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Classics
A classic stands the test of time. The work is usually considered to be a representation of the period in which it was written; and the work merits lasting recognition. In other words, if the book was published in the recent past, the work is not a classic.
A classic has a certain universal appeal. Great works of literature touch us to our very core beings--partly because they integrate themes that are understood by readers from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience. Themes of love, hate, death, life, and faith touch upon some of our most basic emotional responses.
Although the ...more
A classic has a certain universal appeal. Great works of literature touch us to our very core beings--partly because they integrate themes that are understood by readers from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience. Themes of love, hate, death, life, and faith touch upon some of our most basic emotional responses.
Although the ...more
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Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories
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Together, these bold translations recast for a new generation Mann’s incisive sense of the comedy amid life’s tragedies.
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Anne: An Adaptation of Anne of Green Gables (Sort Of)
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In this fun and modern middle grade graphic novel adaptation of Anne of Green Gables, foster child Anne Shirley finally lands in. Enter to win an ARC!
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All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.
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― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
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The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
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