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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From the Earth to the Moon
Written by Jules Verne
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1993
Price: $5.95
Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen.
When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close...
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The Invisible Man
Written by H.G. Wells
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
Spine-tingling and entertaining,
The Invisible Man is a science fiction classic–and a penetrating, unflinching look into the heart of human nature. To its author, H. G. Wells, the novel was as compelling as “a good gripping dream.” But to generations of readers, the terrible and evil experiment of the demented scientist...
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Ragtime
Written by E.L. Doctorow
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: November 25, 1997
Price: $22.00
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.
The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home
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Winesburg, Ohio
Written by Sherwood Anderson
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1995
Price: $5.95
Published in 1919,
Winesburg, Ohio is Sherwood Anderson’s masterpiece, a work in which he achieved the goal to which he believed all true writers should aspire: to see and feel “all of life within.” In a perfectly imagined world, an archetypal small American town, he reveals the hidden passions that turn...
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Under the Glacier
Written by Halldor Laxness
Translated by Magnus Magnusson
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $15.00
Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s
Under the Glacier is a
one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Sn?fells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying...
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Peter Pan
Written by J.M. Barrie
Illustrated by F.D. Bedford
Introduction by Anne McCaffrey
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $8.95
Peter, Wendy, Captain Hook, the lost boys, and Tinker Bell have filled the hearts of children ever since Barrie's play first opened in London in 1904 and became an immediate sensation. Now this funny, haunting modern myth is presented with Bedford's wonderful illustrations, which first appeared in the author's own day...
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Written by Jules Verne
Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1991
Price: $3.95
Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen.
When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close...
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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...
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