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Moby-Dick
Written by Herman Melville
Format: Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1981
Price: $4.95
No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead... Read more >
Written by Herman Melville
Format: Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1981
Price: $4.95
No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead... Read more >
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The Collected Works
Written by Kahlil Gibran
Format: Hardcover, 888 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $29.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
For the first time, all the major works of this beloved writer are gathered together in one hardcover volume.
Poet, artist, and mystic, Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiece, The... Read more >
Written by Kahlil Gibran
Format: Hardcover, 888 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $29.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
For the first time, all the major works of this beloved writer are gathered together in one hardcover volume.
Poet, artist, and mystic, Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiece, The... Read more >
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The Sea Wolf
Written by Jack London
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
The Sea Wolf is Jack London’s powerful and gripping saga of Humphrey Van Weyden, captured by a seal-hunting ship and now an unwilling sailor under its dreaded captain, Wolf Larsen. The men who sailed with Larsen were treacherous outcasts, but the captain himself was the legendary Sea Wolf–a violent brute of... Read more >
Written by Jack London
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
The Sea Wolf is Jack London’s powerful and gripping saga of Humphrey Van Weyden, captured by a seal-hunting ship and now an unwilling sailor under its dreaded captain, Wolf Larsen. The men who sailed with Larsen were treacherous outcasts, but the captain himself was the legendary Sea Wolf–a violent brute of... 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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The Tell-Tale Heart
Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1983
Price: $5.95
Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "William... Read more >
Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1983
Price: $5.95
Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "William... Read more >
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Notes From Underground
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has... Read more >
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The Scarlet Letter
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction by Kathryn Harrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2000
Price: $6.95
Introduction by Kathryn Harrison
Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren
A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self... Read more >
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction by Kathryn Harrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2000
Price: $6.95
Introduction by Kathryn Harrison
Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren
A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self... Read more >
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We
Written by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Translated by Natasha Randall
Foreword by Bruce Sterling
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $14.00
Translated by Natasha Randall
Foreword by Bruce Sterling
Written in 1921, We is set in the One State, where all live for the collective good and individual freedom does not exist. The novel takes the form of the diary of mathematician D-503, who, to his shock, experiences the most disruptive... Read more >
Written by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Translated by Natasha Randall
Foreword by Bruce Sterling
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $14.00
Translated by Natasha Randall
Foreword by Bruce Sterling
Written in 1921, We is set in the One State, where all live for the collective good and individual freedom does not exist. The novel takes the form of the diary of mathematician D-503, who, to his shock, experiences the most disruptive... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Macbeth
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00
One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, filled with fierce, violent action, Macbeth is a human drama of ambition, desire, and guilt in a world of blood and darkness, with whispers of the supernatural.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00
One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, filled with fierce, violent action, Macbeth is a human drama of ambition, desire, and guilt in a world of blood and darkness, with whispers of the supernatural.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern... Read more >
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The Black Book
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $15.95
A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely
Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the... Read more >
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $15.95
A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely
Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the... Read more >
