 | Stories of Anton Chekhov
Release Date: October 31, 2000Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life. Considered the greatest short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. From characteristically brief, evoc...
 |  | The Belly of Paris (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: September 28, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'état in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marché des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand program of urban reconstruction, replaced by Les Halles, the spectacular new food markets. Disgusted by a bourgeois society whose devotion to food is inseparable from its devotion to the Government, Florent attempts an insurrection. Les Halles, apocalypti...
|  | 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...
|  | 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 ...
|  | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories (Leatherbound Classics)
Publication Date: January 12, 2010| ISBN-10: 1435122941 | ISBN-13: 978-1435122949Everything that Lewis Carroll ever published in book form appears in this volume. In addition, at least ten of the shorter pieces have never appeared in print except in their original editions. Included are: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "Through the Looking-Glass", "Sylvie and Bruno", "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded", "The Hunting of the Snark" and all of the poetry, essays and phantasmagoria along with a substantial collection of his miscellaneous writings. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stori...
|  | The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Release Date: September 28, 2004"This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair, and it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous affair with Sarah Miles—a hate bred of a passion that ultimately lost out to God. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At the start he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. By the end of the book, Ben...
|  | Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics)
Release Date: August 4, 1999| Series: Perennial Classics The classic story of a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. ...
|  | The Annotated Wizard of Oz(Centennial Edition)
Publication Date: September 17, 2000The "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is the quintessential American fairy tale, but it is also a controversial children's book.This annoted edition illuminates the numerous contemporary references, provides character sources, and explains the actual meaning of the word "Oz". A facsimile of the rare 1900 first edition appears with the original drawings by W.W. Denslow, as well as 25 previously unpublished illustrations. There is a bibliography of L. Frank Baum's published work, every notable "Oz" edition and the stage and cinematic productions from 1939's "The Wiza...
|  | Wuthering Heights: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic
Release Date: May 3, 2011| Series: Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic Kaplan guarantees that readers will improve their SAT score using guides—or get their money back.Vocabulary is a critical part of studying for the SATs. Memorizing words that are written on flashcards can be difficult because they are not put in the context of a sentence. Kaplan’s SAT Score-Raising Classics make learning SAT vocabulary words easier and more enjoyable for students. Classic novels that are taught throughout high school can now be read while learning vocabulary words that frequently appear on the SA...
|  | Pudd'nhead Wilson (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: June 28, 1999| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | Pere Goriot (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: December 17, 1997| ISBN-10: 039397166X | ISBN-13: 978-0393971668The text is that of Burton Raffell’s acclaimed 1994 translation.Thetext is accompanied by an introduction, textual annotations by theeditor, and a map of Paris."Responses: Contemporaries and Other Novelists" illustrates Balzac’simmense influence on other writers, among them Charles Baudelaire,Hippolyte Taine, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust."Twentieth-Century Criticism" presents a superb selection of criticalwriting about the novel.The critics include Ernst Robert Curtius, Albert Bégui...
|  | A Guide for Grown-ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupry
Publication Date: May 1, 2002“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”For more than sixty years, this insight from The Little Prince has been quoted in more than 130 languages by fans around the world. Now, for the first time, quotations from the collected works and letters of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry are presented in a charming gift edition. Six chapters--“Happiness,” “Friendship,” “Responsibility,” “Fortitude,” “Love,” and “What Is Essential”--offer inspirational and...
|  | Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: June 30, 1950| Series: Penguin Classics With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaire’s masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the naïve Candide, who doggedly believes that “all is for the best” even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair. Controversial and entertaining, Candide is a book that is vitally relevant today in our world pervaded by—as ...
|  | Siddhartha
Release Date: June 22, 2012With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse's Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's quest for the ultimate reality. Steeped in the tenets of both psychoanalysis and Eastern mysticism, Siddhartha presents an original view of man and culture, and the arduous process of self-discovery that leads to reconciliation, harmony, and peace. The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in the Sanskrit language, siddha (gotten) + artha (meaning or wealth). The two words together mean "one who has found meaning (of existence)" or "he who has attai...
|  | Treasure Island (Penguin Classics)
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|  | The Death of the Heart
Release Date: May 9, 2000The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who combines a sense of humor with a devastating gift for divining human motivations.In this piercing story of innocence betrayed set in the thirties, the orphaned Portia is stranded in the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home in London.There she encounters the attractive, carefree cad Eddie. To him,...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Power Through Prayer
Publication Date: July 6, 2012Power Through Prayer teaches readers that prayer is much more than just another thing to cross off their lists each day. This guidebook provides believers with information about the most effective ways to use prayer to better understand God s word, fully appreciate divine power, and more deeply commune with God. Power Through Prayer has the potential to transform a static but faithful Christian life into one that is dynamic, ever-changing, and always learning. ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Publication Date: December 17, 2011Man s moral nature is influenced by sentiment and sympathy. The human ability to sympathize forms the psychological basis of man s desire to adhere to natural moral laws. Adam Smith explores ideas about individual freedom and self-interest, conscience and virtue, and a classic work of moral philosophy that remains relevant. ...
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