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Vendor: Carl Sandburg
Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg, Fiction, Action & Adventure, Fairy Tales & Folklore
Gimme the Ax decided to let his children name themselves. "The first words they speak as soon as they learn to make words shall be their names," he said. "They shall name themselves." When the first boy came to the house of Gimme the...- $12.95
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Vendor: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
The Crocodile and Other Tales by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Fiction, Literary
"Oh, don't be afraid, my dear!" Ivan Matveitch called after us, gallantly displaying his manly courage to his wife. "This drowsy denison of the realms of the Pharaohs will do us no harm." And he remained by the tank. What is more, he took...- $15.95
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Vendor: Algernon Blackwood
Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood, Fiction, Horror
A Wendigo is a half-beast creature appearing in the legends of the Algonquian peoples along the Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes Region of both the United States and Canada. The creature or spirit could either possess characteristics of a human or a monster that...- $14.95
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Vendor: Frederick Asals
A Good Man Is Hard to Find: Flannery O'Connor
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor herself singled it out by making it the title piece of her first collection and the story she most often chose for readings or talks to students....- $37.95
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Vendor: Booth Tarkington
The Magnificent Ambersons
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of...- $18.00
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Vendor: Charles Russell
Trails Plowed Under: Stories of the Old West
Author: Charles RussellISBN-10: 1789432006ISBN-13: 9781789432008Publisher: Benediction ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/08/2010Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d- $8.99
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Vendor: Barrie Roberts
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Man from Hell
In 1886, wealthy philathropist Lord Backwater is found beaten to death on the grounds of his estate. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must unravel the mystery by pitting their wits against a ruthless new enemy, taking them across the globe in search of the...- $9.95
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Vendor: Theodore Dreiser
The Financier
The first volume of the Trilogy of Desire. Dreiser captures the spirit of nineteenth century American capitalism.Author: Theodore DreiserISBN-10: 1849021856ISBN-13: 9781849021852Publisher: Benediction ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2012Pages: 468Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.04d- $15.99
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Vendor: Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley's Early Writings including (complete and unabridged) Crome Yellow, The Burning Wheel, The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems and Mortal Coi
Crome Yellow, is Huxley's first novel, published in 1921. It is a British manor satire where almost nothing happens - even less than normal for this genre. The characters are immaculately presented and manage to express immense profundity in tiny conversations. The writing is...- $25.99
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Vendor: E. M. Delafield
The Provincial Lady Goes Further, (Fully Illustrated)
A sequel to extremely popular, largely autobiographical "Diary of a Provincial Lady," by E. M Delafield (also known as Mrs Henry de la Pasture), about her life in England in the early 20th century.Author: E. M. DelafieldISBN-10: 178139041XISBN-13: 9781781390412Publisher: Oxford City PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2011Pages:...- $6.99
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Vendor: Zane Grey
The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey, Fiction, Westerns, Historical
Pearl Zane Gray studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania on a baseball scholarship, and later played with a minor league team. He met and later married Lina Roth, whose inheritance helped support his efforts to become a writer. He pioneered the Western genre....- $17.95
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Vendor: Zane Grey
The Rustlers of Pecos County by Zane Grey, Fiction, Westerns, Historical
In those days, Texas was a huge wide place full of frontiersmen, ranchers, farmers, cowpokes, shiftless no-accounts, shootists, rascals, and politicians -- all of them blended together into a single state. The Rangers -- lawmen, Texas Rangers -- were outnumbered a thousand to one...- $29.95
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Vendor: Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Zanoni by Edward George Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Fiction, Occult & Supernatural
By way of introduction, the author confesses: "... It so chanced that some years ago, in my younger days, whether of authorship or life, I felt the desire to make myself acquainted with the true origins and tenets of the singular sect known by...- $39.95
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Vendor: Thea Von Harbou
Metropolis by Thea Von Harbou, Science Fiction
