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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1992
Price: $4.95
It is 1792 and France is in the grip of a seething, bloody revolution. Mobs roam the Paris streets hunting down royalists, barricades block any chance of escape, and every day hundreds die under the blade of Madame la Guillotine. But in the hearts of the condemned nobility there remains one... Read more >
Written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1992
Price: $4.95
It is 1792 and France is in the grip of a seething, bloody revolution. Mobs roam the Paris streets hunting down royalists, barricades block any chance of escape, and every day hundreds die under the blade of Madame la Guillotine. But in the hearts of the condemned nobility there remains one... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... 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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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The Deerslayer
Written by James Fenimore Cooper
Format: Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1991
Price: $5.95
The deadly crack of a long rifle and the piercing cries of Indians on the warpath shatter the serenity of beautiful Lake Glimmerglass. Danger has invaded the vast forests of upper New York State as Deerslayer and his loyal Mohican friend Chingachgook attempt the daring rescue of an Indian maiden imprisoned... Read more >
Written by James Fenimore Cooper
Format: Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1991
Price: $5.95
The deadly crack of a long rifle and the piercing cries of Indians on the warpath shatter the serenity of beautiful Lake Glimmerglass. Danger has invaded the vast forests of upper New York State as Deerslayer and his loyal Mohican friend Chingachgook attempt the daring rescue of an Indian maiden imprisoned... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Sherlock Holmes
Children's Classics
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 5, 1996
Price: $18.00
A collection of the stories in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the most famous amateur detective of all time. Includes such favorites as “The Red-Headed League,” “The Speckled Band,” and “The Adventure of the Dancing Men.” Read more >
Children's Classics
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 5, 1996
Price: $18.00
A collection of the stories in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the most famous amateur detective of all time. Includes such favorites as “The Red-Headed League,” “The Speckled Band,” and “The Adventure of the Dancing Men.” Read more >
