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Vendor: S. S. Van Dine
The Benson Murder Case
New York dilettante Philo Vance decides to assist the police in investigating the death of another man-about-town because he finds the psychological aspects of the crime of interest, and feels that they would be beyond the capacities of the police, even those of his...- $21.75
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Vendor: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Twice Told Tales
"The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective-wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes."- Edgar Allan Poe "To this little book we would say 'Live ever, sweet, sweet book.' It comes from the hand of a man...- $25.99
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Vendor: Charles Dickens
Great Expectations - The Original Classic by Charles Dickens
THE ORIGINAL CLASSIC NOVEL FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1861. The narrative follows the personal growth of an orphan nicknamed Pip. In Great Expectations you will find dramatic scenes of poverty, prison and fights to the death. Memorable characters such as the blacksmith Joe, Miss Havisham...- $16.99
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Vendor: WR Book House
Dirty Limericks
Inside these covers you will find a collection of licentious limericks which have been handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, some of them for over a hundred years. Until quite recently, few of these verses had ever appeared in print...- $12.00
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Vendor: L. M. Montgomery
Chronicles of Avonlea
In which Anne Shirley of Green Gables and Avonlea plays some part, and which have to do with other personalities and events, including The Hurrying of Ludovic, Old Lady Lloyd, The Training of Felix, Little Joscelyn, The Winning of Lucinda, Old Man Shaw's Girl,...- $8.00
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Vendor: Max Brand
The Night Horseman
Max Brand was one of the pen names used by Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944). Faust was an American fiction author best known for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. In the 1910's he began selling stories to pulp fiction...- $26.95
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Vendor: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Faust: A Tragedy
Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Nearly all of Part One and the majority of Part Two are written in rhymed verse. Although rarely staged...- $29.95
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Vendor: Clifford D. Simak
Empire
Clifford Donald Simak ( August 3, 1904 - April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Writers Association...- $29.95
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Vendor: James Fenimore Cooper
Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 - September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances depicting colonist and Indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries created a unique form of American literature....- $33.95
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Vendor: Murray Leinster
Operation: Outer Space
Operation: Outer Space is a science fiction novel by American writer Murray Leinster. It was first published in 1954 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 2,042 copies. The novel concerns the first interstellar flight, financed by making it into a television show. Galaxy...- $16.95
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Vendor: A. R. Harding
Deadfalls and Snares
INTRODUCTIONScattered from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean are thousands of trappers who use deadfalls, snares and other home-made traps, but within this vast territory there are many thousand who know little or nothing...- $29.95
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Vendor: Bernard Shaw
You Never Can Tell
You Never Can Tell is an 1897 four-act play by George Bernard Shaw that debuted at the Royalty Theatre. It was published as part of a volume of Shaw's plays entitled Plays Pleasant. The play is set in a seaside town and tells the...- $29.95
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Vendor: George H. Schodde
The Jewish Book of 1 Enoch with Illustrations
In this book, Dr. Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg and Prof. Pinchas Shir, invite you on a journey of discovery. You will witness the ancient culture embodied by the 1st Book of Enoch and see some of the significant ways it may have influenced the New Testament...- $24.99
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Vendor: J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: Special Edition
J. R. R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings enthusiasts will want to own this very special edition of the classic masterpiece illustrated throughout in color by the author himself and with the complete text printed in two colors--the perfect gift idea!Since it...- $250.00
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Vendor: Henry De Vere Stacpoole
The Blue Lagoon
The Blue Lagoon (1908) is a novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The first in a trilogy of novels including The Garden of God (1923) and The Gates of Morning (1925), The Blue Lagoon is a story of romance and adventure inspired by the...- $20.99
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Vendor: Knut Hamsun
Pan
Pan is an 1894 novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. He wrote it while living in Paris and in Kristiansand, Norway. It remains one of his most famous works. Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, a hunter and ex-military man, lives alone in a hut in the...- $16.95
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Vendor: Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair At Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie. It was written in 1916 and was first published. Styles was Christie's first published novel, introducing Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Lieutenant Hastings (later, Captain). The story is told...- $15.99
