 | The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Series: Penguin Classics An elaborately annotated edition of Shakespeare's masterpieces of wit and erotic word-play. When a volume of poetry entitled Shakespeares Sonnets. Never before Imprinted appeared in 1609, Shakespeare was forty-five and most of his greatest plays had seen several performances. Some of the sonnets, speaking of the begetting of children, mortality and memory, art, desire and jealousy, are addressed to a beloved youth; others are addressed to a treacherous mistress, a "dark lady." Appended to the sonnets is "A Lover's Complaint," a beaut...
 |  | The War of the Worlds
Publication Date: November 22, 2011H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is one of science fiction literature’s most enduring classics.As one of the earliest examples of an alien invasion narrative, this 19th century tale of London’s violent takeover by an alien race has significantly influenced science fiction literature as well as television and cinema for generations.Wells is extremely adept at exposing the virtues and vices of humanity against a backdrop of crisis, and this talent lends substance to this dramatic adventure story. ...
|  | Betsy Was a Junior/Betsy and Joe
Release Date: September 29, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and upBetsy Was a Junior: It's the best school year ever, especially now that charming, funny Tib Muller is back in Deep Valley. But when her crowd gets into trouble, Betsy's best year could turn out to be her worst. Betsy and Joe: Betsy always thought she and Joe Willard were made for each other—and now that summer's over and senior year's begun, it seems her dream is coming true! But her friend Tony Markham has come calling as well—and his intentions are definitely romantic....
|  | Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: April 29, 2003| Series: Penguin Classics Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods.@GoldenFarceGood, the gals stand outside my house all the time. The constant chanting is creepy, but all agree: Jason crossing the line! When he gets home we’ll talk. I’m sure we can work it out. But what’s the best way to approach this? Any advice, anyone? #wackrelationships From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less...
|  | Dhalgren
Release Date: May 15, 2001In Dhalgren, perhaps one of the most profound and bestselling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel R. Delany has produced a novel "to stand with the best American fiction of the 1970s" (Jonathan Lethem).Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there…. The population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. And into this disaster zone comes a young man–poet, lover, and adventurer–known only as the Kid. Tackling questions of race, gender, and...
|  | The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: July 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics The collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry known as the Poetic Edda contains the great narratives of the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods. The mythological poems explore the wisdom of the gods and giants, narrating the adventures of the god Thor against the hostile giants and the gods' rivalries amongst themselves. The heroic poems trace the exploits of the hero Helgi and his valkyrie bride, the tragic tale of Sigurd and Brynhild's doomed love, and the terrible drama o...
|  | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Release Date: March 6, 2012The young Alice follows a hasty hare underground-to come face-to-facewith some of the strangest adventures in all of literature. In thisarresting parody of the fears, anxieties, and complexities of growingup, readers enter the world of make-believe, where the impossiblebecomes possible and the heights of adventure are unlimited. ...
|  | Boy Scouts Handbook
Publication Date: July 4, 2012The Boy Scout Handbook is a manual providing information about camping, signs and signaling, Scouting games, and more. The original edition of the guide owes much to Baden-Powell s Scouting for Boys. The official handbook of the Boy Scouts of America, this volume contains everything the young Scout must learn to become a well-developed, well-informed boy. ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | The Scarlet Letter
Release Date: June 23, 2012| ISBN-10: 1613822030 | ISBN-13: 978-1613822036This Norton Critical Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne s most widely read novel appears during the bicentennial anniversary year of his birth.The text of The Scarlet Letter is based on the 1850 third edition, the first set in stereotype plates and the basis of subsequent printings in Hawthorne s lifetime. An invaluable selection of contextual material includes five Hawthorne stories that are closely related to The Scarlet Letter, along with relevant letters and notebook entries. A substantial excerpt from Hawthorne s ...
|  | The Annotated Peter Pan (The Centennial Edition)(The Annotated Books)
Publication Date: October 11, 2011| Series: The Annotated Books "Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age."—Mark TwainOne hundred years after J. M. Barrie published the novel Peter and Wendy, Maria Tatar revisits a story that, like Alice in Wonderland, bridges the generations, animating both adults and children with its kinetic energy. The adventures of the Darling children with Peter Pan and Tinkerbell in Neverland are the seminal tale of escape and fantasy. Inspired by Barrie's real-life adventures with the five Llewelyn Davies boy...
|  | Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: July 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Kareninasets the impossible and destructive triangle of Anna,her husband Karenin, and her lover Vronsky against themarriage of Levin and Kitty, thus illuminating the mostimportant questions that face humanity. The secondedition uses the acclaimed Louise and Alymer Maudetranslation, and offers a new introduction and noteswhich provide completely up-to-date perspectives onTolstoy's classic work.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broades...
|  | The Norton Book of Classical Literature
Publication Date: March 17, 1993| ISBN-10: 0393034267 | ISBN-13: 978-0393034264| Edition: 1st An anthology of classical literature features more than three hundred selections, including pieces on the origins of the Greek language, works by Homer, discussion on the fall of Rome and St. Augustine, and more. ...
|  | 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...
|  | The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: January 26, 2010| Series: Penguin Classics Read the Time magazine review about "the most significant Penguin Classic ever published". In the early twentieth century, as China came up against the realities of the modern world, Lu Xun effected a shift in Chinese letters away from the ornate, obsequious literature of the aristocrats to the plain, expressive literature of the masses. His celebrated short stories assemble a powerfully unsettling portrait of the superstition, poverty, and complacency that he perceived in late imperial China and in the revolutionary republic that to...
|  | Big Sur: (Penguin Ink)
Release Date: April 26, 2011Written some time after his best-known works, Big Sur follows Jack Kerouac's comedown from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, presenting his mature confrontation of some of his most troubling emotional issues. ...
|  | The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: December 31, 2002| Series: Penguin Classics Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. and horoscope. When he died in 935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner's words, "gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's Dublin or Kafka's Prague." Published for the first time some fi...
|  | The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel
Release Date: April 14, 2009This anonymous fourteenth-century text is the glory of English mysticism, and one of the most practical and useful guides to finding union with God ever written. Carmen Acevedo Butcher’s new translation is the first to bring the text into a modern English idiom—while remaining strictly faithful to the meaning of the original Middle English. The Cloud of Unknowing consists of a series of letters written by a monk to his student or disciple, instructing him (or her) in the way of Divine union. Its theology is presented in a way that is remarkably eas...
|  | 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...
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