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Crime and Punishment
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Constance Garnett
Format: Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1996
Price: $6.99
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Constance Garnett
Format: Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1996
Price: $6.99
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately... Read more >
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The Origin of Species
By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Written by Charles Darwin
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1999
Price: $6.95
The publication of Darwin’s The Origin of Species in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought. The volume had taken Darwin more than twenty years to publish, in part because he envisioned the storm of controversy it was certain to unleash. Indeed, selling out its first edition on its... Read more >
By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Written by Charles Darwin
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1999
Price: $6.95
The publication of Darwin’s The Origin of Species in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought. The volume had taken Darwin more than twenty years to publish, in part because he envisioned the storm of controversy it was certain to unleash. Indeed, selling out its first edition on its... Read more >
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The Bhagavad-Gita
Written by Barbara Miller
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1986
Price: $6.95
The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the... Read more >
Written by Barbara Miller
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1986
Price: $6.95
The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the... Read more >
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Maggie
A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction
Written by Stephen Crane
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1986
Price: $5.99
Not yet famous for his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane was unable to find a publisher for his brilliant Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, finally printing it himself in 1893.
Condemned and misunderstood during Crane’s lifetime, this starkly realistic story of a pretty child of the... Read more >
A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction
Written by Stephen Crane
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1986
Price: $5.99
Not yet famous for his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane was unable to find a publisher for his brilliant Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, finally printing it himself in 1893.
Condemned and misunderstood during Crane’s lifetime, this starkly realistic story of a pretty child of the... Read more >
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction
Written by Henry James
Format: Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1981
Price: $4.95
To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelles, which represent the author... Read more >
Written by Henry James
Format: Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1981
Price: $4.95
To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelles, which represent the author... Read more >
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Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories
Written by Herman Melville
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social... Read more >
Written by Herman Melville
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social... Read more >
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Little Women
Written by Louisa May Alcott
Format: Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1983
Price: $3.95
Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have... Read more >
Written by Louisa May Alcott
Format: Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1983
Price: $3.95
Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have... Read more >
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The Story of My Life
Written by Helen Keller
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1990
Price: $4.95
An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Life is Helen Keller’s account of her triumph over deafness and blindness. Popularized by the stage play and movie The Miracle Worker, Keller’s story has become a symbol of hope for people all over the world.
This book–published when Keller... Read more >
Written by Helen Keller
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1990
Price: $4.95
An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Life is Helen Keller’s account of her triumph over deafness and blindness. Popularized by the stage play and movie The Miracle Worker, Keller’s story has become a symbol of hope for people all over the world.
This book–published when Keller... Read more >
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The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States
Introduction by Pauline Maier
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1998
Price: $3.99
The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution was the fulfillment of that promise.
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a unanimous declaration: the thirteen North American colonies would be the thirteen United States of America, free and independent of Great Britain. Drafted by... Read more >
Introduction by Pauline Maier
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1998
Price: $3.99
The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution was the fulfillment of that promise.
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a unanimous declaration: the thirteen North American colonies would be the thirteen United States of America, free and independent of Great Britain. Drafted by... Read more >
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The Story of My Life
The Restored Edition
Written by Helen Keller
Edited by James Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
THE 100th YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION
The Story of My Life, a remarkable account of overcoming the debilitating challenges of being both deaf and blind, has become an international classic, making Helen Keller one of the most well-known, inspirational figures in history. Originally published in 1903, Keller’s fascinating memoir narrates the events of... Read more >
The Restored Edition
Written by Helen Keller
Edited by James Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
THE 100th YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION
The Story of My Life, a remarkable account of overcoming the debilitating challenges of being both deaf and blind, has become an international classic, making Helen Keller one of the most well-known, inspirational figures in history. Originally published in 1903, Keller’s fascinating memoir narrates the events of... Read more >
