 | Look Homeward, Angel
Release Date: October 10, 2006 The stunning, classic coming-of-age novel written by one of America's foremost Southern writers A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look Homeward, Angel, his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better life, in 1929. It gave the world proof of his genius and launched a powerful legacy. The novel follows the trajectory of Eugene Gant, a brilliant and restless young man whose wanderlust and passion shape his adolescent years in rural N...
 |  | Hard Times (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: August 22, 2001| ISBN-10: 0486419207 | ISBN-13: 978-0486419206| Edition: 1 Classic 1845 novel offers a powerful indictment of the dehumanizing effects of mid-19th-century industrialization. Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a sterile atmosphere of strict practicality. With no guiding principles, the young Gradgrinds sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out against the grim backdrop of Coketown, a wretched industrial community. ...
|  | Demian (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: December 18, 2000| Series: Dover Thrift Editions A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man's quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its 1919 publication. A landmark in the history of 20th-century literature, it reflects the author's preoccupation with the duality of human nature and the pursuit of spiritual fullfillment. Excellent new English translation. Introduction. ...
|  | Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid box set: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions)
Release Date: September 30, 2009| Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio A glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles’s award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literatureONE OF THE PREEMINENT translators of our time, Robert Fagles’s interpretations of these epic poems give new life to three seminal works in the Western canon. The Penguin Classic Deluxe Editions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid are collected here for the first time in a specially designed gift box. Each volume contains a superb introduction by renowned classicist Bernard Knox. @Rage...
|  | Silas Marner (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: August 29, 1996| ISBN-10: 0486292460 | ISBN-13: 978-0486292465Engrossing tale — with a heartwarming denouement — of a lonely and embittered country weaver whose life is drastically changed when he becomes the guardian of an orphaned child. A masterly portrait of moral and psychological behavior in Victorian England, widely hailed for its brevity and perfection of form. ...
|  | Macbeth (Signet Classics)
Release Date: April 1, 1998"A first-rate entree to the Bard," hailed Publishers Weekly in praise of Bruce Coville?s adaptation of A Midsummer Night?s Dream (Dial). Now the author follows with Macbeth, expertly weaving his own dramatic yet accessible prose with language from the play, creating a gateway to the greater enjoyment of the original. Powerful paintings, rich in atmosphere, by renowned artist Gary Kelley?winner of twenty medals from the Society of Illustrators?make this, like its predecessor, ?a classic in itself, full justice to the genius that came before.? * A perfect gift for bo...
|  | The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Release Date: December 23, 2003| Series: Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare LibraryThe world's leading center for Shakespeare studiesEach edition includes:• Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play• Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play• Scene-by-scene plot summaries• A key to famous lines and phrases• An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language• An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play• Illustrations from the Folg...
|  | The Prince (Bantam Classics)
Release Date: August 1, 1984| ISBN-10: 0553212788 | ISBN-13: 978-0553212785Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that was practical, not idealistic. In The Prince he envisioned would be unencumbered by ordinary ethical and moral valu...
|  | 'Tis: A Memoir
Release Date: August 28, 2000Frank McCourt’s glorious childhood memoir, Angela’s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape.And now we have ’Tis, the story of Frank’s American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank...
|  | Untouchable (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Release Date: July 3, 1990| Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet none the less he is an outcast in India's caste system: an Untouchable. In deceptively simple prose this groundbreaking novel describes a day in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, as he searches for a meaning to the tragic existence he has been born into - and comes to an unexpected conclusion. Mulk Raj Anand poured a vitality, fire and richness of detail into his controversial work, which led him to be acclaimed as his country's Charles Dickens and one of the t...
|  | Othello (Shakespeare, Signet Classic)
Release Date: April 1, 1998| Series: Shakespeare, Signet Classic An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of key passages. ...
|  | Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Vol. 1
Release Date: November 1, 1986Sherlock HolmesThe Complete Novels and StoriesVolume ISince his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime!Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the ...
|  | Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 019953649X | ISBN-13: 978-0199536498One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel.In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists," even eclipsing the sensational factional politics of the day.Preached for its morality, and denounced as pornography in disguise, it vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of her predatory ...
|  | Treasure Island (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: March 10, 2010 ...
|  | The Turn of the Screw (Second Edition)(Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: July 17, 1999| Series: Norton Critical Editions This text is the first-and only-modern text to follow the New York Edition, the one which had James's final authority.Contexts includes twenty-six selections, from James's letters, notebooks, and other writings during the period 1863-1908, centering on the ghost story, the supernatural and, in particular, "my little book," The Turn of the Screw. Also reproduced are four paintings by Charles Demuth. The essays in Criticism span one hundred years, providing a rich array of perspectives on James and his story. Representing contem...
|  | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Case Studies in Critical Controversy)
Publication Date: December 25, 2003| ISBN-10: 0312400292 | ISBN-13: 978-0312400293| Edition: 2nd Like its popular predecessor, this critical edition is designed for "teaching the conflicts" surrounding Mark Twain’s classic novel. It reprints the 1885 text of the first American edition (with a portfolio of illustrations) along with critical essays representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work. The novel and essays are supported by distinctive editorial material — including introductions to critical conflict in literary studies, to Twain’s li...
|  | Don Quijote de la Mancha (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: March 9, 2010| Series: Vintage Espanol Launched simultaneously in Spain and the Americas, this work aims to divulge the great novel of Spanish Literature by means of a high quality, well-taken care of edition at a very reduced price. The book contains a prologue by Mario Vargas Llosa, an introductory text and complementary analysis by other academics, along with an extensive glossary of terms that will help readers get to know Cervantes’ language. This beautiful hardbound edition is 5 x 8 inches, 1360 pages of fine biblical Italian paper, and will be sewn at the spine with...
|  | Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
Release Date: March 7, 2006One of the world’s greatest novels, Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder and its consequences—an unparalleled tale of suspense set in the midst of nineteenth-century Russia’s troubled transition to the modern age.In the slums of czarist St. Petersburg lives young Raskolnikov, a sensitive, intellectual student. The poverty he has always known drives him to believe that he is exempt from moral law. But when he puts this belief to the test and commits murder, there results unbearable suffering. Crime and punishment, the novel reminds us, &ld...
|  | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Norton Critical Edition)
Publication Date: August 29, 2006| ISBN-10: 0393927547 | ISBN-13: 978-0393927542| Edition: 2nd This Norton Critical Edition is the only editionavailable that includes both the 1890Lippincott’s and the 1891 book versions of ThePicture of Dorian Gray, allowing students tocompare the two published versions with theeditorial guidance of Michael PatrickGillespie.“Backgrounds” and “Reviews andReactions” allow readers to gauge the novel’ssensational reception and to consider the heated public debate over art and morality that thenovel engendered. ...
|  | The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories (2 Vol. Set)
Publication Date: November 17, 2004A cause for international celebration—the mostimportant Sherlock Holmes publication in fourdecades.This monumental edition promises to be the most important new contribution to Sherlock Holmes literature since William Baring-Gould's 1967 classic work. In this boxed set, Leslie Klinger, a leading world authority, reassembles Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 classic short stories in the order in which they appeared in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century book editions. Inside, readers will find a cornucopia of insights: beginners will benefit from Kling...
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