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Book Cover for: Ulysses: Second Edition, James Joyce

Ulysses: Second Edition

James Joyce
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Ulysses: Celebrating James Joyce, 'the quintessential European' via ⁦@BBC⁩ https://t.co/rr9ekNlXKd

Paperback, 2022

$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer
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"What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye." The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer died #OTD in 1400. Books by Geoffrey Chaucer at PG: https://t.co/1CQcpjVQdm https://t.co/7yiFWfL817

Paperback, 2003

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Book Cover for: Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton
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Festive re-reads: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton https://t.co/YXcNzW3Bs7 via @GuardianBooks

Paperback, 2005

$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Joseph Andrews

Henry Fielding
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"It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts." Joseph Andrews (1742) Henry Fielding was born #OTD in 1707. Books by Henry Fielding at PG: https://t.co/adBaovUz3b https://t.co/pZRf01a65Q

Paperback, 2023

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Black Beauty

Anna Sewell
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"[W]e call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words." Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published #OTD in 1877. Black Beauty at PG: https://t.co/24lz1TFjBA https://t.co/3rJ1O9CKL3

Paperback, 2008

$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
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Opinion | Louisa May Alcott, the Author of Little Women, Identified with Manhood. Via ⁦@nytimes⁩ https://t.co/RDcUOBt45R

Hardcover, 2014

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain
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Weekend Short: Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi via ⁦@NationalreviewG⁩ https://t.co/QzGe13afcQ

Paperback, 1985

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot
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The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, was first published #OTD in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood. The first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York. The Mill on the Floss at PG: https://t.co/rMcgVLDSx5 https://t.co/gcC9iyJwR6

Paperback, 2003

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The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins
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#OTD in 1859. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins was first published in serial form in 1859–60, appearing in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round (UK) and Harper's Weekly (US). It was published in book form in 1860. The Woman in White at PG: https://t.co/ggPK6JwZOT https://t.co/WPI6Nzchcp

Paperback, 2003

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The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter
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#OTD in 1902. The Tale of Peter Rabbit written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter was published. The Tale of Peter Rabbit at Project Gutenberg: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/14838 https://t.co/medpfsGLJb

Paperback, 2004

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