Walden
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Format: Hardcover, 328 pages
On Sale: January 11, 1993
Price: $21.00
By virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one of the signposts by which the modern mind has located itself in an increasingly bewildering world. Deeply sane...
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The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $5.99
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky’s genius. The...
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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: $7.00
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...
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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...
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Paradiso
Written by Dante
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1986
Price: $6.95
This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth...
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The Adolescent
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $16.95
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel
The Adolescent (first published in English as
A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to...
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Beowulf and Other Old English Poems
Written by Constance Hieatt
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1988
Price: $4.95
Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of...
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Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher
Written by R. K. Narayan
Format: Hardcover, 648 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2006
Price: $27.00
R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism.
Swami and...
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