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Candide
Written by Voltaire
Format: Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the... Read more >
Written by Voltaire
Format: Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the... 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 Koran
Translated by John Medows Rodwell
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $6.99
The Qur'an, a masterpiece of immense religious and literary value, is presented in a convenient, affordable edition for a new generation of readers. The earliest known work in Arabic prose, the Qur'an is divided into 114 "suras", or chapters, containing the religious, social, civil, commercial, military, and legal codes of Islam... Read more >
Translated by John Medows Rodwell
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $6.99
The Qur'an, a masterpiece of immense religious and literary value, is presented in a convenient, affordable edition for a new generation of readers. The earliest known work in Arabic prose, the Qur'an is divided into 114 "suras", or chapters, containing the religious, social, civil, commercial, military, and legal codes of Islam... Read more >
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Cyrano De Bergerac
Written by Edmond Rostand
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1950
Price: $4.95
This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII's reign, it is the moving and exciting drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, gallant soldier, brilliant wit, tragic poet-lover with the... Read more >
Written by Edmond Rostand
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1950
Price: $4.95
This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII's reign, it is the moving and exciting drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, gallant soldier, brilliant wit, tragic poet-lover with the... Read more >
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Selected Poems
Written by W. H. Auden
Edited by Edward Mendelson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $16.00
This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden’s work. Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other works that represent... Read more >
Written by W. H. Auden
Edited by Edward Mendelson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $16.00
This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden’s work. Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other works that represent... Read more >
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Kidnapped
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1982
Price: $3.95
Spirited, romantic, and full of danger, Kidnapped is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic of high adventure. Beloved by generations, it is the saga of David Balfour, a young heir whose greedy uncle connives to do him out of his inherited fortune and plots to have him seized and sold into slavery. But... Read more >
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1982
Price: $3.95
Spirited, romantic, and full of danger, Kidnapped is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic of high adventure. Beloved by generations, it is the saga of David Balfour, a young heir whose greedy uncle connives to do him out of his inherited fortune and plots to have him seized and sold into slavery. But... Read more >
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Silas Marner
Written by George Eliot
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1981
Price: $3.95
Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child... Read more >
Written by George Eliot
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1981
Price: $3.95
Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child... Read more >
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The Aeneid of Virgil
Written by Virgil
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1981
Price: $5.95
Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and... Read more >
Written by Virgil
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1981
Price: $5.95
Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and... 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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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 >
