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Vendor: Richard Sickelmore
Edgar; Or, the Phantom of the Castle
"His foot struck against something, he stumbled, and had nearly fallen; he stooped to examine what it was, and his hand rested on the face of a human being, cold, putrid, and clammy " Young Edgar's father, the noble Baron Fitz-Elmar, has been mysteriously...- $16.99
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Vendor: George Brewer
The Witch of Ravensworth
The cowardly but evil Baron de La Braunch wants desperately to rid himself of his wife and her son so he can marry the enchanting Lady Alwena. He enlists the aid of the hideous Hag of Ravensworth, a wicked witch who has sold her...- $16.99
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Vendor: Francis Lathom
The Castle of Ollada
"The sound approached towards him -- the chains rattled vehemently; scarcely had he sprung from his chair, and seized his sword, ere the door flew open, and a spectre, whose arms and legs were fastened with heavy chains, with a naked body covered with...- $17.99
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Vendor: Anonymous
The Animated Skeleton
Set in France during the Dark Ages, where the good Count Richard has mysteriously disappeared and the usurper Albert and his evil wife Brunchilda reign tyrannically in his place, The Animated Skeleton is a masterpiece of Gothic horror. Brunchilda has marked out the unfortunate...- $17.99
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Vendor: Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Tales
An innocent's wish, once granted, gives rise to one of literature's most memorable villains in Oscar Wilde's tale of prodigal aestheticism, "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Under the tutelage of Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian is lead into a double life - a surface of...- $17.99
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Vendor: Sasha Newborn
Hadji Murad: a Chechen "Dzhigit"
Near the end of his long life, in 1904, he wrote yet another story of the Caucasus, an area he knew from his own military experiences there in his twenties (the 1850s), participating in incursions into the Caucasus area. The Russian long-term strategy in...- $6.95
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Vendor: James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 1 (Loa #26): The Pioneers / The Last of the Mohicans / The Prairie
The five novels in The Leatherstocking Tales (collected in two Library of America volumes), Cooper's great saga of the American wilderness, form a pageant of the American frontier. Cooper's hero, Natty Bumppo, is forced ever farther into the heart of the continent by the...- $42.50
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Vendor: William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells: Novels 1875-1886 (Loa #8): A Foregone Conclusion / Indian Summer / A Modern Instance / The Rise of Silas Lapham
The four novels collected in this Library of America volume are among the classic works from the immensely productive career of America's most influential man of letters at the turn of the twentieth century. William Dean Howells was a champion of French and Russian...- $40.00
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Vendor: May Sinclair
Mary Olivier: A Life
Originally published alongside Ulysses in the pages of the legendary Little Review, Mary Olivier: A Life is an intimate, lacerating account of the ties between daughter and mother, a book of transfixing images and troubling moral intelligence that confronts the exigencies and ambiguities of...- $14.95
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Vendor: Ivan Turgenev
Virgin Soil
Turgenev was the most liberal-spirited and unqualifiedly humane of all the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, and in Virgin Soil, his biggest and most ambitious work, he sought to balance his deep affection for his country and his people with his growing apprehensions about what...- $19.95
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Vendor: Von Sacher-Masoch
Venus in Furs and Selected Stories
At the time this tale of the man and his quest for physical abuse by fair ones was written, it was considered literary, not perverted or pornographic.Author: Von Sacher-MasochISBN-10: 0922233012ISBN-13: 9780922233014Publisher: Blast BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/1993Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.30w x 0.64d- $9.95
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Vendor: Cyril Connolly
The Rock Pool
A classic novel, first published in 1936, now back in print. In this engaging satire of the British upper class, a smug young literary man from Oxford joins an international group of artists and writers on the French Riviera, intending to study them as...- $14.00
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Vendor: Robert Louis Stevenson
David Balfour
David Balfour: The Original Text was originally published by Huntington Library Press and is now distributed by Stanford University Press. This edition of David Balfour, which continues the epic story begun in Kidnapped, is based upon the original manuscript at Harvard University's Houghton Library,...- $30.00
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Vendor: Alexandre Dumas
The Journal of Madame Giovanni
The Journal of Madame Giovanni is the intriguing story of a young and beautiful French woman who in the 1850s, when women were still regarded as merely household decorations, travelled to little known parts of the world and recorded the exoticisms lying beyond the...- $27.95
