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Gone with the Wind, Part 2 of 2 by John Escott, Margaret Mitchell
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Part 2, the American South has lost the Civil War. Scarlett O'Hara has to work hard to build up her life again, but she has no money. The handsome Rhett Butler is rich, but he is soon to be hanged for murder. Then there is Ashley Wilkes. He is married now, but Scarlett still loves him...Categorized as:
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Gone with the Wind Volume 1 by Margaret Mitchell
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsGone With The Wind Volume 1: Special Edition By Margaret Mitchell Tomorrow is another day ... Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell's magnificent historical epic is an unforgettable tale of love and loss, of a nation mortally divided and a people forever changed... -
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Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, Elizabeth Hardwick
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsYou can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here. Bento Santiago, the wildly unreliable narrator of Dom Casmurro, believes that he has been cuckolded—he suspects that his wife has cheated on him with his best friend and that her child is not his... -
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Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsThe Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally reedited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship... -
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The Complete Charles Dickens Collection by Charles Dickens
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings51 books by Charles Dickens, including all of his classics and short story collections, in one volume with active table of contents:American Notes for General CirculationBardell v...Categorized as:
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Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTwo classic novels by the Bronte sisters, now available together... -
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Four Classic Novels by Jane Austen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe complete novels of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Emma and Persuasion in one large, brand new and giftable hardcover with perfect dj...Categorized as:
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![The Complete Poems by John Keats]()
The Complete Poems by John Keats
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsCovering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Poems of John Keats is edited with an introduction and notes by John Barnard.Keats's first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views...Categorized as:
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War And Peace, Volume 3 by Leo Tolstoy
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible...Categorized as:
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Love Poems and Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe greatest sonnets ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English...Categorized as:
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The Empty Hearth by Kitty Neale
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBattersea in the 50s and 60s. The Pratchett family have to contend with Alfie Pratchett's obsessive jealousy. Although Alfie is a bully, his two teenage children, John and Millie, have learned to dodge him and his moods. Their main concern is to protect their mum... -
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Farewell Song by Rabindranath Tagore
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRabindranath Tagore reinvented the Bengali novel with Farewell Song; blurring the lines between prose and poetry and creating an effervescent blend of romance and satire... -
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An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector, Sheila Heti
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH with a book that looks suspiciously like a romance novel? In The Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures, Clarice Lispector tries to discover how to bridge the gap between people, or how to even begin to try... -
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Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck by Hamka
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCerita ini berkisar tentang semangat juang Zainuddin, bagaimana merana dan melaratnya hidup Zainuddin setelah cintanya ditolak oleh keluarga Hayati. Kemudian beliau bangun semula dari segala kedukaan, membuka lembaran baru dalam hidupnya menjadi seorang penulis yang ternama dan berjaya. Ia menceritakan tentang kesetiaan, cinta dan kasihnya Zainuddin terhadap Hayati... -
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The Marquis' Secret by George MacDonald
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt was one of those exquisite days that come in every winter and seem like the beautiful ghost of summer The loveliness of the morning, however, was but partially visible from the spot where Malcolm Colonsay stood in the stable yard of Lossie House, ancient and roughly paved. He stood on the unlevelled stones grooming the coat of a powerful and fidgety black mare... -
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The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWilliam Shakespeare is a global icon for his plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, but his poetic meditations on love are among the most powerful and evocative poems ever written. This Penguin Classics edition of Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint is edited by John Kerrigan...Categorized as:
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Jane Eyre by Evelyn Attwood, Charlotte Brontë
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsClassic / British EnglishJane Eyre, a poor orphan, grows up in misery until she becomes the governess in the house of wealthy Mr Rochester and falls in love. But mysterious events take place in the house at night, and Mr Rochester appears to be hiding a terrible secret... -
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Spring Awakening by Steven Sater, Duncan Sheik
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“This brave new musical, haunting and electrifying by turns, restores the mystery, the thrill to that shattering transformation that stirs in all our souls... -
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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by Michael Rosen, Jane E. Ray
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe bard's quintessential love story — retold in an elegantly illustrated volume that will appeal both to aficionados of Shakespeare's play and to readers discovering it for the first time. The story has been told "many times by many different people in many different languages," notes Michael Rosen... -
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Battles in the Desert by José Emilio Pacheco
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis landmark novella—one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times—offers a child’s-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in “the year of polio, foot-and-mouth disease, floods...Categorized as:
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Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsEugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women... -
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A Dutiful Son: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Kelly Miller
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat will Fitzwilliam Darcy do when his beloved father stands between him and happiness?Darcy has always emulated his wise and honourable father, George Darcy. But following a sinister act of betrayal by a former family friend, his father rejects his most benevolent principles... -
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Bless This House by Norah Lofts
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe fortunes of a beautiful Elizabethan house called Merravay, Built in Suffolk for a queen to sleep in then loved and hated through four centuries. Told in eight episodic narratives by a fascinating pageant of characters including -- a pirate, witch, bawd, rake, recluse, and lovers all of whom play a vital part in the house's history... -
