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by Harper Lee
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the...Read More
Publication Date: Jun 2006

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780061120084
ISBN10: 0061120081
Pages: 323



by Harper Lee
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the...Read More
Publication Date: Jun 2006





Talk about respect for the feminine! Which, it turns out, is simply respect for the soul. That this author was sent by Providence...to show me the difference between convention and...Read More
Publication Date: Jan 2003

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780486424491
ISBN10: 0486424499
Pages: 448



Talk about respect for the feminine! Which, it turns out, is simply respect for the soul. That this author was sent by Providence...to show me the difference between convention and...Read More
Publication Date: Jan 2003





by Jane Austen
Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is an entertaining tale that revolves around two different sisters: Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Where Elinor exercises reason and calm consideration, her...Read More
Publication Date: Jul 2004

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9781593081256
ISBN10: 1593081251
Co-Author: Laura Engel
Editor: Laura Engel
Pages: 352



by Jane Austen
Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is an entertaining tale that revolves around two different sisters: Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Where Elinor exercises reason and calm consideration, her...Read More
Publication Date: Jul 2004





Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 1998

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780385333481
ISBN10: 038533348X
Pages: 304



Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 1998





by Jane Austen
Arrange the great English novelists as one will, it does not seem possible to bring them out in any order where she is not the first, or second or third,...Read More
Publication Date: Aug 2003

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9781593080204
ISBN10: 1593080204
Co-Author: Carol Howard
Editor: Carol Howard
Pages: 416



by Jane Austen
Arrange the great English novelists as one will, it does not seem possible to bring them out in any order where she is not the first, or second or third,...Read More
Publication Date: Aug 2003





Repetitive, indecent, often very funny, it is wonderfully sustained by the author, who achieves all those ancient effects to be got from a hero who is in some ways inferior,...Read More
Publication Date: Jan 2001

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780316769174
ISBN10: 0316769177
Pages: 288



Repetitive, indecent, often very funny, it is wonderfully sustained by the author, who achieves all those ancient effects to be got from a hero who is in some ways inferior,...Read More
Publication Date: Jan 2001





by Alice Walker
Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her...Read More
Publication Date: May 2003

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780156028356
ISBN10: 0156028352
Pages: 300



by Alice Walker
Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her...Read More
Publication Date: May 2003





by Jane Austen
Sparkling comedy of provincial manners concerns a well-intentioned young heiress and her matchmaking schemes that result in comic confusion for the inhabitants of a 19th-century English village. Droll characterizations o...Read More
Publication Date: Mar 1999

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780486406480
ISBN10: 0486406482
Pages: 384



by Jane Austen
Sparkling comedy of provincial manners concerns a well-intentioned young heiress and her matchmaking schemes that result in comic confusion for the inhabitants of a 19th-century English village. Droll characterizations o...Read More
Publication Date: Mar 1999





Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling...Read More
Publication Date: Oct 2006

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780060850524
ISBN10: 0060850523
Pages: 259



Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling...Read More
Publication Date: Oct 2006





This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the.....Read More
Publication Date: Jun 2003

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780142004234
ISBN10: 0142004235
Pages: 608



This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the.....Read More
Publication Date: Jun 2003





Publication Date: May 1998

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780192833549
ISBN10: 0192833545
Pages: 379






by Jane Austen
For over 150 years, Pride And Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen herself called this brilliant work her 'own darling child.'...Read More
Publication Date: Dec 1983

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780553213102
ISBN10: 0553213105
Pages: 352



by Jane Austen
For over 150 years, Pride And Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen herself called this brilliant work her 'own darling child.'...Read More
Publication Date: Dec 1983





by Jane Austen
Deepens and confuses our apprehension of Jane Austen. The earlier books set such store by fine manners that it's alarming to find her not merely loosening her respect for them...Read More
Publication Date: Aug 2005

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9781593080488
ISBN10: 1593080484
Co-Author: Susan Ostrov Weisser
Editor: Susan Ostrov Weisser
Pages: 304



by Jane Austen
Deepens and confuses our apprehension of Jane Austen. The earlier books set such store by fine manners that it's alarming to find her not merely loosening her respect for them...Read More
Publication Date: Aug 2005





Celebrate the 60th anniversary of Orwellas masterpiece '1984' Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwellas chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwellas narrative is...Read More
Publication Date: Jul 1950

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780451524935
ISBN10: 0451524934
Co-Author: Erich Fromm
Pages: 268



Celebrate the 60th anniversary of Orwellas masterpiece '1984' Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwellas chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwellas narrative is...Read More
Publication Date: Jul 1950





by Jane Austen
Arrange the great English novelists as one will, it does not seem possible to bring them out in any order where she is not the first, or second or third,...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 2005

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9781593082017
ISBN10: 1593082010
Co-Author: Carol Howard
Pages: 392



by Jane Austen
Arrange the great English novelists as one will, it does not seem possible to bring them out in any order where she is not the first, or second or third,...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 2005





by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, possibly the most influential and controversial novel of ideas in American history, presents a philosophy of vital interest to anyone seeking an understanding of our present-day culture. As...Read More
Publication Date: Sep 1996

