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The Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Format: Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1982
Price: $5.99
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval... Read more >
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Format: Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1982
Price: $5.99
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval... Read more >
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The Scarlet Letter
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction by Kathryn Harrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2000
Price: $6.95
Introduction by Kathryn Harrison
Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren
A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self... Read more >
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction by Kathryn Harrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2000
Price: $6.95
Introduction by Kathryn Harrison
Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren
A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self... Read more >
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Anne of Green Gables
Written by L.M. Montgomery
Introduction by Jack Zipes
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $9.00
“Matthew had taken the scrawny little hand awkwardly in his; then and there he decided what to do. He could not tell this child with the glowing eyes that there had been a mistake. . . .”
When eleven-year-old Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables with nothing but a carpetbag and an... Read more >
Written by L.M. Montgomery
Introduction by Jack Zipes
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $9.00
“Matthew had taken the scrawny little hand awkwardly in his; then and there he decided what to do. He could not tell this child with the glowing eyes that there had been a mistake. . . .”
When eleven-year-old Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables with nothing but a carpetbag and an... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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The Three Musketeers
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Translated by Lowell Bair
Format: Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1984
Price: $6.95
Perhaps the greatest “cloak and sword” story ever written, The Three Musketeers, first published ion 1844, is a tale for all time. Pitting the heroic young d’Artagnan and his noble compatriots, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis against the master of intrigue, Cardinal Richelieu, and the quintessential wicked woman, Lady de Winter, Alexandre... Read more >
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Translated by Lowell Bair
Format: Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1984
Price: $6.95
Perhaps the greatest “cloak and sword” story ever written, The Three Musketeers, first published ion 1844, is a tale for all time. Pitting the heroic young d’Artagnan and his noble compatriots, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis against the master of intrigue, Cardinal Richelieu, and the quintessential wicked woman, Lady de Winter, Alexandre... Read more >
Also available as an
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Coming of Age in Mississippi
Written by Anne Moody
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $16.00
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till’s lynching. Before then, she had "known... Read more >
Written by Anne Moody
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $16.00
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till’s lynching. Before then, she had "known... 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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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 >
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Sense and Sensibility
Written by Jane Austen
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
In 1811, Jane Austen’s first published work, Sense and Sensibility, marked the debut of England’s premier novelist of manners. Believing that “3 or 4 families in a country village is the very thing to work on,” she created a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly. Romantic walks through lush Devonshire and... Read more >
Written by Jane Austen
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
In 1811, Jane Austen’s first published work, Sense and Sensibility, marked the debut of England’s premier novelist of manners. Believing that “3 or 4 families in a country village is the very thing to work on,” she created a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly. Romantic walks through lush Devonshire and... Read more >
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News of a Kidnapping
Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Edith Grossman
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $15.95
In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Medellín drug cartel – kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, García Márquez describes the survivors’ perilous ordeal and the bizarre drama of the negotiations for their release. He... Read more >
Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Edith Grossman
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $15.95
In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Medellín drug cartel – kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, García Márquez describes the survivors’ perilous ordeal and the bizarre drama of the negotiations for their release. He... Read more >
