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Lord of the Flies

William Golding

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"William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collaps...more

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Hamlet [Penguin Popular Classics] Complete and Unabridged

William Shakespeare

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Probably the most famous play in the English language, 'Hamlet' transcends the revenge tradition and explores the nature of man. ... Leraning that his father has been killed by Claudius, his uncle, Hamlet's only honourable course of action is revenge. But Hamlet's nature tends not towards action but reflection and in his incapacity to act lies the ...more

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All Editions	The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Wordsworth Special Editions) William Shakespeare (337 reviews ) Popular Tags: literature - philosophy literature - philosophy
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Sense & Sensibility

Ros Ballaster , Jane Austen

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In SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Jane Austen writes about two ways of looking at the world in the personalities of two sisters, Elinor the determinedly practical and Marianne the madly romantic. Forced to live in reduced circumstances with their widowed mother and younger sister, the Dashwood girls must rely on marrying well if they are to survive in the ...more

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All Editions	Wild Geese Ellis Dillon , Eilis Dillon Write the first review.(See your review)
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Elie Wiesel

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First published in 1958, this raw, devastatingly haunting Holocaust memoir is Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel's best known work. After the German army invades, they first confine the Jewish community of Sighet, Transylvania, into a ghetto, and then pack them into cattle cars bound for the concentration camps. Fifteen-year-old Eliezer and his f...more

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

J. K. Rowling

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The long-awaited, eagerly anticipated, arguably over-hyped Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has arrived, and the question on the minds of kids, adults, fans, and skeptics alike is, "Is it worth the hype?" The answer, luckily, is simple: yep. A magnificent spectacle more than worth the price of admission, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince...more

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The Crucible

Arthur Miller

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Set during the Salem witchcraft trials, this play is most famous for its metaphor for McCarthyism--in fact, three years after the play was produced, Miller himself was called before HUAC. In the play, Miller used colonial language to near-poetic effect; the plot involves characters who have to make certain moral choices concerning their communities...more

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