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780451191151
ISBN10: 0451191153
Co-Author: Ayn Rand
Editor: Leonard Peikoff
Pages: 704






by Jane Austen
It's hard to believe that Jane Austen wrote the sophisticated and acerbic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE when she was only 21 years old, in 1797. Originally entitled FIRST IMPRESSIONS, the novel...Read More
Publication Date: Oct 2000

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780393976045
ISBN10: 0393976041
Co-Author: Donald J. Gray
Pages: 424



by Jane Austen
It's hard to believe that Jane Austen wrote the sophisticated and acerbic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE when she was only 21 years old, in 1797. Originally entitled FIRST IMPRESSIONS, the novel...Read More
Publication Date: Oct 2000





Edmond Dantes, a young sailor from Marseilles, soon to become captain of his own ship and married to his beloved, finds himself betrayed by spiteful enemies and condemned to lifelong...Read More
Publication Date: May 2004

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780743487559
ISBN10: 0743487559
Co-Author: Brantley Johnson
Editor: Margaret Brantley
Pages: 663



Edmond Dantes, a young sailor from Marseilles, soon to become captain of his own ship and married to his beloved, finds himself betrayed by spiteful enemies and condemned to lifelong...Read More
Publication Date: May 2004





THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME The Fellowship was scattered. Some were bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Some were contending with the treachery of...Read More
Publication Date: Aug 1986

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780345339713
ISBN10: 0345339711
Pages: 416



THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME The Fellowship was scattered. Some were bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Some were contending with the treachery of...Read More
Publication Date: Aug 1986





...'Little Women' represents Alcott's belief that the fullest art came from women who had fulfilled both their sexual and their intellectual needs....Jo lives and writes, not as the unattainable genius,...Read More
Publication Date: Apr 2004

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780451529305
ISBN10: 0451529308
Co-Author: Susan Straight
Editor: Susan Straight
Pages: 464



...'Little Women' represents Alcott's belief that the fullest art came from women who had fulfilled both their sexual and their intellectual needs....Jo lives and writes, not as the unattainable genius,...Read More
Publication Date: Apr 2004





Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely that ever. 1984 presents a 'negative...Read More
Publication Date: Apr 1983

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780452262935
ISBN10: 0452262933
Co-Author: Erich Fromm
Pages: 294



Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely that ever. 1984 presents a 'negative...Read More
Publication Date: Apr 1983





Publication Date: Aug 2004

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780143034445
ISBN10: 0143034448
Pages: 862






THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band...Read More
Publication Date: Jul 1986

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780345339683
ISBN10: 0345339681
Pages: 320



THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band...Read More
Publication Date: Jul 1986





revisit Orwellas classic satire 'Animal Farm' As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals and...Read More
Publication Date: Apr 1996

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780451526342
ISBN10: 0451526341
Co-Author: C. M. Woodhouse
Editor: Russell Baker
Pages: 144



revisit Orwellas classic satire 'Animal Farm' As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals and...Read More
Publication Date: Apr 1996





14.5 Million copies sold to date The classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature-now available as a Premium Edition with a stunning new cover and re-set, easy-to-read text....
Publication Date: Jul 1959

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780399501487
ISBN10: 0399501487
Pages: 208



14.5 Million copies sold to date The classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature-now available as a Premium Edition with a stunning new cover and re-set, easy-to-read text....
Publication Date: Jul 1959





And while he was at his first-rate quantum best, he used everything he knew of society--as critic, as victim--to compose at least one work, 'The Great Gatsby', that in a...Read More
Publication Date: Oct 2004

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780743273565
ISBN10: 0743273567
Pages: 180



And while he was at his first-rate quantum best, he used everything he knew of society--as critic, as victim--to compose at least one work, 'The Great Gatsby', that in a...Read More
Publication Date: Oct 2004





Wrongfully imprisoned for fourteen years, Edmond Dantes escapes to the island of Monte Cristo. What awaits him there is a fortune in gold-and a new identity with which to persue...
Publication Date: Apr 2005

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780451529701
ISBN10: 0451529707
Co-Author: Roger Celestin
Pages: 528



Wrongfully imprisoned for fourteen years, Edmond Dantes escapes to the island of Monte Cristo. What awaits him there is a fortune in gold-and a new identity with which to persue...
Publication Date: Apr 2005





Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and...Read More
Publication Date: Jan 1991

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780316769488
ISBN10: 0316769487
Pages: 224



Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and...Read More
Publication Date: Jan 1991





Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling...Read More
Publication Date: Jan 1999

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9780385333849
ISBN10: 0385333846
Pages: 288



Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling...Read More
Publication Date: Jan 1999





Complete and unabridged, here is the classic tale of 19-year-old Edmond Dantes who on his wedding day is framed for a crime he did not commit. While locked away Edmond...Read More
Publication Date: Mar 2004

Genre: Classics
ISBN13: 9781593080884
ISBN10: 1593080883
Co-Author: Luc Sante
Pages: 634



Complete and unabridged, here is the classic tale of 19-year-old Edmond Dantes who on his wedding day is framed for a crime he did not commit. While locked away Edmond...Read More
Publication Date: Mar 2004

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