Category: Top 100 Novels

Rank: 1 – 1

No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes …’ When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life. The Penguin English Library – 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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• Original title: Pride and Prejudice
• Author: Jane Austin
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1981149635
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2017-11-25
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017-11-25
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Pages: 100
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2017-11-25
• Studio: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Rank: 2 – 2

The papers presented in this volume advance the state-of-the-art research on social media and Web 2.0, electronic tourism marketing, website development and evaluation, search engine marketing and optimization, IT adoption and diffusion, virtual travel communities, mobile technologies, management information systems in tourism, eLearning, recommender systems for tourism businesses and destinations and electronic distribution for hospitality and travel products. This book covers the most significant topics contributed by prominent scholars from around the world and is suitable for both academics and practitioners who are interested in the latest developments in e-Tourism.

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• Original title: The Lord of The Rings
• Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 261103253
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 1995-08-02
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1995-08-02
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Pages: 1178
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 1995-08-02
• Studio: HarperCollins

Rank: 3 – 3

Bronte’s novel about a shy, quiet governess who becomes a tutor in a great house and falls in love with its lonely and mysterious master is one of the great classics of English literature. Unique in its attention to the thoughts and feelings of a female protagonist, Jane Eyre was ahead of its time as a proto-feminist text. When it was published in 1847, however, Bronte was attacked by critics for what they felt was anti-Christian sentiment in her unflinching critique of the oppressions of Victorian society.

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• Original title: Jane Eyre (AmazonClassics Edition)
• Author: Charlotte Brontë
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1542047579
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2017-07-11
• Manufacturer: AmazonClassics
• Publication date: 2017-07-11
• Publisher: AmazonClassics
• Pages: 576
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2017-07-11
• Studio: AmazonClassics

Rank: 4 – 4

Book Overview:

• Original title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: 2/7 (Harry Potter 2)
• Author: J.K. Rowling
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1408855666
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2014-09-01
• Manufacturer: Bloomsbury Children’s Books
• Publication date: 2014-09-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Children’s Books
• Pages: 384
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2014-09-01
• Studio: Bloomsbury Children’s Books

Rank: 5 – 5

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ Voted the most life changing book by a female author. A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic novel – a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man’s struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much. To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.

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• Original title: To Kill A Mockingbird
• Author: Harper Lee
• Creator: NA
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• ASIN: 99549484
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2010-01-01
• Manufacturer: Arrow
• Publication date: 2010
• Publisher: Arrow
• Pages: 320
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2010-01-01
• Studio: Arrow

Rank: 6 – 6

The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of ‘Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp’ to the farcical ‘Young Woman and her Five Lovers’ and the social criticism of ‘The Tale of the Hunchback’, the stories depict a fabulous world of all-powerful sorcerers, jinns imprisoned in bottles and enchanting princesses. But despite their imaginative extravagance, the Tales are anchored to everyday life by their realism, providing a full and intimate record of medieval Islam.

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• Original title: A Thousand Nights
• Author: E.K. Johnston
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1447290372
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2016-06-30
• Manufacturer: Macmillan Children’s Books
• Publication date: 2016-06-30
• Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books
• Pages: 336
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2016-06-30
• Studio: Macmillan Children’s Books

Rank: 7 – 7

Book Overview:

• Original title: Wuthering Heights
• Author: Emily Bronte
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 150531349X
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2014-12-05
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014-12-05
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Pages: 212
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2014-12-05
• Studio: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Rank: 8 – 8

1984 is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949. The novel is set in Airstrip One, a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation. It is dictated by a political system named English Socialism under the control of the Inner Party, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking. Many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, and memory holes, have entered into common use since its publication. In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels.

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• Original title: 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
• Author: George Orwell
• Creator: Thomas Pynchon
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• ASIN: 014118776X
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2004-01-29
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2004-01-29
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Pages: 400
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2004-01-29
• Studio: Penguin Classics

Rank: 9 – 9

Set against the dreaming spires of Jordan College and the dangerous wilderness of the frozen north, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy offers an intoxicating blend of imagination, science, theology and adventure. This special collection features all three titles in the award-winning trilogy: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Northern Lights Lyra Belacqua lives half-wild and carefree among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon familiar always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle – a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans and armoured bears. The Subtle Knife Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld – Cittàgazze, where soul-eating Spectres stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not without allies: twelve-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another’s, has also stumbled into this strange new realm. On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will uncover a deadly secret: an object of extraordinary and devastating power. And with every step, they move closer to an even greater threat – and the shattering truth of their own destiny. The Amber Spyglass Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated. But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been – and a journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned . . .

