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Vendor: Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days
A classic tale of adventure from renowned French author Jules Verne. Originally published in 1872, Around the World in Eighty Days imagined for readers the possibility of circumnavigating the world when the prospect of such a feat was still in its infancy. After an...- $14.99
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Vendor: V. J. Rose
Hell West of the Pecos: A Classic Western
2014 Short Fiction Spur Finalist V.J. Rose takes us back into the lives of Dudford Washburn and his motley crew in this classic adventure tale of the Old American West.After the Civil War, rancher and muleskinner Dudford Washburn returns to San Antonio to find...- $19.99
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Vendor: John Spurling
Arcadian Days: Gods, Women, and Men from Greek Myths
"Breathtakingly successful." --Michael Dirda, Washington Post A bold and dynamic retelling of five great male-female pairings from the Greek myths: Prometheus and Pandora, Jason and Medea, Oedipus and Antigone, Achilles and Thetis, and Odysseus and Penelope. Award-winning historical novelist and playwright John Spurling draws...- $27.95
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Vendor: Damion Searls
Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories
A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer--"the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of...- $30.00
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Vendor: Charlotte Bronte
Villette
Arguably Charlotte Bronte's most deeply felt work, Villette draws on her own profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Left to fend for herself after a family tragedy, Lucy Snowe flees from her unhappy past in England to begin a new life...- $39.95
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Vendor: Raymond Postgate
Somebody at the Door
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Steeped in atmosphere, with skillful plotting and intriguing characterization." --Booklist'The death was an odd one, it was true; but there was after all no very clear reason to assume it was anything but natural.'In the...- $18.99
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Vendor: J. Jefferson Farjeon
Seven Dead
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Originally published in 1939, this reissue in the British Library Crime Classics series from Farjeon (1883-1955) is a standout, with a particularly horrifying opening." --Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewTed Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated...- $18.99
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Vendor: Anthony Rolls
Family Matters
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"A deliciously anti-cozy tale of murder most multiplied..." --Kirkus ReviewsRobert Arthur Kewdingham is an eccentric failure of a man. In middle age he retreats into a private world, hunting for Roman artifacts and devoting himself...- $18.99
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Vendor: John Bude
The Cheltenham Square Murder
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"An absorbing head-scratcher." --BooklistIn the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten houses. One summer's evening, the square's rivalries and allegiances are disrupted by a sudden and unusual...- $14.99
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Vendor: Gil North
The Methods of Sergeant Cluff
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Martin Edwards' brief but informative Introduction notes that the Cluff stories inspired a BBC television series, and you can see why: North's elliptical scene-setting and clipped dialogue are perfect for brief, understated segments on the...- $18.99
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Vendor: Gil North
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder'He could feel it in the blackness, a difference in atmosphere, a sense of evil, of things hidden.'Amy Snowden, in middle age, has long since settled into a lonely life in the Yorkshire town of...- $18.99
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Vendor: John Rowland
Calamity in Kent
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Rowland shows how a journalist might see what a cop doesn't see, and vice versa, in intriguing ways, as the murder spans out into a black-market petrol conspiracy worthy of Foyle's War." --Booklist STARRED reviewIn...- $14.99
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Vendor: Freeman Wills Crofts
Antidote to Venom
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Crofts makes great use of the 'inverted mystery' structure (he was among the first to employ the technique) in which the traditional whodunit is turned on its head, with the reader following the murderer through...- $14.99
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Vendor: Dennis Wheatley
To the Devil, a Daughter
'One of the most popular storytellers of the century.' - The Telegraph A businessman makes a deal with a satanic clergymen, and has his daughter baptised into Satan's church. Twenty-one years later, provided she is still a virgin, she is destined to be the...- $15.00
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Vendor: Johnston McCulley
The Mark of Zorro
Based on Johnston McCulley's The Curse of Capistrano first published in 1919 by pulp magazine All-Story Weekly Set in Los Angeles during the era of early nineteenth century Colonial Spanish California, the story introduces us to wealthy, young aristocrat Don Diego de la Vega,...- $19.95
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Vendor: Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
The sole novel of Emily Bronte, who died a year after its publication at the age of thirty, Wuthering Heights is one of the most original classics in the canon of English literature. Set amid the wild and stormy Yorkshire moors, it is the...- $29.95
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Vendor: Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White
When Walter Hartright encounters a solitary, terrified, beautiful woman dressed in white on a moonlit night in London, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. Full of secrets, locked rooms, lost memories, and surprise revelations, The Woman in White features heroine...- $39.95
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Vendor: James Fenimore Cooper
Home as Found
A novel of manners set in the drawing rooms, ballrooms, and Wall Street offices in 1830s New York, dramatizing conflicts that we are still grappling with nearly two hundred years later.Author: James Fenimore CooperISBN-10: 1438485379ISBN-13: 9781438485379Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2022Pages:...- $95.00
