The Metamorphosis
Written by Franz Kafka
Adapted by Peter Kuper
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2004
Price: $10.95
Acclaimed graphic artist Peter Kuper presents a brilliant, darkly comic reimagining of Kafka’s classic tale of family, alienation, and a giant bug. Kuper’s electric drawings—which merge American cartooning with German expressionism—bring Kafka’s prose to vivid life, reviving the original story’s humor and poignancy in a way that will surprise and delight...
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Written by Thomas Hardy
Introduction by Robert B. Heilman
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy’s immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty while...
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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...
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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...
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
Written by Ralph Ellison
Preface by Saul Bellow
Edited by John Callahan
Format: Trade Paperback, 904 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $18.00
Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections
Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions...
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The Deerslayer
Written by James Fenimore Cooper
Format: Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1991
Price: $5.95
The deadly crack of a long rifle and the piercing cries of Indians on the warpath shatter the serenity of beautiful Lake Glimmerglass. Danger has invaded the vast forests of upper New York State as Deerslayer and his loyal Mohican friend Chingachgook attempt the daring rescue of an Indian maiden imprisoned...
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Burns: Poems
Written by Robert Burns
Edited by Gerard Carruthers
Format: Hardcover, 255 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $13.50
The most essential of the immortal poems and songs of Scotland's beloved national bard are collected in this volume. With the publication of his first book of poems in 1786, Robert Burns—the twenty-seven-year-old son of a farmer—became a national celebrity, hailed as the "Ploughman Poet." When he died ten years later...
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The Jungle
Written by Upton Sinclair
Afterword by Anthony Arthur
Introduction by Jane Jacobs
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $11.00
In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of...
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O Pioneers!
Written by Willa Cather
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1989
Price: $4.95
One of America’s greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel—the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America’s Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land...
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