Metropolis is set in 2026, in a technologically advanced city, which is sustained by the existence of an underground society of laborers, a futuristic urban dystopia and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city's ruler and Maria, a poor worker,...- $37.95
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Vendor: Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Monk
"This is an essential edition. Its ample coverage of critical reception, cultural responses and historical context does full justice to the profound intertextuality of The Monk." -- Angela Wright, University of Sheffield Author: Matthew Gregory LewisISBN-10: 1551112272ISBN-13: 9781551112275Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/26/2003Pages: 481Format:...- $18.50
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Vendor: Luigi Pirandello
One, None and a Hundred Thousand
One, None and a Hundred Thousand is a novel written by Italian author Luigi Pirandello. The book follows the life of a man named Vitangelo Moscarda, who becomes obsessed with the idea that he is not truly known by anyone, including himself. After realizing...- $44.95
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Vendor: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a short story written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The story follows the journey of a man who has become disillusioned with life and decides to take his own life. However, he has a dream in which he is...- $17.95
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Vendor: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Bobok
Bobok is a short story written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, one of the most celebrated authors of Russian literature. This darkly humorous tale follows the protagonist Ivan Ivanovich, a struggling writer who stumbles upon a graveyard where he overhears the conversations of the dead. As...- $17.95
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Vendor: Terry C. Johnston
Shadow Riders: The Southern Plains Uprising, 1873
Chief White Bear and his Kiowa tribe would accept no more broken promises from the white man, so they left the Indian Territory reservations and crossed the Red River to the south. But heir last desperate attempt to regain the land of their ancestors...- $26.99
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Vendor: Honoré de Balzac
The Unknown Masterpiece
A New York Review Books Original One of Honor de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius--or both. The story, which has served as...- $16.95
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Vendor: John Galt
The Member and the Radical
Galt's two great political novels date from around the passing of the Reform Act of 1832. The Member has claims to be the first political novel in the English language and is a tour de force of wit, observation, and a devastating critique of...- $13.00
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Vendor: Ludwig Lewisohn
The Island Within
First published in the late 1920s, The Island Within was Ludwig Lewisohn's first novel to focus on a Jewish theme. Emerging from the experience of World War I and the 1920s, this novel on alienation and mixed marriage (and much more) addresses itself with...- $19.95
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Vendor: Leo Tolstoy
The Cossacks
This 1862 novel, in a vibrant new translation by Peter Constantine, is Tolstoy's semiautobiographical story of young Olenin, a wealthy, disaffected Muscovite who joins the Russian army and travels to the untamed frontier of the Caucasus in search of a more authentic life. While...- $22.00
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Vendor: Ivan Goncharov
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, Fiction
OBLOMOV'S DREAM: In the dining room -- a room at once elegant and simply appointed -- a cheerful fire was glowing, and Zakhar, now promoted to the dignity of a major-domo, and adorned with whiskers turned wholly grey, was laying a large, round table...- $37.95
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Vendor: M. R. James
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Fiction
The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions. James' style of writing can be considered as "gothic".After Jonathan Miller adapted "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My...- $35.95
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Vendor: Anton Chekhov
The Very Best of Anton Chekov - Short Stories
Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his short stories are held in high esteem by both writers...- $18.99
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Vendor: Philip Roth
Portnoy's Complaint
The groundbreaking novel that propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, Philip Roth's masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy. Portnoy's Complaint n. after Alexander Portnoy (1933-...- $34.99
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Vendor: Fiodor Dostoievski
Short Stories
Reproduction of the original: Short Stories by Fiodor DostoievskiAuthor: Fiodor DostoievskiISBN-10: 3752387947ISBN-13: 9783752387940Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2020Pages: 192Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d- $67.90
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Vendor: Shawn Conners
Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat and Selected Stories - Special Edition
One of the most influential short stories ever written, Nikolai Gogol's ''The Overcoat'' first appeared in 1842 as part of a four-volume publication of its author's Collected Works. The story is considered not only an early masterpiece of Russian Naturalism-a movement that would dominate...- $16.20
