Reviews
H. P. LovecraftAn unspeakable horror lurks in the secluded hills of rural Vermont, and after the historic floods of 1917, mixed in with news stories of human loss and suffering are multiple repor...
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The Bell Jar Book Reviews
Sylvia PlathThe Bell Jar chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going undermaybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath mast...
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The Great Gatsby Book Reviews
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with myste...
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Burmese Days Book Reviews
George OrwellSet in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Orwell's book describes corruption and imperial bigotry. Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswam...
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The Getting of Wisdom Book Reviews
Henry Handel RichardsonAn Apple Books Classic edition. Writing as Henry Handel Richardson, Ethel Richardson drew on her personal experience to tell the story of her fictional heroine, Laura Rambotham. At...
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The Portrait of a Lady Book Reviews
Henry JamesHenry James’s beloved novel about a young woman’s search for freedom in a world that seeks to tie her to convention In the wake of her father’s death, young Isabel Archer decides t...
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The Old Man and the Sea Book Reviews
Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and the year after, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Ernest Hemingway in 1954. It was the la...
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We Book Reviews
Yevgeny ZamyatinAn Apple Books Classic edition. What happens when feelings get in the way of order? What is the price of perfecting society? Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We , like many of the dystopian nove...
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A Room With a View Book Reviews
E. M. Forster’sA Room With a View, perhaps E. M. Forster’s lightest novel, was also one long in gestationhe began it as early as 1901, and only published it in 1908. In it we meet young Lucy Hone...
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The Old Man and the Sea Book Reviews
Ernest HemingwayThis short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and losesspecifically referred ...
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Peter Pan Book Reviews
J. M. BarrieThis classic story of the boy who never grows old, was published by Shrewsbury High School for our SHS Covers the Classics.  Cover Designed by Chatya Bommu
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The Great Gatsby Book Reviews
F. Scott FitzgeraldAn Apple Books Classics edition. The Roaring Twenties are in full effect in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s riveting classic. Manabouttown Jay Gatsby seems to have it all, including loads of...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Reviews
Mark TwainIn this classic 1876 novel by Mark Twain, pseudonym of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, young Tom Sawyer and his friend Huck Finn find adventure in the town of St. Petersb...
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Anna Karenina Book Reviews
Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina is certainly somewhat unhappy in her life, but presents a strong and vivacious character when called in to smooth over a major crack that’s appeared in her brother’s ...
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Dracula Book Reviews
Bram StokerDracula is one of the most famous publicdomain horror novels in existence, responsible not just for introducing the eponymous Count Dracula, but for introducing many of the common ...
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And Then There Were None Book Reviews
Agatha ChristieThe world's bestselling mystery with over 100 million copies sold! Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a lonely mansion on Indian Isl...
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Emma Book Reviews
Jane AustenEmma Wodehouse is rich, spoiled, and meddlesome. Jane Austen famously declared that nobody would like her heroine except herself. Yet Emma remains as popular and beloved as Austen&...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God Book Reviews
Zora Neale HurstonFair and longlegged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person no mean feat for a Black woman in the ‘30s. Zora Neale Hurston's classic 1937 no...
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Moby Dick Book Reviews
Herman MelvilleAn Apple Books Classic edition. Herman Melville’s classic begins with one of the most famous opening lines in world literature: “Call me Ishmael.” Moby Dick was a commercial failur...
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Siddhartha Book Reviews
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha during a period in his life in which he suffered what he described as a “sickness with life.” He claimed to be unable to complete the book because he...
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The Scarlet Letter Book Reviews
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter is generally considered to be Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece. Set in 17th century Boston, it follows the plight of Hester Prynne, a young woman who bears a ch...
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The Scarlet Letter Book Reviews
Nathaniel HawthorneAn Apple Books Classic edition. Hester Prynne lives in infamy. After committing adultery and bearing a child with a man whose name she refuses to divulge, the heroine of Nathaniel ...
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Dracula Book Reviews
Bram StokerDracula is a Gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, considered to be one of the most enduring and skillful examples of the modern vampire genre. It tells the story of Count Dracula, a...
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Reflections on War and Death Book Reviews
Sigmund FreudIt is a Fiction Classic Story Book. The Book Says that Caught in the whirlwind of these war times, without any real information or any perspective upon the great changes that have ...
