The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (1): Volume 1 (Timeless Classics)

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Madeleine L’Engle’s novel explores the age-old battle between good and evil and the importance of trusting your intuition. It serves as an invaluable historical document and a powerful insight into the atrocities of war, making for a challenging but essential read. Published in 1960, it is often required reading in middle schools and high schools across the United States. After ten years fighting in a thankless war, Odysseus begins the long journey home to Ithaca — where his wife Penelope struggles to hold off a horde of suitors.

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This is a deeply emotional and profoundly moving story about the resilience of the human spirit, psychological wounds, and hope despite the pain of our pasts.This story is about sisters Celie and Nettie who were separated at birth and reconnected through letters. And while Don Quixote lives out a fantasy in his head, an imposter puts it to the page, further blurring the line between fiction and reality. Not only is it one of his best-loved works, but it’s also a slim 104 pages — a true yuletide miracle from an author with a tendency towards the tome! This short novella tells the story of two British men visiting India while the country is a British colony.

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A true publishing treasure, the splendid cover illustrations with gold embossing, inspired by exuberant naturalistic motifs of the period, spill across the front and back covers and spine, transforming each book into a unique and beautiful object. Chinua Achebe’s magnum opus follows Okonkwo, an Igbo man whose sole aim is to rise above his father’s weak legacy. The greatest hits of his diary include eyewitness accounts of the restoration of the monarchy and the Great Plague. Though neither character is particularly fond of the other in the beginning, their romance evolves from a budding friendship built on snide remarks and witty banter, culminating to an iconic love story that tackles big themes of class, marriage, and first impressions that's been cherished since its debut in 1813. Bradbury is a master of science fiction and dystopian writing, and this is a great place for teens to start with him.A foundational feminist text, Simone de Beauvoir's treatise The Second Sex marked a watershed moment in feminist history and gender theory. One of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, "The Dream of the Red Chamber" was finally published in 1791 when Gao E and Cheng Weiyun collected the manuscripts and finished the novel. This short modern classic tells the tragic tale of a Cuban fisherman who catches a giant marlin but loses it.