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Vendor: Honore De Balzac
Droll Stories
This unabridged edition of these famous tales, marvelous for their graceful impudence and sly artistry, has been re-edited and revised by Ernest Boyd so as to bring it as close as possible to the original. "In his preface," wrote Professor George Saintsbury, "Balzac acknowledged...- $32.50
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Vendor: Herman Melville
The Shorter Novels of Herman Melville
Contents: Benito Cereno; Bartleby the Scrivener; The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles; Billy Budd, Foretopman.Author: Herman MelvilleISBN-10: 0871401223ISBN-13: 9780871401229Publisher: Liveright Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1978Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.32h x 4.84w x 0.73d- $23.95
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Vendor: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Sufferings of Young Werther and Elective Affinities
The German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. The volumes have forewords by internationally known writers and introductions by prominent scholars. Here the English-speaking reader can find the broadest possible...- $44.95
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Vendor: Alain Rene Le Sage
The Devil Upon Crutches
This is the first reprinting since the eighteenth century--and the first scholarly edition--of Tobias Smollett's translation of The Devil upon Crutches. First published in France in 1707 as Le Diable boiteux, Alain Ren Le Sage's novel relates the picaresque wanderings of Asmodeus, a refined,...- $44.95
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The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses
The Adventures of Telemachus is the first critical edition of Tobias Smollett's 1776 translation of Bishop F nelon's 1699 "mirror for princes," written especially for Duc de Burgogne, heir presumptive to Louis XIV. Both in its original French and its many translations, The Adventures...- $46.95
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Vendor: Tobias George Smollett
The Adventures of Roderick Random
This is the definitive scholarly edition of Tobias Smollett's first novel, widely regarded as one of his two masterpieces, the other being The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. Roderick Random was also, in its time, the chief rival to Henry Fielding's comic novel Tom Jones....- $51.95
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Vendor: Alain Rene Le Sage
The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
Tobias Smollett, in the preface to his first novel, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), acknowledges the influence of Alain Ren Le Sage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (1715-35 in four volumes) on his work. By far the most successful of "useful and...- $51.95
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Vendor: Tobias George Smollett
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
The first novel by a major English writer that is devoted to a thoroughgoing portrait of villainy, The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom chronicles the life of an aberrant criminal character. Filled with striking satiric thrusts at the legal, medical, and military establishments of...- $48.95
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Vendor: Jules Verne
The Mighty Orinoco
First English edition of a classic Verne adventure, with a unique feminist twist.Jules Verne (1828-1905) was the first author to popularize the literary genre of science fiction. Written in 1898 and part of the author's famous series Voyages Extraordinaires, The Mighty Orinoco tells the...- $24.95
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Vendor: Olaf Stapledon
Star Maker
First scholarly edition of this 20th century science fiction masterpiece.Widely regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported not only...- $28.95
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Vendor: S. Fowler Wright
Deluge
The definitive edition of an important 20th-century disaster novel.First published in 1927, Deluge is one of the most famous of the English catastrophe novels. Beautifully written and action packed--RKO Radio Pictures even filmed this story--the novel depicts a flood so severe that it destroys...- $24.95
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Vendor: Edward Wallant
The Human Season
In this powerfully affecting novel--by the author of The Pawnbroker--Joe Berman, an immigrant at eighteen, fifty-nine now, and a hard-working Connecticut plumber, faces the loss of his deeply loved wife. The months that follow, months of wrath and rebellion during which he fights his...- $16.95
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Vendor: Phyllis Shand Allfrey
The Orchid House
Lally helps to raise three white sisters in the Orchid House on the Island of Dominica and observes as each flees to the cold northern lands of England and America only to return to their magical past and the man they love.Author: Phyllis Shand...- $38.95
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Vendor: Garci R. De Montalvo
Amadis of Gaul, Books III and IV: A Novel of Chivalry of the 14th Century Presumably First Writtenin Spanish
In the long history of European prose, few works have been more influential and popular than Amadis of Gaul. It is a landmark work among the knight-errantry tales and probably derives from an oral tradition. Although its original author is unknown, it was likely...- $50.00
