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Vendor: Francis Lathom
Italian Mysteries
"He drew aside the covering which concealed the face of the subject...guess, if you can, the horror, the astonishment, when, in the countenance of the deceased, I beheld my own mother " The worthy doctor Urbino di Cavetti is kidnapped and led blindfolded to...- $22.99
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Vendor: Anonymous
The Cavern of Death
After a three year absence and a terrifying journey through the Black Forest, young Sir Albert has returned to Dornheim, eager to see again his friend Lord Frederic and his true love, the lady Constance. But his joy on his homecoming is short-lived when...- $16.99
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Vendor: John Palmer
Mystery of the Black Tower
Set in the violent times of Edward III, when England is at war against the Scots and the French, The Mystery of the Black Tower is the story of young Leonard, who longs to escape the anonymity of his peasant's life. Seeking to win...- $18.99
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Vendor: Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
The Strange Crime in Bermuda / Too Many Bottles
STRANGE CRIME IN BERMUDA Hamish Grier received a telegram from his old friend Hector Malloy asking him to visit him in Bermuda. On the ship down he meets Stephanie Rose, a brash young lady who turns out to be Molloy's island neighbor. But the...- $19.95
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Vendor: Wallace Boston
Opportunity and Horatio Alger: Mark Mason's Triumph
Horatio Alger created youthful heroes whose persistence and pluck triumphed over enormous odds, often having to educate themselves by a flickering candle and late at night. Readers could identify with the challenges of self-education in a society where only a few had advantages. Mark...- $10.24
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Careers in the Face of Challenge: Horatio Alger's Telegraph Boy
The young Horatio Alger heroes often sold newspapers or delivered telegrams, a reminder of how technology has moved on. But they hoped for better things and in the Alger novels their diligence and hard work won the day and they ended up getting the...- $8.25
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Vendor: R. Menville Douglas Reginald
Ancestral Voices
Originally published in 1974, this anthology includes facsimile reprints of ten early science fiction stories: "A Glance Ahead: Being a Christmas Tale of A.D. 3568," by John Kendrick Bangs; "The Third Eye," by Robert W. Chambers; "The Space Annihilator," by Harle Oren Cummins; "A...- $22.95
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Vendor: Firdawsei
The Legend of Seyavash
The Legend of Seyavash comes from the middle section of the Shahnameh, Iran's national epic by the poet Ferdowsi (c940-c1020) and presents a world of warfare, military prowess, romance, guile, and fierce tribal loyalty. Ferdowsi's epic style and mastery of poetic organisation, however, is...- $19.95
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Vendor: Jules Verne
The Castaways of the Flag
Author: Jules VerneISBN-10: 0898751101ISBN-13: 9780898751109Publisher: University Press of the PacificLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2000Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.65d- $19.99
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Vendor: John Steinbeck
The Red Pony
For use in schools and libraries only. Traces a boy's journey into manhood after his father gives him a pony to train and care forAuthor: John SteinbeckISBN-10: 0881030422ISBN-13: 9780881030426Publisher: Turtleback BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1993Pages: 112Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 6.96h x 4.10w x 0.55dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.1Point...- $24.50
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Vendor: Vilhelm Moberg
The Brides of Midsummer
For centuries, people have celebrated every Midsummer's Eve at an ancient spring near a small Swedish village. On that special night, when unmarried men and women dance and some unusual activities are permitted, the Bridal Spring has special powers. Vilhelm Moberg introduces four musicians...- $18.95
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Vendor: Willa Cather
Lucy Gayheart
At the turn of the century, Lucy is a talented pianist, studying music in Chicago, returning occasionally to provincial Haverford, the town of her birth. She meets and falls in love with a middle-aged opera singer whose influence will change the course of her...- $20.99
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Vendor: Stephen Knight
Robin Hood: The Forresters Manuscript (British Library Additional MS 71158)
The major discovery of a late 17c manuscript of Robin Hood ballads is a significant event in the study of early English popular culture: fuller and variant ballad texts introduced with full critical apparatus. The discovery of the Forresters Manuscript in 1993 cast new...- $105.00
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Vendor: Frederic Manning
The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916
A classic story of men in the trenches Frederic Manning, the author of this book, which is also known as Her Privates We, was a well regarded Australian writer and poet who settled in the United Kingdom in the early years of the 20th...- $16.00
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The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916
A classic story of men in the trenches Frederic Manning, the author of this book, which is also known as Her Privates We, was a well regarded Australian writer and poet who settled in the United Kingdom in the early years of the 20th...- $28.00
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Vendor: Harley Erdman
Tirso de Molina: Jealous of Herself
Tirso de Molina's Jealous of Herself (c. 1622-23) is an ingenious comedy of disguise and deception, set in the streets, plazas and fashionable apartments of early 17th-century Madrid.Author: Harley ErdmanISBN-10: 0856688762ISBN-13: 9780856688768Publisher: Liverpool University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2012Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.80w x...- $30.00
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Vendor: Tobias George Smollett
The History and Adventures of an Atom
In The History and Adventures of an Atom, a London haberdasher relates extraordinary tales of ancient Japan as dictated to him by an omniscient atom that has lived within the bodies of great figures of state. Intended "for the instruction of British ministers," the...- $41.95
