LocalBooks Classics

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The Tale of Genji Murasaki ShikibuLocalBooks Classics
Genji, the gifted son of an emperor and a low-ranking consort, grows up at the Heian court in old Kyoto and spends his youth in love affairs that bring him beauty, grief and scandal. Disgrace sends him into exile on the lonely shore at Suma.
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The Three Musketeers Alexandre DumasLocalBooks Classics
Young d'Artagnan arrives in Paris hoping to join the King's Musketeers and promptly challenges three of them, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, to duels. Instead they become inseparable friends, caught up in the intrigues of Cardinal Richelieu and the dangerous Milady de Winter.
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The Time Machine H. G. WellsLocalBooks Classics
A Victorian inventor tells his dinner guests where he has been: hundreds of thousands of years in the future, among the gentle Eloi in the sunlit world above and something very different underground.
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The Triumph of the Egg Sherwood AndersonLocalBooks Classics
Sherwood Anderson's next book of stories after Winesburg, Ohio: small-town and farm lives in the Midwest, among them "The Egg," about a family's hopeless chicken farm and roadside restaurant near Bidwell, Ohio, "I Want to Know Why," a boy's disillusionment at the racetrack, and "Brothers."
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The True Story of Ah Q Lu XunLocalBooks Classics
Ah Q, a poor laborer in a small village, turns every humiliation into an imagined victory, until the turmoil of the 1911 revolution sweeps him up. Lu Xun's sharp satire of the Chinese national character.
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The Turn of the Balance Brand WhitlockLocalBooks Classics
Written while Brand Whitlock was the reform mayor of Toledo, this long novel takes on the criminal justice system of its day: the story of Archie Koerner, a young ex-soldier drawn into crime, and of the wealthy Ward family, whose lives cross his in the courts and prisons of a Midwestern city. One of the major protest novels of the Progressive Era.
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The War of the Worlds H. G. WellsLocalBooks Classics
Cylinders fall on the English countryside, and what climbs out is not friendly. Told by a man trying to get home through the chaos, Wells's invasion story set the pattern for a century of alien attacks.
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The Wealth of Nations Adam SmithLocalBooks Classics
Beginning with a pin factory where ten workers divided the labour and made thousands of pins a day, Smith explains how markets, prices, wages and trade make a country rich. He goes on to attack the trade monopolies and colonial policies of his day and to ask what a government should actually do.
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The Wind in the Willows Kenneth GrahameLocalBooks Classics
Mole leaves his spring cleaning for the riverbank and befriends Ratty, who loves boats, wise old Badger, and the rich, reckless Toad, whose crazes for caravans and motor-cars lead to disaster.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank BaumLocalBooks Classics
A cyclone carries Dorothy and her dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, where she sets out on the yellow brick road with a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodman and a Cowardly Lion to ask the great Wizard to send her home.
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This Side of Paradise F. Scott FitzgeraldLocalBooks Classics
Amory Blaine, handsome, self-absorbed and sure he is destined for something, goes through Princeton, the First World War and a string of romances. Fitzgerald's first novel made him famous at twenty-three.
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Through the Looking-Glass Lewis CarrollLocalBooks Classics
Alice climbs through the mirror over the fireplace into a world that runs backwards, where the countryside is a giant chessboard and she can become a queen if she reaches the eighth square.
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich NietzscheLocalBooks Classics
After ten years alone on a mountain, the prophet Zarathustra comes down to tell people that God is dead and that humanity is something to be overcome. Written in bursts on the Ligurian coast, in Nice and in the Swiss Alps, it is a book of speeches, parables and songs rather than arguments.
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To the Lighthouse Virginia WoolfLocalBooks Classics
The Ramsay family and their guests spend summers on the Isle of Skye, where young James longs to sail to the lighthouse. Woolf's novel crosses ten years in which the war and loss come between that wish and its fulfillment.
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Treasure Island Robert Louis StevensonLocalBooks Classics
Young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in a dead pirate's sea chest and sails to find it, on a ship whose friendly one-legged cook, Long John Silver, may have plans of his own.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas Jules VerneLocalBooks Classics
A professor, his servant and a hot-tempered harpooner are taken aboard the Nautilus, a submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo. Their voyage beneath the world's oceans passes coral forests, polar ice and the ruins of drowned Atlantis.
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Ulysses James JoyceLocalBooks Classics
Over a single June day in 1904, Leopold Bloom, an advertising canvasser, walks Dublin: breakfast, a funeral, a newspaper office, pubs, a maternity hospital and the night streets, while young Stephen Dedalus drifts on a path that will cross his. Each episode is told in a different style, ending with Molly Bloom's famous unpunctuated night thoughts.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher StoweLocalBooks Classics
In Kentucky, Eliza escapes with her small son across the ice of the Ohio River, while the faithful Tom is sold down the river to Louisiana. Harriet Beecher Stowe drew on her eighteen years in Cincinnati, across the river from slavery, where she met people who had escaped it. The bestselling novel of the 19th century, it changed how much of the North saw slavery.
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Viața la țară Duiliu ZamfirescuLocalBooks Classics
Pe moșiile din Bărăgan, lângă Ciulnița, tânărul boier Matei Damian se întoarce de la Paris să-și lucreze singur pământul și se îndrăgostește de Sașa, nepoata vecinului Murguleț. Între ei stă arendașul Tănase Scatiu, un parvenit lacom pe care vechii boieri îl disprețuiesc, dar nu-l pot ține departe.
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Walden Henry David ThoreauLocalBooks Classics
In 1845 Thoreau built a one-room cabin by a pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, and lived there for two years, keeping careful accounts of every nail and bean. His record of those seasons moves from ice-cutting, loons and ants at war to sharp questions about how much a life really needs.
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War and Peace Leo TolstoyLocalBooks Classics
Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, through five aristocratic families: the restless Pierre, the proud Prince Andrei and the lively Natasha, swept from Moscow ballrooms to the battle of Borodino and the burning of Moscow.
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White Buildings Hart CraneLocalBooks Classics
Hart Crane's first book of poems, in his dense, musical modernist style: "Black Tambourine," "Chaplinesque," "My Grandmother's Love Letters," "Praise for an Urn" for a painter friend from his Cleveland days, and "Voyages," six love poems to the sea and to a sailor he loved in Brooklyn.
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White Fang Jack LondonLocalBooks Classics
Born in the Yukon wilderness, a wolf-dog cub learns early that the world is hard. Passing from Native owners to a cruel dog-fighter to a man who shows him kindness, he has to decide what he will become.
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Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood AndersonLocalBooks Classics
Linked stories of a small Ohio town around 1900, seen through young reporter George Willard, whom the town's lonely, frustrated people confide in. A landmark of American fiction, based on Anderson's own hometown of Clyde.
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