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The Annotated Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Nabokov's wise, ironic, and elegant masterpiece. • A controversial love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. • This annotated edition assiduously illuminates the …
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Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim Published on the eve of World War …
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The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
A Magical love story that is as sad as it is joyous.
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The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
A modern classic and international bestseller with more than one million copies in print, The Lover has been celebrated by critics and readers across the …
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Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf is perhaps the only notable work written in two volumes by Adolf Hitler, in 1924. Hitler was arrested when he took out a …
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
by Harold Bloom
A critical review of the work features the contributions of Joseph B. Wagner, Ronald Berman, Elizabeth Preston, and other scholars, discussing the themes and characters …
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, …
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the reader fully appreciate the beauty and humor of Dickens's work.In …
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Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems
by Edgar Allan Poe
The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes …
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Presents the story of Dr. Frankenstein and the obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature, and includes a section …
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Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
This book chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time of the Buddha--a tale that has inspired generations of readers. …