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"In the English countryside a strange capsule falls out of the night sky and unearthly creatures emerge--monster from Mars, bent on nothing less than total destruction! As the Martians sweep across the country, wasting everything in their path, humankind desperately seeks the key to survival." --back cover
3) Robin Hood
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Classics illustrated volume no. 3
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Stealing from the rich to give to the poor is no easy task, but that doesn't stop Robin Hood and his Merry men. You don't want to miss this action-packed tale from Sherwood forest.
4) Moby Dick
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"Young Ishmael and the harpooner Queequeg work aboard the whaling ship Pequod. But the Pequod is ruled by the mysterious Ahab, a man driven to hunt he cursed white whale called Moby Dick. Careless of his own life and those of his men, Ahab's suicidal quest builds to its inevitable climax: he will destroy the white whale, or be destroyed by it." --back cover
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"When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862, he greeted her as 'the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.' He was exaggerating only slightly. First published in 1852, Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold more than 300,000 copies in its first year and brought home the evils of slavery more dramatically than any abolitionist tract possibly could. With its boldly drawn characters, violent reversals of fortune, and unabashed sentimentality,...
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"A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor-these form a series of events that change the orphan Pip’s life forever, as he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens’s haunting novel depicts Pip’s education and development...
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"British gentlemen Phileas Fogg makes a desperate wager that he and his servant the wily Passepartout, can circle the Earth in 80 days. Travelling by rail, by sea, even by elephant, Fogg overcomes every obstacle--and even rescues the beautiful Indian princess, Aouda, from certain death! But someone is tracking Fogg, determined to bring him back to England." --back cover
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With a kiss, a sleeping princess is awakened from her cursed sleep. Charles Perrault's "The Sleeping Beauty" and the Brothers Grimm's "Little Briar Rose" tell the tale of a beautiful princess and a peaceful kingdom that fall under the spell of a jealous fairy bent on revenge.
The story of the Sleeping Beauty has enchanted the young and the young-at-heart for centuries, and has served as the inspiration for numerous adaptions, including the animated...
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"In graphic novel format, retells the story of Tom Sawyer, part satire, part coming-of-age story. Tom Sawyer is an orphan living with his Aunt and half-brother Sid, whose main interests are practical jokes and trouble-making with his best friend, Huckleberry Finn. But when the two witness a murder, their lives are turned upside down." - from back cover.
10) Oliver Twist
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"Orphaned at birth to labor in a workhouse, Oliver Twist is barely ten when he flees for London. There he befriends young Jack Dawkins, who educates the innocent Oliver in the ways of survival. When Jack draws Oliver into a gang of juvenile pickpockets, tutored by the unscrupulous Fagin, Oliver's corruptive influences grow. But for a boy taught only wrong, Oliver must hold on to what he knows is right. In Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens furiously condemns...
12) Black beauty
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Retells in graphic novel format the novel in which a horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experience with both good and bad masters.
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"Tom Sawyer is as clever, imaginative, and resourceful as he is reckless and mischievous, whether conning his friends into painting a fence, playing pirates with his pal Huck Finn, witnessing his own funeral, or helping to catch a murderer. Twain’s novel glows with nostalgia for the Mississippi River towns of his youth and sparkles with his famous humor, but it is also woven throughout with a subtle awareness of the injustices and complexities of...
18) Jane Eyre
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"From her childhood Jane Eyre, orphaned and poor, fights for the right to be happy. Fleeing harsh relatives and a miserable life at an Orphan's School, Jane finds peace, happiness, and unexpected love at Thornfield Hall. But Thornfield's peace is a fraud, and its master, Mr. Rochester, has secrets too terrible to tell. A vivid portrait of a young woman's struggle for survival in English society, Charlotte Brontë's novel follows Jane Eyre from...
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Classics illustrated volume 80
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This graphic adaptation "follows one Union soldier’s struggle with cowardice, as he prepares for and fights in his first battle during the American Civil War." --publisher's website
20) Huckleberry Finn
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"Huckleberry Finn follows a no-account boy and a runaway slave as they make their way down the Mississippi. In a world filled with con men and slavers, Huck and Jim have only each other to rely on." --back cover
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