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Vendor:Edgar Allan Poe
The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
One of the greatest of all horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) also composed pioneering tales that seized upon the scientific developments of an era marked by staggering change. In this collection of sixteen stories, he explores such wide-ranging contemporary themes as galvanism, time...- $19.00
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Vendor:Nathaniel Hawthorne
Selected Tales and Sketches
The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness....- $16.00
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Vendor:Don Delillo
White Noise: Text and Criticism
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, soon to be a major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig White Noise is the story of Jack, his wife, Babette, and their four ultramodern offspring. They live in a...- $24.00
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Vendor:Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Text and Criticism; Revised Edition
"Powerful, poetic realism...makes the tired old subject of life in a mental hospital into an absorbing Orwellian microcosm of all humanity."--Life.An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining...- $25.00
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Vendor:D. H. Lawrence
MR Noon: Cambridge Lawrence Edition
The first annotated paperback publication of Lawrence's autobiographical and strikingly innovative unfinished novel Begun in 1920, Mr Noon is divided into two distinct parts, the first of which appeared in 1934 and the second of which remained unpublished until the Cambridge edition of 1984,...- $21.00
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Vendor:Primo Levi
The Monkey's Wrench
"A remarkable narrative of a worklife as told to Primo Levi, who is as great a listener as he is a creative artist." --Studs Terkel A Penguin Classic In this exuberant and wildly funny novel, Primo Levi celebrates the joys of work and the...- $22.00
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Vendor:Charles Chesnutt
The Marrow of Tradition
Based on a historically accurate account of the Wilmington, North Carolina, "race riot" of 1898, African-American author Charles W. Chesnutt's innovative novel is a passionate portrait of the betrayal of black culture in America. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading...- $16.00
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Vendor:W. Somerset Maugham
Collected Short Stories: Volume 3
This third volume of Maugham's stories, introduced and selected by the author himself, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in WWI. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he...- $22.00
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Vendor:Graham Greene
Loser Takes All
Bertram had no belief in luck. He was not superstitious. A conspicuously unsuccessful assistant accountant, he was planning to get married for the second time. Quite quietly: St Luke's, Maida Hill, and then two weeks in Bournemouth. But Dreuther, a director of Bertram's firm,...- $22.00
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Vendor:Gertrude Stein
Three Lives
Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of...- $16.00
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Vendor:Oscar Wilde
The Portable Oscar Wilde
Includes the following works: Novels--The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays--Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings--De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman...- $30.00
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Vendor:Jack Kerouac
Visions of Gerard
"[A] pleasant and underrated surprise . . . [Visions of Gerard] has a winning simplicity and sweetness." --The Washington Post The first book in Kerouac's Duluoz Legend, a novella detailing the writer's early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of...- $22.00
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Vendor:Daniel Halpern
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories, 1945-1985
Eighty-one masterpieces by the world's best writers a surprising, irresistible collection of short stories from around the world."Author: Daniel HalpernISBN-10: 0140079491ISBN-13: 9780140079494Publisher: Penguin BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/1987Pages: 832Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.97lbsSize: 9.28h x 6.06w x 1.85d- $26.00
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Vendor:Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
"One of the greatest love stories in world literature." --Vladimir Nabokov In a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society, Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count...- $18.95
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Vendor:Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases are collected here, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious heists, murderous plots, and hidden jewels, which take the famous detective and his faithful sidekick Dr. Watson from the streets of London and the English countryside to...- $17.99
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Vendor:John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps
The first of five novels featuring action hero Richard Hannay, and the basis for the classic Hitchcock filmMay 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a...- $16.99
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Vendor:Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Sterne's utterly original novel--the meandering, maddening "autobiography" of one of literature's oldest comic characters, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy Doomed to become the "sport of fortune" by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy's life lurches from one mishap to...- $13.95
