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Vendor: Thornton Wilder
Theophilus North
"An extremely entertaining array of American life in a bygone era." -- New YorkerThe last of Thornton Wilder's works published during his lifetime, Theophilus North is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventures of Wilder's twin brother who died at birth. This edition features...- $15.99
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Vendor: E. M. Delafield
Diary of a Provincial Lady
Author: E. M. DelafieldISBN-10: 1909621382ISBN-13: 9781909621381Publisher: MacMillan Collector's LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/04/2016Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 6.00h x 3.70w x 0.60d- $14.99
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The Temple of Gnide
Originally published anonymously in 1725, and here presented in a fresh translation by Brian Stableford, The Temple of Gnide is Montesquieu's illicit smash hit from the Age of Enlightenment. The author, whose works were all placed on the Index Prohibitorum by the Church, making...- $12.00
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Vendor: Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis: a 1915 novella written by Franz Kafka. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge...- $19.95
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Vendor: Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet & the Sign of the Four
Author: Arthur Conan DoyleISBN-10: 1909621765ISBN-13: 9781909621763Publisher: MacMillan Collector's LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/23/2016Pages: 328Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 6.10h x 4.00w x 0.70d- $14.99
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Vendor: L. P. Hartley
The Harness Room
Colonel Macready thinks his bookish seventeen-year-old son Fergus is too soft, so he enlists the help of his manly chauffeur, Fred Carrington, to help whip the boy into shape. But the sweaty afternoons in the harness room above the garage take a turn the...- $29.99
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Vendor: Rabindranath Tagore
The Home and the World
The Home and the World is a 1916 novel by Rabindranath Tagore. The book illustrates the battle Tagore had with himself, between the ideas of Western culture and revolution against the Western culture. These two ideas are portrayed in two of the main characters,...- $15.95
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Vendor: Herman Melville
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, published in the early part of 1846, when Melville was 26 years old. Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is based on the author's actual...- $19.95
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Vendor: Carlos Fuentes
A Very Mexican Christmas
This seventh installment in our beloved Very Christmas series is a celebration of the Mexican Yuletide spirit. Replete with mouthwatering Nochebuena meals, mysterious felines, multicolored boxes, marvelous sweet rolls, and many a bedside tale, A Very Mexican Christmas is sure to delight, warm, and...- $25.95
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Vendor: Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers
This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. It opens with the Bishop of Barchester lying on his death bed; soon a battle begins over who will take over power, with key players including...- $16.95
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Vendor: Andrew Lang
Tales of Troy and Greece
From the creator of the Dover Children's Classics 12 volume collection of Andrew Lang's fairy tales Written by a Homeric expert, this condensed retelling of the Greek legends brings these ancient bestsellers to a new generation of fans. This edition is perfect for younger...- $12.95
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Vendor: Bram Stoker
Powers of Darkness: The Unique Version of Dracula
Foreword by Professor Clive Bloom and with Emil ナberg's original illustrations.A unique version of Bram Stoker's seminal gothic masterpiece Dracula, this novel, from the turn of the nineteenth century, is a very early anti-fascist piece of literature, criticizing the Social Darwinism and scientific racism...- $29.10
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Vendor: Rabindranath Tagore
Stories from Tagore
CONTENTSPreface The Cabuliwallah The Home-Coming Once there was a King The Child's Return Master Mashai Subha The Postmaster The Castaway The Son of Rashmani The Babus of Nayanjore Author: Rabindranath TagoreISBN-10: 1644396637ISBN-13: 9781644396636Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/10/2022Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d- $15.95
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Vendor: Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun
This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial...- $24.95
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Vendor: José Rizal
The Reign of Greed
The Reign of Greed (1891) is a novel by José Rizal. Published in Belgium, the novel was a sequel to Touch Me Not (1887), both of which were written in Spanish. Blending aspects of his own life story with his critique of Spanish imperialism...- $23.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Robins
The Messenger
"After all, we aren't yet living in the millennium, Julian. What I'm afraid of is that some day you'll be wanting to carry these notions of yours beyond the bounds of what's reasonable." "You mean," said the other young man, with a flash in...- $7.49
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Vendor: Joseph T. Wilson
The Black Phalanx
The history of the patriotic Negro Americans who swelled the ranks of the Colonial and Continental armies has never been written, nor was any attempt made by the historians of that day to record the deeds of those who dared to face death for...- $9.49
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Vendor: Herman Melville
Redburn
Drawn from Melville's own adolescent experience aboard a merchant ship, Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and...- $20.00
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Vendor: Junichiro Tanizaki
The Makioka Sisters
Junichirō Tanizaki's magisterial evocation of a proud Osaka family in decline during the years immediately before World War II is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the twentieth century and a classic of international literature. Tsuruko, the eldest sister of the once-wealthy Makioka family,...- $18.00
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Vendor: Sinclair Lewis
It Can't Happen Here
"The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump's authoritarian appeal."--Salon It Can't Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily...- $18.00
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Vendor: Arthur C. Clarke
2001: A Space Odyssey
A deluxe hardcover edition of the wondrous space adventure that is the basis for Stanley Kubrick's Oscar-winning film--now celebrating its 50th anniversary Part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman Winner of the AIGA...- $27.00
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Vendor: Paul Bowles
The Sheltering Sky
A landmark of twentieth-century literature. Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads to the ultimate destruction of those cultures. A story about three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II,...- $18.00
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Vendor: Anonymous
Tales from 1,001 Nights: Aladdin, Ali Baba and Other Favourites
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and...- $25.00
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Vendor: James Daley
The World's Greatest Short Stories: Selections from Hemingway, Tolstoy, Woolf, Chekhov, Joyce, Updike and More
Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe...- $8.00
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Vendor: Robert A. Heinlein
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
For fans of Artemis--the visionary tour de force from "one of the grand masters of science fiction" (The Wall Street Journal). Widely acknowledged as one of Robert A. Heinlein's greatest works, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress rose from the golden age of science...- $18.00
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Vendor: Graham Greene
Our Man in Havana
MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories...- $17.00
