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Sherlock Holmes
Children's Classics
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 5, 1996
Price: $18.00
A collection of the stories in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the most famous amateur detective of all time. Includes such favorites as “The Red-Headed League,” “The Speckled Band,” and “The Adventure of the Dancing Men.” Read more >
Children's Classics
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 5, 1996
Price: $18.00
A collection of the stories in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the most famous amateur detective of all time. Includes such favorites as “The Red-Headed League,” “The Speckled Band,” and “The Adventure of the Dancing Men.” Read more >
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Women in Love
Written by D.H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1996
Price: $5.95
Perhaps no other of the world’s great writers lived and wrote with the passionate intensity of D. H. Lawrence. And perhaps no other of his books so explores the mysteries between men and women–both sensual and intellectual–as Women in Love. Written in the years before and during World War I in... Read more >
Written by D.H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1996
Price: $5.95
Perhaps no other of the world’s great writers lived and wrote with the passionate intensity of D. H. Lawrence. And perhaps no other of his books so explores the mysteries between men and women–both sensual and intellectual–as Women in Love. Written in the years before and during World War I in... Read more >
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The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edited by Bryant Mangum
Foreword by Roxana Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $9.95
Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant Mangum
Foreword by Roxana Robinson
Benediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • Absolution
In the euphoric months... Read more >
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edited by Bryant Mangum
Foreword by Roxana Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $9.95
Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant Mangum
Foreword by Roxana Robinson
Benediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • Absolution
In the euphoric months... Read more >
Also available as an
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A Tale of Two Cities
Written by Charles Dickens
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: February 23, 1993
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)A Tale of Two Cities begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and drama, and it ends in the Paris of the French Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Charles Dickens’s most... Read more >
Written by Charles Dickens
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: February 23, 1993
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)A Tale of Two Cities begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and drama, and it ends in the Paris of the French Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Charles Dickens’s most... Read more >
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Written by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Introduction by Wallace Stegner
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $6.95
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally... Read more >
Written by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Introduction by Wallace Stegner
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $6.95
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally... Read more >
Also available as an
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Written by Jorge Amado
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $16.00
Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonça discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot...
No one imagines that a bedraggled... Read more >
Written by Jorge Amado
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $16.00
Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonça discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot...
No one imagines that a bedraggled... Read more >
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Poems of the Sea
Edited by J. D. McClatchy
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2001
Price: $13.50
Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind’s nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea–pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis–have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of... Read more >
Edited by J. D. McClatchy
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2001
Price: $13.50
Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind’s nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea–pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis–have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of... Read more >
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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 >
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 >
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Expensive People
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Elaine Showalter
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $13.95
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America’s affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by... Read more >
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Elaine Showalter
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $13.95
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America’s affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by... Read more >
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News of a Kidnapping
Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Edith Grossman
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $15.95
In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Medellín drug cartel – kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, García Márquez describes the survivors’ perilous ordeal and the bizarre drama of the negotiations for their release. He... Read more >
Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Edith Grossman
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $15.95
In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Medellín drug cartel – kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, García Márquez describes the survivors’ perilous ordeal and the bizarre drama of the negotiations for their release. He... Read more >
