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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 Communist Manifesto
Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Introduction by Vladimir Pozner
Format: Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1992
Price: $5.95
"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich Engels's clear... Read more >
Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Introduction by Vladimir Pozner
Format: Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1992
Price: $5.95
"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich Engels's clear... Read more >
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Captains Courageous
Written by Rudyard Kipling
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1985
Price: $3.95
The only one of Kipling's novels to be cast in an American setting, Captains Courageous endures as one of literature's most cherished and memorable sea adventures. Harvey Cheyne, spoiled millionaire's son, tumbles overboard from a luxury liner--only to be rescued by the crew of a Gloucester schooner. Thus begins the boy's... Read more >
Written by Rudyard Kipling
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1985
Price: $3.95
The only one of Kipling's novels to be cast in an American setting, Captains Courageous endures as one of literature's most cherished and memorable sea adventures. Harvey Cheyne, spoiled millionaire's son, tumbles overboard from a luxury liner--only to be rescued by the crew of a Gloucester schooner. Thus begins the boy's... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Romeo and Juliet
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
The magnificent, timeless drama is the world's most famous tale of "star-crossed lovers." The young, unshakable love of Juliet and Romeo defies the feud that divides their families—the Capulets and Montagues—as their desperate need to be together, their secret meetings, and finally their concealed marriage drive them toward tragedy. A masterwork... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
The magnificent, timeless drama is the world's most famous tale of "star-crossed lovers." The young, unshakable love of Juliet and Romeo defies the feud that divides their families—the Capulets and Montagues—as their desperate need to be together, their secret meetings, and finally their concealed marriage drive them toward tragedy. A masterwork... Read more >
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1984
Price: $5.99
From the icy blast of reveille through the sweet release of sleep, Ivan Denisovich endures. A common carpenter, he is one of millions viciously imprisoned for countless years on baseless charges, sentenced to the waking nightmares of the Soviet work camps in Siberia. Even in the face of degrading hatred, where life is... Read more >
Written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1984
Price: $5.99
From the icy blast of reveille through the sweet release of sleep, Ivan Denisovich endures. A common carpenter, he is one of millions viciously imprisoned for countless years on baseless charges, sentenced to the waking nightmares of the Soviet work camps in Siberia. Even in the face of degrading hatred, where life is... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Villette
Written by Charlotte Bronte
Format: Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1986
Price: $5.95
With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in... Read more >
Written by Charlotte Bronte
Format: Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1986
Price: $5.95
With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in... Read more >
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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 >
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 >
Also available as an
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trade paperback.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Written by D.H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1983
Price: $5.99
Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence's last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her growing love for the robust gamekeeper of her husband's estate. The most... Read more >
Written by D.H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1983
Price: $5.99
Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence's last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her growing love for the robust gamekeeper of her husband's estate. The most... Read more >
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1992
Price: $4.95
It is 1792 and France is in the grip of a seething, bloody revolution. Mobs roam the Paris streets hunting down royalists, barricades block any chance of escape, and every day hundreds die under the blade of Madame la Guillotine. But in the hearts of the condemned nobility there remains one... Read more >
Written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1992
Price: $4.95
It is 1792 and France is in the grip of a seething, bloody revolution. Mobs roam the Paris streets hunting down royalists, barricades block any chance of escape, and every day hundreds die under the blade of Madame la Guillotine. But in the hearts of the condemned nobility there remains one... Read more >
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The Prince and the Pauper
Written by Mark Twain
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1983
Price: $3.95
Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, The Prince and the Pauper is a delightful satire of England’s romantic past and a joyful boyhood romp filled with the same tongue-in-cheek irony that sparks the best of Mark Twain’s tall tales. Two boys, one an urchin from London’s filthy lanes, the other a... Read more >
Written by Mark Twain
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1983
Price: $3.95
Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, The Prince and the Pauper is a delightful satire of England’s romantic past and a joyful boyhood romp filled with the same tongue-in-cheek irony that sparks the best of Mark Twain’s tall tales. Two boys, one an urchin from London’s filthy lanes, the other a... Read more >
