Dava Sobel Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Placed in a convent at the age of thirteen, Virginia Galilei, Galileo's eldest daughter, wrote to her father continually. Now Dava Sobel has translated into English all 124 surviving letters that Virginia (renamed Suor M ... more.
Olaudah Equiano's Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age of eleven, his service as the slave of and officer in the British Navy, and his years of labor on slave ships until he was able to purchase his fre ... more.
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Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes ... more.
Harpercollins Publishing Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $14.99 You Save: $5.01
The American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for ... more.
Mary Freeman Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Considered a 'regionalist' writer, like Kate Chopin and fellow New Englander Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman spent almost half a century living in New England. A prolific and renowned writer, she had to ... more.
American Heritage Dictionaries Editors Houghton-mifflin Retail Price: $5.95 Sale Price: $5.49 You Save: $0.46
Discover the 100 words every high school graduate should know! A wide range of vocabulary was chosen, ranging from standard educated vocabulary used in classic novels, media, an ... more.
Mary Prince Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $13.00
Mary Prince recalls that in the slave market in Bermuda, where she was put up for sale, the buyers' talk 'fell like a cayenne on the fresh wounds of our hearts'. During her life as a slave she was taken from Bermuda to Turks Isla ... more.
Elaine Costello, Lois A. Lehman Random House, Inc Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $12.49 You Save: $7.51
This beautifully designed and illustrated guide includes: more than 1300 signs and their descriptions, large, clear, lifelike upper-torso illustrations that show posiiton and ... more.
Ambrose Bierce Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Questing after Panco Villa's revolutionary forces, Ambrose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and completely vanished from the face of the earth. Though his ultimate fate remains a mystery to this day, Bierce's contribution to America ... more.
John De Forest Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $14.99 You Save: $5.01
Drawing on his own combat experience in the Union forces, John W. De Forest crafted a war novel like nothing before it in the annals of American literature. As a captain in the 12th Connecticut Reg ... more.
Mason I. Lowance Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
For as long as the scourge of slavery afflicted America, brave voices cried out against hte pernicious institution. Those eloquent cries resound again in this original anthology of primary documents from th ... more.
Edward Gibbon, David Womersley Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00
In the greatest work of history in the English language, Edward Gibbon compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into a gripping epic narrative. It is history in the grand eightee ... more.
Joel Harris Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Nights with Uncle Remus gathers seventy-one of Joel Chandler Harris's most popular narratives, featuring African American trickster tales, etiological myths, Sea Island legends, and chilling ghost stories. Told through the di ... more.
Robert Louis Stevenson Penguin Classics Retail Price: $8.00 Sale Price: $6.29 You Save: $1.71
Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality, Long John Silver. But Treasure Island ... more.
Washington Irving, William L. Hedges Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $10.00
When Washington Irving's Sketch Book first appeared in 1819, readers in America and aboard greeted it with enthusiasm, and Irving emerged as America's first successful professional ... more.
Alfred Dunsany Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
A pioneer in the realm of imaginative literature, Lord Dunsany has gained a cult following for his influence on modern fantasy literature, including such authors as J.R.R. Tolkien and H. P. Lovecraft. This unique collection of sho ... more.
Ernest Shackleton Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's excruciating and inspiring expedition to Antarctica aboard the Endurance has long captured the public imagination. South is his own first hand account of this epic adventure.
Paul Dunbar Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Paul Laurence Dunbar was 'the most promising young colored man' in nineteenth-century America, according to Frederick Douglass, and subsequently became one of the most controversial. His plantation lyrics, written ... more.
William Blake Calif Princeton Fulfilment Retail Price: $39.95 Sale Price: $29.99 You Save: $9.96
(PUBPrinceton University Press)William Blake, the 18th-century British romantic poet, wrote some of the finest children's verse of all time (e.g., ''Little Lamb Who Made ... more.
Jon Oliver & Michael Ryan Simon & Schuster Trade Sales Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
This indispensable book gives adults a proven plan to help children develop the life skills and internal discipline necessary to learn and thrive in today's society. F ... more.
A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacob's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseudonymously in ... more.
Leo Tolstoy Dover Publications Retail Price: $5.00 Sale Price: $4.49 You Save: $0.51
Tostoy's tome has been lauded as one of the greatest novels ever written, bringing us an intimate and familiar look at the vices and joy of humanity--love and lust, joy and terror, freedom and oppression--which are lived out through Tolstoy ... more.
Thomas Nickerson Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00
In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex, thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific, was rammed by an angry sperm whale. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members floating in three small boats ... more.
Stephen Crane Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $10.00
Although fellow novelists William Dean Howells and Hamlin Garland immediately recognized the genius of the twenty-one-year-old author of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, in 1893 most readers were unwilling to accept its unconventional theme and nat ... more.
William T. Sherman, Michael Fellman Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $21.00 Sale Price: $15.99 You Save: $5.01
Before his spectacular career as commanding general of the Union forces of the West, William Tecumseh Sherman experienced decades of frustration and failure. He participated in many of the ... more.
Andrew Hacker Simon & Schuster Trade Sales Retail Price: $14.00
Why, despite continued efforts to increase understanding and expand opportunities, do black and white Americans still lead separate lives, continually marked by tension and hostility? In his muc ... more.
Alison Cole Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $24.95 Sale Price: $17.99 You Save: $6.96
In the vein of a scholarly discussion, Alison Cole portrays a different side of the Renaissance. Looking at the intersection of history and art, this book focuses on the smaller courts of Manua, Ferrara, Naples, ... more.
Barbara Tuchman Random House, Inc Retail Price: $15.95 Sale Price: $11.49 You Save: $4.46
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its charact ... more.
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