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Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Hardcover
• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to just Hamlet, was written by Shakespeare sometime between 1599–1602. It...
View full detailsThe Merchant Of Venice
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Merchant of Venice is a 16th century play written by Shakespeare between 1596-1598 in which a merchant in Venice must default on ...
View full detailsPride And Prejudice
Jane Austen
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• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIn the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the problem of love and money in marriage where,...
View full detailsMacbeth
William Shakespeare
Hardcover
• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his Shakespeare's shorter tragedies, and was probably written between 1599–1606, and is...
View full detailsJane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
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• Author(s): Charlotte Bronte • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJane Eyre remains one of the most widely read of English Classics. In this novel, Charlotte Bronte invented a romantic tale of passion a...
View full detailsOthello
William Shakespeare
Hardcover
• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, or simply Othello, is a tragedy written in approximately 1603. One of Shakespeare's most ...
View full detailsThe Waves
Virginia Woolf
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• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Waves by Virginia Woolf The Waves is Virginia Woolf’s most audacious exploration of the possibilities of the novel form. Instead of na...
View full detailsAutobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
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• Author(s): Paramahansa Yogananda • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may hear the infallible counsel of the Inner Voice. First...
View full detailsAlice'S Adventures In Wonderland & Through The Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
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• Author(s): Lewis Carroll • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLewis Carroll's masterpieces, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, mark an epoch in the history of dr...
View full detailsA Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA Midsummer Night's Dream, comedy in five acts by Shakespeare, written about 1595-96 and published in 1600 in a quarto edition from t...
View full detailsA Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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• Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics.” A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett follows the...
View full detailsThe Origin Of Species
Charles Darwin
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• Author(s): Charles Darwin • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA classic that took the world by storm, raising havoc among scientists and religious people as its exposition apparently contradicted the ...
View full detailsRomeo And Juliet
William Shakespeare
Hardcover
• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRomeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by Shakespeare early in his career between 1591-1595 about two young star-crossed lovers whose ...
View full detailsTo The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
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• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureVirginia Woolf’s fifth novel, To the Lighthouse, was widely praised and has remained the most popular of all her novels. It is considered ...
View full detailsThe Wind In The Willows
Kenneth Grahame
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• Author(s): Kenneth Grahame • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Wind in the Willows is a book of linked animal tales that began as a series of bedtime stories and was published in 1908. It is beaut...
View full detailsThe Vicar Of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith
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• Author(s): Oliver Goldsmith • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Vicar of Wakefield (1766), is an exquisite portrait of village life whose idealization of the countryside, where sentimental morali...
View full detailsThe Republic (Peacock Books)
Plato
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• Author(s): Plato • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteraturePLATO, born around 428 BC in Athens, was a philosopher and mathematician in Classical Greece. He was the founder of the Academy in Athens, the firs...
View full detailsThe Pursuit of Happiness
Daniel G. Brinton
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• Author(s): Daniel G. Brinton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Education & Psychology“Half of happiness is the recognition that we are happy; and half of misery is the forgetting how many causes of happiness we h...
View full detailsThe Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• Author(s): Nathaniel Hawthorne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA universal classic and a masterful exploration of humanity’s unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride, The Scarlet Letter is a fo...
View full detailsKing Lear
William Shakespeare
Hardcover
• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureKing Lear is one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies and was believed to have been written be-tween 1605-1606, and was based on a ...
View full detailsWuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
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• Author(s): Emily Bronte • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWuthering Heights is a classic tale of possessive and thwarted passion, one of the forerunners of today's soap operas and romance novels. Th...
View full detailsThe Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
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• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer paints an unforgettable picture of...
View full detailsFrankenstein
Mary Shelley
Hardcover
• Author(s): Mary Shelley • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWhen Frankenstein, a young idealist Genevan student of natural philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, stumbled into the secret of infus...
View full detailsThree Men In A Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
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• Author(s): Jerome K. Jerome • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThree Men in a Boat, published in 1889, is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to O...
View full detailsThe Time Machine
H.G. Wells
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• Author(s): H.G. Wells • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Time Machine is a social allegory set in the year 802701 A.D., describing a society divided into two classes, the subterranean workers, ca...
View full detailsThe Portrait Of A Lady
Henry James
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• Author(s): Henry James • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Portrait of a Lady (1881) is Henry James's early novel of psychological realism, in which various types of American character are transpl...
View full detailsThe Nigger Of The 'Narcissus'
Joseph Conrad
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• Author(s): Joseph Conrad • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Nigger of the 'Narcissus', published in 1897, is widely regarded as the finest and the strongest picture of the sea and sea life that t...
View full detailsThe Ambassadors
Henry James
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• Author(s): Henry James • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Ambassadors, published in 1903, is considered by theauthor himself to be his most 'perfect' work of art. In this novel, with much humour ...
View full detailsThe Age Of Innocence
Edith Wharton
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• Author(s): Edith Wharton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureEdith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Age of Innocence is a social satire, a bitter-sweet romance, bringing to life the g...
