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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Category: No Category | Series: Pulp! The Classics
Christmas?! What a load of Humbug. Mistletoe and Wine just don't do it for Scrooge; he's a workaholic miser with an attitude problem. If he doesn't change his ways, he'll end up with no friends and Tiny Tim won't last the year. Let's hope some spooky night-time visitors can put the jingle back in his be ...Show more
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
After reading A Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens' other Christmas writings, it has had a ...Show more
A Christmas Carol (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor); Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has gripped ...Show more
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writingscollects stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings. This Penguin Classics is edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Slater.Since it was first published in 1843 A Christmas Carol ...Show more
A Confederacy of Dunces (PB) by John Kennedy Toole
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses ...Show more
A Descant for Gossips by Thea Astley
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Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Modern Classics
In this classic story of small-town life, two schoolteachers are drawn to each other by their concern for a lonely young girl. For as long as Vinny Lalor could remember, she had been on the fringe of things - in her family and at school. But as the final term of the year progresses, rumour and malice mo ...Show more
A Difficult Young Man - Text Classics by Martin Boyd
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Handsome, proud, reprehensible, misunderstood. Dominic Langton is the dark heart of A Difficult Young Man. His brother Guy can scarcely understand where he fits into the pattern of things or what he might do next. Martin Boyd's much loved novel is an elegant, witty and compelling family tale about the c ...Show more
A Dog So Small (Puffin Modern Classics) by Philippa Pearce
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Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He's picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library - and he just knows he's going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but he receives a picture of a dog instead of a real one! But the imagination can be a powerful ...Show more
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social ...Show more
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.' A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with the astronauts themse ...Show more