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Vendor:Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a little person as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that...- $19.99
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Vendor:Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange Low Price CD
A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that...- $14.99
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Vendor:Shannon Stoker
The Alliance: A Registry Novel
To overthrow a brutal dictator and free her country, a brave young woman will risk her life and liberty to spark a revolution in this explosive final installment in Shannon Stoker's electrifying Registry trilogy.Mia Morrissey fled to Mexico to escape the government marrying her...- $14.99
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Vendor:Lynda La Plante
Blood Line
Award-winning and international bestselling author Lynda La Plante brings back her popular series character, London Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis of the Murder Squad, to work a seventh case in Blood Line. La Plante, who bestselling crime fiction author Karin Slaughter (Blindsided) says "practically...- $17.99
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Vendor:Christopher Wakling
What I Did
"This is family life today at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging....I LOVED IT."--Emma Donoghue, author of the New York Times bestseller Room What I Did by Christopher Wakling is a truly astonishing novel--the chronicle of a family crisis that is...- $13.99
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Vendor:Katrina Kittle
The Blessings of the Animals
"[A] beautifully crafted novel....A must-read not only for animal lovers, but for anyone who has found the courage to come back from heartbreak and find love again, without reservation, without fear."--Sara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants"A marvelous page-turner, a...- $14.99
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Vendor:Richard Wright
Native Son
Now an HBO Film "If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son." - Henry Louis Gates Jr.Right from the start, Bigger Thomas...- $39.95
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Vendor:Abraham Cahan
Rise of David Levinsky
The Rise of David Levinsky is a novel by Abraham Cahan. It was published in 1917.The book is told in the form of a fictional autobiography of David Levinsky, a Russian Jew who emigrates to America and rises from rags to riches.Author: Abraham CahanISBN-10:...- $19.99
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Vendor:John Fante
The John Fante Reader
It's not every day that a writer, almost unheard of in his lifetime, emerges twenty years after his death as a voice of his generation. But then again, there aren't many writers with such irrepressible genius as John Fante.The John Fante Reader is the...- $18.00
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Vendor:Eudora Welty
The Optimist's Daughter
The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to...- $23.00
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Vendor:Jack London
The Collected Stories of Jack London
One of the greatest storytellers of our time, Jack London wrote prolifically. His tales of adventure vividly capture the struggle to survive against the forces of nature by both men and animals, and often their retreat to a primitive state in the face of...- $27.99
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Vendor:Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar CD
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and...- $19.99
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Vendor:Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace: Original Version
A grand, romantic saga of two noble Russian families and a multitude of lives swept up in the violent tumult of the Napoleonic Wars, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is considered one of the preeminent literary works of all time. Tolstoy originally completed this...- $24.99
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Vendor:Mark Twain
Great Short Works of Mark Twain
Selected short works of humor and criticism by a revered American masterBeloved by millions, Mark Twain is the quintessential American writer. More than anyone else, his blend of skepticism, caustic wit and sharp prose defines a certain American mythos. While his novel The Adventures...- $19.99
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Vendor:Thornton Wilder
The Eighth Day
"[Wilder's] finest and most beautiful novel. . . . Spanning two continents and several generations, it begins as a murder mystery and goes on to tell a story, at once dramatic and philosophical, about the range of human courage, aspirations, steadfastness, weakness, defeat and...- $19.99
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Vendor:H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics."For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive."When a strange, meteor-like object lands in the heart of...- $7.99
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Vendor:Gaston LeRoux
The Phantom of the Opera
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.The classic French novel inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century, and inspiration for many stage and film adaptations.Author: Gaston LeRouxISBN-10: 0008313784ISBN-13: 9780008313784Publisher: William CollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2019Pages: 320Format:...- $7.99
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Vendor:David Nobbs
