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By Aldous Huxley

Now greater than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring "masterpiece ... essentially the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20 th century" (Wall highway Journal) must be learn and understood via a person all in favour of keeping the human spirit within the face of our "brave new world"

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of worldwide literature, Brave New World is a looking imaginative and prescient of an unequal, technologically-advanced future the place people are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order--all on the rate of our freedom, complete humanity, and maybe additionally our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his lifestyles decrying the onward march of the laptop” (The New Yorker), Huxley was once a guy of incomparable skills: both an artist, a religious seeker, and one among history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New global, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified thousands of readers, and keeps its urgent relevance to at the present time as either a caution to be heeded as we head into the next day to come and as thought-provoking, fulfilling paintings of literature. Written within the shadow of the increase of fascism during the Nineteen Thirties, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century international ruled via mass-entertainment, know-how, medication and pharmaceuticals, the humanities of persuasion, and the hidden impression of elites. 

"Aldous Huxley is the best twentieth century author in English." —Chicago Tribune

By Charles Dickens

Tor Classics are affordably-priced variants designed to draw the younger reader. unique dynamic conceal paintings enthusiastically represents the thrill of every tale. applicable "reader pleasant" style sizes were selected for every title—offering transparent, actual, and readable textual content. All variations are whole and unabridged, and have Introductions and Afterwords.This version of Oliver Twist incorporates a Foreword, Biographical word, and Afterword by way of Nancy Springer.Abandoned at an early age, Oliver Twist is compelled to reside in a depressing and dismal London workhouse lorded over by means of lousy Mr. Bumble who cheats the men in their meager rations! determined yet decided, Oliver makes his break out. yet what he discovers within the harsh streets of London's underworld makes the workhouse appear like a picnic. Penniless and by myself, he's lured right into a global of crime through the wily Fagin--the nefarious mastermind of a gang of pint-sized pickpockets.Will a lifetime of crime repay for younger Oliver? Or will it earn him a one-way price ticket to the gallows?

By Theodor Fontane

By C. H. Salter

By Heinrich Böll

By L. M. Montgomery

Jane and her mom reside in a depressing outdated mansion, the place their lives are governed via her ovebearing grandmother. for many of her existence Jane has believed that her father is lifeless. Then, one boring April morning, a letter comes. not just is her father alive and good, yet he wishes Jane to spend the summer season with him on Prince Edward Island.

For a pleased summer season she lives at her father's cottage on Lantern Hill, making neighbors, having adventures and getting to know that lifestyles could be remarkable in the end. and she or he dares to dream that there should be this sort of residence the place she, mom and dad may perhaps dwell jointly with no Grandmother's disapproval - a home which may be known as domestic.

By Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jill Muller

By W. Heath Robinson

By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This crucial new advent to Nietzsche's philosophical paintings offers readers with a very good framework for figuring out the principal issues of his philosophical and cultural writings. It exhibits how Nietzsche's rules have had a profound impression on ecu philosophy and why, in recent times, Nietzsche scholarship has develop into the battleground for debates among the analytic and continental traditions over philosophical process. The booklet is split into 3 elements. within the first half, the writer discusses morality, faith and nihilism to teach why Nietzsche rejects sure parts of the Western philosophical and non secular traditions in addition to the results of this rejection. within the moment half, the writer explores Nietzsche's ambivalent and complex reflections on a few of philosophy's largest questions. those comprise his criticisms of metaphysics, his research of fact and information, and his reflections at the self and attention. within the ultimate part, Welshon discusses many of the ways that Nietzsche transcends, or is believed to go beyond, the Western philosophical culture, with chapters at the will to strength, politics, and the flourishing lifestyles

By Alexandre Dumas

Undying Classics--designed for the suffering reader and tailored to maintain the integrity of the unique vintage. those vintage novels will seize a student's cognizance from the 1st web page. Audiobook for every identify is paced for college students to persist with the textual content word-for-word and comprise audio CDs--more support for suffering readers. Books offered individually. The younger guy has just one dream-- sign up for the courageous corporation of the king's musketeers. Will he be shrewdpermanent and bold sufficient to make his dream come actual? He rides into Paris on his outdated, broken-down horse. an international of event is simply forward.