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Vendor: Rafael Sabatini
The Carolinian
The Carolinian set in South Carolina from 1775 to 1779, this novel is the tale of Harry Latimer and Myrtle Cary, two lovers from opposing sides of the American revolution. Themes of duty and trust, appearance versus substance, abound in both the love story...- $30.99
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Vendor: Jane Austen
Persuasion (Reader's Library Classics)
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.Young and engaged, Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth were happily ready for their new lives together, but some ill...- $9.99
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Vendor: Joyce Cary
To Be a Pilgrim
Tom Wilcher is a miserly lawyer, deeply at odds with the modern world. Approaching death, amidst a close-knit family that he both resents and loves, he reviews his life and times.Tom Wilcher, the hero of the second volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, has...- $17.99
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Vendor: Lloyd Douglas C
Magnificent Obsession
Robert Merrick is resuscitated by a rescue crew after a boating accident. The crew is thus unable to save the life of Dr. Hudson, a physician renowned for his ability to help people, who was having a heart attack at the same time on...- $23.99
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Vendor: Maria Edgeworth
Belinda
Maria Edgeworth takes on issues of gender and race in her early editions of "Belinda", and although later editions tone down some controversial material to appease audiences, the alterations were most likely made by Edgeworth's father. Edgeworth's story centers around Belinda, a young woman...- $15.99
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Vendor: L. Frank Baum
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
First published in 1908, "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz" is the fourth book in L. Frank Baum's "Oz" series. In this installment of the charming adventures of Dorothy, she has returned from Australia and goes with her Uncle Henry and her cat Eureka...- $8.99
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Vendor: Pauline Hopkins
Of One Blood
A mixed-race Harvard medical student stumbles upon a hidden Ethiopian city, the inhabitants of which possess both advanced technologies and mystical powers. Long before Marvel Comics gave us Wakanda, a high-tech African country that has never been colonized, this 1903 novel gave readers Reuel...- $19.95
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Vendor: Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
Since its first appearance in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1899 and 1900, Lord Jim (1900) has been acclaimed as a modernist masterwork. Its narrative innovations and psychological complexity make it one of the most influential fictions written in the twentieth century and it has...- $140.00
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Vendor: Thomas Mann
The Black Swan
Thomas Mann's bold and disturbing novella, written in 1952, is the feminine counterpart of his masterpiece Death in Venice. Written from the point of view of a woman in what we might now call mid-life crisis, The Black Swan evinces Mann's mastery of psychological...- $26.95
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Vendor: Eberhard W. Sauer
Archaeology and Ancient History: Breaking Down the Boundaries
Challenging both traditional and fashionable theories, this collection of pieces from an international range of contributors explores the separation of the human past into history, archaeology and their related sub-disciplines.Each case study challenges the validity of this separation and asks how we can move...- $49.95
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Vendor: Andrew Dalby
Food in the Ancient World from A to Z
Sensual yet pre-eminently functional, food is of intrinsic interest to us all. This exciting new work by a leading authority explores food and related concepts in the Greek and Roman worlds. In entries ranging from a few lines to a couple of pages, Andrew...- $130.00
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Vendor: Joseph Conrad
The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
Author: Joseph ConradISBN-10: 0393004570ISBN-13: 9780393004571Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1968Pages: 484Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.08d- $28.95
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Vendor: Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome (16pt Large Print Edition)
Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome (1911) is a novel about emotional frigidity. Set in New England in the fictional town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the story concerns Ethan Frome and his cantankerous wife Zeena. Mattie comes to help her cousin Zeena keep house, and her youthful...- $17.99
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Vendor: Charles H. Spurgeon
Spurgeon on Prayer: How to Converse With God (16pt Large Print Edition)
Eight distinct reader advantages including an audio excerpt download and color timeline. Great for group study study guide included. Thousands of Spurgeon's sermons are still read today all over the world. Charles Spurgeon's writinga are still the most popular in Christian history.Author: Charles H....- $41.99
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Vendor: Jennifer Hashmi
Le Grand Meaulnes
Alain-Fournier, was born in 1886 in La Chapelle-d'Angillon in the Cher region of France. His book "Le Grand Meaulnes" is about adolescence and regret for that which is lost. Jennifer Hashmi has not tried to transform Le Grand Meaulnes into an English version of...- $9.75
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Vendor: Ronald Firbank
Inclinations
Miss O'Brookomore became evasive. "I want you to repress yourself a little for a few days. Be more discreet." "Because ----" "Professor and Mrs. Cowsend have the rooms next ours..." "Buz Let them " "Also, the Arbanels are here on their honeymoon....You never saw...- $13.95
