English Class Classics

Buzz Lightyear and Sheriff Woody are jealous when Bonnie brings home a pet hamster. But when the hamster gets loose, Buzz and Woody realize they need to get the fuzzy creature back in its cage before Bonnie gets home!

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A cult classic and Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, this sharp, insightful novel by New Yorker contributor Han Ong explores racial and social hierarchy, personal identity, and alienation. William Paulinha—a resourceful gay Filipino sex...

Are you trying to provide a classical education without having received one yourself? You might know the subject you’re teaching well, but so much of classical education transcends the textbook. What should the classroom, culture, and spirit of the classroom be like? And how can you know you’re doing it well? In this new audiobook from Mandi Gerth, you will find the guidance you need to create a truly classical classroom.

Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down.

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been...

Have you ever wondered why the quest for true love is so often entangled with wealth and social standing? Jane Austen's novels are far more than simple romances. They are sharp, satirical, and deeply moving examinations of the human heart set against the rigid backdrop of Regency England. This definitive quartet brings together four of her most celebrated works. Through the eyes of her flawed, resilient heroines, experience the intricate dance of courtship, the pressure to marry well, and the joy of finding a true partner.

Brought to you by Penguin. Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories...

Rediscover the timeless romance and keen social commentary of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," now thoughtfully adapted for the modern reader. This refreshed edition features clean formatting and contemporary typography, enhancing readability while maintaining Austen's original tone and intent. Lightly clarified language ensures that the wit and wisdom of Elizabeth Bennet's world remain accessible to today's audience, inviting both new readers and longtime fans to enjoy the beloved tale with renewed ease. Step into Regency-era England, where love and societal expectations clash in a ...

One boy’s invented word becomes a phenomenon beyond his control in bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements’s hilarious classic children’s story about creative thought and the power of language. Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at...

Denise Baudu arrives in Paris seeking work after her parents' deaths. Her uncle owns a small draper's shop being systematically destroyed by the massive department store across the street: The Ladies' Paradise. Despite her uncle's rage, Denise seeks employment there. She enters an environment transforming nineteenth-century commerce completely. The owner, Octave Mouret, understands that modern retail isn't selling goods but creating desires—women must be seduced through theatrical display, shopping must become entertainment. Émile Zola published The Ladies' Paradise in 1883 after ...

Bloomsbury presents A Hard Day's Night, written and read by Samira Ahmed. How did a film made to capture a pop phenomenon become an enduring cinematic classic? With warmth, wit and precision, Samira Ahmed reveals how the Beatles’ first film changed both the band themselves and pop music’s...

Capitalism has blessed the world with wealth and technological miracles. It has also cursed it with urban slums, powerless workers, and the vicious boom-and-bust economy. If only there were some way to fix the problems of capitalism and keep all its benefits. In 1897, Henry George published his solution to this puzzle, Progress and Poverty. He suggested that, unlike all other taxes, a tax on land doesn't discourage entrepreneurship. A single tax on land can raise the revenues we need to help the poor without destroying the incentive to create wealth.

Brought to you by Penguin. Read the seminal bestselling novel that changed the face of British fiction and inspired Danny Boyle's film. 'The best book ever written by man or woman... Deserves to sell more copies than the Bible' Rebel Inc Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose...

Étienne Lantier arrives in the mining town of Montsou unemployed and desperate. He finds work at Le Voreux mine, descending into hell: miners crawling through passages barely high enough to permit movement, working in suffocating heat, constantly threatened by cave-ins and explosions, earning wages insufficient to feed their families. Émile Zola published Germinal in 1885 after spending two weeks in the Anzin mining region, descending into pits, interviewing workers, documenting everything from extraction techniques to household budgets. He arrived during a 56-day strike involving over ...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Christine Hoflehner is twenty-eight years old, works behind the counter of a provincial Austrian post office, and cares for her invalid mother on wages that barely cover the rent. It is 1926. The war ended eight years ago, but for Christine — and for...

Before Buddenbrooks. Before Death in Venice. Before the Nobel Prize — six early stories, written between 1896 and 1898, in which a twenty-something Thomas Mann discovered, one narrative at a time, the themes that would occupy him for the rest of his career. In Little Herr Friedemann, a man disabled since infancy has built an entire philosophy around careful renunciation — until a woman he cannot resist arrives and dismantles it completely. In Death, a dying man's diary renders, from the inside, the strange clarity of a consciousness that knows its own end is near. In The Will to ...

Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Mind — Stoic Mastery with Epictetus. In a world of constant distraction, pressure, and uncertainty, the philosophy of Epictetus offers something rare: a clear, practical path to inner freedom. Written nearly two thousand years ago, his teachings remain as sharp and relevant today as the day they were recorded.

A hundred years after Fitzgerald, the novel comes back — not as reprint, not as homage, but as retelling in the now. The Great Gatsby was never a period piece. It was mistaken for one because of its vocabulary — the roadsters, the gin, the telephone rings in the hall. Strip the 1925 surface away and what remains is a novel about performed wealth, curated identity, casual bigotry at a dinner table, and the specifically American ache of building a fraudulent self to become worthy of someone who stopped being worth the worship long ago. In other words: a novel about now. The Great Gatsby: ...

Most students can now generate an essay in seconds. So what should English teaching look like now? You get: Simple, ready-to-use classroom activities Ways to spark real discussion and thinking Practical strategies that work alongside AI—not against it Built from real classroom needs and designed for immediate use.

Paris, 1840. A young man from the provinces boards a riverboat heading home, and in a single moment, his life changes — though not in any way he could predict, or that anyone around him would notice. Frédéric Moreau is nineteen, ambitious, and full of feeling that has nowhere to go. In the years that follow, he will pursue a career in law, then abandon it. He will move in the glittering circles of Parisian society — artists, journalists, financiers, revolutionaries — and fail to become any of them. He will fall in love, repeatedly and inconclusively. And he will carry, through all ...