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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 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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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 Light in the Forest
Written by Conrad Richter
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $6.95
When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the... Read more >
Written by Conrad Richter
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $6.95
When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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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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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Written by Lewis Carroll
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $3.95
In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice books–with... Read more >
Written by Lewis Carroll
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $3.95
In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice books–with... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Pygmalion and Major Barbara
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1992
Price: $5.95
George Bernard Shaw was the greatest British dramatist after Shakespeare, a satirist equal to Jonathan Swift, and a playwright whose most profound gift was his ability to make audiences think by provoking them to laughter.
In one of his best-loved plays, Pygmalion, which later became the basis for the musical My Fair... Read more >
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1992
Price: $5.95
George Bernard Shaw was the greatest British dramatist after Shakespeare, a satirist equal to Jonathan Swift, and a playwright whose most profound gift was his ability to make audiences think by provoking them to laughter.
In one of his best-loved plays, Pygmalion, which later became the basis for the musical My Fair... Read more >
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eBook.
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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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Anna Karenina
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Format: Paperback, 1008 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1984
Price: $6.95
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious... Read more >
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Format: Paperback, 1008 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1984
Price: $6.95
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious... 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 >
