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The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
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• Author(s): Kahlil Gibran • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe Prophet (1923) is a book of 26 prose poems by the Lebanese American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. A collection of ...
View full detailsThe Upanishads
Swami Paramananda
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• Author(s): Swami Paramananda • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophySwami Paramananda's The Upanishads explores ancient Indian spiritual texts, revealing wisdom that has influenced philosophical tho...
View full detailsPeter Pan
J.M. Barrie
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• Author(s): J.M. Barrie • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Children BooksPeter Pan, a timeless work of fantasy, unfolds in the magical world of Neverland, where Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up, leads a group of...
View full detailsPolitics
Aristotle
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• Author(s): Aristotle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyPolitics by Aristotle is a cornerstone of political philosophy, unfolding in dialogues and reflections on the nature of the state, citizen...
View full detailsWar & Peace
Leo Tolstoy
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• Author(s): Leo Tolstoy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: HistorySet against the backdrop of Napoleon's conquest and the French invasion of Russia, War and Peace is one of the best-known historical works, written over...
View full detailsAnnihilation of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar
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• Author(s): B.R. Ambedkar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyAnnihilation of Caste is a powerful and uncompromising critique of India's caste system, written by one of the most influential soc...
View full detailsThe Inferno
Dante Alighieri
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• Author(s): Dante Alighieri • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureDante Alighieri's The Inferno is the first part of his epic Divine Comedy, which takes readers on a journey through Hell. Guided by the R...
View full detailsThe Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
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• Author(s): Alexandre Dumas • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Children BooksIn the bustling streets of seventeenth-century Paris, a young and ambitious swordsman from Gascony, D'Artagnan, arrives seeking to join the i...
View full detailsHeidi
Johanna Spyri
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• Author(s): Johanna Spyri • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Children BooksJohanna Spyri's Heidi, a beloved classic of children's literature, unfolds in the breathtaking Swiss Alps, where a young orphan named Heidi is ...
View full detailsPollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter
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• Author(s): Eleanor H. Porter • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Children BooksEleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna narrates the story of eternally optimistic Pollyanna who goes to live with her strict aunt Polly after being ...
View full detailsA Tale Of A Tub And Other Works
Jonathan Swift
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• Author(s): Jonathan Swift • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift’s first major and his most masterly work. It presents a satire of religious excess. When it was written, p...
View full detailsAesop'S Fables
Translated by V.S. Vernon Jones
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• Author(s): Translated by V.S. Vernon Jones • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAesop’s Fables is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece betwee...
View full detailsBest Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureInterest in supernatural phenomena was high during the time of Charles Dickens. He was open-minded, willing to accept, and put to test th...
View full detailsConfessions of an English Opium Eater
Thomas De Quincey
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• Author(s): Thomas De Quincey • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureConfessions of an English Opium-Eater is Thomas De Quincey’s autographical account. In it, he describes his opium and alcohol addiction...
View full detailsEnglish Fairy Tales
Flora Annie Steel
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• Author(s): Flora Annie Steel • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe book contains 41 stories written by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The stories are very interesting to read a...
View full detailsJust So Stories
Rudyard Kipling
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• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJust So Stories is a collection of 12 interesting stories with eccentric myths created by Rudyard Kipling. Most of the stories are fancif...
View full detailsKing Solomon'S Mines
H. Rider Haggard
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• Author(s): H. Rider Haggard • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureKing Solomon’s Mines, the first English adventure novel set in Africa describes a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of...
View full detailsMajor Barbara
George Bernard Shaw
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• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMajor Barbara, a social satire in three acts, written in 1905 and published in 1907, is the most controversial of Shaw’s works which ...
View full detailsThe Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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• Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his most famous fiction...
View full detailsThe Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza
George Bernard Shaw
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• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza, a wry political satire, was completed in December 1928 and first performed in Warsaw (in Po...
View full detailsThe Best Of Saki
Saki (H.H. Munro)
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• Author(s): Saki (H.H. Munro) • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe book contains the best short stories written by Hector Hugh Munro under his pen name, Saki. "Reginald" was written after he had giv...
View full detailsThe Best Short Stories
Rudyard Kipling
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• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRudyard Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”;...
View full detailsThe Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx Friedrick Engels
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• Author(s): Karl Marx Friedrick Engels • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels pub-lished in 1848. When...
View full detailsThe Hound of the Baskervilles
A. Conan Doyle
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• Author(s): A. Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Hound of the Baskervilles is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s third crime novel featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. It was originally ser...
View full detailsThe Kama Sutra Of Vatsyayana
Translated by Sir Richard Burton
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• Author(s): Translated by Sir Richard Burton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Kama Sutra, an ancient Indian Hindu text written by Vātsyāyana, is widely considered to be the standard work on huma...
View full detailsThe Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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• Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894 by Arthur Conan Doyle. In ...
View full detailsThe Return Of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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• Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of thirteen very interesting Sherlock Holmes stories that were published in 1903-04 ...
View full detailsThe Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
R. L. Stevenson
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• Author(s): R. L. Stevenson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMr. Utterson goes for a walk with his friend and relative Mr. Enfield, who tells a sad story in which a brute of a man knocks down a litt...
