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1) Candide
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The book traces the picaresque adventures of the guileless Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunegonde, tortured by the Inquisition, et cetera, all without losing his resilience and will to live and pursue a happy life.
2) The Iliad
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Homer's Iliad describes the final year of the Trojan War, a legendary conflict between an alliance of Greek cities and the city of Troy in Anatolia
The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability"...
3) The Aeneid
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A new edition of Virgil's epic work is presented in modern language and endeavors to retain the original work's humanity, as well as its influential blend of poetry and verse.
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Nine memorable classics, characterized by ironic twists of plot, include "Ball of Fat," regarded by many as technically one of the finest short stories ever written, "The Necklace," "A Piece of String," "Mme. Tellier's Establishment," "Mademoiselle Fifi," "Miss Harriet," "A Way to Wealth," "My Uncle Jules" and "The Horla."
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
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6) The odyssey
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"When Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad was published in 1990, critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece." "Now Robert Fagles presents us with the Odyssey, Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the arduous wanderings of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. If the Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey...
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Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 1
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The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed...
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"A special 25th anniversary edition of Paulo Coehlo's extraordinary international bestselling phenomenon--the inspiring spiritual tale of self-discovery that has touched millions of lives around the world.Combing magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical...
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El profesor Aronnax y sus dos compañeros, Consejo y Ned Land, son capturados por el capitán Nemo en su submarino Nautilus, del que no podrán salir. Durante su viaje, explorarán los mares, descubrirán maravillas nunca vistas por el ser humano y se enfrentarán a enormes criaturas marinas.
Considerada como una de las novelas pioneras de la ciencia ficción, Julio Verne ofrece en ella una mirada temprana a la exploración submarina, la tecnología...
10) Aesop's fables
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This collection of AEsop's stories is based on the nineteenth century research and translation of George Fyler Townsend, returns the fables to the adult audience for which they were intended. All the charm and wit of AEsop are in the tales, but they have a style and sophistication lacking in the juvenile editions.
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This early work by Lebanese-American Poet Kahlil Gibran is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a collection of beautiful verse and prose in the romantic style for which he is famed. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for all those interested in the poetry of the human condition and the wonders of being alive.
13) Robinson Crusoe
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Robinson Crusoe, la obra del autor Daniel Defoe. Cuando en Inglaterra se conoció la historia real de Alexander Selkirk, un marinero que fue abandonado en una isla desierta cerca de las costas de Chile y que vivió varios años en la soledad hasta ser rescatado, inspiró a Daniel Defoe a hacer otra de sus novelas basadas en hechos reales, aunque presentándolas como si fueran una descripción periodística de los sucesos. En el caso de Robinson Crusoe,...
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Haikyu!! volume 1
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"After proving themselves to be the ultimate combination in their practice match against Kei Tsukishima, Kageyama and Hinata are finally allowed to join the club! Hinata's true power--to perfectly time his spikes with his eyes closed--is awakened, and nothing can seem to stop this crazy setter-spiker duo. Now their skills are about to be put to the test at a practice game against one of Kageyama's former teammates from middle school, Tohru Oikawa"...
15) Ben-hur
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Ben-Hur, la obra del autor Lewis Wallace. Las emocionantes aventuras del judío Ben-Hur, bajo la dominación romana en los primeros años de nuestra era, han sido llevadas al cine en numerosas ocasiones y ha sido uno de los libros más vendidos en la historia de la literatura desde su publicación en 1880. La razón es clara, cuando se conocen los diversos personajes que forman parte de la obra, entre los cuales se destaca el protagonista, para quien...
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Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, first published in 1910, remained a perennial favorite throughout the twentieth century and into the early 2000s. It was adapted to several popular motion pictures and into one of the most successful stage musicals of all time. Its main character, Erik, is a romantic figure whose appeal reaches across different cultures and times. He is a sensitive soul, an accomplished composer and musician whose great...
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"Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple--"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)--crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling...
20) Brida
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Brida O'Fern, a beautiful young Irish girl on a quest for knowledge and understanding, encounters a wise man who teaches her how to overcome her fears and a woman who introduces her to the hidden music of the world.