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White Orchids by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Jeffrey Wainwright stops to help Camilla, he's caught in a drama that will change his life. Grace Livingston Hill is the beloved author of more than 100 books. Read and enjoyed by millions, her wholesome stories contain adventure, romance, and the heartwarming triumphs of people faced with the problems of life and love... -
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Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAnnie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Now the major motion picture "Brokeback Mountain" is being hailed as equally masterful, with performances that are "the stuff of Hollywood history" "(The New York Times)... -
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The Brontë Sisters - The Complete Novels + Extras by Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsExplore this wonderfully put together e-book designed specifically for Kindle format by our team. Includes the major works of the Brontë sisters as well as the lesser known ones. Also includes the beautiful poetry collection by the Brontë sisters as well as poems and two sermons by their father Patrick Brontë...Categorized as:
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Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story by William Shakespeare, Arthur Laurents
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe tragedy of love thwarted by fate has always intrigued writers. In the sixteenth century, William Shakespeare took this theme and fashioned one of the world's great plays: ROMEO AND JULIET. In our own time, Shakespeare's drama has been used as a basis for the overwhelmingly successful musical play WEST SIDE STORY...Categorized as:
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Burung-Burung Manyar by Y.B. Mangunwijaya
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Anna Karenina Volume 2 by Leo Tolstoy
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: .. -
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Anna Karénina Volume 1 by Leo Tolstoy, Nathan Haskell Dole
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process... -
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The Complete English Poems by John Donne, A.J. Smith
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsYet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet—and even, many feel, the greatest love poet of them all...Categorized as:
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Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett . . . I love you too", Robert Browning wrote in January 1845, thus initiating the most celebrated literary correspondence of the 19th century. For the next 12 months, he and Elizabeth Barrett exchanged letters and confidences. In this elegant format, the delicate interplay between the poems and the lovers' letters become vividly apparent... -
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Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Gail Kern Paster
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 72 ratingsIn Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness. Beatrice and Benedick are kept apart by pride and mutual antagonism until others decide to play Cupid... -
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El prisionero enmascarado by Juliette Benzoni, Francisco Rodriguez de Lecea
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWearing a dress that is splattered with blood and clasping a doll to her chest, Sylvie de Valaines, a four-year-old girl, wanders the streets of the small village of Anet. The year is 1626 and her entire family has just been murdered, likely on the orders of Cardinal Richelieu. When a young boy of 10--Francois de Borbon-Vendome, the prince of Martigues--finds her, he brings her to his castle... -
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He Fell in Love with His Wife by Edward Payson Roe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPopular novel, first published around 1900... -
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L'aile des vierges by Laurence Peyrin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings" L'aile des vierges ", c'est ainsi que l'on surnomme les chambres réservées aux domestiques à Sheperd House, illustre manoir du Kent où est engagée Maggie Fuller au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Petite-fille de suffragette, fille d'une sage-femme féministe, Maggie aurait pu prétendre à mieux que cette place de femme de chambre...Categorized as:
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Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Sonnet 18" is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare... -
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Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis remarkable novel by adventure writer H. Rider Haggard can be enjoyed on many levels. As a tale of adventure, it takes the reader through 16th-century England, Spain, and Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. But on a deeper level, the author's hopes for humanity shine through the darkness of this time to illuminate the reader with his spiritual philosophy... -
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The Brothers by Milton Hatoum, John Gledson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIntroducing a major new voice in Brazilian letters.Set among a Lebanese immigrant community in the Brazilian port of Manaus, The Brothers is the story of identical twins, Yaqub and Omar, whose mutual jealousy is offset only by their love for their mother... -
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Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis bestselling novel set in the ruthless world of Victorian commerce follows the fortunes of Adam Swann, a scion of an Army family and veteran of campaigns in the Crimea and in India, in his quest to found his own financial dynasty... -
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Lovesick by Ángeles Mastretta
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A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn A Rose for the Crown, we meet one of history's alleged villains through the eyes of a captivating new heroine -- the woman who was the mother of his illegitimate children, a woman who loved him for who he really was, no matter what the cost to herself... -
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Loistava orsini by Samuel Shellabarger
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The Maias by Eça de Queirós
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOur hero Carlos Maia, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Portugal, is rich, handsome, generous and intelligent: he means to do something for his country, something useful, something that will make his beloved grandfather proud. However, Carlos is also a bit of a dilettante... -
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Stepmother Earth by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAhmet Celal, an officer in the Ottoman army, loses his right arm as the result of a bullet wound while fighting in the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I. After the war, he returns to Istanbul, which is now occupied by Allied forces comprised of British, French, and Italian troops. He moves into a mansion in Istanbul which he inherited from his father... -
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Shakespeare in Love by Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe companion screenplay to the acclaimed Miramax/Universal/Bedford Falls Company Film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Ben Affleck, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, and Dame Judy Dench.It is the summer of 1593, and the rising young star of London's theater scene, Will Shakespeare, faces a scourge like no other: a paralyzing bout of writer's block... -
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Murder Most Royal by Jean Plaidy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne powerful king. Two tragic queens. In the court of Henry VIII, it was dangerous for a woman to catch the king’s eye. Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were cousins. Both were beautiful women, though very different in temperament. They each learned that Henry’s passion was all-consuming–and fickle... -
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The Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Words in My Hand is the re-imagined true story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in 17th-century Amsterdam, who works for Mr. Sergeant, the English bookseller. When a mysterious and reclusive lodger arrives - the Monsieur - Mr Sergeant insists everything must be just so. It transpires that the Monsieur is René Descartes...Categorized as:
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