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Duke Classics
Language
English
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Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English...
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Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies...
24) Edge of Nowhere
Author
Publisher
Leapfrog Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"More psychological depth than Robinson Crusoe."—Frank McCourt
Praise for Lone Wolves:
"A beautiful and moving story of courage and love."—Ray Bradbury
"Powerful, eloquent, and fascinating, showcasing a vanishing way of life in rich detail."—Kirkus Reviews
"An adept focus on coming-of-age and an illuminating glimpse of Native Alaskan cultures."—The Horn Book
"A gifted storyteller
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is considered to be one of the most riveting and important documents recounting slavery in the United States. It is the heart-rending memoir of a free black man who is taken hostage and sold into slavery in a Louisiana plantation, his twelve years of bondage, and his remarkable escape to freedom. Since its publication, this classic has become a historical reference for its salient of depiction of life as a slave in the...
