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The Metamorphosis
Written by Franz Kafka
Adapted by Peter Kuper
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2004
Price: $10.95
Acclaimed graphic artist Peter Kuper presents a brilliant, darkly comic reimagining of Kafka’s classic tale of family, alienation, and a giant bug. Kuper’s electric drawings—which merge American cartooning with German expressionism—bring Kafka’s prose to vivid life, reviving the original story’s humor and poignancy in a way that will surprise and delight... Read more >
Written by Franz Kafka
Adapted by Peter Kuper
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2004
Price: $10.95
Acclaimed graphic artist Peter Kuper presents a brilliant, darkly comic reimagining of Kafka’s classic tale of family, alienation, and a giant bug. Kuper’s electric drawings—which merge American cartooning with German expressionism—bring Kafka’s prose to vivid life, reviving the original story’s humor and poignancy in a way that will surprise and delight... Read more >
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume II
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Format: Paperback, 768 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1986
Price: $6.95
Sherlock HolmesThe Complete Novels and StoriesVolume IISince his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic... Read more >
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Format: Paperback, 768 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1986
Price: $6.95
Sherlock HolmesThe Complete Novels and StoriesVolume IISince his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic... Read more >
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Little Women
Written by Louisa May Alcott
Format: Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1983
Price: $3.95
Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have... Read more >
Written by Louisa May Alcott
Format: Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1983
Price: $3.95
Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have... Read more >
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
Written by Mark Twain
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century... Read more >
Written by Mark Twain
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century... Read more >
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The Essential Writings of Machiavelli
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $17.95
FINALIST--2008 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
In The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Peter Constantine has assembled a comprehensive collection that shows the true depth and breadth of a great Renaissance thinker. Refreshingly accessible, these superb new translations are faithful to Machiavelli’s original, beautifully crafted writings.
The volume features essays that appear in English for the... Read more >
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $17.95
FINALIST--2008 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
In The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Peter Constantine has assembled a comprehensive collection that shows the true depth and breadth of a great Renaissance thinker. Refreshingly accessible, these superb new translations are faithful to Machiavelli’s original, beautifully crafted writings.
The volume features essays that appear in English for the... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... 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 Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edited by Bryant Mangum
Foreword by Roxana Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $9.95
Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant Mangum
Foreword by Roxana Robinson
Benediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • Absolution
In the euphoric months... Read more >
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edited by Bryant Mangum
Foreword by Roxana Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $9.95
Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant Mangum
Foreword by Roxana Robinson
Benediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • Absolution
In the euphoric months... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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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
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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