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The World of Pooh

 

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The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an …
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The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions …
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The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (The Annotated Books)

by Lewis Carroll

Presents an annotated version of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass," including recently discovered John Tenniel illustrations and newly added Martin Gardner …
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Wasted

by Marya Hornbacher

The author shares her lifelong battle with bulimia and anorexia, chronicling her secret life of bingeing and purging and her obsession with food and body …
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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath …
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Darkness Visible

by William Styron

Zusammenfassung: The author describes his experiences with depression and his resulting suicidal tendencies beginning in 1985
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The Alienist

by Caleb Carr

In 1896 New York, psychologist--or in period terminology, an alienist--Laszlo Kreizler joins forces with journalist John Schuyler Moore to track a vicious serial killer.
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes #2 Boxed Set

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Titles include "Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1" and "Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2".
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The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes many masterpieces by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
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The Complete Works of Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

David Bevington, the current president of the Shakespeare Association of America, is widely recognised for his contributions to the field of Shakespearean scholarship. Here he …
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A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

Set in New Orleans, the protagonist is nearly arrested for being a suspicious character and encounters many unfortunate events.
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The Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost

A complete collection of Robert Frost's poetry.
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complete poems of Emily Dickinson

 

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Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked", presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about …