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Vendor: Walter De La Mare
The Listeners and Other Poems
A great many years ago, Augustus Caesar, then Emperor of Rome, ordered his mighty realm to be taxed; and so, in Judea, it is said, men went to the towns where their families belonged, to be registered for assessment. From Nazareth, a little town...- $7.89
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Vendor: Henry James
Henry James: Novels 1901-1902 (Loa #162): The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove
This Library of America volume brings together one of Henry James's most unusual experiments and one of his most beloved masterpieces Writing to his friend William Dean Howells, Henry James characterized his experimental novel, The Sacred Fount, as the only one of his novels...- $40.00
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Vendor: David Stuart Davies
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Ripper Legacy
A visit from the distraught Ronald Temple sets SHERLOCK HOLMES and Dr Watson on the hunt for a kidnapped child. With no ransom note and a sinister connection to the highest echelons of Victorian society, it becomes clear that it is no ordinary kidnapping,...- $9.95
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Vendor: Zane Grey
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey, Fiction, Westerns
In his later work, Grey portrayed Mormonism more neutrally -- but here, in this book, those evil polyandering men are villains, plain and simple. Well, ewww -- there's a reason why the Mormons generally gave it up, and don't think being part of the...- $34.95
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Vendor: L. Frank Baum
Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has been translated into more than forty languages, and of course, served as the basis for one of history's most popular films, The Wizard of Oz, first released in 1939. Ozma of Oz is the third "Oz" book, published...- $27.95
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Vendor: Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Tarzan Twins by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Action & Adventure
Two schoolboys, Dick and Doc, are cousins who resemble each other because their mothers are twins. As Dick is also related to Tarzan through his father, they become known as the Tarzan Twins. Invited to visit Tarzan's African estate, they become lost in the...- $11.95
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Vendor: Andre Norton
Star Hunter by Andre Norton, Science Fiction, Adventure
Star Hunter is the thrilling account of an other-worldly game of hide-and-seek between a man who does not know all his own powers -- and an interstellar safari that seeks something no man has a right to find. . . .Author: Andre NortonISBN-10: 1598186361ISBN-13:...- $13.95
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Vendor: Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Fiction, Classics, Literary, Fantasy
Gulliver's Travels, whose full title is Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both...- $36.95
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Vendor: Willis George Emerson
The Smoky God by Willis George Emerson, Fiction
Is it possible that the world's geography is incomplete? That the startling narrative of Olaf Jansen is predicated upon demonstrable facts? Olaf Jansen had long been a fisherman off the coast of Norway, in the region of the Lofoden Islands, from whence he had...- $14.95
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Vendor: Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes, Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Written in 1913, The Lodger was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller, and a remarkable film it is. But the story Hitchcock tells -- of young love and mistaken identity (and is that a mistake, or malicious accusation by a rival. . ....- $19.95
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Vendor: Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Girl From Farris's by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Science Fiction
Few authors, not even with the exception of Rudyard Kipling, have covered so wide a field in their fiction as has Mr. Burroughs. His maiden effort, which was published in the old ALL-STORY in 1912, dealt with the adventures of an American who made...- $34.95
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Vendor: John Polidori
Polidori's Vampyre by John Polidori, Fiction, Horror
The weather went from being beautiful to tempestuous: torrential thunderstorms plagued the Shelleys, Byron and Polidori. The weather -- along with the company and the eerie ambiance of the locale -- contributed to the genesis of Frankenstein, Polidori's "The Vampyre," and, in all likelihood,...- $27.95
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Vendor: Wirt Sikes
British Goblins: Welsh Folklore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wilt Sikes, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Myt
The legend of the Cyhyraeth is sometimes conflated with tales of a monstrous Welsh spirit in the shape of a hideously ugly woman with a harpy-like appearance: unkempt hair and wizened, withered arms with leathery wings, long black teeth and pale corpse-like features. She...- $30.95
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Vendor: William Hope Hodgson
The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, Science Fiction
The sun has died, as have the stars. Not a solitary light shines in the heavens. The days of light are nothing by a legend -- they are a story told to soothe children. The last millions of humans still live in their Last...- $23.95
