Things Fall Apart
A Novel
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1994
Price: $11.95
Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is...
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The House on Mango Street
Written by Sandra Cisneros
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: April 3, 1991
Price: $11.00
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world,
The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous –...
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The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States
Introduction by Pauline Maier
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1998
Price: $3.99
The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution was the fulfillment of that promise.
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a unanimous declaration: the thirteen North American colonies would be the thirteen United States of America, free and independent of Great Britain. Drafted by...
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When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Written by Harold S. Kushner
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2004
Price: $12.95
When Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy...
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War and Peace
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 1296 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $20.00
From the award-winning translators of
Anna Karenina and
The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.
War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Format: Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1984
Price: $6.95
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d'If -- doomed to spend his life in a...
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The Metamorphosis
Written by Franz Kafka
Translated by Stanley Corngold
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1972
Price: $5.95
"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece,
The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his...
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Format: Paperback, 1088 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1986
Price: $6.95
Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Novels and Stories
Volume I
Since his first appearance in
Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
Written by Oscar Wilde
Format: Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel,
The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work...
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The Razor's Edge
Written by W. Somerset Maugham
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.95
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancée Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. Maugham himself wanders...
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