Classic books to read at least once in your lifetime
WEBJul 16, 2024 · Pride and Prejudice. by Jane Austen. Buy the book. In the charming countryside of early nineteenth-century England, lives Elizabeth Bennet, a spirited young woman, and Mr. Darcy, a wealthy but aloof gentleman. Through a series of misunderstandings and revelations, the two characters …
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WEBJul 18, 2023 · Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human from dead flesh. Horrified at what he has done, he abandons his creation. The hideous creature learns language and becomes civilized but society rejects him. Spurned, he seeks vengeance on his creator.
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WEBJul 16, 2024 · Buy the book. George Orwell ’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century. The year is 1984. The country is impoverished and permanently at war, people are watched day and night by Big Brother and their every action and thought is controlled by the Thought Police.
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WEBAug 1, 2024 · by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Buy the book. Evoking the glitz, glamour and the dark side of 1920s, The Great Gatsby is a cynical look at the limits of the American Dream and a must read for all fans of fiction. Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people.
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WEBAug 12, 2024 · Divine Might. by Natalie Haynes. Buy the book. In Divine Might Natalie Haynes, author of the bestselling Pandora’s Jar, returns to the world of Greek myth and this time she examines the role of the goddesses. We meet Athene, Artemis, Aphrodite and Hera; each with their own story.
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WEBAug 8, 2024 · Wife. by Charlotte Mendelson. Buy the book. This claustrophobic, devastating yet also darkly hilarious novel is sure to set pulses racing and get a great discussion going. When young academic Zoe starts an affair with the glamourous, successful Penny, she can't quite believe what's happening.
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WEBAug 12, 2024 · The Art of Execution. by Lee Freeman-Shor. Buy the book. Over seven years, Lee Freeman-Shor allocated twenty-five to 150 million dollars to forty-five of the world’s top investors, on the condition that they only invest in their ten best ideas.
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WEBAug 14, 2024 · Reading an autobiography can offer a unique insight into a world and experience very different from your own – and these real-life stories are even more entertaining, and stranger, than fiction.Take a glimpse into the lives of some of the world's most inspiring and successful celebrities, politicians and sports people and more in our edit of the best autobiographies and biographies to read ...
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WEBJul 12, 2024 · Sula. First published in 1973, Toni Morrison's Sula is an essential book in the formation of black feminist literary criticism, tackling themes of womanhood, race, slavery and love. Having grown up together in a poor but close-knit community, Nel and Sula are inseparable, until adulthood takes them on different paths.
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WEBAug 2, 2024 · A sci-fi classic in a brand-new edition. From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth to the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life; from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality, Chiang’s unique imagination ...