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Vendor:Jr. Culver
Riverside
Three young cousins, LW, Henry and Billy, live life to the fullest, and find adventure and excitement in pre-World War II rural Texas. Their days are consumed by fishing, baseball, and hunting squirrels and rabbits. Their strict regimen of school and family life are...- $23.95
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Vendor:Kiernan Antares
Phoenix Star: An Adventure of the Spirit
A remarkable tale of a journey to enlightenment traveled by ordinary people Following an unusual encounter with a stranger, Maya Maxwell is driven to discover her connection to a prophecy about the Emerald Stone, a sacred tablet hidden in the Great Pyramid of Giza....- $21.95
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Vendor:George Evans
A Rose on Gallows Hill
In 1848 Nathaniel Hawthorne is married and living in Salem, Massachusetts, a stone's throw from where the alleged witches were hanged in 1692. He is burdened with guilt over his ancestor's involvement in their trial, and bored with the stultifying work in the Custom...- $15.95
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Vendor:H. G. Wells
Hg Wells Classic Collection I
This collection includes The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon and The Invisible Man - all collected in a stunning leather-bound omnibus. Five of the best science fiction novels by the Grandfather...- $32.99
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Vendor:Thomas Hardy
Far From the Madding Crowd
When Bathsheba Everdene inherits a farm from her uncle, no-one expects her to run it alone. But our spirited young heroine will not be deterred and eagerly takes up the gauntlet. She rises impressively to the challenges of sheep farming, but the trials of...- $16.95
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Vendor:J. R. R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
The Silmarillion tells of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien's World, when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle Earth, and the High Elves made war upon them for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light...- $65.00
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Vendor:Sarah Orne Jewett
A Country Doctor
Though not as well-known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett nevertheless remains one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century. Published in 1884, Jewett's first novel, A Country Doctor, is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a...- $4.95
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Vendor:Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton's masterpiece brings to life the grandeur and hypocrisy of a gilded age. Set among the very rich in 1870s New York, it tells the story of Newland Archer, a young lawyer engaged to marry virginal socialite May Welland, when he meets her...- $5.95
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Vendor:Louisa May Alcott
Jo's Boys
Best known for the novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, surprising, and bittersweet conclusion in Jo's Boys. Beginning ten years after...- $5.95
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Vendor:John Stuart Mill
On Liberty and Utilitarianism
Together these two essays mark the philosophic cornerstone of democratic morality and represent a thought-provoking search for the true balance between the rights of the individual and the power of the state. Thoroughly schooled in the principles of the utilitarian movement founded by Jeremy...- $7.50
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Vendor:Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg, Ohio
Published in 1919, Winesburg, Ohio is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a work in which he achieved the goal to which he believed all true writers should aspire: to see and feel "all of life within." In a perfectly imagined world, an archetypal small American town,...- $5.95
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Vendor:Johann David Wyss
The Swiss Family Robinson
"For many days we had been tempest-tossed...the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost." From these dire opening lines, a timeless story of adventure begins. One family will emerge alive from this terrible storm: the Robinsons--a Swiss...- $5.95
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Vendor:Edith Wharton
The Custom of the Country
The classic satire of New York society and the American Dream through the misadventures of an insatiable young striver Ambitious and wholeheartedly materialistic, Undine Spragg is a beautiful heiress who sees men as a means to an end. New York millionaires and French aristocrats...- $6.95
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Vendor:Anthony Appiah
Early African-American Classics
This essential one-volume collection brings together some of the most influential and significant works by African-American writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Included herein are such classics as Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) and excerpts...- $7.99
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Vendor:Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
Known primarily for her classic and haunting story "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an enormously influential American feminist and sociologist. Her early-twentieth-century writings continue to inspire writers and activists today. This collection includes selections from both her fiction and nonfiction work. In...- $7.95
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Vendor:Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie
"When a girl leaves home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse." With Sister Carrie, first published in 1900, Theodore Dreiser transformed...- $5.99
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Vendor:Herman Melville
Four Great American Classics
These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day. The...- $8.99
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Vendor:Thomas Mann
Death in Venice and Other Stories
This superb translation of Death in Venice and six other stories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, deserving to be the definitive text for English-speaking readers. These seven stories represent Mann's early writing career and a level of literary quality Mann himself...- $6.95
