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Heart of DarknessJoseph ConradLocalBooks ClassicsOn a yacht anchored in the Thames estuary at dusk, the sailor Marlow tells how he once took a steamboat up the Congo for a Belgian trading company. Deep in the interior waits Kurtz, the company's star ivory agent, and what Marlow finds there exposes the violence behind Europe's civilizing talk.
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I Am a CatNatsume SōsekiLocalBooks ClassicsA nameless, opinionated cat living in the house of a Tokyo schoolteacher observes the foibles of his master and his master's eccentric friends, gently satirizing middle-class life in Meiji-era Japan.
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I MalavogliaGiovanni VergaLocalBooks ClassicsAd Aci Trezza, villaggio di pescatori in Sicilia, la famiglia Toscano, detta «Malavoglia», compra a credito un carico di lupini. La barca naufraga, e con lei comincia la lenta rovina di una famiglia che non vuole arrendersi.
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I promessi sposiAlessandro ManzoniLocalBooks ClassicsSul lago di Como, nel 1628, Renzo e Lucia stanno per sposarsi quando un signorotto prepotente, don Rodrigo, lo impedisce. Separati dalla fuga, attraverseranno la carestia, la rivolta di Milano e la peste.
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InfernoDante AlighieriLocalBooks ClassicsLost in a dark wood at the midpoint of his life, Dante is guided by the poet Virgil down through the nine circles of Hell, meeting sinners whose punishments mirror their crimes. The first part of the Divine Comedy.
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IonLiviu RebreanuLocalBooks ClassicsÎn satul ardelean Pripas, sub stăpânire austro-ungară, flăcăul sărac Ion al Glanetașului e prins între dragostea pentru Florica și setea de pământ, pe care o poate potoli doar luând-o pe Ana, fata bogatului Vasile Baciu. Alături, familia învățătorului Herdelea își duce propriile lupte cu preotul, cu notarul și cu ungurii.
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Is Sex Necessary?James ThurberLocalBooks ClassicsOr, Why You Feel the Way You Do. In 1929, with every bookstore full of earnest new manuals on sex and psychology, two young writers at The New Yorker, James Thurber and E. B. White, wrote a mock one: chapters on "The Nature of the American Male," "Frigidity in Men" and "What Should Children Tell Parents?", solemn footnotes, and Thurber's first published drawings, the wobbly dogs and bewildered husbands that made him famous. A deadpan parody that still lands.
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Jane EyreCharlotte BrontëLocalBooks ClassicsAn orphan who is bullied by her aunt and starved at a charity school grows up to become governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls for its moody master, Mr Rochester. Strange laughter in the attic and a secret he is hiding force her to choose between love and her own self-respect.
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Jo's BoysLouisa May AlcottLocalBooks ClassicsTen years on, the boys of Plumfield are young men heading to sea, to college and into the world, and Jo has become a famous author besieged by fans. The last book of the Little Women story.
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Journey to the Center of the EarthJules VerneLocalBooks ClassicsProfessor Lidenbrock decodes a runic note that points to a passage into the Earth through an Icelandic volcano. With his reluctant nephew and a calm Icelandic guide he descends into caverns, an underground sea and a lost prehistoric world.
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KidnappedRobert Louis StevensonLocalBooks Classics1751: tricked by his miserly uncle and sold onto a ship bound for the Carolinas, young David Balfour escapes with the help of Alan Breck Stewart, a Jacobite on the run, and they flee together across the Scottish Highlands.
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King LearWilliam ShakespeareLocalBooks ClassicsAn aging king divides Britain among his daughters according to how loudly they say they love him, and disowns the one who will not flatter. Cast out by the other two, Lear wanders a storm-lashed heath toward the cliffs of Dover, while the Earl of Gloucester suffers a parallel betrayal.
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KokoroNatsume SōsekiLocalBooks ClassicsA young student in Meiji-era Tokyo befriends an older man he calls Sensei, who lives a quiet, withdrawn life and visits a grave every month. Eventually Sensei tells him why, in a long letter.
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La barracaVicente Blasco IbáñezLocalBooks ClassicsEn la huerta de Valencia, el tío Batiste y su familia se atreven a cultivar unas tierras malditas, abandonadas desde que un desahucio acabó en tragedia. Los vecinos han jurado que nadie las trabajará.
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La coscienza di ZenoItalo SvevoLocalBooks ClassicsSu consiglio del suo psicanalista, Zeno Cosini scrive le memorie della sua vita: l’ultima sigaretta mai davvero fumata, il matrimonio con la sorella sbagliata, gli affari e la morte del padre. Un capolavoro di ironia ambientato a Trieste.
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La RegentaLeopoldo Alas "Clarín"LocalBooks ClassicsEn Vetusta, una vieja ciudad de provincias que se parece mucho a Oviedo, Ana Ozores, la joven esposa del anciano exregente, se debate entre su confesor, el ambicioso magistral, y el donjuán del casino. Todos la vigilan.
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Le avventure di PinocchioCarlo CollodiLocalBooks ClassicsMastro Geppetto intaglia un burattino da un pezzo di legno, e il burattino scappa subito di casa. Tra il Gatto e la Volpe, il Paese dei Balocchi e il ventre del Pescecane, Pinocchio impara a sue spese a diventare un bambino vero.
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Le Morte d'ArthurThomas MaloryLocalBooks ClassicsMalory gathered the French and English tales of Arthur into one long sweep, from the sword in the stone to the last battle at Camlann. Lancelot, Gawain, Tristram and the Grail knights ride out from Camelot, and loyalty to the king slowly pulls against love for the queen.
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Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts joursJules VerneLocalBooks ClassicsLe flegmatique Phileas Fogg parie toute sa fortune qu’il fera le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours. Avec son domestique Passepartout, et poursuivi par un détective tenace, il traverse mers et continents contre la montre.
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Leaves of GrassWalt WhitmanLocalBooks ClassicsWhitman first printed this book himself in Brooklyn in 1855 and kept rewriting and expanding it for the rest of his life. In long free-verse lines he sings of his own body, of ferry crowds and workers, of the Civil War hospitals and of Lincoln's death.
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Les MisérablesVictor HugoLocalBooks ClassicsJean Valjean served nineteen years in prison for stealing bread. Released and turned around by one act of mercy, he builds a new life, but the policeman Javert never stops hunting him, across decades of French history up to the barricades of 1832.
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Les Trois MousquetairesAlexandre DumasLocalBooks ClassicsEn 1625, le jeune Gascon d’Artagnan monte à Paris pour devenir mousquetaire du roi. Il gagne trois amis, Athos, Porthos et Aramis, et se jette avec eux dans les intrigues du cardinal de Richelieu et de la redoutable Milady.
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LeviathanThomas HobbesLocalBooks ClassicsWritten in Paris exile while England fought its civil war, Leviathan imagines life without government as a war of all against all, nasty, brutish and short. Hobbes reasons from there that people must hand their power to a single sovereign, then spends half the book on the Church and Scripture.
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Little MenLouisa May AlcottLocalBooks ClassicsJo March, now Mrs. Bhaer, and her husband run Plumfield, a school where a dozen lively boys learn through play, chores and second chances. A warm, episodic sequel to Little Women.
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