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Vendor: John Glassco
The English Governess
A classic of Canadian erotica, this is the original restored edition of the flagellation story Glassco crafted for the notorious Paris publisher Maurice Girodias and his Olympia Press.Author: John GlasscoISBN-10: 091961485XISBN-13: 9780919614857Publisher: Dundurn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2000Pages: 134Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.20w x 0.50d- $19.99
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Vendor: H. Rider Haggard
Adventures in the Ancient World: 5-Belshazzar
An addition to the Leonaur Ancient Adventures series by H. Rider Haggard Rider Haggard is one of the most famous authors of adventure fiction in the English language. Almost everyone has heard of Allan Quatermain-the hero of King Solomon's Mines-and the beautiful, ruthless, magically...- $28.00
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Vendor: Jane Austen
Emma
Set in the Regency era of England, Emma is a classic romance novel. Emma Woodhouse is twenty years old. She's rich, spoiled, and thinks she's a terrific matchmaker. Her only critic is her friend George Knightley. Emma tries playing matchmaker, and while she has...- $17.95
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Vendor: Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Minalima Edition): (Illustrated with Interactive Elements)
Lewis Carroll's beloved classic stories are reimagined in this deluxe illustrated gift edition from the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise, MinaLima--designed with stunning full color artwork and several interactive features.Originally published in 1865, Lewis Carroll's exquisite Alice's...- $32.50
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Vendor: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote
The canonical Spanish classic, now in a beautiful hardcover edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom...- $30.00
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Vendor: Georgette Heyer
These Old Shades
These Old Shades is considered to be the book that launched Georgette Heyer's career and helped usher her into becoming the Queen of Regency Romance. It features two of Heyer's most memorable characters: Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, and Leonie, whom he rescues...- $15.99
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Vendor: Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried
A classic, life-changing meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling, with more than two-million copies in print Depicting the men of Alpha Company--Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who survived...- $30.00
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Vendor: Ivan Turgenev
First Love
Isaiah Berlin's translation of the legendary Russian novella of growing up and heartbreak When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida. But the...- $11.00
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Vendor: David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and...- $40.00
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Vendor: Alexander Afanasyev
Tales from Russian Folklore: New Translation
Presented in a brand new translation, this most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales will enchant readers for their raw beauty and constant ability to surprise and excite. Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, following the example of the Brothers Grimm in Germany,...- $14.00
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Vendor: Tatyana Tolstaya
The Slynx
New in Paperback "A postmodern literary masterpiece." -The Times Literary Supplement Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn't one to complain. He's got a job--transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great...- $17.95
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Vendor: J. R. R. Tolkien
The Treason of Isengard
The second part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.The Treason of Isengard continues the account of...- $18.99
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Vendor: Daniel Defoe
Captain Singleton
The only student edition of Daniel Defoe's classic novel of piracy. Author: Daniel DefoeISBN-10: 1554813417ISBN-13: 9781554813414Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/2019Pages: 424Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d- $21.25
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Vendor: Italo Calvino
Marcovaldo: Or the Seasons in the City
A charming portrait of one man's dreams and schemes, by "the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century" (Guardian). In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, an unskilled worker in a drab northern industrial...- $18.99
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Vendor: Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness - Ed. Goonetilleke - Third Edition
This edition breaks new ground in the way in which it contextualizes Conrad's classic novella. Author: Joseph ConradISBN-10: 1554815533ISBN-13: 9781554815531Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/2020Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d- $15.25
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Vendor: Jane Austen
Persuasion (World Classics, Unabridged)
Persuasion is a tale of love, heartache and the determination of one woman as she strives to reignite a lost love. Anne Elliot is persuaded by her friends and family to reject a marriage proposal from Captain Wentworth because he lacks in fortune and...- $10.84
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Vendor: Fritz Peters
Finist鑽e
A lyrical gay coming-of-age story first published in 1951, acclaimed by Gore Vidal and The New York Times, about Matthew, a young American who moves to France with his mother following his parents' divorce. As Matthew navigates his budding sexuality and complicated new relationships,...- $22.95
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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
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