 | 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. ...
 |  | 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....
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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 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 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 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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 ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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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