McDonough Grosset & Dunlap Retail Price: $4.99 Sale Price: $4.49 You Save: $0.5
Our youngest elected president, John F. Kennedy left his mark on the presidency, and the nation. This biography guides young readers through his life and era with over 100 black and white illustrations and a timeline. 112 pages, a ... more.
George Catlin Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
George Carlin featured the complete disappearance of the Native American way of life; so he did ethnographic fieldwork throughout the people of North America. Studying their habits, customers, modes of life, and other aspects of ... more.
Mark Musa, ed. Penguin Classics Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $14.99 You Save: $5.01
As a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian faith. As an autobiographer, he looked unsparingly at his own failures to depict universal moral struggles. As a visionary, he dared draw maps of Hell, with Purg ... more.
First published in 1897, Kipling's timeless seafaring adventure tells of the escapades of Harvey Cheyne, the son of an American millionaire who, after falling from a luxury ocean liner, is rescued by the raucous crew of the fishin ... more.
Jack London Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Inspired by the examples of his heroes Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Joshua Slocum, Jack London determined to sail around the world. In April 1907 he sailed from San Francisco in the forty-five-foot ketch Snark, with his ... more.
Mark Twain Penguin Classics Retail Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $5.01
The essential works of the great American humorist. Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain's favorite and most mem ... more.
Daniel Defoe Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.00
The struggle of rational thinking of science versus the fear of superstition and religion are brought to life in Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. As the Great Plague ravages 1664 London, Defoe's narrator, a midd ... more.
Dick Teresi Simon & Schuster Trade Sales Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $3.01
Boldly challenging conventional wisdom, acclaimed science writer and Omni magazine cofounder Dick Teresi traces the origins of contemporary science back to th ... more.
Steven R. Weisman Simon & Schuster Trade Sales Retail Price: $25.99 Sale Price: $19.49 You Save: $6.5
A major work of history, The Great Tax Wars is the gripping, epic story of six decades of often violent conflict over wealth, power, and fairness that ... more.
Hermann Palsson Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $10.49 You Save: $5.51
Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is the only medieval chronicle to have Orkney as the central place of action, and from it we derive much of our knowledge of the Northern Isles and Caithne ... more.
George F. Will Simon & Schuster Trade Sales Retail Price: $23.99 Sale Price: $17.99 You Save: $6
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Newsweek columnist takes on the presidents Bush, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton, Y2K, 9/11, trickle-down economics, Brooks Brothers suits, the essence of golf, an ... more.
E.T.A. Hoffman Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
The duality of his nature is frequently reflected in some of his characters - Cardillac the goldsmith in Mademoiselle de Scudery and Nathaniel in The Sandman, for example. Cardillac is a virtuous indesutrious man by day but a ... more.
Charles Dickens Penguin Classics Retail Price: $9.00 Sale Price: $7.19 You Save: $1.81
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he e ... more.
Emily Bronte Penguin Classics Retail Price: $7.00 Sale Price: $5.99 You Save: $1.01
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thurshcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place year ... more.
Charles Dickens Penguin Classics Retail Price: $9.00 Sale Price: $7.19 You Save: $1.81
The orphan Pip's terrifying encounter with an escaped convict on the Kent marshes, and his mysterious summons to the house of Miss Havisham and her cold, beautiful ward Estella, form the prelude to his 'great expectations.' How Pip com ... more.
Charles Dickens Penguin Classics Retail Price: $8.00 Sale Price: $6.29 You Save: $1.71
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydn ... more.
Charles Dickens Penguin Classics Retail Price: $12.00
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt ... more.
H.G. Wells Penguin Classics Retail Price: $9.00 Sale Price: $7.19 You Save: $1.81
Propelled into the year 802,701 AD, a Victorian scientist is delighted by what he finds in the futuristic world. A beautiful elfin race, descended from mankind, reigns in peace and plenty. However, when the scientist discovers that this rac ... more.
Sophocles Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $12.00
Based on the legend of the royal house of Thebes, King Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone are Sophocles's tragic masterpieces. This verse translation is supplemented by E.F. Watling's introduction, which places Sophocles in historical con ... more.
Dante Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
To the consternation of his more academic admirers who believe LAtin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. T ... more.
Henrik Ibsen Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.00
The three plays in this volume cover the period during which Ibsen (1828-1906) was preoccupied wih realistic problems of personal and social morality. In The Pillars of the Community, partly by means ... more.
Honore de Balzac Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $13.00
By 1819, when Balzac's novel opens, old Goriot is reduced to living in a mean forty-five franc room on the third floor, his fine cambric shirts and diamond pin long sold. Moon-faced, unhappy and unkempt, his only visitors are two gl ... more.
The eight books of Thucydides's account of the clash between great powers, Athens and Sparta, are contained in Rex Warner's acclaimed modern translation. ... more.
To the consternation of his more academic admirers, who believed Latin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. ... more.
Honore de Balzac Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $4.01
This is seldom more evident than in Eugene Grandet, one of the earliest and finest of the novels in his great work. The love of money and passionate pursuit of it are seen as a driving force in post-Revolutionary France, and ar ... more.
Translated by W.F. Jackson Knight Penguin Classics Retail Price: $11.00
In this fresh prose translation, W.F. Jackson Knight discusses The Aeneid's impact on Western civilization and provides a list of variations from the Oxford text. ... more.
Despite piracy, shepwreck, brigandage, and wild beasts, Polo moved in a world of highly organized commerce. This chronicle of his travels through Asia, whether read as fact or fiction, is alive with adventures, geographical information, and de ... more.
Cornelius Tacitus Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $10.49 You Save: $5.51
The Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity Tacitus describes the reign o ... more.
Beowulf (probably composed in the 8th century A.D.) is our only native English heroic epic. It is written by a Christian poet addressing a Christian audience, but in the figure of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior, and his struggles ag ... more.
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