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Uncle Tom's Cabin - Introduction by Alfred Kazin by Harriet Beecher Stowe; Alfred Kazin (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of To ...Show more
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Under Western Eyesby Joseph Conrad"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in th ...Show more
VENICE STORIES by KEATES JONATHAN (ED)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories set in Venice, by an international array of brilliant writers. The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray; Catherine Peters (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
William Thackery's bestseller tells the tale of two wildly different girls growing up in Victorian England. Becky Sharp is a poor orphan possessing free spirits and an abundance of wit. Her friend, Amelia Sedley is the rich daughter of a wealthy family with no real-world experience. However, the real hi ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The classic novel of 'villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing', soon to be a major new ITV series from the producers of Poldark, Victoria and And Then There Were None. William Makepeace Thackeray's witty literary classic Vanity Fair is set against the ba ...Show more
Venice Stories by Jonathan Keates (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories set in Venice, by an international array of brilliant writers. The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. The international selection of stories gathered in this volume features such classics as Thoma ...Show more
Victory by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The girl he had come across ... that human being so near and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life.' Damaged by his father's nihilistic philosophy, Ax ...Show more
Victory - An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when h ...Show more
Villette by Charlotte Brontë; Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Villetteis Charlotte Bronte's powerful autobiographical novel of one woman's search for true love, edited with an introduction by Helen M. Cooper in Penguin Classics. With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Vi ...Show more
Walden - Everyman's Library by Henry Thoreau (Illustrator); Verlyn Klinkenborg (Introduction by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Henry David Thoreau was just a few days short of his twenty-eighth birthday when he built a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond and began one of the most famous experiments in living in American history. Originally he was not, apparently, intending to write a book about his life at the pond, but nine year ...Show more
Walden, or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous experiment in simple living in American history. On the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin, successor to Thoreau's original publisher, is proud to publish a n ...Show more
War and Peace by L.N. Tolstoy
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Three-Volume Boxed Set