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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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Oliver Twist
Written by Charles Dickens
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set against London's seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that... Read more >
Written by Charles Dickens
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set against London's seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that... 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 >
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Women in Love
Written by D.H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1996
Price: $5.95
Perhaps no other of the world’s great writers lived and wrote with the passionate intensity of D. H. Lawrence. And perhaps no other of his books so explores the mysteries between men and women–both sensual and intellectual–as Women in Love. Written in the years before and during World War I in... Read more >
Written by D.H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1996
Price: $5.95
Perhaps no other of the world’s great writers lived and wrote with the passionate intensity of D. H. Lawrence. And perhaps no other of his books so explores the mysteries between men and women–both sensual and intellectual–as Women in Love. Written in the years before and during World War I in... Read more >
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The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton
Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon
Format: Hardcover, 1408 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $55.00
John Milton is, next to William Shakespeare, the most influential English poet, a writer whose work spans an incredible breadth of forms and subject matter. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton celebrates this author’s genius in a thoughtfully assembled book that provides new modern-spelling versions of Milton’s texts... Read more >
Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon
Format: Hardcover, 1408 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $55.00
John Milton is, next to William Shakespeare, the most influential English poet, a writer whose work spans an incredible breadth of forms and subject matter. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton celebrates this author’s genius in a thoughtfully assembled book that provides new modern-spelling versions of Milton’s texts... Read more >
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Edith Wharton
Written by Hermione Lee
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $24.00
From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.
Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern... Read more >
Written by Hermione Lee
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $24.00
From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.
Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern... Read more >
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History of My Life
Written by Giacomo Casanova
Translated by Willard R. Trask
Format: Hardcover, 1512 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $37.50
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-98), is now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narrated, in his memoirs. But Casanova was not just an energetic lover. In his time he was a diplomat, businessman, trainee priest, traveler, prisoner, magician, confidence... Read more >
Written by Giacomo Casanova
Translated by Willard R. Trask
Format: Hardcover, 1512 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $37.50
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-98), is now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narrated, in his memoirs. But Casanova was not just an energetic lover. In his time he was a diplomat, businessman, trainee priest, traveler, prisoner, magician, confidence... Read more >
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The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $5.99
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky’s genius. The... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $5.99
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky’s genius. The... Read more >
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Carried Away
A Selection of Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $26.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.
Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn... Read more >
A Selection of Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $26.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.
Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn... Read more >
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Written by Mark Twain
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1995
Price: $5.50
Sparkling with mischief, jumping with youthful adventure, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer is one of the most splendid re-creations of childhood in all of literature. It is a lighthearted romp, full of humor and warmth. It shares with its sequel, Huckleberry Finn, not only a set of unforgettable characters--Tom, Huck, Aunt Polly... Read more >
Written by Mark Twain
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1995
Price: $5.50
Sparkling with mischief, jumping with youthful adventure, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer is one of the most splendid re-creations of childhood in all of literature. It is a lighthearted romp, full of humor and warmth. It shares with its sequel, Huckleberry Finn, not only a set of unforgettable characters--Tom, Huck, Aunt Polly... Read more >
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