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Vendor: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper
2018 Reprint of 1892 Edition. This short story is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal...- $2.25
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Vendor: C. F. Cruse
Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History: Complete and Unabridged
Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History is one of the classics of early Christianity and of equal stature with the works of Flavius Josephus. Eusebius chronicles the events of the first three centuries of the Christian Church in such a way as to record a vast number...- $29.95
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Vendor: Cormac McCarthy
Cities of the Plain
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The third volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road - A darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady...- $18.00
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Vendor: Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The sudden appearance and unlikely connection of the sinister Mr. Edward Hyde to the amiable Dr. Henry Jekyll troubles Jekyll's friends. The more they discover about Hyde, a man as elusive as he is venal and cruel, the greater their concern. Matters lurch out...- $5.99
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Vendor: Edwin A. Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
First published in 1884, "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" is English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott's classic work of science fiction. With the use of a geometric theme, Abbott weaves the fascinating tale of "A Square", an inhabitant of "Flatland", a two-dimensional world where women...- $7.99
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Vendor: J. L. Carr
A Month in the Country
A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter--and fully embrace--normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village. In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken...- $15.95
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Vendor: Ernest Hemingway
The Garden of Eden
The last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1986, charts the life of a young American writer and his glamorous wife who fall for the same woman.A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted...- $18.00
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Vendor: Annie Proulx
The Shipping News
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a "head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched...- $18.00
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Vendor: Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event of my whole life"; Ernest Hemingway declared that "all modern American literature stems from this one book," while T. S. Eliot...- $6.00
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Vendor: Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson's rousing seafaring classic. "Fifteen men on a dead man's chest-- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum " For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From young Jim Hawkins's first encounter with the sinister beggar Pew...- $4.95
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Vendor: H. P. Lovecraft
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
"With an increasing distance from the twentieth century...the New England poet, author, essayist, and stunningly profuse epistolary Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period's most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures," writes Alan Moore in his introduction to...- $39.95
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Vendor: Don Delillo
Underworld
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for the National Book Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the Howell's Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books "A...- $22.00
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Vendor: Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
The Heart of Darkness is a powerful examination of the savage nature of western imperialism in the late 1890s. With stunning relevance to the politics and tribulations of today's society, Joseph Conrad's celebrated novel is just as important today as when it was initially...- $5.99
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Vendor: Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Introduction by Kathryn Harrison Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy...- $8.00
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Vendor: James Joyce
Dubliners: Centennial Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
For the centennial of its original publication, an irresistible Deluxe Edition of one of the most beloved books of the 20th century--featuring a foreword by Colum McCann, the bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic Perhaps the greatest short story collection...- $19.00
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Vendor: Charles Dickens
Major Works of Charles Dickens (Penguin Classics Hardcover Boxed Set): Great Expectations; Hard Times; Oliver Twist; A Christmas Carol; Bleak House; A
This perfect gift of perennial favorite Charles Dickens classics includes Great Expectations, Hard Times, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, and A Tale of Two Cities. Bound in high-quality, colorful linen cases with foil-stamped designs inspired by each classic, this specially curated boxed...- $130.00
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Vendor: Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Chiltern Publishing was formed in 2018 with a vision to create the most beautiful classics. Jane Austen's original books (particularly Pride and Prejudice) from the 1800s were our inspiration. So, using a perfect mix of tradition and the very latest in printing techniques, 19th...- $25.00
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Vendor: Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Though set in a place and time far removed from the Germany...- $15.00
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Vendor: Barbara Pym
Excellent Women
"The finest introduction to Barbara Pym" (The New York Times): a hilarious comedy of manners by the shrewdly observant British novelist often compared to Jane Austen One of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury,...- $16.00
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Vendor: Vergil
The Aeneid
A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil's Aeneid restores the epic's spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture. "Vivid and haunting . . . a model of how to render Latin poetry in...- $18.00
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Vendor: Paul Negri
Great American Short Stories: Hawthorne, Poe, Cather, Melville, London, James, Crane, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Bierce, Twain & More
Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale "Young Goodman Brown" and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest Hemingway's 1927 classic, "The Killers." Other selections...- $8.00
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Vendor: Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
About packing meat.The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). Upton Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the changing lives of immigrants traveling to the United States and landing in Chicago or other industrialized cities.Sinclair exposed...- $20.77
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Vendor: W. E. B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history.To develop this groundbreaking work, Du Bois drew from his...- $6.89
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Vendor: Arthur C. Clarke
Childhood's End
Giant silver ships appear above every major city in the world. The Overlords have arrived. They eliminate ignorance, disease, poverty, and fear. After fifty years they also start eliminating humans.Author: Arthur C. ClarkeISBN-10: 0345347951ISBN-13: 9780345347954Publisher: Del Rey BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/1987Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 6.98h...- $7.99
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Fiction Classics Books
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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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