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Knickerbocker Classics eBook Series

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  • Age of Innocence

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Series series Knickerbocker Classics
    Initially serialized in the Pictorial Review in 1920, The Age of Innocence is a stylistic and intimate portrayal of upper class life in New York City during the Gilded Age.Lawyer and socialite Newland Archer is about to enter a loveless marriage with a well-to-do bride, when her cousin, the exotic Ellen Olenska, enters the picture. Olenska is stuck in a bad marriage with a Polish count, and Archer ... Read more

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  • Wives and Daughters (Illustrated)

    o begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and in that town there was a house, and in that house there was a room, and in that room there was a bed, and in that bed there lay a little girl; wide awake and longing to get up, but not daring to do so for fear of the unseen power in the next room—a certain Betty, whose slumbers must ... Read more

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  • Agnes Grey (Dream Classics)

    Agnes Grey is an 1847 novel written by English author Anne Brontë. The novel is about a governess of that name and is said to be based on Brontë's own experiences in the field. It was Brontë's first novel. Similar to her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, this is a novel that addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman.The Irish novelist George ... Read more

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  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

    by Daniel Defoe ...
    Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll's drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution and a resourceful career as a thief ('the greatest Artist of my time') before she is apprehended and returned to Newgate.If Moll Flanders is on one level a Puritan's tale of sin and repentance, through self-made, self ... Read more

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  • Villette (Annotated)

    Villette is an 1853 classic by Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.Villette was Charlotte Brontë's fourth novel. It was preceded by the posthumously published The Professor, her first, and then by Jane Eyre ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Utopia

    Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of the King’s Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in the city of London. After his earlier education at St. Anthony’s School, in Threadneedle Street, he was placed, as a boy, in the household of Cardinal John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor. It was not unusual for persons of wealth or influence and sons of good families to ... Read more

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  • The Ambassadors

    A Dark Comedy Novel

    by Henry James ...
    Series Book 9 - Henry James Collection
    The novel follows middle-aged Lambert Strether as he is dispatched from Massachusetts to Paris by his wealthy fiancée to rescue her son, Chad Newsome, from the corrupting influences of Europe and its wicked women. Once the mild-mannered and inexperienced Strether arrives in Paris, however, Chad introduces him to a world that he finds refined and sophisticated, rather than debauched and base. Mrs. ... Read more

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  • The Complete Autobiographical Works of George Orwell

    Enriched edition.

    The Complete Autobiographical Works of George Orwell presents a comprehensive collection that encapsulates the life, thoughts, and fundamental ideologies of one of the 20th century's most influential writers. This anthology not only reflects Orwell's literary prowess through vivid prose but also offers a deep engagement with themes of social justice, totalitarianism, and individual morality. The ... Read more

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  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    There once lived, in a sequestered part of the county of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby: a worthy gentleman, who, taking it into his head rather late in life that he must get married, and not being young enough or rich enough to aspire to the hand of a lady of fortune, had wedded an old flame out of mere attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the same reason. Thus two people who cannot ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Knew Too Much

    A prolific and popular writer, G. K. Chesterton (18741936) is best known as the creator of detective-priest Father Brown. The eight adventures in this classic British mystery trace the activities of Horne Fisher, the man who knew too much, and his trusted friend Harold March. Although Horne's keen mind and powerful deductive gifts make him a natural sleuth, his inquiries have a way of developing ... Read more

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  • The Metamorphosis

    Alienation, Transformation, and Modern Anxiety

    by Franz Kafka ...
    A landmark modernist novella portraying isolation and identity through surreal transformation. ... Read more

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  • The Souls Of Black Folk

    The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history. ... Read more

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