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Vendor: Charles L. Nelson
The Book of the Knight Zifar: A Translation of El Libro del Cavallero Zifar
The Book of the Knight Zifar (or Cifar), Spain's first novel of chivalry, is the tale of a virtuous but unfortunate knight who has fallen from grace and must seek redemption through suffering and good deeds. Because of a curse that repeatedly deprives him...- $30.00
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Vendor: J. -K Huysmans
The Vatard Sisters
Les Soeurs Vatard, described by its author as a ""lewd but exact"" slice of life, was J.-K. Huysmans' second novel. Huysmans abandoned poetry and turned to the novel at a time when the works of Emile Zola were intensely controversial; Les Soeurs Vatard is...- $20.00
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Vendor: Machado De Assis
The Hand and the Glove
The later novels of Machado de Assis-notably Dom Casmurro and Esau and Jacob-are well known in this country, but the earlier novels have never been translated. Here, in The Hand and the Glove (the Brazilian master's second novel), rendered in English for the first...- $45.00
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Vendor: Truman Capote
The Early Stories of Truman Capote
The early fiction of one of the nation's most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look...- $16.00
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Vendor: Horatio Alger
Ragged Dick: or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks
" Alger] was an utterly American artist . . . and the truth of his books is the truth of the power of the wish. . . . Alger was perhaps American capitalism's greatest and most effective propagandist."-Richard WrightIntroduction by David K. ShiplerWritten to...- $21.00
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Vendor: Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days
Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses the far reaches of the...- $16.00
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Vendor: Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars: A Barsoom Novel
Virginia gentleman John Carter, unexpectedly transported to the perilous red planet, Mars, finds himself captured by the loveless Green Men of Thark. As Carter struggles to win his freedom and the affections of fellow captive Dejah Thoris, princess of the rival clan of Helium...- $18.00
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Vendor: Honoré de Balzac
The Wrong Side of Paris
The Wrong Side of Paris, the final novel in Balzac's The Human Comedy, is the compelling story of Godefroid, an abject failure at thirty, who seeks refuge from materialism by moving into a monastery-like lodging house in the shadows of Notre-Dame. Presided over by...- $17.00
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Vendor: H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines
Touted by its 1885 publisher as "the most amazing story ever written," King Solomon's Mines was one of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth century. H. Rider Haggard's thrilling saga of elephant hunter Allan Quatermain and his search for fabled treasure is more than...- $21.00
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Vendor: Henry Fielding
Tom Jones
Tom, a foundling, is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household; when his sexual escapades and general misbehavior lead them to banish him, he sets out in search of both...- $16.00
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Vendor: Rudyard Kipling
The Wish House and Other Stories
Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet. The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling's finest works, including the stories "In the House of...- $23.00
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Vendor: Camilo José Cela
Mazurka for Two Dead Men
Mazurka for Two Dead Men, the culmination of Camilo José Cela's literary art, opens in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War: Lionheart Gamuzo is savagely murdered. In 1939, as the war ends, his brother avenges his death. For both deaths, the...- $18.95
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Vendor: Tennessee Williams
Moise and the World of Reason
An erotic, sensual, and comic novel that was a generation ahead of its time, Moise and the World of Reason has at its center the need of three people for each other: Lance, the beautiful black figure skater full of love and lust for...- $15.95
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Vendor: Maude Hutchins
A Diary of Love
In A Diary of Love, Maude Hutchins introduces us to Noel. Noel is an orphan being raised by a flute-playing grandfather, a spinster aunt, a benign family doctor, an incredible cook, an improbable governess, and the neighbors, who are gamey. Between a country estate...- $15.95
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Vendor: Stendhal
The Green Huntsman: Lucien Leuwen Book 1
Attractive, clever, a cavalry officer and very rich, young Leuwen had everything necessary for happiness and success--everything except belief in himself and the social order of his time. It is the period of King Louis-Philippe, when an induced conservatism was atrophying France after the...- $23.95
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Vendor: D. H. Lawrence
Quetzalcoatl: Novel
Now available for the first time as a paperbook, Quetzalcoatl is D.H. Lawrence's last unpublished manuscript and the early version of his great Mexican novel, The Plumed Serpent. Kate Burns is the widow of a failed Irish patriot, strong-minded and independent, who unlike the...- $21.95
