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Fifty Great American Short Stories
Written by Milton Crane
Format: Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1984
Price: $6.99
A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike.
The Classic Stories
Edgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle, Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods, Stephen Vincent Benét’s By the Waters of Babylon
The Great Writers
Melville, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers
The Little-Known... Read more >
Written by Milton Crane
Format: Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1984
Price: $6.99
A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike.
The Classic Stories
Edgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle, Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods, Stephen Vincent Benét’s By the Waters of Babylon
The Great Writers
Melville, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers
The Little-Known... Read more >
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Maggie
A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction
Written by Stephen Crane
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1986
Price: $5.99
Not yet famous for his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane was unable to find a publisher for his brilliant Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, finally printing it himself in 1893.
Condemned and misunderstood during Crane’s lifetime, this starkly realistic story of a pretty child of the... Read more >
A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction
Written by Stephen Crane
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1986
Price: $5.99
Not yet famous for his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane was unable to find a publisher for his brilliant Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, finally printing it himself in 1893.
Condemned and misunderstood during Crane’s lifetime, this starkly realistic story of a pretty child of the... Read more >
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The Dialogues of Plato
Written by Plato
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1986
Price: $6.99
Socrates’ ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato’s Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person’s education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today’s reader, as well as an incisive introduction by Erich Segal, which reveals Plato’s life... Read more >
Written by Plato
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1986
Price: $6.99
Socrates’ ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato’s Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person’s education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today’s reader, as well as an incisive introduction by Erich Segal, which reveals Plato’s life... Read more >
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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
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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... Read more >
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $17.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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... Read more >
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Anna Karenina
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Format: Paperback, 1008 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1984
Price: $6.95
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious... Read more >
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Format: Paperback, 1008 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1984
Price: $6.95
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious... Read more >
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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
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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To Build a Fire and Other Stories
Written by Jack London
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1986
Price: $5.95
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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The Painted Veil
Written by W. Somerset Maugham
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $15.00
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and... Read more >
Written by W. Somerset Maugham
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $15.00
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and... Read more >
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The Mysterious Island
Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Caleb Carr
Format: Paperback, 768 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $6.95
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here... Read more >
Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Caleb Carr
Format: Paperback, 768 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $6.95
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here... Read more >
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Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children
Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, Hawthorne, and More
Written by William F. Russell
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 28, 1992
Price: $14.99
A perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to read aloud to their children aged five to twelve. Line drawings. Read more >
Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, Hawthorne, and More
Written by William F. Russell
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 28, 1992
Price: $14.99
A perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to read aloud to their children aged five to twelve. Line drawings. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