View full detailsSilas Marner
George Eliot
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• Author(s): George Eliot • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSilas Marner is an impressive narrative, spiced with rustic humour and replete with forceful village characters. Accused of a false charge o...
View full detailsNorthanger Abbey
Jane Austen
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• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureNorthanger Abbey, written during the same period as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, represents Jane Austen's genius at its fre...
View full detailsMiddlemarch
George Eliot
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• Author(s): George Eliot • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSpecial Features: enotes.com Middlemarch (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters); Middlemarch (Magill Book Reviews); Middlemarch (Masterplots, R...
View full detailsDubliners
James Joyce
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• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureDubliners is one of the most magnificent short story collections in the English language. The manuscript was sent to the English publisher, G...
View full detailsAround The World In Eighty Days
Jules Verne
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• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne. It is the story of a rich English gentleman living a life of mod...
View full detailsThe Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence
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• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSet in the rural midlands of England, The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family, conveying how their rur...
View full detailsThe Mill On The Floss
George Eliot
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• Author(s): George Eliot • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe novel is set in the period of George Eliot’s own childhood, in the pre-railway, pre-industrial age, with its settled and secure order, a...
View full detailsThe Invisible Man
H.G. Wells
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• Author(s): H.G. Wells • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThis nightmarish tale by H.G. Wells contains all the suspense and adventure of science fiction at its best. It begins with a quiet country inn...
View full detailsThe Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn paints an unforgettable pict...
View full detailsTess Of The D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
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• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTess of the D’Urbervilles, a brilliant tale of seduction, love, betrayal, and murder, is generally regarded as Thomas Hardy’s finest novel. ...
View full detailsJourney To The Centre Of The Earth
Jules Verne
Hardcover
• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJourney to the Centre of the Earth published in 1864 in French as Voyage au centre de la Terre is the second book in Verne's popular science-...
View full detailsHeart Of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
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• Author(s): Joseph Conrad • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureHeart of Darkness is the finest of all Conrad's tales, showing him at the height of his powers as a writer of great vividness, intensity, a...
View full detailsGulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Hardcover
• Author(s): Jonathan Swift • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureGulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, was an immediate success and was read 'from the Cabinet - council to the Nursery' (Gay). It c...
View full detailsGreat Expectations
Charles Dickens
Hardcover
• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureGreat Expectations is a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mystery and is full of comic and tragic twists. It is generally consid...
View full detailsEmma
Jane Austen
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• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureEmma was the last novel which Jane Austen lived to see through the press and is perhaps her most accomplished and representative work, happil...
View full detailsHow to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
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• Author(s): Dale Carnegie • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyDale Carnegie's enduring masterpiece, How to Win Friends and Influence People, is a key to personal and professional triumphs. First p...
View full detailsHard Times
Charles Dickens
Hardcover
• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“Let us strike the keynote, Coketown, before pursuing our tune... It was a town of machines and tall chimneys, out of which interminable ...
View full detailsLady Chatterley'S Lover
D.H. Lawrence
Hardcover
• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRegarded notoriously pornographic when published in 1928, the novel is a triumph of passion, an erotic celebration of life, exploring the e...
View full detailsJude The Obscure
Thomas Hardy
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• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJude the Obscure is a haunting love story and a raging indictment of Victorian society. In addition to its literary qualities, the novel is ...
View full detailsAlexander the Great
Jacob Abbott
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• Author(s): Jacob Abbott • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: HistoryAlexander the Great unveils the life of one of history's most enigmatic figures, a warrior and a ruler of passionate ambition, Alexander III of Macedon...
View full detailsHenry Iv Part One
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureHenry IV, Part One is a history play, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetral...
View full detailsDavid Copperfield
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWhether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. In ...
View full detailsKim
Rudyard Kipling
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• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureKim, a picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling, was published serially in McClure’s Magazine, before being published in book form in 1901. Th...
View full detailsA Tale Of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWhen the starving French masses rise in hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and innocent become victims ...
View full detailsFar From The Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
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• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe story revolves around young and amorous but capricious Bathsheba Everdene and her enviable problem of coping with her three suitors simu...
View full detailsJulius Caesar
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Julius Caesar, or Julius Caesar, is believed to have been written in 1599 and is one of Shakespeare's works based on t...
View full detailsA Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureScrooge, an old miser, hates Christmas, calling it "humbug". On a Christmas eve, he refuses his nephew Fred's dinner invitation, and rude...
View full detailsEconomic Doctrine and Method
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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• Author(s): Joseph A. Schumpeter • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Economics“All knowledge, however, is the work of centuries and missing links in the chain of development are irreplaceable.” Originally published in ...
View full detailsA Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
James Joyce
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• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJames Joyce was and remains unique among novelists for whatever he published was a masterpiece. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a ...
View full detailsMeasure For Measure
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMeasure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. Originally published in the Firs...
View full detailsMadame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
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• Author(s): Gustave Flaubert • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureOnce considered scandalizingly immoral, Flaubert’s exquisite debut novel unsparingly depicts a woman’s gradual corruption and the human ...
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