Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of ...Show more
Cranford (Penguin English Library) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Category: Classics
'Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs, making such a graceful bow, in reply to which I dropped a curtsey - all foreigners have such polite manners, one catches something of it'. "Cranford" is an affectionate and often moving portrait of genteel poverty and intertwined lives in a nineteenth-cen ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit m ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Chateau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of ...Show more
Cranford (Clothbound Classic) by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Cranford By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Cranford is a witty portrait of small town life in early-Victorian England. The story unfolds through the eyes of Mary Smith, a young woman who observes the comedic struggles of two middle aged sisters in their efforts to maintain a level of refined dignity amid po ...Show more
Constantinople by Edmondo De Amicis
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Category: Classics
An invaluable record of the metropolis as it used to be - a fascinating crossroads between Eastern and Western civilization and one of the most cosmopolitan cities of its time - as well as a vivid example of a European tourist's reaction to it - part delight, part incomprehension - this book wil ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection) by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Ch teau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Books: Great Ideas
For the true bibliophile and design-savvy book lover, here is the next set of Penguin's celebrated Great Ideas series by some of history's most innovative thinkers. Acclaimed for their striking and elegant package, each volume features a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Off ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Classics
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS. Once upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecst ...Show more
Confession by Leo N. Tolstoy; David Patterson (Translator)
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Category: Classics
Marking a shift in his career from the aesthetic to the religious, Tolstoy'sConfession relates this spiritual crisis, posing the question: Is there any meaning in my life that will not be destroyed by my death? It is a timeless account of an individual's struggle for faith and meaning.
Conference at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
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Category: Classics
Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labeled'Quiete Retreate' and 'Greate laundrie'. It is, Flora winces, 'exactly like being locked in the Victoria and Albert Museu ...Show more
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
No library is complete without the classics This leather-bound edition includes the complete works of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare, considered by many to be the English language's greatest writer. Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth--the works o ...Show more