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Ulysses: Second Edition
James Joyce
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
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
"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
$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
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
Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding
"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
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
"[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
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
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
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
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
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
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
$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
#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
$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
#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
$5.99$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book