 | The Library of Greek Mythology (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War.Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classicists from the time of its compilation in the 1st-2nd century BC to the present, influencing writers from antiquity to Robert Graves. It provides a complete history of Greek myth, telling the story of each of the great families of heroic mythology, and the various adventures associated with ...
 |  | 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. ...
|  | 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 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Gulliver's Travels (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: December 2001| Series: Norton Critical Editions This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726text—the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative.It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. "Contexts"collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, aswell as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift'scorrespondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels, andrelevant passages from Gargantua and Pantagruel."Criticism" includes fourteen assessments of Gulliver's Travels by theEarl ...
|  | To a God Unknown (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 1, 1995| Series: Penguin Classics Set in familiar Steinbeck territory, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and, ultimately, to understand the ways of God....
|  | 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....
|  | 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 ...
|  | Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition
Publication Date: February 1, 2011In a radical departure from standard editions, Twain's most famous novels are published here as the continuous narrative that the author originally envisioned. More controversial will be the decision by the editor, noted Mark Twain scholar Alan Gribben, to eliminate the pejorative racial labels that Twain employed in his effort to write realistically about social attitudes of the 1840s. In his detailed introduction, Gribben points out that dozens of other editions currently make available the inflamatory words, but their presence has gradually diminished the...
|  | Holt Elements of Literature: Student Edition Grade 11 2000
Publication Date: 2000| ISBN-10: 0030520649 | ISBN-13: 978-0030520648| Edition: 1 Elements of Literature: Fifth Course : Literature of the United States With Literature of the Americas ...
|  | Madame Bovary (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: December 14, 2004| ISBN-10: 0393979172 | ISBN-13: 978-0393979176| Edition: 2nd The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on Eleanor Marx Aveling’s celebrated translation, revised by Paul de Man.Margaret Cohen’s carefuleditorial revision modernizes and renewsFlaubert’s stylistic masterpiece. In addition,Cohen has added to the Second Edition a newintroduction, substantially new annotations, and twenty-one striking images, including photographs and engravings, that inform students’understanding of middle-class life innineteenth-century p...
|  | V. (Perennial Classics)
Release Date: March 24, 1999| Series: Perennial Classics The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men -- one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose -- and "V.," the unknown woman of the title. ...
|  | 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 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 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
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