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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The Morgesons and Other Writings: Published and Unpublished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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Vendor: Charles Dickens
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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Vendor: Rosalind Brackenbury
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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Vendor: H. G. Wells
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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Vendor: Maria Grace
Darcy's Decision: Given Good Principles Volume 1
Six months after his father's passing, Fitzwilliam Darcy still finds solace in his morning reflections at his parents' graves. Only in the quiet solitude of the churchyard does he indulge his grief. None but his unlikely mentor recognize the heartache and insecurity plaguing him...- $8.50
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Vendor: Stephen C. Wesley
The Grim Reaper
One bite from a forbidden fruit transforms Adam (from the Garden of Eden) into the Grim Reaper. Stripped of his humanity and consciousness, he is eternally burdened with the task of collecting and delivering all the souls from earth to their afterlife. Unbeknownst to...- $10.95
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Vendor: Rama Balike Bhat
The Divine Anjaneya: Story of Hanuman
Divinity is worshipped in all forms conceivable by the human mind. Lord Rama is an incarnation. Anjaneya is a devotee, and loyal companion and servant of Lord Rama, but by his own merit, Anjaneya is worshipped by Hindus in awe and admiration of the...- $15.95
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Vendor: Larry Pontius
Waking Walt
WAKING WALT is a spellbinding take on one of America s most enduring urban legends. Could it be true; Walt Disney was never cremated and buried at Forest Lawn as the official story goes? Imagine that, for nearly 40 years, the great entertainment genius...- $22.95
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Vendor: Ella Carr
Stories of Southern Italy
This dazzling hardcover collection brings to life the magnificent southern regions of Italy, from Naples to Sicily, as seen through the eyes of literary greats from Ovid and Virgil to Elsa Morante and Elena Ferrante. Southern Italy has long inspired one of the most...- $22.00
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Vendor: J. R. R. Tolkien
The Return of the King (Media Tie-In): The Lord of the Rings: Part Three
Begin your journey to Middle-earth. The inspiration for the upcoming original series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The third part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure The Lord of the Rings. While the evil might of the Dark Lord Sauron swarms...- $8.99
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Vendor: J. R. R. Tolkien
The Two Towers (Media Tie-In): The Lord of the Rings: Part Two
Begin your journey to Middle-earth. The inspiration for the upcoming original series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The second part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship is scattered. Some brace hopelessly for war against...- $8.99
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Vendor: J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring (Media Tie-In): The Lord of the Rings: Part One
Begin your journey to Middle-earth. The inspiration for the upcoming original series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The first part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure The Lord of the Rings. The dark, fearsome Ringwraiths are searching for a Hobbit. Frodo...- $8.99
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Vendor: Emeric Pressburger
The Glass Pearls
This sinister tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a forgotten feat of Hitchcockian noir. Nothing is more inviting to disclose your secrets than to be told by others of their own ... London,...- $12.95
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Vendor: J. M. Barrie
The Story of Peter Pan
The Story of Peter Pan. Retold from the Fairy Play by J. M. Barrie by Daniel O'Connor. Illustrated by Alice B. Woodward. Reproduction of an Edition from about 1915.Author: J. M. Barrie, Daniel O'ConnorISBN-10: 0557370124ISBN-13: 9780557370122Publisher: Lulu PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/21/2010Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.00h...- $14.60
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Vendor: G. a. Henty
The Young Carthaginian
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have...- $33.95
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Vendor: Anton Chekhov
Witch and other stories
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have...- $31.95
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Vendor: Philip I. Roberts
The Dry Dock of a Thousand Wrecks (1912)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...- $26.95
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Vendor: William Golding
The Inheritors
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...- $26.95
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Vendor: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856) is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Although her career peaked with the publication of abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Stowe continued to work as a professional writer throughout her life. A tale...- $31.99
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Vendor: ノmile Zola
The Ladies' Delight
The Ladies' Delight (1883) is a novel by French author ノmile Zola. The eleventh of twenty volumes of Zola's monumental Les Rougon-Macquart series is an epic story of family, politics, class, and history that traces the disparate paths of several French citizens raised by...- $26.99
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Vendor: George Grossmith
The Diary of a Nobody
The spoof diary of a lower-middle-class London clerk, this comic masterpiece-which details the doings of the ridiculously pompous and accident-prone Charles Pooter, his wife Carrie and their troublesome son Lupin-has been a source of delight to generations of readers and inspired many celebrated writers,...- $15.99
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Vendor: Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Novel written by Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray is a story of a young man whose beauty prompts a painter to paint a life-like portrait of him. However, all is not what it seems...Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to...- $16.99
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Vendor: Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth
First published in 1864, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is Jules Verne's classic tale of adventure, one of the earliest examples of science fiction. When German professor Otto Liedenbrock finds a coded message in an original runic manuscript of Snorri Sturluson's Icelandic...- $10.99
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Vendor: Friedrich Nietzsche
Selected Short Stories of Nietzsche
Nietzsche is one of the most popular of modern philosophers. He believed in the power of individuals to lift themselves beyond perceived limits and free themselves of all the conventional confines. His ideas have had a great influence on many Western schools of philosophy....- $23.99
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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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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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