Category: classics

It is no surprise that Little Women, the adored classic of four devoted sisters, was loosely based on Louisa May Alcott's own life. In fact, Alcott drew from her own personality to create a heroine unlike any seen before: Jo, willful, headstrong, and undoubtedly the backbone of the March family. Follow the sisters from innocent adolescence to sage adulthood, with all the joy and sorrow of life in between, and fall in love with them and this endearing story. Praised by Madeleine Stern as "a...
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Louisa May Alcott: Selected Fiction

By: "Alcott, Louisa May,Stern, Madeleine B.,Shealy, Daniel"

Price: $12.45

Publisher: Little Brown & Co:

Seller ID: 9780316783491

ISBN: 0316783498

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

Ranging from excerpts from the Little Women trilogy to experimental short stories, juvenile fiction, and autobiographic tales, this collection reveals the range of Alcott's imagination and her constantly shifting interests in both subject and style.
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La Verdad Sospechosa; Las Paredes Oyen; El Tejedor De Segovia (3 plays)

By: "Alercon y Mondoza, Juan Ruiz de"

Price: $12.95

Publisher: "Garden City, NY", Coleccion Hispanica #F16 / Doubleday: 1961

Seller ID: 39P004

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Tight, faint age soil to exterior, faintest age tanning to pages, square. 311 pages. Text of all 3 plays in Spanish + chronology of author."
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American Sublime: Poems

By: "Alexander, Elizabeth"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Graywolf Press:

Seller ID: 9781555974329

ISBN: 1555974325

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

A brilliant new collection by Elizabeth Alexander, whose "poems bristle with the irresistible quality of a world seen fresh" (Rita Dove, The Washington Post)

Too many people have seen too much
and lived to tell, or not tell, or tell
with their silent, patterned bodies,
their glass eyes, gone legs, flower-printed flesh . . .
-from "Notes From"

In her fourth remarkable collection, Elizabeth Alexander voices the outcries, dreams, and histories of an African American tradition that goes back to the slave rebellion on the Amistad...
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Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration

By: "Alexander, Elizabeth"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Graywolf Press:

Seller ID: 9781555975456

ISBN: 1555975453

Binding: staplebound

Condition: GOOD

On January 20, 2009, Elizabeth Alexander served as the fourth ever inaugural poet and a central participant in one of the most closely watched inaugurations in American history. Selected by Barack Obama, Alexander composed and delivered her original poem "Praise Song for the Day" to an audience of millions, and now the poem can be read and savored for posterity. Printed on heavy, uncoated stock, with French flaps, and a silver foil stamp, this collectible chapbook is a cherished reminder of this monumental presidential event.

Also available in Spanish.
Canto de alabanza para el d ...
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A Quiet Morning at the Tollgate of Hell

By: "Alexander, Lowell S."

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Lowell Stephen Alexander: 1977

Seller ID: 00T100

ISBN: 7648595

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: NEAR FINE/ No DJ

"Interior as new. Black cloth exterior with red gilt lettering shows slight dustiness and a small mark on the aback cover.. No DJ. Author signed and inscribed: ""Each moment you look out, in , aft, over: destroys an arrangement - constructs a miracle."" 121 pages."
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Navigable Waterways (Yale Series of Younger Poets No 20)

By: "Alexander, Pamela"

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Yale Univ Pr:

Seller ID: 9780300033977

ISBN: 0300033974

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Paradiso (Bantam Classics)

By: "Alighieri, Dante"

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Bantam Classics:

Seller ID: 9780553212044

ISBN: 0553212044

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Purgatorio (Bantam Classics)

By: "Alighieri, Dante"

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Bantam Classics:

Seller ID: 9780553213447

ISBN: 055321344X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Viking Portable Dante

By: "Alighieri, Dante"

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Viking Adult:

Seller ID: 9780670010325

ISBN: 0670010324

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

"Vita Nuova, La (Penguin Classics)"

By: "Alighieri, Dante,Reynolds, Barbara"

