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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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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 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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eBook.
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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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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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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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Jo's Boys
Written by Louisa May Alcott
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1995
Price: $4.95
Best known for the novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, surprising, and bittersweet conclusion in Jo’s Boys. Beginning ten years after Little Men, Jo’s Boys revisits Plumfield, the... Read more >
Written by Louisa May Alcott
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1995
Price: $4.95
Best known for the novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, surprising, and bittersweet conclusion in Jo’s Boys. Beginning ten years after Little Men, Jo’s Boys revisits Plumfield, the... Read more >
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction
Written by Henry James
Format: Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1981
Price: $4.95
To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelles, which represent the author... Read more >
Written by Henry James
Format: Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1981
Price: $4.95
To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelles, which represent the author... Read more >
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eBook.
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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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Purgatorio
Written by Dante
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1983
Price: $6.95
This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion... Read more >
Written by Dante
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1983
Price: $6.95
This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion... Read more >
