Walden and Other Writings

Written by Henry David Thoreau

Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1983
Price: $4.95

With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature.

The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and... Read more >

Purgatorio

Written by Dante
Translated by Jean Hollander and Robert Hollander

Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $21.00

Now I shall sing the second kingdom,

there where the soul of man is cleansed,

made worthy to ascend to heaven.

In the second book of Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at... Read more >

The Complete Short Novels

Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $17.00

Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

The Steppe–the most lyrical of the...

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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 >

Fatelessness

Written by Imre Kertesz
Translated by Tim Wilkinson

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $15.00

At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who... Read more >

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 >

The Complete Stories of Truman Capote

Written by Truman Capote
Introduction by Reynolds Price

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $15.00

A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story.
Ranging from the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable...

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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 >

The Winter's Tale

Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00

One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter’s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive world of nature, and the magical power of art.

Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean... Read more >

Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories

Written by Herman Melville

Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1982
Price: $4.95

If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social... Read more >