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Greek Drama
Written by Moses Hadas
Format: Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1983
Price: $5.95
In power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece remains unsurpassed. For this volume, Professor Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of tragedy, and the critical and satiric genius of comedy, in outstanding translations of the past and present. His introduction... Read more >
Written by Moses Hadas
Format: Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1983
Price: $5.95
In power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece remains unsurpassed. For this volume, Professor Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of tragedy, and the critical and satiric genius of comedy, in outstanding translations of the past and present. His introduction... Read more >
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King Lear
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00
King Lear is Shakespeare’s bleakest and profoundest tragedy, a searing dramatization of humankind at the edge of apocalypse that explores the family and the nature of being with passion, poetry, and dark humor.
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, 272 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00
King Lear is Shakespeare’s bleakest and profoundest tragedy, a searing dramatization of humankind at the edge of apocalypse that explores the family and the nature of being with passion, poetry, and dark humor.
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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Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
Written by Edith Wharton
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1987
Price: $5.95
On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wife’s orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives and he is tempted to... Read more >
Written by Edith Wharton
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1987
Price: $5.95
On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wife’s orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives and he is tempted to... 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 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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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 >
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Written by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Introduction by Wallace Stegner
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $6.95
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally... Read more >
Written by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Introduction by Wallace Stegner
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $6.95
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally... 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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Faust
Written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1988
Price: $5.95
Goethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him... Read more >
Written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1988
Price: $5.95
Goethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him... Read more >
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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Written by Giorgio Vasari
Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere
Introduction by Philip Jacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $14.95
A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits with a decidedly modern... Read more >
Written by Giorgio Vasari
Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere
Introduction by Philip Jacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $14.95
A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits with a decidedly modern... Read more >
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