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...
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The Handmaid's Tale
Written by Margaret Atwood
Format: Hardcover, 392 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s
The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander...
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The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
Written by Bernard McGinn
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: December 12, 2006
Price: $19.95
This clear and comprehensive anthology, culled from the vast corpus of Christian mystical literature by the renowned theologian and historian Bernard McGinn, presents nearly one hundred selections, from the writings of Origen of Alexandria in the third century to the work of twentieth-century mystics such as Thomas Merton.
Uniquely organized by...
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Othello
Written by William Shakespeare and David Scott Kastan
Edited by David Bevington
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1988
Price: $4.99
Though this great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor, its story of the doomed marriage of a Venetian senator’s daughter, Desdemona, to a Moorish general, Othello, is especially relevant to modern audiences. The differences in race and background create an initial tension that allows the...
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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...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
Written by Johann David Wyss
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1992
Price: $4.95
“For many days we had been tempest-tossed…the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost.”
From these dire opening lines, a timeless story of adventure begins. One family will emerge alive from this terrible storm: the Robinsons—a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four sons, plus...
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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...
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Four Great Plays by Henrik Ibsen
Written by Henrik Ibsen
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $6.95
Here, in a single volume, are four major plays by the first modern playwright, Henrick Ibsen.
Ghosts -the startling portrayal of a family destroyed by disease and infidelity.
The Wild Duck -- A poignant drama of lost illusions.
An Enemy Of The People -- Ibsen's vigorous attack on public opinion. And
A...
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Beowulf
A Dual-Language Edition
Written by Howell D. Chickering
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $15.95
The first major poem in English literature,
Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, Beowulf is an example of the heroic spirit at its finest.
Leading
Beowulf scholar Howell D. Chickering, Jr.’s, fresh...
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To Build a Fire and Other Stories
Written by Jack London
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1986
Price: $5.95
To Build A Fire and Other Stories is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of Jack London's short stories available in paperback. This superb volume brings together twenty-five of London's finest, including a dozen of his great Klondike stories, vivid tales of the Far North were rugged individuals, such as the...
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