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Vendor:Herman Melville
Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville: Introduction by John Updike
Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways...- $28.00
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Vendor:Joseph Conrad
Victory: Introduction by Tony Tanner
Joseph Conrad possessed a matchless gift for embodying life as it is lived under extreme physical and psychological pressure. Victory, his last masterpiece, tells the story of Axel Heyst, a radically isolated, philosophically minded soul living apart on a remote Pacific island, who performs...- $30.00
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Vendor:William Golding
Close Quarters
To the Ends of the Earth, William Golding's great sea trilogy, presents the extraordinary story of a warship's troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s. Close Quarters marks the sequel to the Man Booker Prize-winning Rites of Passage Told through the pages of...- $25.00
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Vendor:Gustave Flaubert
Salaambo: A Calamitous Tale - Ancient Carthage in the Historic Mercenary Revolt
Salammbo is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. Set in ancient Carthage, the vivid plot bursts with exoticism, high drama and bloody violence. We join war-torn Carthage in the 3rd century B.C., as the city is on the cusp of the Mercenaries' Revolt. Uncertainty...- $14.99
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Vendor:Antonia White
Frost in May
'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined young girl and an authoritarian regime is both perceptive and painfully emotional, convincing in every detail' - Hermione Lee, Observer With a new introduction by...- $13.99
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Vendor:Angela Thirkell
Miss Bunting
Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of retirement by Sir Robert and Lady Fielding to tutor their daughter Anne, delicate, sixteen years old, and totally lacking in confidence. When Anne makes...- $13.99
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Vendor:Connie Willis
The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories
Few authors have had careers as successful as that of Connie Willis. Inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and recently awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Willis is still going strong. Her smart,...- $18.00
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Vendor:L. Frank Baum
The Wizard of Oz
Join the wonderful world of Oz. Here is the original book that started the wonderful series and inspired the famous movie, in which Dorothy Gale is whisked from Kansas to the magical land of Oz where--with a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodman, and a Cowardly...- $5.99
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Vendor:Henry James
The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
"There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake." The Aspern Papers is one of James's best-known and most accomplished novellas, whose plot foreshadows the modern cult of the writer as celebrity, and the hunger to uncover previously unseen writings. Indeed, in all...- $11.95
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Vendor:Stephen Romer
French Decadent Tales
"He had become the dandy of the unpredictable." A quest for new sensations--and an avowed desire to shock--possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-si鐵le Paris. Indeed, the years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and...- $13.95
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Vendor:Henry James
The Europeans: A Sketch
Eugenia, an expatriated American, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is about to reject her in favor of a state marriage. With her artist brother Felix Young she travels to Boston to visit relatives she has never before seen, in hopes...- $12.95
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Vendor:Wilkie Collins
Hide and Seek
At the center of Hide and Seek (1854) a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful girl known only as Madonna? It is not until his...- $12.95
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Vendor:D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love
In Women in Love (1920), Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen who first appeared in Lawrence's earlier novel, The Rainbow, take center stage as Lawrence explores their growth and development in their relationships with two powerful men, Rupert Birkin and his friend Gerald Crich. A novel...- $10.95
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Vendor:Thomas Hardy
Desperate Remedies
Hardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory. The anti-hero, Aeneas Manston, as physically alluring as he is evil, even fascinates the innocent Cytherea, though she is in love with another man. When he cannot seduce her, Manston resorts...- $14.95
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Vendor:Elizabeth Inchbald
A Simple Story
When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of his religious vocation and 18th-century British society's standards of proper womanly behavior. Like other women writers of her time, Elizabeth Inchbald concentrates on the question...- $15.95
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Vendor:Wilkie Collins
Poor Miss Finch
Wilkie Collin's intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better known novels, but it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to...- $11.95
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Vendor:Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories
Oxford offers the most generously annotated edition of The Red Badge of Courage (1895), a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience fighting in the American Civil War based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. This volume also includes the short...- $8.94
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Vendor:Sydney Owenson
The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale
"I long to study the purely national, purely natural character of an Irishwoman." When Horatio, the son of an English lord, is banished to his father's Irish estate as punishment for his dissipated ways, he goes off in search of adventure. On the wild...- $13.95
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Vendor:Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes
Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such as the defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny and the loss of individual privacy in a...- $11.95
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Vendor:Joseph Conrad
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
Chance(1914) was the first of Conrad's novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his works. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and abandoned young girl who is "like a beggar, without a right to...- $9.94
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Vendor:John Cleland
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Peter Sabor presents both the first critical edition and the first accurate, wholly unexpurgated text of the most famous erotic novel in English, better known as Fanny Hill. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum...- $9.94
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Vendor:Henry James
What Maisie Knew
What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers...- $10.95
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Vendor:Helen Cooper
Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
Since its first publication in 1989, Helen Cooper's guide to The Canterbury Tales has established itself as the standard work on the poem. This second edition continues to offer the most comprehensive scrutiny of the Tales both as a whole and individually. In addition,...- $73.00
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Vendor:Sophocles
Aias
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated Greek tragedies, the Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of...- $15.99
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Vendor:Joaquim Machado De Assis
Quincas Borba
Along with The Posthumous Memoirs of Br疽 Cubas and Dom Casmurro, Quincas Borba is one of Machado de Assis' major works and indeed one of the major works of nineteenth century fiction. With his uncannily postmodern sensibility, his delicious wit, and his keen insight...- $43.99
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Vendor:Hannah W. Foster
Early American Women Writers
The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly...- $16.98
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Vendor:James Morrow
