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A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of wome ...Show more
A Rose for Winter: Travels in Andalusia by Laurie Lee
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashes slums, the cult of t ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Before the concept of equality between the sexes was even conceived, Wollstonecraft wrote this book, a treatise of proto-feminism that was as powerful and original then as it is now. In it she argues with clarity and originality for the rational education of women and for an increased female contributio ...Show more
Adam Bede by George Eliot
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
It may seem like an old tale: the beautiful village girl, her faithful admirer, a country squire's seduction. But seen through the eyes of any of its players, the old tale becomes one of fresh heartbreak, innocent hopes, best intentions gone awry, and better selves lost and restored. George Eliot's firs ...Show more
Agnes Grey (Vintage Classics) by Anne Brontë; Samantha Ellis (Introduction by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
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 precari ...Show more
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ...Show more
Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers by Joseph Heller
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | 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
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A beautiful young woman stands poised over the gambling tables in an expensive hotel. She is aware of, and resents, the gaze of an unusual young man, a stranger, who seems to judge her, and find her wanting. The encounter will change her life. The strange young man is Daniel Deronda, brought up with his ...Show more
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young ...Show more
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
An experimental novel about a young man who yearns for something greater than his everyday life holds.New to the Vintage Classics Woolf series, this is Woolf's groundbreaking experimental novel.Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his ...Show more
Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some witching power; the neighbourhood abounds with tales, haunted spots and twilight superstitions. But as hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane will discover, the wildest of all storie ...Show more