Category: classics

Featuring special movie tie-in art, this Tolkien edition builds on the massive success of the first film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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Humorous Stories and Sketches (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $0.50

Publisher: Dover Publications

Seller ID: 9780486292793

ISBN-13: 9780486292793

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Mark Twain's inimitable blend of humor, satire, and masterly storytelling earned him a secure place in the front rank of American writers. This collection of eight stories and sketches, among them the celebrated classic The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, shows the great humorist at the top of his form. Also included here are Journalism in Tennessee, in which a novice newspaperman is shown the correct way to report a news story; About Barbers, a delightful account of every barbershop customer's worst fear; Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, Twain's hilarious savaging of that auth...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Signature Classics)

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Union Square & Co.

Seller ID: 9781435171831

ISBN-13: 9781435171831

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Scholastic Classics)

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Seller ID: 9780439099400

ISBN-13: 9780439099400

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Where there's trouble, you'll find Tom Sawyer. Who else would get out of the boring job of whitewashing a fence by tricking every boy in town to do it for him? And when Tom teams up with rascally Huck Finn, the trouble doubles. The adventure and fun never end in this all-time favorite by one of America's greatest storytellers.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Signet Classics)

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Signet Classics

Seller ID: 9780451528643

ISBN-13: 9780451528643

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: very good

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a dreamlike summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love, filled with memorable characters. Adults and young readers alike continue to enjoy this delightful classic of the promise and dreams of youth from one of America's most beloved authors. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn He has no mother, his father is a brutal drunkard, and he sleeps in a barrel. He's Huck Finn--liar, sometime thief, and rebel agai...
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The Prince and the Pauper

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Signet Classics

Seller ID: 9780451521934

ISBN-13: 9780451521934

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Shelley's Frankenstein (Cliffs Notes)

By: Umland, Samuel J.

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Cliffs Notes

Seller ID: 9780822004981

ISBN-13: 9780822004981

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Green House

By: Vargas Llosa, Mario

Price: $3.75

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Seller ID: 9780374518882

ISBN-13: 9780374518882

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

Greek Lyrics (Phoenix Books)

By: Various,

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Seller ID: 9780226469447

ISBN-13: 9780226469447

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the dramatic turn of syntax is marked. He has completely freed the poems from sentimentality, and the thrilling ancient names-Anacreon, Alcaeus, Simonides, Sappho-acquire fresh brilliance and vitality under his hand."-Louise Bogan, The New Yorker "The significant quality of Mr. Lattimore's versions is that they are pure. The lenses he provides are as clear as our language is capable of making them."-Mos...
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Collected Sonnets

By: Vincent, Edna St. Millay

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Seller ID: 9780060910914

ISBN-13: 9780060910914

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

More than 180 sonnets selected from Millay's books of poems--including 20 sonnets from Mine the Harvest not contained in previous editions of her Collected Sonnets--are brought together in this expanded edition.

An introduction by Norma Millay, written expressly for this volume, focuses on examples of the poet's variations in sonnet structure. Here is the voice of Millay, whose prophetic vision, devotion to freedom, and intellectual daring combine with her mastery of the sonnet form to speak eloquently for the human spirit.

The Garies and their Friends (Race in the Americas)

By: Webb, Frank J.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Seller ID: 9780801855979

ISBN-13: 9780801855979

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

In this novel set in antebellum America, the Garies--a white southerner, his mulatto slave-turned-wife, and their two children--have moved to Philadelphia from Georgia.Originally published in London in 1857, The Garies and Their Friends was the second novel published by an African American and the first to chronicle the experience of free blacks in the pre-Civil War northeast. The novel anticipates themes that were to become important in later African American fiction, including miscegenation and "passing," and tells the story of the Garies and their friends, the Ellises, a "highly respectable...
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The War of the Worlds (Watermill Classics)

By: Wells, H. G.

Price: $0.75

Publisher: Troll Communications Llc

Seller ID: 9780893753474

ISBN-13: 9780893753474

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

By: Whitman, Walt,Miller, James

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Seller ID: 9780395051320

ISBN-13: 9780395051320

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Representative writings of the nineteenth-century American poet and philosopher are supplemented by textual notes.
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A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

By: Williams, Tennessee

Price: $6.50

Publisher: New Directions

Seller ID: 9780811216029

ISBN-13: 9780811216029

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Who better than America's elder statesman of the theater, Williams' contemporary Arthur Miller, to write as a witness to the lightning that struck American culture in the form of A Streetcar Named Desire? Miller's rich perspective on Williams' singular style of poetic dialogue, sensitive characters, and dramatic violence makes this a unique and valuable new edition of A Streetcar Named Desire. This definitive new edition will also include Williams' essay "The World I Live In," and a brief chronology of the author's life.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By: Williams, Tennessee

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New Directions

Seller ID: 9780811205672

ISBN-13: 9780811205672

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Jeeves in the Morning

By: Wodehouse, P. G.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: HarpPeren

Seller ID: 9780060972820

ISBN-13: 9780060972820

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper in the 21st century and beyond. In Good to Great, the most widely anticipated management book of the year, Jim Collins presents nothing less than a recipe book on how to make a good company great. Following the success of his international blockbuster Built to Last, where he and co-author Jerry Porras discovered the secrets of companies that ...
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