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The Belly of Paris
The Belly of Paris
Written by Emile Zola, Translated by Mark Kurlansky
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812974225
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The Belly of Paris

Written by Emile Zola
Translated by Mark Kurlansky


Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $16.00

Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and... Read more >
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Summer Crossing
Summer Crossing
Written by Truman Capote
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812975932
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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... Read more >
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The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man
Written by H.G. Wells
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553213539
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The Invisible Man

Written by H.G. Wells


Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1983
Price: $4.95

Spine-tingling and entertaining, The Invisible Man is a science fiction classic–and a penetrating, unflinching look into the heart of human nature. To its author, H. G. Wells, the novel was as compelling as “a good gripping dream.” But to generations of readers, the terrible and evil experiment of the demented scientist... Read more >
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Ten Plays by Euripides
Ten Plays by Euripides
Written by Euripides
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553213638
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Ten Plays by Euripides

Written by Euripides


Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1990
Price: $7.95

The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life.  In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy.  For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on... Read more >
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Candide
Candide
Written by Voltaire
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553211665
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Candide

Written by Voltaire


Format: Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $4.95

Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the... Read more >
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The Dark Side
The Dark Side
Written by Jane Mayer
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307456298
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The Dark Side
The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
Written by Jane Mayer


Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.95

One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National BestsellerWith a New AfterwordNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-DealerThe Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United... Read more >
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553213881
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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 >
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Purgatorio
Purgatorio
Written by Dante, Translated by Allen Mandelbaum
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553213447
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Purgatorio

Written by Dante
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum


Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1983
Price: $6.95

This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion... Read more >
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Paradiso
Paradiso
Written by Dante
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553212044
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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... Read more >
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Paradise
Paradise
Written by Dante, Illustrated by Gustave Dore, Translated by Anthony Esolen
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ISBN: 9780812977264
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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, Crisis

In 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... Read more >
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