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The Bhagavad-Gita
Written by Barbara Miller
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $5.99
The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the... Read more >
Written by Barbara Miller
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $5.99
The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the... Read more >
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
Collected Nonfiction
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Hardcover, 1160 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $35.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties... Read more >
Collected Nonfiction
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Hardcover, 1160 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $35.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties... Read more >
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Leaves of Grass
Written by Walt Whitman
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1983
Price: $5.95
One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the wonderful gift... Read more >
Written by Walt Whitman
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1983
Price: $5.95
One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the wonderful gift... Read more >
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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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Of Human Bondage
Written by W. Somerset Maugham
Format: Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1991
Price: $5.95
The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor where he... Read more >
Written by W. Somerset Maugham
Format: Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1991
Price: $5.95
The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor where he... Read more >
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Coming of Age in Mississippi
Written by Anne Moody
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $16.00
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till’s lynching. Before then, she had "known... Read more >
Written by Anne Moody
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $16.00
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till’s lynching. Before then, she had "known... Read more >
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Written by Mark Twain
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur’s Age of Chivalry the “great and beneficent” miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the... Read more >
Written by Mark Twain
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur’s Age of Chivalry the “great and beneficent” miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1990
Price: $7.99
A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America’s greatest philosophers and poets.
The writings featured here show Emerson as a protester against social conformity, a lover of nature, an activist for the rights... Read more >
Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1990
Price: $7.99
A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America’s greatest philosophers and poets.
The writings featured here show Emerson as a protester against social conformity, a lover of nature, an activist for the rights... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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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Jane Eyre
Written by Charlotte Bronte
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
Charlotte Brontë’s impassioned novel is the love story of Jane Eyre, a plain yet spirited governess, and her employer, the arrogant, brooding Mr. Rochester. Published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell, the book heralded a new kind of heroine—one whose virtuous integrity, keen intellect, and tireless perseverance broke through class... Read more >
Written by Charlotte Bronte
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
Charlotte Brontë’s impassioned novel is the love story of Jane Eyre, a plain yet spirited governess, and her employer, the arrogant, brooding Mr. Rochester. Published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell, the book heralded a new kind of heroine—one whose virtuous integrity, keen intellect, and tireless perseverance broke through class... Read more >
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