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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
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• 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
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• 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 detailsSiddhartha
Hermann Hesse
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• Author(s): Hermann Hesse • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.” Siddhartha is a profou...
View full detailsTen Great Economists: From Marx to Keynes
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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• Author(s): Joseph A. Schumpeter • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe task of the economist is not to predict the future but to explain the present. Ten Great Economists, originally published in 191...
View full detailsThe Odyssey
Homer
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• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.”...
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 detailsShakuntala
Kalidasa
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• Author(s): Kalidasa • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“A bee may be born in a hole in a tree, but she likes the honey of the lotus.” Shakuntala, a timeless masterpiece by the ancient Indian poet Kal...
View full detailsThe Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason
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• Author(s): George S. Clason • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Economics“It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.” The Richest Man in Babylon, a timeless classic in personal finance, offers practical wi...
View full detailsA Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
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• Author(s): Henrik Ibsen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.” Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House is a groun...
View full detailsThe Railway Children
E. Nesbit
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• Author(s): E. Nesbit • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.” Edith Nesbit's The Railway Childre...
View full detailsHard Times
Charles Dickens
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• 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
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• 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 ...
View full detailsMansfield Park
Jane Austen
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• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMansfield Park is a unique novel in its moral design, with a heroine remarkably different from the author’s previous creations. This young la...
View full detailsOliver Twist
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureOliver Twist, Dickens's critique of the harsh Poor Law of 1834, and a grim picture of the sordid reality the London underworld of Dickens...
View full detailsDracula by Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker
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• Author(s): Bram Stoker • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureDracula, published in 1897, is the most famous of all tales of vampirism. Presented in diaries, letters and news items, this story of the blo...
View full detailsAs You Like It
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAs You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Fol...
View full detailsIvanhoe
Sir Walter Scott
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• Author(s): Sir Walter Scott • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureScott’s most beloved and exciting adventure, Ivanhoe is a vivid recreation of Norman-Saxon conflict in 12th century England. Framing a r...
View full detailsMrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
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• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureVirginia Woolf’s fourth novel, Mrs Dalloway, marks an important stage in her development as a writer. In this novel she finally departs fr...
View full detailsLord Jim
Joseph Conrad
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• Author(s): Joseph Conrad • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLord Jim is a work of Joseph Conard’s maturity as a writer, and is one of the book which established him as a master storyteller and a grea...
View full detailsSense And Sensibility
Jane Austen
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• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSense and Sensibility, the first of Austen’s novels to be published, remains as fresh as ever it was. The basic theme of the novel is concern...
View full detailsPrinciples of Political Economy and Taxation
David Ricardo
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• Author(s): David Ricardo • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: EconomicsThere can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits. Originally published in 1817, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation r...
View full detailsTales From Shakespeare
Charles and Mary Lamb
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• Author(s): Charles and Mary Lamb • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAn enthralling retelling of Shakespeare’s twenty masterpieces, Tales from Shakespeare is a real feast of simple words flavoured wit...
View full detailsPersuasion
Jane Austen
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• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIn Persuasion, Jane Austen’s last completed novel, unpublished until her death, satire and ridicule become milder and the tone is more grave ...
View full detailsRobinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
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• Author(s): Daniel Defoe • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteraturePublished in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has remained one of the best-known and most read of English novels. It gained popularity among children a...
View full detailsThe Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Great Gatsby is generally considered to be the finest novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in an easy style, without com...
View full detailsOrlando
Virginia Woolf
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• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIt is a fantasy novel published in 1928. It traces the career of the androgynous Orlando through four centuries from the late sixteenth ce...
View full detailsSons And Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
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• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSons and Lovers is considered to be D.H. Lawrence’s first mature novel. What is unique about this novel is its profound psychological insig...
View full detailsMuch Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMuch Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approachi...
View full detailsThe Tempest by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tempest, a play in five acts, is believed to have been written in 1610-1611 and thought by many critics to be the last play that ...
View full detailsThe Adventures Of Tom Sawyer And The 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 detailsThe Iliad
Homer
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• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureHomer's The Iliad, an ancient epic of unparalleled significance, transports readers to the heart of the Trojan War, an epoch-defining conflict betw...
View full detailsThe Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
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• Author(s): Jacob Grimm | Wilhelm Grimm • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Children BooksFirst published in 1812 as Kinder- und Hausmärchen, Grimm’s Fairy Tales—inspired by German folklore—remain among the most cherish...
View full detailsThe Jungle Books
Rudyard Kipling
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• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureKipling's allegory, The Jungle Books, set in India and filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters that touch both our intell...
View full detailsThe Mayor Of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
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• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Mayor of Casterbridge displays the influence of Hardy's upbringing, rural background, and architectural studies. His characters are prim...
View full detailsWomen In Love
D.H. Lawrence
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• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWomen in Love, the book Lawrence considered his best, was written during World War I, and while that conflict is never mentioned in the nov...
View full detailsTreasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
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• Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTreasure Island, a wonderfully crafted edition of Stevenson’s classic adventure story, is known for its great plot, immortal chara...
View full detailsUlysses
James Joyce
• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJames Joyce’s Ulysses, a landmark of modernist literature, takes place over a single day—16 June 1904—in Dublin, as Leopold Bloom journeys th...
View full detailsThe Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
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• Author(s): Joseph Conrad • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature"The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's two supreme masterpieces, one of the two questionable classics of the first order that he added to the...
View full detailsThe Prophecies of Nostradamus
Nostradamus
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• Author(s): Nostradamus • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe Prophecies of Nostradamus, first published in 1555, is a captivating collection of cryptic predictions that has fascinated readers f...
View full detailsThe Little Prince
Antoine De Saint- Exupery
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• Author(s): Antoine De Saint- Exupery • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAntoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, a beloved fable of childhood wonder and wisdom, invites readers on a journey thro...
View full detailsBooms and Depressions: Some First Principles
Irving Fisher
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• Author(s): Irving Fisher • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: EconomicsIn Booms and Depressions, economist Irving Fisher provides a groundbreaking analysis of the cyclical nature of economic activity, focusing on the ca...
View full detailsThe Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
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• Author(s): Adam Smith • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyPublished in 1759, The Theory of Moral Sentiments provides a philosophical framework for Adam Smith's later works, including The Wealth o...
View full detailsThe Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
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• Author(s): Sigmund Freud • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Education & PsychologyConsidered one of the most significant works of Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams is a psychoanalytical inquiry that exam...
View full detailsEssays: First and Second Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Author(s): Ralph Waldo Emerson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyRalph Waldo Emerson’s Essays: First and Second Series presents a collection of his most influential writings, originally publish...
View full detailsThe Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr.
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• Author(s): William Strunk Jr. • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., a seminal guide to the art of writing, distils the essential rules of grammar, usa...
View full detailsThe War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
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• Author(s): H.G. Wells • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureH.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is a groundbreaking science fiction novel that depicts humanity's struggle against a devastating alien invas...
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