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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Written by Giorgio Vasari
Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere
Introduction by Philip Jacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $14.95
A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits with a decidedly modern... Read more >
Written by Giorgio Vasari
Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere
Introduction by Philip Jacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $14.95
A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits with a decidedly modern... Read more >
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The Importance of Being Earnest
And Other Plays
Written by Oscar Wilde
Introduction by Terrence McNally
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $10.95
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And Other Plays
Written by Oscar Wilde
Introduction by Terrence McNally
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $10.95
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The Knight of Maison-Rouge
A Novel of Marie Antoinette
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Translated by Julie Rose
Introduction by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.95
A major new translation of a forgotten classic
Paris, 1793, the onset of the Terror. Brave Republican Maurice rescues a mys-terious and beautiful woman from an angry mob and is unknowingly drawn into a secret Royalist plot—a plot revolving around the imprisoned Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, and her enigmatic and fearless... Read more >
A Novel of Marie Antoinette
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Translated by Julie Rose
Introduction by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.95
A major new translation of a forgotten classic
Paris, 1793, the onset of the Terror. Brave Republican Maurice rescues a mys-terious and beautiful woman from an angry mob and is unknowingly drawn into a secret Royalist plot—a plot revolving around the imprisoned Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, and her enigmatic and fearless... Read more >
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The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest
Written by Dashiell Hammett
Format: Hardcover, 696 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2000
Price: $26.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The three classic novels published here in one volume are rich with the crisp prose, subtle characters, and intricate plots that made Dashiell Hammett one of the most admired writers of the twentieth century.
A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled... Read more >
Written by Dashiell Hammett
Format: Hardcover, 696 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2000
Price: $26.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The three classic novels published here in one volume are rich with the crisp prose, subtle characters, and intricate plots that made Dashiell Hammett one of the most admired writers of the twentieth century.
A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled... Read more >
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Format: Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1981
Price: $6.95
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces... Read more >
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Format: Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1981
Price: $6.95
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces... Read more >
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King Lear
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00
King Lear is Shakespeare’s bleakest and profoundest tragedy, a searing dramatization of humankind at the edge of apocalypse that explores the family and the nature of being with passion, poetry, and dark humor.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00
King Lear is Shakespeare’s bleakest and profoundest tragedy, a searing dramatization of humankind at the edge of apocalypse that explores the family and the nature of being with passion, poetry, and dark humor.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern... Read more >
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The Woman in White
Written by Wilkie Collins
Format: Paperback, 800 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1985
Price: $5.95
“There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road—there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven—stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments.”
Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in white in what... Read more >
Written by Wilkie Collins
Format: Paperback, 800 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1985
Price: $5.95
“There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road—there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven—stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments.”
Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in white in what... Read more >
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A Garden of Earthly Delights
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Elaine Showalter
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2003
Price: $15.00
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard... Read more >
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Elaine Showalter
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2003
Price: $15.00
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard... Read more >
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The Song of Songs
The World's First Great Love Poem
Afterword by Robert Alter
Translated by Ariel Bloch and Chana Bloch
Foreword by Stephen Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
“Next to Genesis, no book in the Hebrew Bible has had a stronger influence on Western literature than the Song of Songs.”
–The New York Review of Books
One of the greatest love poems ever written, The Song of Songs celebrates the sexual awakening of a young woman and her lover and the... Read more >
The World's First Great Love Poem
Afterword by Robert Alter
Translated by Ariel Bloch and Chana Bloch
Foreword by Stephen Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
“Next to Genesis, no book in the Hebrew Bible has had a stronger influence on Western literature than the Song of Songs.”
–The New York Review of Books
One of the greatest love poems ever written, The Song of Songs celebrates the sexual awakening of a young woman and her lover and the... Read more >
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Othello
Written by William Shakespeare and David Scott Kastan
Edited by David Bevington
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
Though this great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor, its story of the doomed marriage of a Venetian senator’s daughter, Desdemona, to a Moorish general, Othello, is especially relevant to modern audiences. The differences in race and background create an initial tension that allows the... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare and David Scott Kastan
Edited by David Bevington
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
Though this great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor, its story of the doomed marriage of a Venetian senator’s daughter, Desdemona, to a Moorish general, Othello, is especially relevant to modern audiences. The differences in race and background create an initial tension that allows the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
