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Little Prince (Collector’s Edition)

The Little Prince (Collector’s Edition)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Anne of Green Gables (Collector’s Edition)

Anne of Green Gables (Collector’s Edition)

Lucy Montgomery
Alice in Wonderland (Collector’s Edition)

Alice in Wonderland (Collector’s Edition)

Lewis Carroll
Pride and Prejudice (Collector’s Edition)

Pride and Prejudice (Collector’s Edition)

Jane Austen
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Women (Collector’s Edition)

Little Women (Collector’s Edition)

Louisa May Alcott
Christmas Carol (Adult Edition)

A Christmas Carol (Adult Edition)

Charles Dickens
Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare
Little Prince (Adult Edition)

The Little Prince (Adult Edition)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Mystery & Supernatural

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Poetry

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World Literature

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In this month…

We shine a spotlight on authors who have an anniversary.

Charlotte Bronte - Author

Charlotte Brontë

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1855
The human heart has hidden treasures
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Rene Descartes - Author

Rene Descartes

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1596
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1809
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
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Andrew Lang - Author

Andrew Lang

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1844
In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.
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Anna Sewell - Author

Anna Sewell

BORN TOMORROW IN 1820
We 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.
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Virginia Woolf - Author

Virginia Woolf

DIED YESTERDAY IN 1941
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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