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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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The Jungle Books
Written by Rudyard Kipling
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1985
Price: $4.95
First published in 1894 and 1895, The Jungle Books remain some of the most beloved tales of all time. Adored by readers of all ages, these classic stories in two volumes spin the unforgettable story of Mowgli—a boy raised by a pack of wolves—as he learns indelible lessons about the laws... Read more >
Written by Rudyard Kipling
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1985
Price: $4.95
First published in 1894 and 1895, The Jungle Books remain some of the most beloved tales of all time. Adored by readers of all ages, these classic stories in two volumes spin the unforgettable story of Mowgli—a boy raised by a pack of wolves—as he learns indelible lessons about the laws... Read more >
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Written by Jules Verne
Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1991
Price: $3.95
Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen.
When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close... Read more >
Written by Jules Verne
Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1991
Price: $3.95
Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen.
When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Written by Thomas Hardy
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1981
Price: $5.99
From its spectacular opening–the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair–to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels.
Rooted in an actual... Read more >
Written by Thomas Hardy
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1981
Price: $5.99
From its spectacular opening–the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair–to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels.
Rooted in an actual... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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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 >
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 >
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eBook.
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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 >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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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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Purgatory
Written by Dante
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
Translated by Anthony Esolen
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
Written by Dante
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
Translated by Anthony Esolen
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
A new translation by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré
Written in the fourteenth century by Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy is arguably the greatest epic poem of all time—presenting Dante’s brilliant vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. In this...
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