Herman Melville Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
'Ambiguites indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end - a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jac ... more.
Lightman Houghton-mifflin Retail Price: $15.95 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.96
Best-selling author Alan Lightman selects the year's finest nonfiction as this acclaimed series celebrates its fifteenth year. He has chosen a diverse, very personal collection that celebrates the essay as an independent g ... more.
Richard Adams Simon & Schuster Trade Sales Retail Price: $30.00 Sale Price: $19.49 You Save: $10.51
Set in the once idyllic rural landscape of the south of England, Watership Down follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by the doughty Hazel ... more.
James Fenimore Cooper Penguin Classics Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.49 You Save: $4.51
Inspired by accusations of venality leveled at the men who captured Major Andre (Benedict Arnold's co-conspirator, executed for espioage in 1780), Cooper's novel centers on Harry Birch, a common man wrongl ... more.
Fanny Fern Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
In Ruth Hall, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter estrangement from her critical and unsupportive family, and her struggle to make a living as a writer. Her heroin ... more.
Elizabeth Stoddard Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Elizabeth Stoddard's revolutionary novel explores the conflict between a woman's instinct, passion, and will, and the social taboos, family allegiances, and traditinal New England restraint that inhibit her. Set in a small seaport town ... more.
Gilbert Imlay Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
The American Gilbert Imlay is known to readers of British Romanticism as the cad who abandoned Mary Wollstonecraft, the founding mother of modern feminism. Few are as well-acquainted with The Emigrants, Imlay's delightful epistolary novel ... more.
Kate Chopin Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
In the decade before the appearance of her landmark novel, The Awakening, Kate Chopin published Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), collections of stories set in New Orleans and rural Louisiana. Celebrations of people in th ... 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $10.00
Called by Abraham Lincoln 'the little lady who made this big war,' novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe changed the course of American history when her powerful indictment of slavery fueled the abolitionist m ... more.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.00
This enduring novel of crime and retribution is a psychological drama that vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840,s. ... more.
Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
America's physical and cultural landscape is captured in these two classics of American history. Letters provides and invaluable view of the pre-Revoltionary ... more.
James Fenimore Cooper Penguin Classics Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
The first of The Leatherstocking Tales introduces the mythical hero Natty Bumppo in a portrait that contrasts the natural codes of Bumppo to the rigid legal and social structures of a new settlement. ... more.
Joel Chandler Harris Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Presents the legends, songs, and sayings of Uncle Remus, following the text of the first edition of Joel Chandler Harris' attempt to record traditional black stories of his time. ... more.
James Fenimore Cooper Penguin Classics Retail Price: $11.00
Angered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) lives apart from other white men, sharing the solitude and sublimity of the wilderness with his Mohican Indian friend, Chingachgook. But the sav ... more.
James Fenimore Cooper Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $13.00
The final novel in Cooper's epic, The Prairie depicts Natty Bumppo at the end of his life, still desplaying his indomitable strength and dignity. ... more.
Upton Sinclair, Ronald Gottesman Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.00
In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth ab ... more.
Francis Parkman, David Levin Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.49 You Save: $4.51
Francis Parkman was the son of a Unitarian minister. Born in Boston in 1823, graduated from Harvard, he took advantage of an opportunity to 'go West' in 1846. The great contrast of the raw and dynamic frontier with t ... more.
Booker T. Washington Penguin Classics Retail Price: $11.00
Born a slave in Virginia in 1856, Booker T. Washington rose in prominence to become black America's foremost spokesman. This is the dramatic autobiographical account of Washington's struggle to succeed and prosper in a country ... more.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $4.01
With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any other writers of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The piec ... more.
James Fenimore Cooper Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
In this acclaimed depiction of life during America's westward movement, part of The Leatherstocking Tales, Cooper describes the young manhood of Natty Bumppo, his mythical hero who remains one of the most significant characters ... more.
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