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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 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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eBook.
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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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Crime and Punishment
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Constance Garnett
Format: Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1996
Price: $6.99
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Constance Garnett
Format: Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1996
Price: $6.99
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately... Read more >
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The Tell-Tale Heart
Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1983
Price: $5.95
Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "William... Read more >
Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1983
Price: $5.95
Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "William... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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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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Purgatorio
Written by Dante
Translated by Jean Hollander and Robert Hollander
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $21.00
Now I shall sing the second kingdom,
there where the soul of man is cleansed,
made worthy to ascend to heaven.
In the second book of Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at... Read more >
Written by Dante
Translated by Jean Hollander and Robert Hollander
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $21.00
Now I shall sing the second kingdom,
there where the soul of man is cleansed,
made worthy to ascend to heaven.
In the second book of Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at... Read more >
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Paradiso
Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander
Format: Trade Paperback, 1024 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $19.95
With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar... Read more >
Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander
Format: Trade Paperback, 1024 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $19.95
With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
