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Treasure Island By Stevenson, Robert Louis Editor Letley, Emma 2008-06 - Oxford University Press, USA 9780199536078 Check Our Catalog "Treasure Island will surely become--it must already have become, and will remain--in its way a classic."--Henry James. An absorbing tale of buccaneers and a romantic quest for treasure, Treasure Island is also the portrait of the briliantly drawn character, Long John Silver. …More

Oliver Twist By Dickens, Charles Illustrator Cruikshank, George 2008-06 - Random House (UK) 9780099511939 Check Our Catalog An orphan living on the dangerous London streets, Oliver has no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. The capital's underworld--replete with prostitutes, thieves and lost and homeless children--are displayed in this realistic and gritty look at the disadvantaged and abused. …More

Around the World in Eighty Days By Verne, Jules Translator Glencross, Michael Introduction by Aldiss, Brian 2004-05 - Penguin Books 9780140449068 Check Our Catalog This Penguin Classic offers a stirring, new tanslation of the ever-popular adventure story. …More

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero By Thackeray, William Makepeace Editor Sutherland, John 2009-07 - Oxford University Press, USA 9780199537624 Check Our Catalog Essentially a commentary on hypocrisy and those ethical principles to which society pays lip-service, VANITY FAIR (1847-8) is a classic epic extending from urban and rural England to Waterloo and the continental haunts of exiles. Considered one of the greatest social-satirical novels in English, this edition includes all of the author's own illustrations. …More

Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives By Flaubert, Gustave Translator Wall, Geoffrey Preface by Roberts, Michele 2002-12 - Penguin Books 9780140449129 Check Our Catalog This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. …More

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass By Carroll, Lewis Illustrator Tenniel, John Introduction by Byatt, A. S. 2002-12 - Modern Library 9780375761386 Check Our Catalog Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and "Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. "The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the "Alice books," writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction, "lies in language. . . . It is play, and word-play, and its endless intriguing puzzles continue to reveal themselves long after we have ceased to be children." …More