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Wuthering Heights
Written by Emily Bronte
Read by Donada Peters
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $19.99
"After a moment he smiled a teasing smile. 'I still think it would be a better story if either of them had one redeeming quality.'
'I think that may be the point,' I disagreed. 'Their love is their only redeeming quality.'"
--Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written... Read more >
Written by Emily Bronte
Read by Donada Peters
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $19.99
"After a moment he smiled a teasing smile. 'I still think it would be a better story if either of them had one redeeming quality.'
'I think that may be the point,' I disagreed. 'Their love is their only redeeming quality.'"
--Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written... Read more >
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Wuthering Heights
Written by Emily Bronte
Read by Donada Peters
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $20.00
"After a moment he smiled a teasing smile. 'I still think it would be a better story if either of them had one redeeming quality.'
'I think that may be the point,' I disagreed. 'Their love is their only redeeming quality.'"
--Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written... Read more >
Written by Emily Bronte
Read by Donada Peters
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $20.00
"After a moment he smiled a teasing smile. 'I still think it would be a better story if either of them had one redeeming quality.'
'I think that may be the point,' I disagreed. 'Their love is their only redeeming quality.'"
--Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
eBook,
eBook,
hardcover,
paperback,
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The Annotated Milton
Complete English Poems
Edited by Burton Raffel
Format: eBook, 864 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2009
Price: $6.95
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Complete English Poems
Edited by Burton Raffel
Format: eBook, 864 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2009
Price: $6.95
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Written by Washington Irving
Introduction by Alice Hoffman
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $8.95
With his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the most memorable characters in fiction, from Rip Van Winkle to Ichabod Crane, his gifts were not confined to the short story alone. He was also... Read more >
Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Written by Washington Irving
Introduction by Alice Hoffman
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $8.95
With his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the most memorable characters in fiction, from Rip Van Winkle to Ichabod Crane, his gifts were not confined to the short story alone. He was also... Read more >
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Written by Charles Dickens
Introduction by Matthew Pearl
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $12.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Charles Dickens’s final, unfinished novel is in many ways his most intriguing. A highly atmospheric tale of murder, The Mystery of Edwin Drood foreshadows both the detective stories of Conan Doyle and the nightmarish novels of Kafka.
As in many of Dickens’s greatest novels, the gulf between appearance and... Read more >
Written by Charles Dickens
Introduction by Matthew Pearl
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $12.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Charles Dickens’s final, unfinished novel is in many ways his most intriguing. A highly atmospheric tale of murder, The Mystery of Edwin Drood foreshadows both the detective stories of Conan Doyle and the nightmarish novels of Kafka.
As in many of Dickens’s greatest novels, the gulf between appearance and... Read more >
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Written by Charles Dickens
Introduction by Matthew Pearl
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $12.00
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature’s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book’s eponymous character, who later vanishes. Was Drood murdered, and if so by whom? All clues point to John Jasper... Read more >
Written by Charles Dickens
Introduction by Matthew Pearl
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $12.00
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature’s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book’s eponymous character, who later vanishes. Was Drood murdered, and if so by whom? All clues point to John Jasper... Read more >
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The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
Written by Hermann Hesse
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $17.00
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Written by Hermann Hesse
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $17.00
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Julius Caesar
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $4.99
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Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $4.99
Read more >
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Decameron
Written by Giovanni Boccaccio
Translated by J. G. Nichols
Format: Hardcover, 696 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $27.00
A brilliant new translation of the work that Herman Hesse called “the first great masterpiece of European storytelling.”
In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring a host... Read more >
Written by Giovanni Boccaccio
Translated by J. G. Nichols
Format: Hardcover, 696 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $27.00
A brilliant new translation of the work that Herman Hesse called “the first great masterpiece of European storytelling.”
