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1) The divine comedy

Author

Dante Alighieri

Series

Vintage classics
Oxford world's classics
Bollingen volume 80
Everyman's library volume 183
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Lexile measure

1220L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

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Comprised of three books - "Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso" - "Dante's Divine Comedy" follows Dante Alighieri's epic poems follows Dante through the different sections of the afterlife; hell, purgatory, and heaven. "Divine Comedy" began as a project in 1308 and ended in 1320, the year before Dante's death. Told in first person, Dante follows the poet Virgil through the rings of hell and purgatory. "The Divine Comedy" is a highly allegorical text and...

2) The Hunchback of Notre- Dame

Author

Hugo, Victor

Series

Timeless Classics
First Avenue Classics
Classic collection)
Barnes and Noble classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 11.8 - AR Pts: 38

Lexile measure

1340L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo, 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 today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary...

3) ...David Copperfield, a novel

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

BBC radio collection
First Avenue Classics
Golden heritage
Barnes and Noble classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 66

Lexile measure

1070L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Manuscript, Playaway

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A classic tale of an orphan growing up in the 1800's of England. Intimately rooted in the author's own biography and written as a first-person narrative, "David Copperfield" charts a young man's progress through a difficult childhood in Victorian England to ultimate success as a novelist, finding true love along the way.

4) Wuthering heights

Author

Brontë, Emily

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23

Lexile measure

880L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, CD + Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

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"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...

5) A tale of two cities

Author

Dickens, Charles

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27

Lexile measure

1130L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, CD + Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print, Manuscript

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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...