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  • Pierre

    or, The Ambiguities

    'Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jack o'the'lantern to guide the wanderer's footsteps - the dream of a distempered stomach, disordered by a hasty supper on half-cooked pork chops." So judged the New York Herald when ... Read more

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  • Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

    by Various ...
    Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville occupy the center of this anthology of nearly three hundred poems, spanning the course of the century, from Joel Barlow to Edwin Arlington Robinson, by way of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, Jones Very, Thoreau, Lowell, and Lanier.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking ... Read more

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  • The Portable Hawthorne

    A critical vantage point from which to see Hawthorne's career as a whole—his artistic rise, triumph, and final worksThe Portable Hawthorne includes writings from each major stage in the career of Nathaniel Hawthorne: a number of his most intriguing early tales, all of The Scarlet Letter, excerpts from his three subsequently published romances—The House of Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and ... Read more

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  • The American

    Revised Edition

    by Henry James ...
    Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry Claire de Cintré, a scintillating and beautiful aristocrat, Christopher Newman comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family in a dramatic clash between the Old World and the New. A co-production with the BBC, starring Diana ... Read more

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  • The Turn of the Screw

    A Classic Gothic Psychological Novella by Henry James

    by Henry James ...
    Are the children in danger… or is the governess losing her mind? In The Turn of the Screw, a young governess arrives at a remote country estate to care for two orphaned children. Soon, she begins to sense a sinister presence haunting the grounds—yet no one else seems to see what she sees. Is it a true ghost story… or a chilling portrait of psychological unraveling? Dark, ambiguous, and masterfully ... Read more

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  • Daisy Miller

    With Linked Table of Contents

    by Henry James ...
    Here is Henry James classic masterpiece, Daisy Miller. Daisy is a youthful, exuberant American girl vacationing in Europe. She typifies the brashness of America-a brashness that clashes with the European society to which she finds herself drawn. This poignant tragedy plays out as these cultures collide. ... Read more

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  • Glasses

    Classic Short Story

    by Henry James ...
    Series Book 6 - Henry James Collection
    Glasses is short story by Henry James. A young woman whose only asset is a supremely beautiful face is about to make a society marriage until her fiance discovers that, being virtually blind, she needs thick glasses which ruin her looks. The anonymous narrator, a bachelor artist, visits Folkestone and sees a young woman with an astonishly beautiful face. From a friend, the widowed Mrs Meldrum who ... Read more

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  • Tales of the Jazz Age (Illustrated Edition)

    The 1920s in the United States were known as the Roaring Twenties and the ultimate Jazz Age for the nation, a time that glorified hard and fast living. And nobody personified it or wrote so descriptively about it as F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), whose name became synonymous with the times after penning the epic Great Gatsby. Along with his dazzling wife Zelda, Fitzgerald was all too keen to ... Read more

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  • Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems (The Classics Collection)

    This book contains the complete Edgar Allan Poe’s tales and poems —over 135 works— in the chronological order of their original publication. Some of the most notable are: Tales: • "The Fall of the House of Usher" • "The Masque of the Red Death" • "The Pit and the Pendulum" • "The Premature Burial" • "The Purloined Letter" • "The Tell-Tale Heart" Poems: • "Annabel Lee" • "The Bells" • "The City in ... Read more

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  • Works Of Henry James: Including The Portrait Of A Lady, The Turn Of The Screw, The Ambassadors, The Bostonians, The Europeans, The Wings Of The Dove & More (Mobi Collected Works)

    by Henry James ...
    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of ... Read more

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  • Good Poems

    by Various ...
    Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m."The title Good Poems comes from common literary parlance. For ... Read more

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  • Poetic Republic: Poems to Talk About

    by Peter Hartey ...
    This is a first-of-its-kind poetry publication.Poetic Republic: Poems to Talk About documents an anonymous peer review process in which nearly 800 poets (from 48 countries) read, voted on and commented on each other’s poems during May and June 2012.The Poetic Republic Poetry Prize has been developed over five years and is now one of the largest poetry events based in the UK. Some comments made by ... Read more

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