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The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The gateway to Barsetshire. The reader is introduced to Mr Harding the Warden of Hiram's Hospital and to his son-in-law Archdeacon Grantly.
The Water Kingdom by Philip Ball
Category: History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
A secret history of China - a fresh new way of thinking about a people, a civilisation, an epic story. The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the overwhelming complexity and teeming energy of the countr ...Show more
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Category: General Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
First published in 1776, this work is the classic statement of economic liberalism or the policy of laissez-faire and is widely considered on of the hundred greatest books of all time. Several fundamental principles or "axioms" were introduced in this work, including the division of labor, supply and de ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Category: Children's Books | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality and camarader ...Show more
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics
The Woman Warrior, China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston (Senior Lecturer, Department of English University of California, Berkeley)
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Here-for the first time in one volume-are two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books Maxine Hong Kingston mines her family's past and her culture's stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous ...Show more
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L.Frank Baum
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
When a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she meets the Munchkins, and they tell her to follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City where the Wonderful Wizard of ...Show more
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Modern Library Classics
The most eagerly awaited presidential biography in years, Theodore Rex is a sequel to Edmund Morris's classic bestseller The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It begins by following the new President (still the youngest in American history) as he comes down from Mount Marcy, New York, to take his emergency oa ...Show more
These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
An invitation to a treasure hunt open to thriller writers and lesser mortals confronts Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Macdonald with two baffling deaths.-- Kirkus ReviewsIt's all fun and games (and fake names) until someone ends up dead...Amidst the confusion of too many fake names, clues, ciphers, and ...Show more
Thirteen Guests - A British Library Crime Classic by J. Farjeon
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
'No observer, ignorant of the situation, would have guessed that death lurked nearby, and that only a little distance from the glitter of silver and glass and the hum of voices, two victims lay silent on a studio floor.' On a fine autumn weekend Lord Aveling hosts a hunting party at his country house, ...Show more
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant ...Show more
Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Dumas's most popular novel has long been a favorite with children, and its swashbuckling heroes are well known from many a film and TV adaptation. Set in 17th-century France, this tale of the adventures of D'Artagnan and the three musketeers is the finest example of its author's brilliantly inventive st ...Show more