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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (annotated)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (annotated)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (annotated)

Perhaps the best-loved nineteenth-century American novel, Mark Twain’s tale of boyhood adventure overflows with comedy, warmth, and slapstick energy. It brings to life and array of irresistible characters—the awesomely self-confident Tom, his best buddy Huck Finn, indulgent Aunt Polly, and the lovely, beguiling Becky—as well as such unforgettable incidents as whitewashing a fence, swearing an oath in blood, and getting lost in a dark and labyrinthine cave...
 
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Tags: Becky, unforgettable, incidents, beguiling, lovely, annotated, Adventures, Sawyer
The Karamazov Brothers (annotated)
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The Karamazov Brothers (annotated)The Karamazov Brothers (annotated)

Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha - are all at some level involved...
This new translation does full justice to Doestoevsky's genius, particularly in the use of the spoken word, which ranges over every mode of human expression.
 
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Tags: Karamazov, Brothers, translation, justice, Doestoevsky, annotated, involved
Marco Polo - The Travels (annotated)
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Marco Polo - The Travels (annotated)Marco Polo - The Travels (annotated)

Marco Polo’s voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China. Afterward, he served Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions in the Far East. His subsequent account of his travels offers a fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar religions; new customs and societies; the spices and silks of the East; the precious gems, exotic vegetation, and wild beasts of faraway lands. Evoking a remote and long-vanished world with color and immediacy, Marco Polo’s book revolutionized Western ideas about the then-unknown East and remains one of the greatest travel accounts of all time.
 
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Tags: Marco, Polo\'s, annotated, Travels, lands
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales - Robert Louis Stevenson (annotated)
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales - Robert Louis Stevenson (annotated)Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales - Robert Louis Stevenson (annotated)

In addition to Stevenson's most famous story, this precious book also includes the short stories 'The Body Snatcher', 'Markheim', and 'Olalla' as well as the important essays 'A Chapter on Dreams' and 'A Gossip on Romance'.

Reuploaded Thanks to arthurik and babakinfos

 
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Tags: Stevenson, Strange, Romance, Dreams, Jekyll, Louis, Robert, annotated
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne (Annotated)
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Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne (Annotated)Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne (Annotated)

One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.
 
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Tags: train, elephant, overcoming, set-backs, whether, Annotated, Around, Jules, Verne, World