Paradise
Written by Dante
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
Translated by Anthony Esolen
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.00
“If there is any justice in the world of books, [Esolen’s] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come.”–Robert Royal,
CrisisIn this, the concluding volume of
The Divine Comedy, Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved...
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Emma
Written by Jane Austen
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
Emma, first published in 1816, was written when Jane Austen was at the height of her powers. In a novel remarkable for its sparkling wit and modernity, Austen presents readers with two of literature’s greatest comic creations—the eccentric Mr. Woodhouse and that quintessential bore, Miss Bates. Here, too, we have what...
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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...
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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...
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
Written by Mark Twain
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
At the beginning of
Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface,
Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century...
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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 Phantom of the Opera
Written by Gaston Leroux
Translated by Lowell Bair
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1990
Price: $4.95
Gaston Leroux is one of the originators of the detective story, and
The Phantom of the Opera is his tour de force, as well as being the basis for the hit Broadway musical. A superb suspense story and a dark tale of obsession,
The Phantom of the Opera has thrilled and...
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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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The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain
Written by Mark Twain
Edited by Lawrence Berkove
Introduction by Pete Hamill
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.95
This unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” as well as some delightful excerpts from
The Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation...
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Summer Crossing
A Novel
Written by Truman Capote
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2006
Price: $14.00
Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance...
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