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Vendor: Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
A perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic story for younger readers Oliver Twist has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children, while retaining all the key parts of Oliver's adventures around Victorian London, including tangles with...- $10.99
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Vendor: Georgette Heyer
A Blunt Instrument
Who would kill the perfect gentleman? When Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study, everyone is shocked and mystified: Ernest was well liked and respected, so who would have a motive for killing him?Superintendent Hannasyde, with consummate skill, uncovers one dirty...- $17.99
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Vendor: James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
This fictionalized portrait of James Joyce's youth is one of the most vivid accounts of the growth from childhood to adulthood.Early twentieth-century Dublin provides the backdrop as Stephen Dedalus moves from town and society towards the irrevocable decision to leave. This decision, made by...- $34.99
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Vendor: Arnold Bennett
Old Wives' Tales
This novel about the divergent lives of two sisters which spans the Victorian and Edwardian periods is a 20th-century classic. Recently included in the list of the greatest 20th-century novels.Author: Arnold BennettISBN-10: 0915864770ISBN-13: 9780915864775Publisher: Academy Chicago PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2000Pages: 586Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.87lbsSize: 8.46h x...- $19.95
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Vendor: Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis
Author: Franz KafkaISBN-10: 0884114503ISBN-13: 9780884114505Publisher: Amereon LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1983Pages: 102Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.85h x 5.84w x 0.62d- $27.95
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Vendor: Paul Burns
Miguel de Unamuno: Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr: San Manuel Bueno, Mártir
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born in Bilbao on 29th September 1864. He wrote novels, essays, poems and plays, and in addition to these he played an important part in the political and intellectual life of Spain - an involvement that led to...- $30.00
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Vendor: Michael McLaverty
Lost Fields: A Classic Irish Novel Set During the Great Depression
Michael McLaverty - a mentor for the young Seamus Heaney - is one of the greats of Irish writing. This novel of the Great Depression tells the story of working-class family life in 1930s Belfast.Author: Michael McLavertyISBN-10: 0856407593ISBN-13: 9780856407598Publisher: Blackstaff PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2004Pages: 224Format:...- $8.95
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Vendor: Stanley E. Porter
Verbal Aspect in the Greek of the New Testament, with Reference to Tense and Mood: Third Printing
This detailed work in Greek linguistics argues that the semantic category of synthetic verbal aspect provides a suggestive and workable linguistic model for explaining the range of uses of the tense-forms in Greek. The author addresses in particular those studying the hellenistic Greek of...- $85.55
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Vendor: Herman Melville
White-Jacket; Or, the World in a Man-Of-War: Volume Five
Herman Melville wrote White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War during two months of intense work in the summer of 1849. He drew upon his memories of naval life, having spent fourteen months as an ordinary seaman aboard a frigate as it sailed the...- $16.95
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Vendor: Herman Melville
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, Volume Eight, Scholarly Edition
Unique among Melville's works, Israel Potter was the author's only historical novel, presuming to offer the life history of Revolutionary War figure Israel Potter--based on Potter's own obscure narrative Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter--and featuring characters such as Benjamin Franklin and...- $55.00
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Vendor: Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man: Volume Ten, Scholarly Edition
Long considered Melville's strangest novel, The Confidence-Man is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-nineteenth century America. A shape-shifting Confidence-Man approaches passengers on a Mississippi River steamboat and, winning over his not-quite-innocent victims with his charms, urges each to trust...- $55.00
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Vendor: Herman Melville
Redburn: Works of Herman Melville Volume Four
Redburn is a fictional narrative of a boy's first voyage, based loosely on Melville's own first voyage to and from Liverpool in 1839. Hastily composed and little esteemed by its author, Redburn was more highly thought of by his critics, who saw it regaining...- $55.00
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Vendor: Willa Cather
My Antonia
Widely recognized as Willa Cather's finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My ntonia tells of the life of early American pioneers in Nebraska. Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the...- $72.00
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Vendor: Zdenko Basic
Steampunk: Charles Dickens' a Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol tells the time-honored tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, whose encounters with the ghosts of Jacob Marley, Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come lead him to examine his bitter existence. Haunting steampunk illustrations by acclaimed artist...- $18.95
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Vendor: Walter Scott
The Bride of Lammermoor
The most haunting and Shakespearean of Scott's novels, The Bride of Lammermoor is a fast-paced tragedy set on the eve of the 1707 Union. The proud young Master of Ravenswood sees his estate pass to the astute Sir William Ashton. When Ravenswood falls in...- $125.00
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Vendor: Maritta Wolff
Sudden Rain
A vivid, gripping, emotional, and addictive read, Sudden Rain is also a rare and valuable portrait of an era: the long-lost final manuscript of Maritta Wolff--the author who, at the age of twenty-two, published what Sinclair Lewis deemed "the most important novel of the...- $19.99