Fair Do's
The classic follow-up to A Bit of A Do, about the comedy of Yorkshire life, told through seven more do's. Life is still a social minefield in this small Yorkshire town. From the opening of a vegetarian restaurant to the inauguration of the Outer...- $11.99
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Vendor:David Nobbs
The Itinerant Lodger
One wintry afternoon a lodger named Wilson arrives at 38, Trebisall Avenue, filled with hope. As he crosses the threshold of Mrs Pollard's house, with its "aura of impending stew" he becomes a new man. This is a tactic he has tried before, just...- $11.99
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Ostrich Country
' " A change of environment will bring you new business and personal interests," said Cousin Percy. Pegasus was glad to hear this.' Whether Pegasus Baines would have been so glad had he foreseen the outcome of his hasty decision to abandon the career...- $11.99
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Vendor:David Nobbs
A Piece of the Sky Is Missing
Why should up-and-coming, thirty-two-year-old executive Robert Bellamy get himself the sack? What made him draw a caricature of the Exports Manager on the wall of the non-executive gents? Why is he his own worst enemy? Is it because he nearly ran away from boarding...- $11.99
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Vendor:Johanna Spyri
Heidi
Author: Johanna SpyriISBN-10: 1613820275ISBN-13: 9781613820278Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/19/2011Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d- $10.30
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Vendor:Nathaniel Hawthorne
The three goldens apples
"The Three Golden Apples" is a story from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys." In this enchanting tale, Hawthorne retells a story from Greek mythology, specifically from the adventures of Hercules (Heracles). In the story, Hercules embarks on a quest to retrieve...- $19.00
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Vendor:Anna Sewell
Black Beauty
The narrator of this book, the handsome, coal-black horse called ''Black Beauty'', is lead through numerous adventures by various owners - from a riding and carriage horse, to the rough life of a town cab horse, to eventual happiness in a secure home, he...- $6.58
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Vendor:Allen Levi
Theo of Golden
Questions linger about Theo, a pleasant but mysterious stranger, after his arrival in the southern city of Golden.Who is he, and why is he here?He arrives early one spring and by chance - or is it? - he visits a coffee shop where 92...- $27.99
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Vendor:James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $26.99
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Vendor:Jack London
World's Greatest Classics (Boxed Set)
Immerse yourself in the world of literature with the Ten Greatest Pocket Classics boxed set. This exceptional collection features ten iconic works that have captivated readers for generations. From adventure and romance to philosophy and mystery, this set offers a diverse range of literary...- $29.99
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Vendor:John Gaspard
A Christmas Carl: A Greyhound Ghost Story of Christmas
A delightful new take on the Charles Dickens' classic story, "A Christmas Carol." Think you know this story? Well, you haven't experienced "A Christmas Carol" until you've read it through the eyes of Scrooge's pet dog.It's the classic tale you know, now narrated by...- $15.99
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Vendor:Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary: Provincial Ways
A literary event: one of the world's most celebrated novels, in a magnificent new translation Seven years ago, Lydia Davis brought us an award-winning, rapturously reviewed new translation of Marcel Proust's "Swann's Way" that was hailed as "clear and true to the music of...- $17.99
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Vendor:Homer
The Odyssey
The Odyssey, an epic masterpiece by Homer, takes readers on an extraordinary adventure filled with gods, heroes, and mythical creatures. This timeless tale follows the legendary hero Odysseus as he embarks on a perilous journey to return home after the Trojan War. With its...- $16.99
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Vendor:George Orwell
Animal farm 5th June 2020 Final
George Orwell's celebrated novella, Animal Farm, is a biting, allegorical, political satire on totalitarianism in general and Stalinism in particular. One of the most famous works in modern English literature, it is a telling comment on Soviet Russia under Stalin's brutal dictatorship based on...- $11.99
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Vendor:Marcel Proust
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Within a Budding Grove (1919) is the second volume of Marcel Proust's seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time. Written while Proust was virtually confined to his bedroom from a lifelong respiratory illness, Within a Budding Grove is a story of memory, history, family,...- $28.99
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Vendor:Allie Cresswell
The Other Miss Bates
This is the second book in the Highbury Trilogy, but stands equally well alone.Thirty years before the commencement of Jane Austen's 'Emma', Highbury is a thriving and populous village. The Bates family has seen a decline in their fortunes. Partly in an attempt to...- $18.99
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Fiction Classics Books
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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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