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Coming of Age in Mississippi
Written by Anne Moody
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $16.00
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till’s lynching. Before then, she had "known... Read more >
Written by Anne Moody
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $16.00
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till’s lynching. Before then, she had "known... Read more >
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Paradise
Written by Dante
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
Translated by Anthony Esolen
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.00
“If there is any justice in the world of books, [Esolen’s] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come.”–Robert Royal, Crisis
In this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved... Read more >
Written by Dante
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
Translated by Anthony Esolen
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.00
“If there is any justice in the world of books, [Esolen’s] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come.”–Robert Royal, Crisis
In this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved... Read more >
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The Mysterious Island
Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Caleb Carr
Format: Paperback, 768 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $6.95
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here... Read more >
Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Caleb Carr
Format: Paperback, 768 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $6.95
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here... Read more >
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Purgatory
Written by Dante
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
Translated by Anthony Esolen
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
Written by Dante
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
Translated by Anthony Esolen
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
A new translation by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré
Written in the fourteenth century by Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy is arguably the greatest epic poem of all time—presenting Dante’s brilliant vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. In this...
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The Black Book
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $15.95
A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely
Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the... Read more >
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $15.95
A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely
Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the... Read more >
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Emma
Written by Jane Austen
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
Emma, first published in 1816, was written when Jane Austen was at the height of her powers. In a novel remarkable for its sparkling wit and modernity, Austen presents readers with two of literature’s greatest comic creations—the eccentric Mr. Woodhouse and that quintessential bore, Miss Bates. Here, too, we have what... Read more >
Written by Jane Austen
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
Emma, first published in 1816, was written when Jane Austen was at the height of her powers. In a novel remarkable for its sparkling wit and modernity, Austen presents readers with two of literature’s greatest comic creations—the eccentric Mr. Woodhouse and that quintessential bore, Miss Bates. Here, too, we have what... Read more >
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Babbitt
Written by Sinclair Lewis
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $5.95
When Babbitt was first published in 1922, fans gleefully hailed its scathing portrait of a crass, materialistic nation; critics denounced it as an unfair skewering of the American businessman. Sparking heated literary debate, Babbitt became a controversial classic, securing Sinclair Lewis’s place as one of America’s preeminent social commentators.
Businessman George F... Read more >
Written by Sinclair Lewis
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $5.95
When Babbitt was first published in 1922, fans gleefully hailed its scathing portrait of a crass, materialistic nation; critics denounced it as an unfair skewering of the American businessman. Sparking heated literary debate, Babbitt became a controversial classic, securing Sinclair Lewis’s place as one of America’s preeminent social commentators.
Businessman George F... Read more >
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Written by Jorge Amado
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $15.95
It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes–a gambler notorious for never winning—dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho... Read more >
Written by Jorge Amado
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $15.95
It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes–a gambler notorious for never winning—dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho... Read more >
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The Belly of Paris
Written by Emile Zola
Translated by Mark Kurlansky
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $16.00
Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and... Read more >
Written by Emile Zola
Translated by Mark Kurlansky
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $16.00
Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and... Read more >
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A Hero of Our Time
Written by Mikhail Lermontov
Translated by Marian Schwartz
Introduction by Gary Shteyngart
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
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Written by Mikhail Lermontov
Translated by Marian Schwartz
Introduction by Gary Shteyngart
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
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