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The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Sylvia Plath · 2005
You Exist Too Much: A Novel
Zaina Arafat · 2020
<b>A “provocative and seductive debut” of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities as she endeavors to lead an authentic life (<i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i>).</b><br><br>On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12–year–old Palestinian–American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother’s response only intensifies a sense of shame: “You exist too much,” she tells her daughter.<br><br>Told in vignettes that flash between the U.S. and the Middle East—from New York to Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine—Zaina Arafat’s debut novel traces her protagonist’s progress from blushing teen to sought–after DJ and aspiring writer. In Brooklyn, she moves into an apartment with her first serious girlfriend and tries to content herself with their comfortable relationship. But soon her longings, so closely hidden during her teenage years, explode out into reckless romantic encounters and obsessions with other people. Her desire to thwart her own destructive impulses will eventually lead her to The Ledge, an unconventional treatment center that identifies her affliction as “love addiction.” In this strange, enclosed society she will start to consider the unnerving similarities between her own internal traumas and divisions and those of the places that have formed her.<br><br>Opening up the fantasies and desires of one young woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities, <i>You Exist Too Much</i> is a captivating story charting two of our most intense longings—for love, and a place to call home.
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood • 2021
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor · 2019
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu • 2023
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Coco Mellors · 2024
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · 2013
Neo-Noir
Mark Bould, Kathrina Glitre, Greg Tuck · 2009
The Ethics of Ambiguity
Simone de Beauvoir · 2018
In her second major essay, renowned French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir illustrates the ethics of existentialism by outlining a series of 'ways of being'. In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Ethics of Ambiguity' simultaneously pays homage to and grapples with her French contemporaries, philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by arguing that the freedoms in existentialism carry with them certain ethical responsibilities.
Orlando
Virginia Woolf · 2019
Reading
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1996
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 2023
Finished
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce · 1916
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling · 1894
The Illiad
Homer, Indian Books · 2024
The Odyssey
Homer
Antigone
Sophocles · 2005
To make this quintessential Greek drama more accessible to the modern reader, this Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition? includes a glossary of difficult terms, a list of vocabulary words, and convenient sidebar notes. By providing these, it is our intention that readers will more fully enjoy the beauty, wisdom, and intent of the play.The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles? classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventional heroine who pits her beliefs against the King of Thebes in a bloody test of wills that leaves few unharmed. Emotions fly as she challenges the king for the right to bury her own brother. Determined but doomed, Antigone shows her inner strength throughout the play. Antigone raises issues of law and morality that are just as relevant today as they were more than two thousand years ago. Whether this is your first reading or your twentieth, Antigone will move you as few pieces of literature can.
Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles · 2004
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles · 1991
Lysistrata
Aristophanes · 2022
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett • 2011
The Color Purple
Alice Walker • 1992
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that tells the story of two sisters through their correspondence. With a new Preface by the author.
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 1994
Looking for Alaska
John Green · 2006
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Atonement: A Novel
Ian McEwan · 2003
Normal People: A Novel
Sally Rooney · 2020
Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel
Sally Rooney • 2021
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney • 2017
Paradise Lost (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
John Milton · 2016
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · 2018
Heart Of Darkness (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
Joseph Conrad
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot, Nancy Henry, Alan Richardson · 2003
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 1953
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare · 1998
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 2024
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · 2002
The Yellow WallPaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 2024
La Metamorfosis
Franz Kafka • 1915
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1848
Persuasion
Jane Austen · 1817
Macbeth
William Shakespeare · 2003
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling · 2015
<p><i>Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'.</i><br><br>Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!<br><br><br><i>Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter eBooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers.</i></p>
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky · 2012
Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors · 2024
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
Emily Brontë, Pauline Nestor · 2002
<b>Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film “<i>Wuthering Heights</i>,” which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff.<br></b><br>Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.<br><br>Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. <br><br>In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of <i>The Brontë Myth</i>, looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted, from Charlotte Brontë onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction, which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel, as well as Emily Brontë's influences and background.
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 2013
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 2004
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 2003
1984
George Orwell · 1983
75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s dystopian classic remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 1990
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1989
The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
Albert Camus · 2018
Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen · 2003
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 2003
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 2002
