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Babylonia: A NovelCategories: Literature & Fiction Historical FictionAncient

Jim was first mate on the Patna, when the ship and passengers were abandoned by the crew in the Red Sea. Accused of cowardice, Jim immerses himself in work ...

(book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) for Coleridge The Plot Of Tom Jones Was, Along With That Of Oedipus The King, The Most Perfect Ever Constructed. Fieldi...

Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated ...

With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chap...

After a brilliant and fulfilling career, Charles Arrowby revels in his perfect refuge, an isolated home by the sea, but soon his isolation is broken as the ...

Cesar And Nestor Castillo Move To New York From Cuba In 1949 To Form A Mambo Band, And Eventually Play On I Love Lucy. Oscar Hijuelos.Categories: Literature...

Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, w...

The Complete Works of Shakespeare contains the recognized canon of the bard's plays, and his sonnets and poems. The texts were edited by the late Professor...

In a Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be the thing it is: beautiful,...

An influential Church of England vicar, John Henry Newman stunned the Anglican community in 1843 when he joined the Roman Catholic Church. Protestant clerg...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as thi...

Generally believed to be the last play written solely by Shakespeare, The Tempest centers on a banished noble who uses sorcery to confront his foes. In thi...

In Three Paperback Volumes, The Grene And Lattimore Editions Offer A Selection Of The Most Important And Characteristic Plays Of Aeschylus, Sophocles, And E...

It Is Too Often Accepted That During The 19th And Early 20th Centuries It Was The Male Writers Who Developed And Pushed The Boundaries Of The Weird Tale, Wi...

The Restless, Questing Intellect Of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Spurred Him Far Beyond The Ingenious Puzzles He Constructed For Sherlock Holmes. In The Lost Worl...

The political and linguistic writings of America's leading dissident intellectual. He relates his political ideals to his theories about language. Library...

Hardcover book, first edition edition, 2000. Young adult, adult fiction, fantasy, suspense.Categories: Literature & Fiction Genre FictionTV, Movie, Vide...

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines...

Brad Sterling - former Harvard football player, ne'er-dowell, and Susan Silverman's long-out-of-touch ex-husband - is, by all appearances, a successful busi...

The Gods, The Creation, And The Earlist Heroes -- Stories Of Love And Adventure -- The Great Heroes Before The Trojan War -- The Heroes Of The Trojan War --...

Following on from the phenomenal success of NECRONOMICON comes ELDRITCH TALES. Howard Phillips Lovecraft died at the age of 47, but in his short life he tu...

Set in Scotland in the year 1040, Macbeth is thought by many to be Shakespeare’s finest tragedy - it is certainly one of his best known and most dramatic...

Defoe’s classic story of adventure and survival as a shipwrecked Englishman finds himself stranded on a deserted island.After a fierce storm at sea, Robi...

The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age is now a major film. Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, Fitzgera...

In this beloved children's story, Mary Lennox, an ill-tempered orphan is sent to live in England with an uncle she has never met. While there, she discover...

Set of 2 Books By Antonia S. Byatt - Possession: A Romance, Angels and Insects: Two Novellas.Categories: RomanceContemporary

brief Impressions And Conversations, Internal Monologues, And Letters Convey The Story Of A Lonely Young Man Unable To Reconcile His Classical Ideals With...

Widely considered one of Canada's first postmodern novels, marking the start of contemporary writing in the country, The Double Hook is now available as a ...

Contains Shakespeare's Play Involving Young Athenian Lovers, A Boisterous Group Of Local Tradesmen, And The Monarchs And Subjects Of The Fairy Kingdom; And ...

The Barsoom Project is the direct sequel to 1981's Dream Park. Eviane's first visit to the-state-of-art amusement arena Dream Park ended in disaster: the ...

On a sunny day in June, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is getting ready for a party and exulting in the vibrant swell of London. As Clarissa's pr...

My Ántonia: Willa Cather's Masterpiece Historical Novel of the Immigrant ExperienceCategories: Literature & Fiction Historical Fiction20th Century

The debut of an American original. Here is the accomplished first novel that catapulted F. Scott Fitzgerald to literary fame-at the age of 23. It follows...

The perfect holiday read and just in time for the major feature film, a timeless new edition of one of the most beloved novels of all time.Little Women is ...

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5 x 7.5 inches; Movie images includedCategories: Science Fiction & Fantasy FantasyEpic

A book of World War II era cartoonsCategories: Literature & FictionClassics

From one of today’s foremost scholars, a lively retelling of the timeless tales…Here are the myths that have influenced so much of our cultural heritage. S...

When her former governess finds happiness as the bride of a local widower, the brilliant and beautiful Emma Woodhouse — one of Jane Austen's immortal crea...

One of the best-known classics of children's literature, a timeless masterpiece and a vital portrait of an age, The Wind in the Willows began originally in ...

carroll's Classic Stories Reunited With Peake's Celebrated Illustrations, Restored To Their Original Glory And For The First Time In One Paperback Edition...

A graceful biography that was a #1 national bestseller, Flint & Feather confirms Charlotte Gray’s position as a master biographer, a writer with a rare...

Unabridged version of The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, offered here for chump change. A breakthrough novel of American literature, it changed th...

James Weldon Johnson ; With An Introduction By Carl Van Vechten ; With An Introduction To The Vintage Edition By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Originally Published...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant ...

Candide, by Voltaire, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general...

Published by Harper Collins,1997, this paperback novel measures 5 " by 7 3/4" by 1 1/4" with 398 pages, with smaller than average print. Includes 10 pages o...