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Little Women
Little Women
Written by Louisa May Alcott
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553212754
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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 >
Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage
Written by W. Somerset Maugham
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553213928
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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 >
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The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers
Written by Charles Dickens
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553211238
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The Pickwick Papers

Written by Charles Dickens


Format: Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1983
Price: $6.99

The high-spirited work of a young Dickens, The Pickwick Papers is the remarkable first novel that made its author famous and that has remained one of the best-known books in the world. In it the inimitable Samuel Pickwick, his well-fed body and unsinkable good spirits clad in tights and gaiters, sallies... Read more >
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The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edited by Bryant Mangum, Foreword by Roxana Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812974775
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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 >
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The Ox-Bow Incident
The Ox-Bow Incident
Written by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Introduction by Wallace Stegner
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780812972580
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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 >
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The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis
Written by Franz Kafka, Adapted by Peter Kuper
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400052998
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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 >
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The Essential Writings of Machiavelli
The Essential Writings of Machiavelli
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli, Translated by Peter Constantine, Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812974232
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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 >
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Written by Mark Twain
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553211580
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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 >
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Faust
Faust
Written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553213485
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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 >
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Purgatorio
Purgatorio
Written by Dante, Translated by Allen Mandelbaum
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553213447
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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 >
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