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Vendor:William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew
A robust and bawdy battle of the sexes, this ever popular comedy captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills-and love-with her bridegroom, Petruchio. Their boisterous conflict is set off against a more conventional romantic plot involving...- $5.95
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Vendor:William Shakespeare
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream, the Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
The Taming of the ShrewRobust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills-and love-with her bridegroom, Petruchio, in a comedy of unmatched theatrical brilliance, filled with visual gags and witty...- $7.95
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Vendor:Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wife's orphaned cousin, Mattie...- $5.95
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Vendor:D. H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
Since its publication in 1913, D. H. Lawrence's powerful and passionate third novel stands as one of the greatest autobiographical novels of the twentieth century. Here is the story of artist Paul Morel as a young man, his powerful relationship with his possessive mother,...- $5.95
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Vendor:Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure
In 1895 Hardy's final novel, the great tale of Jude the Obscure, sent shock waves of indignation rolling across Victorian England. Hardy had dared to write frankly about sexuality and to indict the institutions of marriage, education, and religion. But he had, in fact,...- $6.95
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Vendor:Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers
The high-spirited work of a young Dickens, The Pickwick Papers is the remarkable first novel that made its author famous and that has remained one of the best-known books in the world. In it the inimitable Samuel Pickwick, his well-fed body and unsinkable good...- $8.99
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Vendor:Alexandra Tolstoy
Prince Serebrenni
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...- $59.95
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Vendor:William Golding
Free Fall
"I was standing up, pressed back against the wall, trying not to breathe. I got there in the one movement my body made. My body had many hairs on legs and belly and chest and head, and each had its own life; each inherited...- $35.00
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Vendor:George Orwell
A Clergyman's Daughter
Dorothy, the heroine of this novel, performs good works, cultivates good thoughts, and pricks her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She then has a series of unexpected and degrading adventures after becoming a victim of amnesia. Though she regains her...- $35.00
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Vendor:Richard Seaford
Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy
How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage. By transforming social relations, monetization...- $135.00
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Vendor:Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes
Set in the tumultuous political world of Tsarist repression and revolutionary intrigue in St Petersburg and Geneva, Under Western Eyes (1911) renders with searing intensity the psychological torment of its Russian protagonist, a university student who, in betraying another, has betrayed himself. Based upon...- $140.00
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Vendor:Richard Seaford
Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy
How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage. By transforming social relations, monetization...- $58.99
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Vendor:William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors
Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, The Comedy of Errors has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version aims to be different from other editions of the play. It invites you to bring the...- $14.80
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Vendor:William Shakespeare
Ncs: King Henry VIII
This book considers and illustrates the stage history of the play, and provides an account of the authorship controversy from the mid-nineteenth century, when John Fletcher's name was first put forward as a collaborator, to recent scholarship, which has not yet reached a consensus....- $12.99
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Vendor:D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow
D. H. Lawrence expected The Rainbow to have 'a bit of a fight' before it was accepted, but 'The fight will have to be made, that is all'. It was suppressed, just over a month after publication, in November 1915. The American publisher would...- $150.00
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Vendor:D. H. Lawrence
The First 'Women in Love'
Published here for the first time is the earliest completed version of the novel regarded as Lawrence's greatest: Women in Love. Lawrence wrote it in 1916 and did his best to have it published then; but his previous novel had been banned and The...- $60.99
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Vendor:Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper: Volume 5
"What am I writing? A historical tale of 300 years ago, simply for the love of it." Mark Twain's "tale" became his first historical novel, The Prince and the Pauper, published in 1881. Intricately plotted, it was intended to have the feel of history...- $24.95
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Vendor:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, the Pennyroyal Edition
The California edition of the Pennyroyal Press Frankenstein unites the dark side of Barry Moser's art with the classic 1818 text of Mary Shelley's tale of moral transfiguration. In a vivid sequence of woodcuts, the reader witnesses the birth of the "monster" as Moser...- $29.95
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Vendor:William F. Russell
Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children: Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, Haw
A perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to read aloud to their children aged five to twelve. Line drawings.Author: William F. RussellISBN-10: 0517587157ISBN-13: 9780517587157Publisher: HarmonyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/28/1992Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight:...- $14.99
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Vendor:Henry Fielding
Tom Jones
When Squire Allworthy returns from London to discover a sleeping baby of unknown parentage in his bed, Tom Jones makes its rollicking start toward a picaresque journey across eighteenth-century England. Its foundling hero, having grown to young manhood and developed a passion for the...- $10.00
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Vendor:John Galsworthy
The Forsyte Saga
A brilliant social satire by Nobel Prize-winning author John Galsworthy, this monumental trilogy chronicles the lives of three generations of an upper-middle class London family obsessed with money and respectability. The first book, The Man of Property, established Galsworthy's reputation as an author and...- $14.00
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Vendor:Henry James
The Bostonians
Master storyteller Henry James transports readers to New England in the 1870s for his satire of the American women's rights movement. Charismatic speaker Verena Tarrant is at the center of an acrimonious struggle between two distant cousins. Olive Chancellor sees Verena as a potential...- $9.00
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Vendor:Sinclair Lewis
Free Air
Wealthy young socialite Claire Boltwood sets out with her father on a journey from Minneapolis to Seattle in a 70-horsepower Gomez-Dep roadster, one of the finest cars of the post-World War I era. For Milt Daggett, small-town mechanic and garage owner, a glimpse of...- $6.00
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Vendor:Joseph Conrad
The Rescue
The book is absorbingly interesting: dramatic, subtle, fascinating with allurement. ― The New York Times.Captain Tom Lingard is on his way to help his friends, a Malay prince and princess, reclaim their stolen land when he gets distracted by a marooned yacht. Lingard feels...- $7.00
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Vendor:Anne Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
A mysterious young widow calling herself Helen Graham arrives at Wildfell Hall and immediately arouses her new neighbors' suspicions with her unconventional opinions and the attention she draws from the local bachelors. One of her admirers, a farmer named Gilbert Markham, readily offers his...- $10.00
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Vendor:Henry James
The American
Having made a fortune from his California-based business, Christopher Newman resolves to enlarge his experience with a grand tour of Europe, the customary practice of wealthy young men of the 19th century. When his acquaintance with Claire de Cintre, a youthful widow from an...- $8.00
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Vendor:William Hope Hodgson
The Night Land
"The Night Land is a tale of the remote future ― billions of years after the death of the sun. It is one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written . . . there is a sense of cosmic alienage, breathless...- $14.95
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Vendor:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Mystery of Cloomber
What dark deed from the past haunts Major Heatherstone? Why does he live like a hermit at Cloomber Hall, forbidding his children to venture beyond the estate grounds? Why is he plagued by the sound of a tolling bell, and why does his paranoia...- $9.95
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Vendor:Victor Hugo
Les Mis駻ables
A monumental classic and one of the most widely read novels in history, Les Mis駻ables portrays the epic struggle between good and evil in the soul of one man: Jean Valjean. In a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, the ex-convict struggles to renew...- $9.95
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Vendor:James Malcolm Rymer
Varney the Vampyre: Or, the Feast of Blood, Part 2volume 2
Before there was Dracula, there was Varney the Vampyre, the most famous of the sensational penny dreadfuls issued by Victorian-era publishers. Printed anonymously in serial form in 1847, these gripping tales recount the exploits of a deathless creature with an insatiable appetite for blood....- $12.95
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Vendor:Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from Underground and the Grand Inquisitor
"The connection between these works is unmistakable, as is their direct relation to Dostoevsky's life--sensational, harrowing, and frenzied."--From the Introduction by Ralph E. MatlowAuthor: Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN-10: 0452285585ISBN-13: 9780452285583Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2003Pages: 238Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d- $22.00
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Gabriel Oaks observes Bathsheba Everdene, the young mistress of Weatherbury Farm, fall victim to bad decisions and romantic impulses, unaware of the stroke of fate that will finally bring about their union.Author: Thomas HardyISBN-10: 0451531825ISBN-13: 9780451531827Publisher: Signet BookLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/07/2011Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 6.60h...- $6.95
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Fiction Classics Books
Fiction Classics Books is a remarkable collection that brings together timeless literary works from various genres of fiction. This collection encompasses an extensive range of novels, short stories, and plays that have stood the test of time and continue to captivate readers worldwide.
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1. "Pride and Prejudice"
2. "Moby-Dick"
3. "To Kill a Mockingbird"
4. "1984"
5. "The Great Gatsby"
6. "Jane Eyre"
7. "The Catcher in the Rye"
8. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
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1. Jane Austen
2. Charles Dickens
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. Leo Tolstoy
5. Mark Twain
6. Charlotte Brontë
7. George Orwell
8. Emily Brontë
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