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      Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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Tolstoy's classic tale of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky, was an Oprah's Book Club® Summer Selection.

 
         

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
$7.00
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Arguably Mark Twain's most famous novel—indeed, one of the greatest works of American literature—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn brings together two people from the lower rungs of society.

 

Fifth Business
Robertson Davies
$14.00
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One of the most ambitious works of fiction of the twentieth century, Robertson Davies’s Deptford Trilogy reaches from rural Canada to the Swiss Alps and introduces a cast of characters as varied and fascinating as any in recent literature.
 

War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
$40.00
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Widely considered the greatest novel ever written in any language, War and Peace has as its backdrop Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and at its heart three of the most memorable characters in literature.  

 

Vanity Fair
William Thackeray
$8.00
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Your club will instantly recognize Thackeray's timeless characters—from dissolute playboys and self-important heirs to judgmental aunts and finicky gourmands.  

 

1984
George Orwell
$15.00
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1984 is a prophetic, haunting tale that's more relevant than ever before. George Orwell exposes the worst crimes imaginable—the destruction of truth, freedom, and individuality.  

 

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
$8.95
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The compelling autobiography of an extraordinary man born into slavery, Frederick Douglass's masterpiece is also a powerful inquiry into the question of what it means to be human.