Break, Blow, Burn
Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems
Written by Camille Paglia
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2006
Price: $14.95
America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis and appreciation to bear on the great poems of the Western tradition, and on some unexpected discoveries of her own. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia refreshes our understanding of poems we thought we knew, from...
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The Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Format: Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1982
Price: $5.99
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s
The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval...
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The Brothers Karamazov
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Format: Paperback, 1072 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $7.99
In 1880 Dostoevsky completed
The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and...
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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...
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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...
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The Handmaid's Tale
Written by Margaret Atwood
Format: Hardcover, 392 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $25.00
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A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s
The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander...
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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...
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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...
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Wuthering Heights
Written by Emily Bronte
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I
am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being."
Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte, who died a...
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them
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Elaine Showalter
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $16.00
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. As powerful and relevant today as it on its initial publication,
them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge of ruin in the Detroit slums...
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