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Vendor: Abraham Merritt
The Moon Pool
One of the most gripping fantasies ever written, The Moon Pool embodies all the romanticism and poetic nostalgia characteristic of A. Merritt's writings. Set on the island of Ponape, full of ruins from ancient civilizations, the novel chronicles the adventures of a party of...- $26.95
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Vendor: Lisabeth C. Buchelt
The Snake's Pass: A Critical Edition
In 1890, The Snake's Pass was published in serialized form in the periodical The People. It is the story of Arthur Severn, an Englishman who has inherited wealth and a title through an aunt who took him under her wing to the exclusion of...- $34.95
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Vendor: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Centenary Ed Works Nathaniel Hawthorne: Miscellaneous Prose and Verse
"Because it represents the first scholarly effort to establish texts as close as possible to the intentions of the author, this Centenary Edition makes obsolete all previous editions, notorious for their textual corruption. An eminent staff . . . has analyzed and synthesized the...- $131.95
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Vendor: Sarah Fielding
Adventures of David Simple-Pa
"The Adventures of David Simple (1744), Sarah Fielding's first and most celebrated novel, went through several editions, the second of which was heavily revised by her brother Henry. This edition includes Henry's ""corrections"" in an appendix. In recounting the guileless hero's search for a...- $35.00
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Vendor: Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Part One
Author: Laurence SterneISBN-10: 0813005809ISBN-13: 9780813005805Publisher: University Press of FloridaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1978Pages: 487Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.35lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.44w x 1.76d- $75.00
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Vendor: Elizabeth Stoddard
The Morgesons and Other Writings: Published and Unpublished
"Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more sympathetic and perceptive hearing in our time than in her own."--from the Introduction The centerpiece of...- $34.95
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Vendor: Romain Gary
The Life Before Us
Momo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores' children at Madame Rosa's boarding house in Paris ever since he can remember. But when the check that pays for his keep no longer arrives and as Madame Rosa becomes too ill to climb...- $16.95
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Vendor: Sherwood Anderson
Poor White
Completed one year after his classic Winesburg, Ohio and long regarded as his finest novel, Sherwood Anderson's Poor White captures the spirit of small-town America during the Machine Age. Hugh McVey is a protagonist Robert Lovett once called a symbol of the country itself...- $19.95
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Vendor: Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Fiction, Classics
Dorian Gray doesn't look a day over twenty-two. Once upon a time, Dorian really was young, handsome, and charming. To preserve Dorian's charm, his friend Basil Hallward the artist painted his portrait. Soon, the picture -- and Dorian's close friendship with Basil -- On...- $15.95
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Vendor: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Classics, Action & Adventure
A ship's mutiny forces a young noble English couple out onto the African coast, and their child is born in the wild. When they die a short time later, the boy is adopted by an ape, and raised as her own. The boy, Tarzan,...- $21.95
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Vendor: Benjamin Disraeli
Sybil, or the Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli, Fiction, Classics
The book is a roman th se, or a novel with a thesis -- which was meant to create a furor over the squalor that was plaguing England's working class cities. The general reader whose attention has not been specially drawn to the subject...- $26.95
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Vendor: Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, Fiction, Classics
Headless horsemen were staples of Northern European storytelling, featuring in German, Irish (e.g. Dullahan), Scandinavian (e.g. the Wild Hunt) and English legends and were included in Robert Burns's "Tam o' Shanter" (1790), and B?ger's Der wilde J臠er, translated as The Wild Huntsman (1796). Usually...- $12.95
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Vendor: Anton Chekhov
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, Fiction, Classics, Literary, Short Stories
First published in 1899, The Lady With the Dog describes an adulterous affair between an unhappily married Moscow banker and a young married woman that begins while both are vacationing alone in Yalta. It is one of Chekhov's most famous pieces of short fiction...- $38.95
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Vendor: Johnston McCulley
The Mark of Zorro
A thrill-a minute ride set in the days of Spanish colonialism in California, where thugs and greedy tyrants try to wrest every penny from peasants . . . and the one hero who defends the common man is the mysterious masked stranger who calls...- $9.99
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Vendor: Frank Norris
Vandover and the Brute
Posthumously published in 1914, Vandover and the Brute is probably Frank Norris's first complete novel, much of it written when he was a student at Harvard in 1894-1895. The subject matter made it unacceptable to turn-of-the-century taste, and when the book finally did appear...- $19.95
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Vendor: Willa Cather
Obscure Destinies
The jacket of the first edition of Obscure Destinies announced "Three New Stories of the West," heralding Willa Cather's return to what many thought of as "her" territory--the Great Plains. These three stories, "Neighbour Rosicky," "Old Mrs. Harris," and "Two Friends," reflected her return...- $80.00
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Vendor: Grazia Deledda
The Church of Solitude
