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The Story of My Life
The Restored Edition
Written by Helen Keller
Edited by James Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
THE 100th YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION
The Story of My Life, a remarkable account of overcoming the debilitating challenges of being both deaf and blind, has become an international classic, making Helen Keller one of the most well-known, inspirational figures in history. Originally published in 1903, Keller’s fascinating memoir narrates the events of... Read more >
The Restored Edition
Written by Helen Keller
Edited by James Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
THE 100th YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION
The Story of My Life, a remarkable account of overcoming the debilitating challenges of being both deaf and blind, has become an international classic, making Helen Keller one of the most well-known, inspirational figures in history. Originally published in 1903, Keller’s fascinating memoir narrates the events of... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... 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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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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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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Candide
Written by Voltaire
Format: Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the... Read more >
Written by Voltaire
Format: Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the... Read more >
Also available as an
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The Black Book
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $15.95
A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely
Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the... Read more >
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $15.95
A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely
Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the... Read more >
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Selected Poems
Written by W. H. Auden
Edited by Edward Mendelson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $16.00
This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden’s work. Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other works that represent... Read more >
Written by W. H. Auden
Edited by Edward Mendelson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $16.00
This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden’s work. Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other works that represent... Read more >
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The Promise
Written by Chaim Potok
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he’s in love, and he’s studying to be a rabbi. He also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die.
One day, worried about a disturbed, unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven takes... Read more >
Written by Chaim Potok
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he’s in love, and he’s studying to be a rabbi. He also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die.
One day, worried about a disturbed, unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven takes... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Notes From Underground
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has... Read more >