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Don Quixote Book Reviews
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraDon Quixote is a novel that doesn’t need much introduction. Not only is it widely considered the greatest Spanish literary work of all time, one of the greatest literary works in h...
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Mansfield Park Book Reviews
Jane AustenThe Author There was nothing of the literary woman in the external affairs of her life and its conduct. Born on 16 December, 1775, at Steventon in Hampshire, of which her father wa...
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All Quiet on the Western Front Book Reviews
Erich Maria RemarqueOne by one the boys begin to fall.. In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, freshfaced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war...
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The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald Book Reviews
F. Scott FitzgeraldEbook comes with main table of contents and interlinked sub table of contents. Each chapter is clearly marked so user knows which book within the boxset is being read. The Novels o...
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The Count of Monte Cristo Book Reviews
Alexandre DumasAn Apple Books Classic edition. Alexandre Dumas’ classic paints a portrait of Edmond Dantès, a dark and calculating man who is willing to wait years to exact his perfect plan for r...
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Great Expectations Book Reviews
Charles DickensAn Apple Books Classic edition. Charles Dickens’ classic explores potent themes like good versus evil, crime, repentance, love and betrayal. At the center of the story is Pip, an i...
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1984 Book Reviews
George Orwell1984 is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, 1984 ...
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1984 Book Reviews
George Orwell1984 is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, 1984 cen...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray Book Reviews
Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray was first published as a serial in Lippencott’s Monthly Magazine, and the publishers thought it would so offend readers that they removed nearly 500 word...
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1984 Book Reviews
George Orwell1984 is a dystopian novel by George Orwell written in 1948, which follows the life of Winston Smith, a low ranking member of ‘the Party’, who is frustrated by the omnipresent eyes ...
-
Slaughterhouse-Five Book Reviews
Kurt VonnegutSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, SlaughterhouseFive, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on t...
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Wuthering Heights Book Reviews
Emily BrontëAn Apple Books Classic edition. If you’ve only ever seen Wuthering Heights on screen, you may have an image of Catherine and Heathcliff as the ultimate starcrossed lovers. But that...
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Such Is Life Book Reviews
Joseph FurphyAn Apple Books Classic edition. Set in the Australian outback in the 19th century, Such Is Life is the fictional diary of Tom Collins, a bull driver with a penchant for philosophic...
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Notes from Underground Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoevskyNotes from Underground is a fictional collection of memoirs written by a civil servant living alone in St. Petersburg. The man is never named and is generally referred to as the Un...
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The Iliad of Homer Book Reviews
HomerThe Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Troja...
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A Study in Scarlet Book Reviews
Arthur Conan DoyleA Study in Scarlet was the careerstarting, first Sherlock Holmes story published by Arthur Conan Doyle. Set in 19thcentury London, it follows Dr. John Watson, a war veteran, and th...
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Persuasion Book Reviews
Jane AustenPersuasion was published in 1817, six months after Jane Austen’s death, and is the last novel she completed in full. The novel tells the story of Anne Elliot, now in her late 20s, ...
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The Idiot Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoyevskyPrince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly rea...
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Up From Slavery Book Reviews
Booker T. WashingtonBooker Taliaferro Washington began life as a slave in Virginia shortly before emancipation, but rose to become one of the most celebrated leaders the African American community has...
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Selections from Poe Book Reviews
Edgar Allan Poe & J. Montgomery GambrillIn 1907, editor J. Montgomery Gambrill published this collection of poems and short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, including “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
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Heart of Darkness Book Reviews
Joseph ConradA riverboat captain named Marlow receives a simple assignment: to float upriver, deep into the heart of the colonized Congo, and find a wayward ivory trader named Kurtz. Yet the jo...
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An Ideal Husband Book Reviews
Oscar WildeAn Apple Books Classic edition. Rumor has it that upon passing through customs, Oscar Wilde once proclaimed, “I have nothing to declare but my genius.” Wilde’s play An Ideal Husban...
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The Enchiridion Book Reviews
EpictetusBorn a slave and lamed by his master, Epictetus studied Stoic philosophy while in captivity. Once freed, he survived Domitian’s banishment of all philosophers from Rome to settle i...