City of Truth
In Veritas, people have been conditioned to always tell the truth, no matter how unnerving the truth may be. Jack Sperry must learn to lie in order to save his son in this witty science fiction novella. Recipient of a 1992 Nebula Award.Author: James...- $13.95
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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...- $15.95
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Vendor:Tawfiq Al-Hakim
Return of the Spirit
The celebrated, revolutionary novel from a pioneering Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, now for the first time in Penguin Classics with a foreword by Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswany First published in Arabic in 1933, Egyptian playwright and novelist Tawfiq Al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit follows...- $22.00
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Vendor:John O'Hara
Butterfield 8
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by Jessica HischeIt all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover...- $25.00
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Vendor:Evelyn Waugh
Sword of Honor
This trilogy spanning World War II, based in part on Evelyn Waugh's own experiences as an army officer, is the author's surpassing achievement as a novelist. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers...- $55.00
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Men at Arms
"An eminently readable comedy of modern war" (New York Times), Men at Arms is the first novel in Evelyn Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy. Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits...- $29.99
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Vendor:Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
With a critical introduction addressing the wide range of issues raised by the text, this edition of The Jungle is coupled with illuminating documents to show why the novel stands as a classic of twentieth-century American literature and social protest.Author: Upton SinclairISBN-10: 0312400373ISBN-13: 9780312400378Publisher:...- $30.00
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Vendor:Henry James
Washington Square: Introduction by Arthur Phillips
Washington Square is one of Henry James's most appealing and popular novels, with the most straightforward plot and style of any of his works. Set in the genteel New York of James's early childhood, it is a tale of cruelty laced with comedy. Dr....- $22.00
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Vendor:Charles Jackson
The Sunnier Side and Other Stories
A masterful collection of short stories exposing the seamy undercurrents of small-town American life from Charles Jackson, celebrated author of The Lost Weekend. A selection of Jackson's finest tales, The Sunnier Side and Other Stories explores the trials of adolescence in America during the...- $15.00
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Vendor:Ford Madox Ford
Parade's End
Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, a tetralogy set in England during World War I, is widely considered one of the best novels of the twentieth century. First published as four separate novels (Some Do Not . . ., No More Parades, A Man Could Stand...- $23.00
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Vendor:Willa Cather
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
In her final novel, Willa Cather departed from her usual Great Plains settings to plumb the turbulent relationships between slaves and their owners in the antebellum South. Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in Virginia just before the Civil War. Sapphira is a...- $15.00
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Vendor:Padraic Colum
Legends of Hawaii
Nineteen native stories or legends from the Hawaiian islands. With decorative cuts. "Powerfully imagined, rich in character and atmosphere."--NY Herald TribuneAuthor: Padraic ColumISBN-10: 0300003765ISBN-13: 9780300003765Publisher: Yale University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1937Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55d- $34.00
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Vendor:George Sand
La Petite Fadette
Set in the French countryside of George Sand's childhood and narrated in the unique voice of a Berrichon peasant, La Petite Fadette is a beloved 1848 novel about identical twin brothers and Fadette, the mysterious waif with whom they both fall in love. The...- $21.95
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Vendor:Conrad Richter
The Waters of Kronos
From the time of its first publication in 1960, Conrad Richter's The Waters of Kronos sparked lively debate about the extent to which its story of a belated return to childhood scenes mirrored key events of Richter's own life. As was well known at...- $30.95
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Vendor:Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
"We ask ere you leave us that you speak to us and give us of your truth. Tell us of love, of marriage, of children, of joy and sorrow. Tell us of Self-knowledge." And the Prophet replied.Author: Kahlil GibranISBN-10: 0244138311ISBN-13: 9780244138318Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/14/2019Pages:...- $7.99
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Vendor:Selma Lagerlof
The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson
Scandinavia's best-loved children's classic, from the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature A Penguin Classic Nils Holgersson is a naughty boy who tortures animals and never listens to his parents--until one day he wakes up as an elf. Deeply puzzled...- $14.00
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Vendor:Fumiko Hayashi
Floating Clouds
In this groundbreaking novel, Fumiko Hayashi tells the powerful story of tormented love and one woman's struggle to navigate the cruel realities of postwar Japan. The novel's characters, particularly its resilient heroine Koda Yukiko, find themselves trapped in their own drifting, unable to break...- $32.00
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Vendor:Bonaventura
The Nightwatches of Bonaventura
First published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume "Bonaventura," The Nightwatches of Bonaventura is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, one part Poe and one part Beckett. The narrator and antihero is not Bonaventura but a night watchman named Kreuzgang, a...- $52.00
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Vendor:Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
The Time Regulation Institute
"A literary discovery: an uproarious tragicomedy of modernization, in its first-ever English translation. Perhaps the greatest Turkish novel of the twentieth century, being discovered around the world only now, more than fifty years after its first publication, The Time Regulation Institute is an antic,...- $30.00
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Vendor:Jorge Amado
The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray
A Penguin Classic Widely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of...- $15.00
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The Saga of Gosta Berling
The first new English translation in more than one hundred years of the Swedish Gone with the Wind A Penguin Classic In 1909, Selma Lagerl became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Saga of Gta Berling is her first...- $22.00
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Who Would Have Thought It?
A major rediscovery--the first novel by a Mexican American WomanMar a Amparo Ruiz de Burton was the first Mexican American woman to write novels in English and the first nineteenth-century California writer to publish a novel in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War. Her...- $22.00
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Vendor:Booth Tarkington
Penrod
A timeless novel in the spirited tradition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry FinnOne of the most popular American authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Pulitzer Prize winner Booth Tarkington was acclaimed for his novels set in small Midwestern...- $22.00
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The Painter of Signs
For Raman the sign painter, life is a familiar and satisfying routine. A man of simple, rational ways, he lives with his pious aunt and prides himself on his creative work. But all that changes when he meets Daisy, a thrillingly independent young woman...- $22.00
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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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