Book Overview:

• Original title: His Dark Materials: Gift Edition including all three novels: Northern Light, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass
• Author: Philip Pullman
• Creator: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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• ASIN: 1841593427
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Hardcover
• Release date: 2011-10-28
• Manufacturer: Everyman
• Publication date: 2011-10-28
• Publisher: Everyman
• Pages: 1144
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2011-10-28
• Studio: Everyman

Rank: 10 – 10

Written in the last decade of Dickens’ life, ‘Great Expectations’ was praised widely and universally admired. It was his last great novel, and many critics believe it to be his finest. Readers and critics alike praised it for its masterful plot, which rises above the melodrama of some of his earlier works, and for its three-dimensional, psychologically realistic characters—characters much deeper and more interesting than the one-note caricatures of earlier novels. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens’s weekly periodical ‘All the Year Round’, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s. The Great Expectations contains some of Dickens most memorable scenes, including its opening, in a graveyard, when the young orphan Pip is accosted by the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. It is full of extreme imagery, poverty, prison ships, barriers and chains, and fights to the death. Upon its release, Thomas Carlyle spoke of “All that Pip’s nonsense”. Later, George Bernard Shaw praised the novel as “All of one piece and consistently truthfull”. Dickens felt Great Expectations was his best work, calling it “a very fine idea”. Throughout the narrative, typical Dickensian themes emerge: wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. This book has become very popular and is now taught as a classic in many English classes. It has been translated into many languages and adapted many times in film and other media. Publisher : General Press

Book Overview:

• Original title: Great Expectations (AmazonClassics Edition)
• Author: Charles Dickens
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1542047684
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2017-07-25
• Manufacturer: AmazonClassics
• Publication date: 2017-07-25
• Publisher: AmazonClassics
• Pages: 590
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2017-07-25
• Studio: AmazonClassics

Rank: 11 – 11

Literary Spinoffs: Rewriting the Canon Re-Imagining the Community explores the literary strategies, theoretical dimensions, and cultural implications of contemporary rewritings of nineteenth-century classics. By hooking on to powerful literary and cultural narratives, literary spinoffs seek to interfere with the cultural imaginary and revise the ways in which the cultural community constructs itself via formative narratives. Spengler offers in-depth case studies of prominent contemporary rewritings and the cultural work they undertake, while also examining the genre s particular aesthetics and effects. Through their intensely intertextual form, spinoffs raise urgent questions about the possibilities for participation in processes of cultural meaning-making and invigorate contemporary debates about intellectual property, cultural capital, as well as high and popular culture. ”

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• Original title: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott – illustrated: – illustrated – Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Author: Louisa May Alcott
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1981102507
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2017-11-24
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017-11-24
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Pages: 612
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2017-11-24
• Studio: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Rank: 12 – 12

A ghost story with a twist-a suspenseful and poignantly funny update of Hamlet A triumph of originality and humor, this clever novel by British author Matt Haig gives us Hamlet redux with an unforgettable voice all his own. When eleven-year-old Philip Noble is confronted by the ghost of his recently deceased father and asked to avenge his death, the boy finds himself in a thorny dilemma. Revenge, after all, is a tricky business-especially when Philip is already distracted by his girlfriend, school bullies, self-doubt, and all the other challenges of adolescence. Viewing the adult world through the eyes of a young boy, The Dead Fathers Club is a brilliant, quirky take on a classic tale.

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• Original title: Tess of the D’urbervilles
• Author: Thomas Hardy
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1503294056
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2014-11-29
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014-11-29
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Pages: 234
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2014-11-29
• Studio: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Rank: 13 – 13

Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American lit-erature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—novels of all time. In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer. Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. Since its publication in 1961, no novel has matched Catch-22’s intensity and brilliance in depicting the brutal insanity of war. This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction by Christopher Buckley; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical responses and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos from Joseph Heller’s personal archive; and a selection of advertisements from the original publishing campaign that helped turn Catch-22 into a cultural phenomenon. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.