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Vendor: Merchant-Prince Shattan
Manimekhalai: The Dancer with the Magic Bowl
Never before translated into English, the Manimekhalai is one of the great classics of Indian culture. A second-century Tamil verse epic, it is a sequel to the Shilappadikaram (New Directions, 1965), which was also masterfully translated into prose by the acclaimed musician and scholar...- $15.95
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Vendor: Madame De La Fayette
The Princess of Cleves
Perhaps one of the greatest works of French literature is Madame de Lafayette's The Princess of Cleves, often described as the first of all "modern" novels. This classic translation, with an introduction, by the late English novelist and biographer Nancy Mitford, was first brought...- $16.95
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Vendor: Isaac Babel
The Essential Fictions
The Essential Fictions offers contemporary readers seventy-two short stories by one of twentieth-century Russia's premier storytellers, Isaac Babel. This unique volume, which includes Babel's famous Red Cavalry series and his Odessa Stories, is translated, edited, introduced, and annotated by Val Vinokur, a 2008 Guggenheim...- $25.00
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Vendor: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (Зимние заметки о летних впечатлениях) is an early book-length essay by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky which he composed while traveling in western Europe. Many commentators believe that in the themes it explores, the essay anticipates his later work Notes...- $14.95
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Vendor: Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Fiction, Classics
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth...- $43.95
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Lady Susan by Jane Austen, Fiction, Classics
Although the theme, together with the focus on character study and moral issues, is close to Austen's published work (Sense and Sensibility was also originally written in the epistolary form), its outlook is very different, and the heroine has few parallels in 19th-century literature....- $33.95
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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.
The collection showcases a diverse array of literary masterpieces from different periods and cultures. It includes iconic works from renowned authors such as Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and many more. From the romantic intrigues of Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" to the thought-provoking symbolism of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," these books have become cornerstones of literary history.
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Regardless of literary preferences, Fiction Classics Books is an invaluable collection for any avid reader or lover of literature. It not only presents an opportunity to appreciate the works of esteemed authors but also provides a gateway into understanding the cultural and social contexts in which these books were written. Through Fiction Classics Books, readers can embark on literary journeys that span centuries and continents. Whether one seeks adventure, romance, tragedy, or simply a thought-provoking read, this collection has it all. These books have endured the test of time, captivating generation after generation, and continue to inspire readers to explore and appreciate the world of fiction.
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The fiction classics book collection offers a wide array of timeless and popular books that have captivated readers for generations. These books have stood the test of time, enchanting readers with their compelling narratives, vivid characters, and thought-provoking themes. From celebrated authors to renowned literary treasures, here are some of the popular books you can find within the fiction classics collection:
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"
These are just a few examples of the popular books you can find within the fiction classics book collection. Each one offers a unique perspective on the human experience and continues to captivate readers with their enduring relevance and literary brilliance. Whether you are a dedicated fan of classic literature or new to this genre, these books will undoubtedly leave a lasting impression.
Popular Fiction Classics Authors
The world of literature is enriched with countless authors who have gifted us with timeless stories and unforgettable characters. Within the realm of fiction classics, there are several authors whose contributions to literature have left an indelible mark. Here, we explore some of the most popular authors of the book collections 'fiction classics books'.
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
These authors have made invaluable contributions to literature by crafting stories that have stood the test of time. Their keen observations of society, complex characterizations, and exploration of universal themes continue to resonate with readers around the globe, making their books a cherished part of any fiction classics collection.
The fiction classics collection at White Rain Book House encapsulates the timeless tales that have shaped literature and captivated readers for generations. From the enchanting worlds of Jane Austen to the thrilling adventures of Jules Verne, this collection offers a treasure trove of literary gems that will transport readers to different eras and immerse them in unforgettable narratives.