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Men of Iron
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Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel; Or, The Hidden City of the Andes
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Christopher and Columbus
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Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope
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The Snare
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The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor
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At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War
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The Boy Knight: A Tale of the Crusades
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Elissa; Or, The Doom of Zimbabwe
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Appreciations with an Essay on Style
"Appreciations with an Essay on Style" from Walter Pater. English essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction (1839-1894).Author: The Perfect Library, Walter PaterISBN-10: 1512301221ISBN-13: 9781512301229Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2015Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.32d- $15.90
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Finished
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Little Fuzzy
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Kenilworth
A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting "her sister and her foe," the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the same...- $7.99
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White Fang
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Vendor: Betty B. Cantwell
No Tattletales: A Little Girl Learns to Hold Her Tongue
Nine-year-old Mary Jane is thrust into a grownup role when she finds herself in charge of her two younger sisters after her mama's death. Her papa's marriage to a neighbor widow bent on securing her own children's future, threatens to tear apart Mary Jane's...- $21.99
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Little Men
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Black Beauty
Perhaps the most celebrated animal story of the 19th century' Black Beauty is the suspenseful and deeply moving account of a horse's experiences at the hands of many owners -- some' sensitive riders who treated him gently;Author: Anna SewellISBN-10: 1410423905ISBN-13: 9781410423900Publisher: Large Print PressLanguage:...- $15.99
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The Pilgrim's Progress: As Originally Published, Part 1
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece, an iconic fable of guilt and redemption set in Puritan Massachusetts, has long been considered one of the greatest American novels. The story of Hester Prynne--found out in adultery, pilloried by her Puritan community, and abandoned, in different ways, by both...- $8.00
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The Disenchantments of Love: A Translation of Desengaños Amorosos
Published in 1647, these ten tales are among the earliest narratives in Western literature to focus on women's experiences and points of view in love relationships.Author: María de ZayasISBN-10: 0791432823ISBN-13: 9780791432822Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/06/1997Pages: 405Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.04h x...- $37.95
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Vendor: Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer
Two of Joseph Conrad's most compelling and haunting works, in which the deepest perceptions and desires of the human heart and mind are explored. The finest of all Conrad's tales, Heart of Darkness is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells...- $7.99
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To the Lighthouse: Introduction by Julia Briggs
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Vendor: Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth
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...- $5.95
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Vendor: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Herland and Selected Stories
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The Invisible Man
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Vendor: Mark Twain
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut The Stolen White Elephant Luck The 1,000,000 Bank-Note The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg The Five Boons of Life Was It Heaven? Or Hell? The Mysterious Stranger The...- $5.95
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An African Quilt: 24 Modern African Stories
Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. Reflecting a continent with a tragic history, An African Quilt depicts a place where even everyday life is...- $8.95
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Vendor: David Leavitt
23 Great Stories
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Vendor: Honor de Balzac
Pere Goriot
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Vanity Fair: A Norton Critical Edition
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Lost Illusions
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Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus
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Dracula
Since its publication in 1897 Dracula has enthralled generations of readers with the alluring malevolence of its undead Count, the most famous vampire in literature. Though Bram Stoker did not invent vampires, his novel helped catapult them to iconic stature, spawning a genre of...- $11.00
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The Portable American Realism Reader
During the pivotal period of America's international emergence, between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalism not only shaped the national literature of the age, but also left an indelible and far-reaching influence on twentieth-century American and world...- $26.00
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The Marble Faun: Or, the Romance of Monte Beni
Hawthorne's novel of Americans abroad, the first novel to explore the influence of European cultural ideas on American morality. Although it is set in Rome, the fictive world of The Marble Faun depends not on Italy's social or historical significance, but rather on its...- $21.00
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Animal Farm
All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads...- $9.95
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The Mysterious Island: With A Map Of The Island And A Full Glossary, Translated By Stephen W. White
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A Changed Man And Other Tales
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Around the World in Eighty Days
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The Guns of Goblin Valley: A Western Novel
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Notes from Underground: Introduction by Richard Pevear
Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn...- $28.00
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The Crucible (Penguin Plays)
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Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
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Romances: Introduction by Tony Tanner
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All the Men Are Gone
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Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue: A Literary Translation of the First Chinese Novel, Wu Yue Chunqiu
A Tale of Two Kingdoms offers a highly readable translation of the earliest surviving novel written in the Chinese language, Wu Yue chunqiu (The Spring and Autumn Annals of the Kingdoms of Wu and Yue). Composed nearly two millennia ago and featuring some of...- $99.00
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Twilight Sleep
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The Lady Vanishes
The ingenious classic thriller behind Hitchcock's famous film, set on a steam train travelling across 1930s Europe and boasting "intrigue, mystery, and spine-chilling horror" (Saturday Review) First published as The Wheel Spins in 1936 and adapted for the screen by Alfred Hitchcock in 1938,...- $16.95
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Ruth
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN-10: 1975882032ISBN-13: 9781975882037Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2017Pages: 178Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.38d- $8.99
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