Walden

Written by Henry David Thoreau

Format: Hardcover, 328 pages
On Sale: January 11, 1993
Price: $21.00

 

By virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one of the signposts by which the modern mind has located itself in an increasingly bewildering world. Deeply sane...

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The Eternal Husband and Other Stories

Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $5.99

The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky’s genius. The... Read more >

The Tempest

Written by William Shakespeare

Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99

This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeare's career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, living on an enchanted island, has the opportunity to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore—as well as to... Read more >

Paradiso

Written by Dante

Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1986
Price: $6.95

This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth... Read more >

The Adolescent

Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $16.95

The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to... Read more >

Beowulf and Other Old English Poems

Written by Constance Hieatt

Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1988
Price: $4.95

Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of... Read more >

Much Ado About Nothing

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan

Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99

Set in a courtly world of masked revels and dances, this play turns on the archetypal story of a lady falsely accused of unfaithfulness, spurned by her bridegroom, and finally vindicated and reunited with him. Villainy, schemes, and deceits threaten to darken the brilliant humor and sparkling wordplay–but the hilarious counterplot... Read more >

Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher

Written by R. K. Narayan

Format: Hardcover, 648 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2006
Price: $27.00

 

R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism.

 

Swami and...

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Anne of Green Gables

Written by L.M. Montgomery
Introduction by Jack Zipes

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $9.00

“Matthew had taken the scrawny little hand awkwardly in his; then and there he decided what to do. He could not tell this child with the glowing eyes that there had been a mistake. . . .”

When eleven-year-old Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables with nothing but a carpetbag and an... Read more >

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Written by H.G. Wells

Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1994
Price: $4.95

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown... Read more >