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...
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Poems of the Sea
Edited by J. D. McClatchy
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2001
Price: $13.50
Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind’s nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea–pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis–have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of...
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The Pickwick Papers
Written by Charles Dickens
Format: Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1983
Price: $6.99
The high-spirited work of a young Dickens,
The Pickwick Papers is the remarkable first novel that made its author famous and that has remained one of the best-known books in the world. In it the inimitable Samuel Pickwick, his well-fed body and unsinkable good spirits clad in tights and gaiters, sallies...
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Fatelessness
Written by Imre Kertesz
Translated by Tim Wilkinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $15.00
At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who...
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The Name of the Rose
Written by Umberto Eco
Translated by William Weaver
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $27.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
A spectacular best seller and now a classic,
The Name of the Rose catapulted Umberto Eco, an Italian professor of semiotics turned novelist, to international prominence. An erudite murder mystery set in a fourteenth-century monastery, it is not only a gripping story but also a brilliant exploration of...
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The Last of the Mohicans
Written by James Fenimore Cooper
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made
The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become...
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Cyrano De Bergerac
Written by Edmond Rostand
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1950
Price: $4.95
This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII's reign, it is the moving and exciting drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, gallant soldier, brilliant wit, tragic poet-lover with the...
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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 Jungle
Written by Upton Sinclair
Afterword by Anthony Arthur
Introduction by Jane Jacobs
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $11.00
In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of...
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