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1) The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman

Author

Sterne, Laurence

Series

Oxford world's classics
Odyssey series in literature
Modern Library classics
Penguin classics

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate "hero" Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr. Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick.

2) Hard times

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

World's classics
Recorded Books classics library
Audio editions
Oxford illustrated Dickens
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 20

Lexile measure

1080L

Language

English

Formats

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

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"Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, Hard Times was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the cheerful celebration of Victorian life one might have expected from the beloved author of The Pickwick Papers and The Old Curiosity Shop. Compressed, stark, allegorical, it is a bitter exposé of capitalist exploitation during the industrial revolution-and...

3) The Last of the Mohicans: a Scribner illustrated story book

Author

Cooper, James Fenimore

Series

Leatherstocking tales volume 2
Oxford world's classics
Scribner storybook classic volume 1
Barnes and Noble classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32

Lexile measure

1210L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

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"The Last of the Mohicans is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists. The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing...

4) The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote

Author

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

Series

Modern Library classics

Language

English

5) Northanger Abbey

Author

Austen, Jane

Series

Dover thrift editions
Everyman's library volume 109
Collector's Library volume 21
Naxos AudioBooks complete classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 16

Lexile measure

1120L

Language

English

Formats

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

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While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become embroiled in a Gothic adventure of intrigue and suspense - and, once there, soon begins to form the most gruesome and improbable theories about the exploits of its occupants.An early...

6) 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

Description

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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...

7) The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

Modern Library classics
Oxford illustrated Dickens
Everyman's library volume 211
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 11.8 - AR Pts: 60

Lexile measure

1160L

Language

English

Description

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Episodes of the doings and foilbles of the Pickwick Club. The book is made up of letters and manuscripts about the club's action.

8) The Count of Monte Cristo

Author

Dumas, Alexandre

Series

Oxford world's classics
Timeless Classics
First Avenue Classics
Universal library
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 34

Lexile measure

810L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Château d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible...

9) ...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

Description

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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.