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Inferno
Written by Dante
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1982
Price: $6.95
In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age. Read more >
Written by Dante
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1982
Price: $6.95
In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age. Read more >
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The Koran
Translated by John Medows Rodwell
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $6.99
The Qur'an, a masterpiece of immense religious and literary value, is presented in a convenient, affordable edition for a new generation of readers. The earliest known work in Arabic prose, the Qur'an is divided into 114 "suras", or chapters, containing the religious, social, civil, commercial, military, and legal codes of Islam... Read more >
Translated by John Medows Rodwell
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $6.99
The Qur'an, a masterpiece of immense religious and literary value, is presented in a convenient, affordable edition for a new generation of readers. The earliest known work in Arabic prose, the Qur'an is divided into 114 "suras", or chapters, containing the religious, social, civil, commercial, military, and legal codes of Islam... Read more >
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The Secret Garden
Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1987
Price: $3.95
Few children's classics can match the charm and originality of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, the unforgettable story of sullen, sulky Mary Lennox, "the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen." When a cholera epidemic leaves her as an orphan, Mary is sent to England to live with her reclusive uncle, Archibald... Read more >
Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1987
Price: $3.95
Few children's classics can match the charm and originality of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, the unforgettable story of sullen, sulky Mary Lennox, "the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen." When a cholera epidemic leaves her as an orphan, Mary is sent to England to live with her reclusive uncle, Archibald... Read more >
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The Red Badge of Courage
Written by Stephen Crane
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1981
Price: $3.95
First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this powerful psychological study of a young soldier's struggle with the horrors, both within and without, that war strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and with its masterful descriptions of... Read more >
Written by Stephen Crane
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1981
Price: $3.95
First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this powerful psychological study of a young soldier's struggle with the horrors, both within and without, that war strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and with its masterful descriptions of... Read more >
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The Origin of Species
By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Written by Charles Darwin
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1999
Price: $6.95
The publication of Darwin’s The Origin of Species in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought. The volume had taken Darwin more than twenty years to publish, in part because he envisioned the storm of controversy it was certain to unleash. Indeed, selling out its first edition on its... Read more >
By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Written by Charles Darwin
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1999
Price: $6.95
The publication of Darwin’s The Origin of Species in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought. The volume had taken Darwin more than twenty years to publish, in part because he envisioned the storm of controversy it was certain to unleash. Indeed, selling out its first edition on its... Read more >
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Format: Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1981
Price: $6.95
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces... Read more >
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Format: Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1981
Price: $6.95
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces... Read more >
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Written by George Orwell
Format: Hardcover, 376 pages
On Sale: November 3, 1992
Price: $21.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Nineteen Eighty-Four revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century’s greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and... Read more >
Written by George Orwell
Format: Hardcover, 376 pages
On Sale: November 3, 1992
Price: $21.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Nineteen Eighty-Four revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century’s greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and... Read more >
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The Gift
Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Written by Lewis Hyde
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $16.00
By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An... Read more >
Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Written by Lewis Hyde
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $16.00
By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An... Read more >
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Frankenstein
Written by Mary Shelley
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." A summer evening's ghost stories... Read more >
Written by Mary Shelley
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." A summer evening's ghost stories... Read more >
Also available as an
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eBook,
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eBook,
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trade paperback,
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The Story of My Life
Written by Helen Keller
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1990
Price: $4.95
An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Life is Helen Keller’s account of her triumph over deafness and blindness. Popularized by the stage play and movie The Miracle Worker, Keller’s story has become a symbol of hope for people all over the world.
This book–published when Keller... Read more >
Written by Helen Keller
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1990
Price: $4.95
An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Life is Helen Keller’s account of her triumph over deafness and blindness. Popularized by the stage play and movie The Miracle Worker, Keller’s story has become a symbol of hope for people all over the world.
This book–published when Keller... Read more >
