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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...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.95
A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty . . ...
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Rendezvous in Black
Written by Cornell Woolrich
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2004
Price: $14.00
On a mild midwestern night in the early 1940s, Johnny Marr leans against a drugstore wall. He’s waiting for Dorothy, his fiancée, and tonight is the last night they’ll be meeting here, for it’s May 31st, and June 1st marks their wedding day. But she’s late, and Johnny soon learns of...
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Pygmalion and Major Barbara
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1992
Price: $5.95
George Bernard Shaw was the greatest British dramatist after Shakespeare, a satirist equal to Jonathan Swift, and a playwright whose most profound gift was his ability to make audiences think by provoking them to laughter.
In one of his best-loved plays,
Pygmalion, which later became the basis for the musical
My Fair...
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The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
Written by Elizabeth Bowen
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $25.00
Widely known for her much-admired novels, including
The Heat of the Day,
The House in Paris, and
The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century's writers equally through her short fiction.
This collection brings together seventy-nine magnificent stories written over the course of four...
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Charlotte Temple
Written by Susanna Rowson
Introduction by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $15.00
With an Introduction by Jane Smiley
First published in America in 1794,
Charlotte Temple took the country by storm—in fact, it was this nation’s first bona fide “bestseller.” Susanna Rowson’s most famous work is the story of an innocent British schoolgirl who takes the advice of her depraved French teacher— with tragic...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
Magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood provide the materials for one of Shakespeare’s most delightful comedies. When four young lovers, fleeing the Athenian law and their own mismatched rivalries, take to the forest of Athens, their lives become entangled with a feud between the King and Queen of the Fairies...
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Peter Pan
Written by J.M. Barrie
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1985
Price: $4.95
Considered a masterpiece since its first appearance on stage in 1904,
Peter Pan is J. M. Barrie’s most famous work and arguably the greatest of all children’s stories. While it is a wonderful fantasy for the young,
Peter Pan, particularly in the novel form Barrie published in 1911, says something important...
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The Souls of Black Folk
Written by W.E.B. Du Bois
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1989
Price: $5.95
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in
The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one...
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