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Vendor: Paul Gilbert
Sherlock Holmes: The Four-Handed Game
Author: Paul GilbertISBN-10: 0719824370ISBN-13: 9780719824371Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)Language: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2018Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.30h x 23.60w x 0.80dAbout the AuthorPaul Gilbert is an undertaker. He is the author of The Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra, and The...- $24.95
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Vendor: Henry Louis Gates
Three Classic African-American Novels: Clotel, Iola Leary, The Marrow of Tradition
Author: Henry Louis Gates, William W. BrownISBN-10: 0679727426ISBN-13: 9780679727422Publisher: Knopf Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/11/1990Pages: 768Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.53lbsSize: 8.06h x 5.18w x 1.56d- $21.00
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Vendor: William Shakespeare
Comedies, Volume 1: Introduction by Tony Tanner
Shakespeare forged his tremendous art in the crucible of his comic imagination, which throughout his life enveloped and contained his tragic one. His early comedies--with their baroque poetic exuberance, intense theatricality, explosive bursts of humor, and superbly concrete realizations of the dialects of love--capture...- $25.00
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Vendor: William Shakespeare
Histories, Vol. 2: Volume 2; Introduction by Tony Tanner
William Shakespeare arrived at his splendid maturity as an artist in his second cycle of history plays. With their superb battle scenes; their magnificent major and minor characters; their stories of ambition, usurpation, guilt, and redemption; and their profound ideas about the social order,...- $28.00
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Vendor: Leo Tolstoy
The Cossacks: Introduction by John Bayley
A brilliant short novel inspired by Leo Tolstoy's experience as a soldier in the Caucasus, The Cossacks has all the energy and poetry of youth while also foreshadowing the great themes of Tolstoy's later years. His na ve hero, Olenin, is a young nobleman...- $24.00
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Vendor: Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier: Introduction by Alan Judd and Max Saunders
When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister and their...- $27.50
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Vendor: Georgette Heyer
These Old Shades
Georgette Heyer virtually invented historical and regency romance. Her witty writing and carful plotting forever changed readers expectations. These Old Shades was originally conceived of as a sequel to her first novel The Black Moth. Ultimately she decided that since These Old Shades was...- $14.99
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These Old Shades
Georgette Heyer virtually invented historical and regency romance. Her witty writing and carful plotting forever changed readers expectations. These Old Shades was originally conceived of as a sequel to her first novel The Black Moth. Ultimately she decided that since These Old Shades was...- $19.99
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The Inimitable Jeeves
When Bingo falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into the mulligatawny, there's work for a wet nurse. Who better than Jeeves? This is the first Jeeves and Wooster story "Plum" ever wrote. Wodehouse weaves his wit through a...- $29.95
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Vendor: Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
Venus in Furs
One of the great classics of erotic literature, Venus in Furs is the story of Severin, who becomes erotically obsessed with the cruel, heartless, and dominating mistress Wanda von Dunajew. Severin gradually submits to more and more painful torment and abuse until physically he...- $14.74
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Dom Casmurro
Originally published in 1899, Dom Casmurro is widely considered to be Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's masterpiece and a progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction. This exuberant new translation captures all the hilarious, maddening, and utterly compelling idiosyncrasies of one of Machado's most complex...- $27.95
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Vendor: Colette
Ch駻i and the End of Ch駻i
Ch駻i and its sequel, The End of Ch駻i, mark Colette's finest achievements in their brilliant, subtle, and frank investigations of love and power. Set in the Parisian demimonde in the last days of the Belle ノpoque, Ch駻i tells the story of L饌, a courtesan...- $16.95
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Vendor: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes: A Tarzan Novel
The first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, Tarzan of the Apes remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur...- $10.00
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Vendor: Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck Finn is an orphaned drifter who loves freedom more than respectability. He isn't above lying and stealing, but he faces a battle with his conscience when he meets up with a runaway slave named Jim, who provides him with his first experiences of...- $23.95
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The Fox at the Manger
For the first time since the war, the Christmas peal is ringing at St Paul's Cathedral. There is joy. There is new hope. It is Christmas Eve, the carol service has ended, and a woman with three small boys leaves the cathedral, the children...- $14.99
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A Princess of Mars: A Barsoom Novel
Suddenly projected to Mars, John Carter found himself captive of the savage green men of Thark. With him was Dejah Thoris, lovely Princess of Helium. And between them and rescue lay a thousand miles of deadly enemies and unknown dangers. The green warrior decided...- $7.99
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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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The fiction classics book collection offers a wide array of timeless and popular books that have captivated readers for generations. These books have stood the test of time, enchanting readers with their compelling narratives, vivid characters, and thought-provoking themes. From celebrated authors to renowned literary treasures, here are some of the popular books you can find within the fiction classics collection:
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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