Little Women
Written by Louisa May Alcott
Format: Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1983
Price: $3.95
Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have...
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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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Inferno
Written by Dante
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum
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.
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The Light in the Forest
Written by Conrad Richter
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $7.50
When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Written by Lewis Carroll
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $3.95
In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the
Alice books–with...
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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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The Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Format: Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1982
Price: $5.99
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s
The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval...
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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...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Written by Mark Twain
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1995
Price: $5.50
Sparkling with mischief, jumping with youthful adventure, Mark Twain's
Tom Sawyer is one of the most splendid re-creations of childhood in all of literature. It is a lighthearted romp, full of humor and warmth. It shares with its sequel,
Huckleberry Finn, not only a set of unforgettable characters--Tom, Huck, Aunt Polly...
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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...
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