Price: $3.45

Publisher: Penguin Classics:

Seller ID: 9780140442168

ISBN: 0140442162

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Day Before: Poems

By: "Allen, Dick"

Price: $6.45

Publisher: Sarabande Books:

Seller ID: 9781889330761

ISBN: 1889330760

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"A stunning follow-up to Allen's award-winning New and Selected. Accessible and profound. "No matter how tactile and specific he is, Allen always retains a sense of the greater world. . . . H]is pristine poems flow like timelines, drawing unexpected connections between happenings both major and minor, and observations both subtle and life changing."--"Booklist"

Dick Allen has received the Robert Frost Prize for Poetry and The Hart Crane Poetry Prize. His books include "Ode to the Cold War, Flight and Pursuit, Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic, Regions With No Proper Names," and ...
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Tutto Quello che Avreste Voluto Sapere sul Sesso (Original Title: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask)

By: "Allen, Woody (Alan Stewart Konigsberg)"

Price: $10.95

Publisher: "Milan, Italy", Universale Economica: 1991

Seller ID: 85P011

ISBN: 8807811766

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"Tight, yellowed pages, clean, slight tilt. Faint shelfwear. Text in Italian."
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Side Effects

By: "Allen, Woody"

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Random House:

Seller ID: 9780394511047

ISBN: 0394511042

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

"Winesburg, Ohio (Signet Classics)"

By: "Anderson, Sherwood"

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Signet:

Seller ID: 9780451529954

ISBN: 0451529952

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Winesburg, Ohio, gave birth to the American story cycle, for which William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and later writers were forever indebted. Defying the prudish sensibilities of his time, Anderson never omitted anything adult, harsh, or shocking; instead he embraced frankness, truth, and the hidden depths everyone possesses. Here we meet young George Willard, a newspaper reporter with dreams; Kate Swift, the schoolteacher who attempts to seduce him; Wing Biddlebaum, a berry picker whose hands are the source of both his renown and shame; Alice Hindman, who has one last adventure; a...
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Eurydice et Romeo et Jeannette

By: "Anouilh, Jean"

Price: $8.95

Publisher: "Paris, France", La Table Ronde: c1958

Seller ID: 08P015

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD-

"Tight, slight page yellowing, clean, square. Owner's name inside front cover. Occasional, exceptionally neat notes in margins. 378 pages. Text in French."
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The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics)

By: "Apuleius,"

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics:

Seller ID: 9780140435900

ISBN: 0140435905

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

An enchanting story that has inspired generations of writers, including Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats

Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of the many adventures of a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to be transformed into a donkey. The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and initiates Lucius into her cult. It has long been disputed whether A...
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Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and Oligarchy

By: "Aristotle, Xenophon the Orator, Xenophon, The Oxyrhynchus Historian"

Price: $6.00

Publisher: University of California Press:

Seller ID: 9780520029095

ISBN: 0520029097

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Three treatises survive from classical Greece under the loose title Politeiai (Constitutions) which are unique in character and indispensable to any student of the period. The longest and most important is Aristotle's Constitution of Athens which is both a history of Athenian constitutional development and a survey of the constitutional machinery of Aristotle's own day.

The second, by Xenophon, is an account of the Spartan social and educational system, and the third, also attributed to Xenophon, The Constitution of the Athenians, though probably by an earlier author,...
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Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry

By: "Arp, Thomas R.,Johnson, Greg"

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cengage Learning:

Seller ID: 9781428289703

ISBN: 1428289704

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

A best-selling introduction to poetry for more than fifty years, PERRINE'S SOUND AND SENSE: AN INTRODUCTION TO POETRY succinctly covers the basics of poetry with detailed chapters on the elements of poetry, unique chapters on evaluating poetry, exemplary selections, and exercises and study questions that invite students into careful study. Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson have assiduously continued the Perrine tradition over several recent editions. Every chapter introduction in this compact and concise anthology bears the mark of Laurence Perrine's crisp, clean, and descriptive prose, and every...
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