Book Overview:

• Original title: Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
• Author: Joseph Heller
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 99529122
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2011-06-23
• Manufacturer: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2011-06-23
• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Pages: 544
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2011-06-23
• Studio: Vintage Classics

Rank: 14 – 14

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the tragedies of “Hamlet,” “King Lear,” “Othello,” and “Macbeth” as well as history plays and the comedies such as “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and “As You Like It.” This volume presents his plays in the chronological order in which they were written.

Book Overview:

• Original title: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Special Editions)
• Author: William Shakespeare
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 185326895X
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 1996-08-05
• Manufacturer: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 1996-08-05
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Pages: 1280
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 1996-08-05
• Studio: Wordsworth Editions

Rank: 15 – 15

In this book, leading search optimization expert Rebecca Lieb brings together more than 50 absolutely crucial facts and insights decision-makers must know to drive more web traffic through better search engine placement. The Truth About Search Engine Optimization doesn’t deliver abstract theory: it delivers quick, bite-size, just-the-facts information and plain-English explanations that executives, decision-makers, and even small business owners can actually use, no matter what kind of sites you’re running, or what your goals are. You will learn how to set realistic goals for search optimization… attract qualified traffic, not just “any” site visitors… incorporate search engine optimization into both new sites and redesigns… write for users… implement search-friendly content management… avoid problems with rich content technologies such as Flash and AJAX… create metatags that actually work… use public relations, blogging, and other techniques to drive traffic… budget and manage search optimization projects… and much more. This book reveals 51 PROVEN SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES and bite-size, easy-to-use advice that gets results including The truth about page rankings The truth about best SEO practices and SEO no-no’s The truth about link love, keywords, and tags

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• Original title: Rebecca (Virago Modern Classics)
• Author: Daphne Du Maurier
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1844080382
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2003-01-30
• Manufacturer: Virago
• Publication date: 2003-01-30
• Publisher: Virago
• Pages: 448
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2003-01-30
• Studio: Virago

Rank: 16 – 16

Book Overview:

• Original title: The Hobbit
• Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 7458428
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2013-08-29
• Manufacturer: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
• Publication date: 2013-08-29
• Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
• Pages: 368
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2013-08-29
• Studio: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

Rank: 17 – 17

Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man’s Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.

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• Original title: Birdsong
• Author: Sebastian Faulks
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1784700037
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2014-07-03
• Manufacturer: Vintage
• Publication date: 2014-07-03
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pages: 528
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2014-07-03
• Studio: Vintage

Rank: 18 – 18

Holden begins his story at Pencey Preparatory, an exclusive private school (fictional, though based on Salinger’s own experience at Valley Forge Military Academy) in Agerstown, Pennsylvania, on the Saturday afternoon of the traditional football game with rival school Saxon Hall. Holden ends up missing the game. As manager of the fencing team, he loses their equipment on a New York City subway train that morning, resulting in the cancellation of a match. He goes to the home of his history teacher named Mr. Spencer. Holden has been expelled and isn’t to return after Christmas break, which begins the following Wednesday. Spencer is a well-meaning but long-winded middle-aged man. To Holden’s annoyance, Spencer reads aloud Holden’s history paper, in which Holden wrote a note to Spencer so his teacher wouldn’t feel bad about failing him in the subject.

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• Original title: The Catcher in the Rye
• Author: J. D. Salinger
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 241950430
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2010-03-04
• Manufacturer: Penguin
• Publication date: 2010-03-04
• Publisher: Penguin
• Pages: 198
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2010-03-04
• Studio: Penguin

Rank: 19 – 19

Audrey Niffenegger’s dazzling debut is the story of Clare, a beautiful, strong-minded art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: his genetic clock randomly resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous and unpredictable, and lend a spectacular urgency to Clare and Henry’s unconventional love story. That their attempt to live normal lives together is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control makes their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

Book Overview:

• Original title: How to Stop Time
• Author: Matt Haig
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1782118640
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2017-12-14
• Manufacturer: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2017-12-14
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Pages: 336
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2017-12-14
• Studio: Canongate Books

Rank: 20 – 20

Book Overview:

• Original title: Middlemarch
• Author: George Eliot
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1979960674
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2017-11-22
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017-11-22
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Pages: 808
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2017-11-22
• Studio: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform