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Little WomenLouisa May AlcottLocalBooks ClassicsWith their father away at the Civil War and money short, the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, grow up in a small Massachusetts town, chasing their own ambitions and finding out what they really want.
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Los pazos de UlloaEmilia Pardo BazánLocalBooks ClassicsJulián, un joven capellán tímido y piadoso, llega a una casona señorial perdida en los montes de Galicia para poner orden en la vida del marqués de Ulloa. Encuentra un mundo de caciques, violencia y pasiones que lo superan.
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MacbethWilliam ShakespeareLocalBooks ClassicsThree witches on a Scottish heath tell the general Macbeth that he will be king, and his wife will not let him wait for fate. One murder in his castle at Inverness leads to the next, until a forest seems to march on Dunsinane.
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Madame BovaryGustave FlaubertLocalBooks ClassicsMariée à un médecin de campagne qui l’ennuie, Emma Bovary rêve de la vie des romans qu’elle a lus. Ses amours et ses dettes la mènent de Yonville à Rouen, puis au désastre.
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MaraIoan SlaviciLocalBooks ClassicsRămasă văduvă cu doi copii, precupeața Mara strânge bani pe ascuns în ciorapi și sub pragul casei din Radna, ca Persida și Trică să ajungă oameni de seamă. Dar Persida se îndrăgostește de Națl, fiul măcelarului neamț din Lipova de peste Mureș, și nicio pușculiță nu poate opri ce urmează.
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Martin EdenJack LondonLocalBooks ClassicsA rough young sailor falls for an educated woman from a wealthy family and sets out to remake himself through books and writing. Struggling against poverty and rejection, he finds that success doesn't mean what he thought.
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MeditationsMarcus AureliusLocalBooks ClassicsIn private notebooks kept partly in army camps on the Danube frontier, the Roman emperor reminds himself to be patient with difficult people, to do his work and not to fear death. Never meant for publication, it reads like Stoic advice a tired man writes to himself at night.
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Memories of My BoyhoodIon CreangăLocalBooks ClassicsIon Creangă's beloved recollections of growing up in the village of Humulești in Moldavia: school pranks, stolen cherries, village fairs and the unforgettable people of his childhood. A cornerstone of Romanian literature.
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Memórias Póstumas de Brás CubasMachado de AssisLocalBooks ClassicsBrás Cubas escreve suas memórias depois de morto, e por isso pode dizer tudo. Com ironia e sem pressa, o «defunto autor» passa em revista uma vida de privilégios, amores e ambições que não deram em nada.
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MetamorphosesOvidLocalBooks ClassicsFrom the shaping of the world out of chaos to the deification of Julius Caesar, Ovid strings together some 250 myths in which people turn into trees, birds, stars and stone. Daphne, Narcissus, Pyramus and Thisbe, and Icarus all appear in fifteen books of fast, witty verse.
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MiddlemarchGeorge EliotLocalBooks ClassicsDorothea Brooke longs to do something great and marries an elderly scholar she thinks will show her how; Tertius Lydgate, a young doctor, comes to town to reform medicine. In a Midlands market town on the eve of the 1832 Reform Act, their hopes run into marriage, money, gossip and a banker's buried past.
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Moby-DickHerman MelvilleLocalBooks ClassicsIshmael signs on to the whaling ship Pequod out of Nantucket, only to discover that Captain Ahab has one purpose: to hunt down the white whale that took his leg, whatever the cost to his ship and crew.
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Mrs DallowayVirginia WoolfLocalBooks ClassicsOne June day in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway walks through London buying flowers for her party that evening, while Septimus Smith, a veteran shattered by the war, struggles across the same city. Woolf moves between their minds and those of the people they pass.
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My ÁntoniaWilla CatherLocalBooks ClassicsJim Burden, an orphan sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, grows up alongside Ántonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants struggling through their first hard winters. Years later he tries to put into words what she meant to him.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassFrederick DouglassLocalBooks ClassicsBorn into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Douglass tells how he secretly learned to read as a boy in Baltimore, was sent to a man known for breaking slaves, and fought back. Written seven years after his escape north, it named names and places at real risk to its author.
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Nicomachean EthicsAristotleLocalBooks ClassicsAristotle asks what a good human life actually consists of and answers with habits rather than rules: courage, generosity and good judgment built up by practice. Drawn from his lectures at the Lyceum in Athens, it ends with long, warm books on friendship and on the life of the mind.
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Northanger AbbeyJane AustenLocalBooks ClassicsCatherine Morland has read too many gothic novels. Invited to stay at an ancient abbey, she starts finding secret passages and dark crimes everywhere, in Austen's affectionate send-up of the horror fiction of her day.
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Notes from UndergroundFyodor DostoevskyLocalBooks ClassicsA retired clerk in a shabby St. Petersburg flat rails against reason, progress and everyone who has ever slighted him. Then he tells the story of a humiliating dinner with old schoolmates and his cruel encounter with a young woman named Liza.
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Notre-Dame de ParisVictor HugoLocalBooks ClassicsParis, 1482. Quasimodo, le sonneur bossu de Notre-Dame, la belle Esmeralda et l’archidiacre Frollo sont pris dans une tragédie d’amour et d’obsession, à l’ombre d’une cathédrale qui est le vrai cœur du livre.
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O CortiçoAluísio AzevedoLocalBooks ClassicsNo Rio de Janeiro, o português João Romão enriquece à custa de um cortiço de lavadeiras, operários e malandros que cresce ao lado do sobrado de um comerciante rival. O cortiço, vivo e barulhento, é o verdadeiro protagonista.
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O Crime do Padre AmaroEça de QueirósLocalBooks ClassicsEm Leiria, o jovem padre Amaro, ordenado sem vocação, apaixona-se por Amélia, filha da dona da casa onde se hospeda. Um romance que denunciou a hipocrisia da sociedade provinciana e escandalizou Portugal.
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O Pioneers!Willa CatherLocalBooks ClassicsWhen her father dies, young Alexandra Bergson takes over the family's struggling farm on the Nebraska prairie and bets everything on the land when her brothers want to quit. The first of Cather's prairie novels.
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Oedipus RexSophoclesLocalBooks ClassicsThebes is dying of plague, and its king Oedipus vows to find the killer of the old king whose unpunished murder caused it. Each witness he summons brings him a step closer to an answer about his own birth that he would rather not know.
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Oliver TwistCharles DickensLocalBooks ClassicsBorn in a workhouse and sold off as an apprentice, the orphan Oliver Twist runs away to London, where a gang of child pickpockets takes him in. Dickens's second novel is a melodrama and an attack on the way Victorian England treated the poor.
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