In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring a host... Read more >
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The Arabian Nights
Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
Translated by Richard Burton
Introduction by A.S. Byatt
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $15.00
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending... Read more >
Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
Translated by Richard Burton
Introduction by A.S. Byatt
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $15.00
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending... Read more >
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The Poems
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $5.99
The Poems
Shakespeare’s greatest achievement in nondramatic verse was his collection of 154 magnificent sonnets that portray a tumultuous world of love, rivalry, and conflict among a poet, an aristocratic young man, a rival poet, and a mysterious “dark lady.” More profound than other Elizabethan sonnet sequences and never surpassed as archetypes... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $5.99
The Poems
Shakespeare’s greatest achievement in nondramatic verse was his collection of 154 magnificent sonnets that portray a tumultuous world of love, rivalry, and conflict among a poet, an aristocratic young man, a rival poet, and a mysterious “dark lady.” More profound than other Elizabethan sonnet sequences and never surpassed as archetypes... Read more >
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The Beautiful and Damned
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Introduction by Hortense Calisher
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $12.95
Fitzgerald’s second novel, a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age, is a largely autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple and their spectacular spiral into tragedy. Published on the heels of This Side of Paradise, the story of the Harvard-educated aesthete Anthony Patch and his willful wife... Read more >
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Introduction by Hortense Calisher
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $12.95
Fitzgerald’s second novel, a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age, is a largely autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple and their spectacular spiral into tragedy. Published on the heels of This Side of Paradise, the story of the Harvard-educated aesthete Anthony Patch and his willful wife... Read more >
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A Rage to Live
Written by John O'Hara
Introduction by Louis Begley
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $15.95
A momentous bestseller when it was first published in 1949, John O’Hara’s sprawling novel A Rage to Live offers up a gorgeous pageant of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce strength and tenderness. These memorable characters and their vital stories add up... Read more >
Written by John O'Hara
Introduction by Louis Begley
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $15.95
A momentous bestseller when it was first published in 1949, John O’Hara’s sprawling novel A Rage to Live offers up a gorgeous pageant of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce strength and tenderness. These memorable characters and their vital stories add up... Read more >
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Translated by Burton Pike
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $10.95
A major work of German romanticism in a translation that is acknowledged as the definitive English language version. The Vintage Classics edition also includes NOVELLA, Goethe's poetic vision of an idyllic pastoral society.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Translated by Burton Pike
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $10.95
A major work of German romanticism in a translation that is acknowledged as the definitive English language version. The Vintage Classics edition also includes NOVELLA, Goethe's poetic vision of an idyllic pastoral society.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology
Written by Roberto Santiago
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2009
Price: $15.95
MANY CULTURES * ONE WORLD
"Boricua is what Puerto Ricans call one another as a term of endearment, respect, and cultural affirmation; it is a timeless declaration that transcends gender and color. Boricua is a powerful word that tells the origin and history of the Puerto Rican people."
--From the Introduction
From the sun-drenched... Read more >
Written by Roberto Santiago
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2009
Price: $15.95
MANY CULTURES * ONE WORLD
"Boricua is what Puerto Ricans call one another as a term of endearment, respect, and cultural affirmation; it is a timeless declaration that transcends gender and color. Boricua is a powerful word that tells the origin and history of the Puerto Rican people."