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Vendor: H. G. Wells
The War In The Air
The War in the Air, a military science ction novel by H. G. Wells, written in four months in 1907 and serialised and published in 1908 in The Pall Mall Magazine, is like many of Wells's works notable for its prophetic ideas, images, and...- $17.24
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Vendor: Maurice LeBlanc
Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar
Maurice-Marie- mile Leblanc (1864-1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.Author: Maurice LeBlancISBN-10: 1434486842ISBN-13: 9781434486844Publisher: Wildside...- $19.95
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Vendor: Honore De Balzac
La Comedie Humaine
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Vendor: Henry James
Henry James: Novels 1886-1890 (Loa #43): The Princess Casamassima / The Reverberator / The Tragic Muse
The three novels in this Library of America volume from Henry James's middle period explore some historical and social dilemmas that belong as much to our time as to his own. The Princess Casamassima was published in 1886, a year that saw riots of...- $45.00
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Vendor: E. R. Eddison
The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison, Fiction, Fantasy
First published in 1922. The book describes the protracted war between the domineering King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords of Demonland in an imaginary world that appears mainly medieval and partly reminiscent of Norse sagas. THE WORM OUROBOROS, no worm, but the Serpent...- $45.95
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Vendor: Harold Bell Wright
The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright, Fiction, Literary, Classics, Action & Adventure
It was winter -- cold and snow and ice and naked trees and leaden clouds and stinging wind.The house was an ancient mansion on an old street in that city of culture which has given to the history of our nation -- to education,...- $42.95
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Vendor: Alexandre Dumas Fils
Camille by Alexandre Dumas, Fiction, Literary
Adapted into a play, it was titled Camille in English and became the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, La Traviata, Duplessis undergoing yet another name change, this time to Violetta Val駻y.Dumas was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay, a dressmaker,...- $38.95
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Fiction Classics Books
Fiction Classics Books is a remarkable collection that brings together timeless literary works from various genres of fiction. This collection encompasses an extensive range of novels, short stories, and plays that have stood the test of time and continue to captivate readers worldwide.
The collection showcases a diverse array of literary masterpieces from different periods and cultures. It includes iconic works from renowned authors such as Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and many more. From the romantic intrigues of Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" to the thought-provoking symbolism of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," these books have become cornerstones of literary history.
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Regardless of literary preferences, Fiction Classics Books is an invaluable collection for any avid reader or lover of literature. It not only presents an opportunity to appreciate the works of esteemed authors but also provides a gateway into understanding the cultural and social contexts in which these books were written. Through Fiction Classics Books, readers can embark on literary journeys that span centuries and continents. Whether one seeks adventure, romance, tragedy, or simply a thought-provoking read, this collection has it all. These books have endured the test of time, captivating generation after generation, and continue to inspire readers to explore and appreciate the world of fiction.
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1. "Pride and Prejudice"
2. "Moby-Dick"
3. "To Kill a Mockingbird"
4. "1984"
5. "The Great Gatsby"
6. "Jane Eyre"
7. "The Catcher in the Rye"
8. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
These are just a few examples of the popular books you can find within the fiction classics book collection. Each one offers a unique perspective on the human experience and continues to captivate readers with their enduring relevance and literary brilliance. Whether you are a dedicated fan of classic literature or new to this genre, these books will undoubtedly leave a lasting impression.
Popular Fiction Classics Authors
The world of literature is enriched with countless authors who have gifted us with timeless stories and unforgettable characters. Within the realm of fiction classics, there are several authors whose contributions to literature have left an indelible mark. Here, we explore some of the most popular authors of the book collections 'fiction classics books'.
1. Jane Austen
2. Charles Dickens
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. Leo Tolstoy
5. Mark Twain
6. Charlotte Brontë
7. George Orwell
8. Emily Brontë
These authors have made invaluable contributions to literature by crafting stories that have stood the test of time. Their keen observations of society, complex characterizations, and exploration of universal themes continue to resonate with readers around the globe, making their books a cherished part of any fiction classics collection.
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