A translation of Grazia Deledda's final novel, an autobiographically based portrayal of an Italian woman coming to terms with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century.Author: Grazia DeleddaISBN-10: 0791454584ISBN-13: 9780791454589Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2002Pages: 182Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.92h...- $33.95
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Vendor: Miguel De Cervantes
Don Quixote de La Mancha
With a wealth of fancy and an irrepressible high spirit, this beloved adventure story pokes fun at the exaggerated social and literary conventions of Cervantes' day. Driven mad by reading too many chivalric romances, Don Quixote decks himself out in rusty armor and a...- $54.95
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Vendor: Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
One of Dickens' most popular novels, Oliver Twist tells the story of a young workhouse orphan who escapes into the mean backstreets of Victorian London. There, he is thrust into a den of thieves where some of Dickens' most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible...- $32.95
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Bleak House
Bleak House opens in a London shrouded by fog--a fog that swirls most densely about the Court of Chancery, where the obscure case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce lies lost in endless litigation, slowly devouring an inheritance in legal costs. Against this ominous background, Dickens'...- $39.95
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Vendor: James Hogg
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
This now-famous book was given a hostile reception when it first appeared in 1824. It was not reprinted until the late 1830s, when a heavily bowdlerised version was included in a posthumous edition of Hogg's collected Tales and Sketches published by Blackie & Son...- $125.00
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Vendor: Broderick Madden Archive
The Beast in the Jungle
The Beast in the Jungle, a classic novella by Henry James, is revived in this new edition by Broderick Madden Archive. The Archive seeks to produce attractive, affordable copies of classic literature with students and avid readers in mind. The end of the text...- $10.00
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Vendor: Anthony Corbeill
Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome
Bodily gesture. A Roman worshipper spins in a circle in front of a temple. Faced with death, a Roman woman tears her hair and beats her breasts. Enthusiastic spectators at a gladiatorial event gesticulate with thumbs. Examining the tantalizing glimpses of ancient bodies offered...- $84.00
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Vendor: Edith Wharton
The Custom of the Country
"For my money, no literary antiheroine can best Undine." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker Edith Wharton's compulsively readable 20th century classic about the conquests of Undine Spragg, the glamorous and insatiable social climber--now with a new introduction by Brandon Taylor. Undine Spragg is beautiful--anyone...- $19.99
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Vendor: Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's. In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape--her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue...- $16.00
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A Day to Remember to Forget
Lucy and Philip are a progressive young couple in a period of extraordinary change - the late 1960s. Considerations of marriage and the purchase of their first house put them in the way of tradition, but they both feel the huge gap between themselves...- $13.95
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Vendor: Ronald Firbank
Odette: A Fairy Tale for Weary People
Odette d'Antrevernes, a sheltered and enthusiastic young girl, lives with her widowed mother, her Creole nurse and their aged butler in an old grey chateau by the Loire. She receives regular visits from the old Cur of Bois-Fleuri, who tells her thrilling stories of...- $14.95
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Vendor: Shan Lee
Love Leiyah
With the unexpected arrival of a package from South Africa, the epic love stories of three vastly different women slowly unfold. But what did the package contain that has forced the women of the Gordon household to finally reveal their secrets? Why did they...- $8.99
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Vendor: Charles Dickens
Five Tales of Christmas: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man
Dickens is widely known for his masterpiece "A Christmas Carol." Yet it was only the first in a series of five short novels set in the Christmas season, composed by Dickens over six years. Each is a unique classic, and a profound celebration of...- $23.99
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Vendor: Andrew Lang
A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. "A Tale of Two Cities" is a novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, and depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries...- $14.98
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Vendor: Mark Diederichsen
Sense and Sensibility
All new 6x9 inch paperback edition. "Sense and Sensibility" (considered the first "modern" English novel) portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, in southwest England between 1792 and 1797. The novel follows the young ladies from their comfortable life...- $11.49
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The Time Machine
A scientist builds a machine that can travel through time In the far future, he meets the Eloi, a child-like race. They live in peace and don't do any work, though the machines around them have been deteriorating for centuries. When he returns to...- $8.99
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Vendor: F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise
Amory Blaine is an young man from the Midwest who feels he's destined for greatness. He attends Princeton University, and on a trip back to Minneapolis, he encounters Isabelle Borg , a young woman he'd met years before. When their relationship doesn't work out,...- $12.95
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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.
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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"
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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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