View full detailsThe Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin
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• Author(s): Charles Darwin • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Voyage of the Beagle is the title given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as Journal and Remarks. It covers ...
View full detailsThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
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• Author(s): L. Frank Baum • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a famous children’s novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow, was originally published in...
View full detailsTime 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 detailsTwenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
Jules Verne
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• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureDuring the year 1866, some ships spot a mysterious sea monster. The US government assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destro...
View full detailsTwo Treatises Of Government
John Locke
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• Author(s): John Locke • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTwo Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is a scathing cr...
View full detailsA Defence of Poesie and Poems
Sir Philip Sidney
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• Author(s): Sir Philip Sidney • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAlso known as An Apology for Poetry, The Defence of Poesy is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was wri...
View full detailsBlack Beauty
Anna Sewell
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• Author(s): Anna Sewell • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureBlack Beauty translated from the original Equine, the fictional ‘autobiography’ of a talking horse, first published on 24th November 1877, is...
View full detailsKidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
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• Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSet in Scotland just after the Jacobite rebellions and narrated by the teenager David Balfour, Kidnapped is an adventure book that...
View full detailsParadise Lost
John Milton
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• Author(s): John Milton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMilton’s magnum opus, Paradise Lost, an epic poem in blank verse, was composed during the period 1658 to 1664. The first version, published i...
View full detailsThe Comedy of Errors
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Comedy of Errors, in five-acts, is one of the shortest and most lively of Shakespeare’s comedies. It was written during 1589—94 a...
View full detailsThe Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
R.M. Ballantyne
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• Author(s): R.M. Ballantyne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, published in 1858 in is R.M. Ballantyne’s most famous novel. It is one of the pioneer work...
View full detailsThe Importance Of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
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• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy in three Acts. The protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social...
View full detailsThe Red Badge Of Courage And Other Stories
Stephen Crane
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• Author(s): Stephen Crane • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureStephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel, first published in 1895. Taking place during the American Civil War, it is the sto...
View full detailsA Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
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• Author(s): Ernest Hemingway • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureHemingway's words strike you, each one, as if they were pebbles fetched fresh from a book.' In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway's mo...
View full detailsAnimal Farm
George Orwell
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• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAnimal Farm is a dystopian allegorical novella. It reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, bei...
View full detailsAntony And Cleopatra
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAntony and Cleopatra is a well-known tragedy by William Shakespeare. Its first known appearance in print came in the First Folio of 1...
View full detailsAristotle's Politics
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
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• Author(s): Translated by Benjamin Jowett • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteraturePolitics is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle. The title of the book literally means “the things concerning the p...
View full detailsArms and the Man
George Bernard Shaw
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• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureArms and the Man, one of Shaw’s most glittering comedies, was first produced on 21st April, 1894 at the Avenue Theatre and published ...
View full detailsCandida
George Bernard Shaw
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• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCandida, a classic comedy, was written in 1894. Set in London’s East End during the Victorian era, the play is about the domestic tur...
View full detailsCandide
Voltaire
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• Author(s): Voltaire • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCandide, a privileged and sheltered young man, is under the folly of optimism and believes he lives in the ‘best of all possible worlds’ as his ...
View full detailsFathers and Sons
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
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• Author(s): Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureOne of the most acclaimed Russian works of literature, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev is a philosophical fiction cutting acr...
View full detailsJacob's Room
Virginia Woolf
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• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJacob Flanders is flawed, but also quite a brilliant man. An embodiment of solitude, Jacob is unable to concoct his affinity in life for t...
View full detailsJoseph Andrews
Henry Fielding
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• Author(s): Henry Fielding • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJoseph Andrews is Fielding's first novel, and although directed against Samuel Richardson's Pamela which was a great success, it is far fr...
View full detailsLittle Women
Louisa May Alcott
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• Author(s): Louisa May Alcott • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLouisa M. Alcoa, (29th November, 1832, Germantown, 6th March, 1888, Pennsylvania Boston, Massachusetts), Was an American novelist, shor...
View full detailsLove’s Labour’s Lost
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLove’s Labour’s Lost, in five-acts, was written sometime between 1588 and 1597, and published in a quarto edition in 1598, with a tit...
View full detailsMan And Superman
George Bernard Shaw
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• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMan and Superman, a four-Act drama, was written in 1903 as a response to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written...
View full detailsMetamorphosis
Franz Kafka
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• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.” The life of Greg...
View full detailsMoll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
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• Author(s): Daniel Defoe • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMoll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be published in English and draws heavily on Defoe's experience of the topography and so...
View full detailsNationalism
Rabindranath Tagore
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• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.” ...
View full detailsNineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
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• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureNineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian fiction portraying a society ruled by an oligarchical dictatorship. The Oceanian province of Airstrip O...
View full detailsOn War
Carl Von Clausewitz
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• Author(s): Carl Von Clausewitz • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureOn War is the English translation of the book Vom Kriege, originally written in German. Written at the time of Napoleon’s greatest ca...
View full detailsPygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
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• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA great dramatist, literary critic, an eminent showman, intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre person...
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