--From the Introduction
From the sun-drenched... Read more >
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This Side of Paradise
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Introduction by Susan Orlean
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 5, 2009
Price: $5.95
First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise marks the beginning of the career of one of the greatest writers of the first half of the twentieth century. In this remarkable achievement, F. Scott Fitzgerald displays his unparalleled wit and keen social insight in his portrayal of college life through the... Read more >
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Introduction by Susan Orlean
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 5, 2009
Price: $5.95
First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise marks the beginning of the career of one of the greatest writers of the first half of the twentieth century. In this remarkable achievement, F. Scott Fitzgerald displays his unparalleled wit and keen social insight in his portrayal of college life through the... Read more >
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Selected Stories of Anton Chekov
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear
Introduction by Richard Pevear
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $13.00
Called the greatest of short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. Now, thirty of his best tales from the major periods of his creative life are available in this outstanding one volume edition. Included are Chekhov's characteristically... Read more >
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear
Introduction by Richard Pevear
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $13.00
Called the greatest of short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. Now, thirty of his best tales from the major periods of his creative life are available in this outstanding one volume edition. Included are Chekhov's characteristically... Read more >
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Jane Austen Puzzle
500-Piece Puzzle
Written by Potter Style
Format: Non-traditional book
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $14.95
Read more >
500-Piece Puzzle
Written by Potter Style
Format: Non-traditional book
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $14.95
Read more >
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The Moonstone
Written by Wilkie Collins
Introduction by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $9.00
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of... Read more >
Written by Wilkie Collins
Introduction by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $9.00
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of... Read more >
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The Man Who Was Thursday
A Nightmare
Written by G.K. Chesterton
Introduction by Jonathan Lethem
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 16, 2009
Price: $8.95
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem... Read more >
A Nightmare
Written by G.K. Chesterton
Introduction by Jonathan Lethem
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 16, 2009
Price: $8.95
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem... Read more >
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Les Miserables
Written by Victor Hugo
Translated by Julie Rose
Format: Trade Paperback, 1376 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $18.00
In this major new rendition by the acclaimed translator Julie Rose, Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is revealed in its full, unabridged glory. A favorite of readers for nearly 150 years, this stirring tale of crime, punishment, justice, and redemption pulses with life. Featuring such unforgettable characters as the quintessential prisoner of... Read more >
Written by Victor Hugo
Translated by Julie Rose
Format: Trade Paperback, 1376 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $18.00
In this major new rendition by the acclaimed translator Julie Rose, Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is revealed in its full, unabridged glory. A favorite of readers for nearly 150 years, this stirring tale of crime, punishment, justice, and redemption pulses with life. Featuring such unforgettable characters as the quintessential prisoner of... Read more >
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hardcover,
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Shakespeare Garden Note Cards
Written by Potter Style
Format: Non-traditional book, 16 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $12.00
Classic botanical illustrations meet Shakespeare’s verse in these gorgeous note cards. Perfect for any occasion, these cards evoke the spirit of the Bard and celebrate the beauty of the Elizabethan garden. Read more >
Written by Potter Style
Format: Non-traditional book, 16 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $12.00
Classic botanical illustrations meet Shakespeare’s verse in these gorgeous note cards. Perfect for any occasion, these cards evoke the spirit of the Bard and celebrate the beauty of the Elizabethan garden. Read more >
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Introduction by Umberto Eco
Format: Hardcover, 1240 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $25.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Alexandre Dumas’s epic novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery—one of the most enduringly popular adventure tales ever written—in a newly revised translation.
This beloved novel tells the story of Edmond Dantès, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable sea fortress, the Château d’If. After a daring escape, and... Read more >
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Introduction by Umberto Eco
Format: Hardcover, 1240 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $25.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Alexandre Dumas’s epic novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery—one of the most enduringly popular adventure tales ever written—in a newly revised translation.
This beloved novel tells the story of Edmond Dantès, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable sea fortress, the Château d’If. After a daring escape, and... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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The Landmark Herodotus
The Histories
Written by Robert B. Strassler
Format: Trade Paperback, 1024 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $27.00
From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides, a new Landmark Edition of The Histories by Herodotus.
Cicero called Herodotus "the father of history," and his only work, The Histories, is considered the first true piece of historical writing in Western literature. With lucid prose, Herodotus's account of the rise... Read more >
The Histories
Written by Robert B. Strassler
Format: Trade Paperback, 1024 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $27.00
From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides, a new Landmark Edition of The Histories by Herodotus.
Cicero called Herodotus "the father of history," and his only work, The Histories, is considered the first true piece of historical writing in Western literature. With lucid prose, Herodotus's account of the rise... Read more >
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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 >
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 >
Also available as an
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