Theodore Roosevelt Applewood Books Retail Price: $9.95 Sale Price: $8.19 You Save: $1.76
Teddy Roosevelt was America's twenty-sixth president. Though he was an asthmatic, Roosevelt lived a full and accomplished life. He was a sportsman, a public servant, and a literary man. Roosevelt believed that to live a sat ... more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Random House, Inc Retail Price: $15.95 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.96
Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called 'the great and crescive sel ... more.
Langston Hughes Random House, Inc Retail Price: $12.95
Perhaps more than any other writer, Langston Hughes made the white America of the 1920's and '30s aware of the black culture thriving in its midst. Like his most famous poems, Hughes's stories are messages from that othe ... more.
Soujourner Truth Random House, Inc Retail Price: $9.95 Sale Price: $8.19 You Save: $1.76
Narrative of Sojourner Truth is one of the most important documents of slavery ever written, as well as being a partial autobiography of the woman who became a pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality. Wi ... more.
Jack London Random House, Inc Retail Price: $7.95 Sale Price: $6.29 You Save: $1.66
'To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world,' E.I. Doctrorow wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Generally considered to be London's greatest achievement, The ... more.
Theodore Dreiser Random House, Inc Retail Price: $12.95
Long before she was seduced by the cautious and ordinary man whose life she would eventually unravel, the young Carrie Meeber was seduced by the promise of the city - its vitality and reckless possibility. Banned on publication for ... more.
Theodore Roosevelt Random House, Inc Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
In 1898, as the Spanish-American War was escalating, Theodore Roosevelt assembled an improbable regiment of Ivy Leaguers, cowboys, Native Americans, African-Americans, and Western Territory land speculators. This group of me ... more.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jane Smiley Random House, Inc Retail Price: $8.95 Sale Price: $7.19 You Save: $1.76
When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year. Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Sto ... more.
Abraham Chapman Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $8.95 Sale Price: $7.19 You Save: $1.76
Ranging from writers Chesnutt to Hughes and featuring fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Black Voices captures the diverse and powerful words of a literary explosion ... more.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Random House, Inc Retail Price: $6.95 Sale Price: $5.99 You Save: $0.96
A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between public ... more.
Henry David Thoreau Applewood Books Retail Price: $6.95
Thoreau's Walking was written shortly before his death in May, 1862. In this charming little book, Thoreau treats his subjects as if it were a walk itself. As he wanders, so do his thoughts. Thoreau believed he was born to wal ... more.
Ring Lardner Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $4.01
This collection brings together twenty-one of Lardner's best pieces, including the six Jack Keefe stories that comprise You Know Me Al, as well as such familiar favorites as 'Alibl Ike,' 'Some Like Them Cold,' 'The Young Immig ... more.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Dover Publications Retail Price: $3.50 Sale Price: $3.49 You Save: $0.01
First published in 1850, The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece and one of the greatest American novels. It's themes of sin, guilt and redemption, woven through a story of adultery in the early days of ... more.
Marianne Moore Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.95 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.96
One of the chief architects of modern poetics, Marianne Moore has left a treasure trove of correspondence as voluminous, far-ranging, and important as the letters of Eliot or Elizabeth Bishop. Shedding light on her own brillian ... more.
Nella Larsen Penguin Classics Retail Price: $11.00
A compelling story of cultural dislocation and one mixed-race woman's search for her place in the world. Born to an indifferent white mother and an absent black father, and scorned for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for hers ... more.
Tom Twain & Hill Hamlin Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $40.00 Sale Price: $29.99 You Save: $10.01
In this 6th volume of The Library of America's authoritative collection of his writings, Mark Twain's acute sense of the human comedy is as irrepressible as ever. The Guilded Age, a satirical novel ... more.
Louisa May Alcott Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $40.00 Sale Price: $25.99 You Save: $14.01
Your students will cherish these classics of American literature. In Little Women, they'll meet the unforgettable March sisters---Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy---and follow their adventures in ... more.
Quammen Houghton-mifflin Retail Price: $16.95 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $3.96
With The Best American Science and Nature Writing, Houghton Mifflin expands its stellar Best American series with a volume that honors its long and distinguished history of publishing the best writer ... more.
Stephen Crane Random House, Inc Retail Price: $8.95 Sale Price: $7.19 You Save: $1.76
One of the greatest works of American literature, The Red Badge of Courage gazes fearlessly into the bright hell of war through the eyes of one young soldier, the reluctant Henry Fleming. Written by Stephen Crane at the age of t ... more.
Herman Melville Random House, Inc Retail Price: $12.95
First published in 1851, Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwicks words, 'the greatest novel in American literature.' The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story bu ... more.
James Fenimore Cooper Oxford University Press Retail Price: $11.95
This novel, the second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, has captured the imagination of generations since publication in 1826. Set against the wild landscapes of North America, at the novel's centre is ... more.
Charles Chesnutt Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
This collection contains all the stories in Chesnutt's two pioneering volumes of short fiction. The Conjure Woman (1899) and The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line (1899). Centered on the world of slavery and the v ... more.
John Steinbeck Penguin Classics Retail Price: $17.00
The masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years--a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis. In his journal, John Steinbeck called East of Eden the 'first book,' and i ... more.
Sherwood Anderson Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $8.95 Sale Price: $7.19 You Save: $1.76
This timeless cycle of short stories lays bare thhe life of a small town in the American Midwest. The central character is George Willard, a young reporter on the Winesburg Eagle to whom, one by one, the town's inhabitants confide t ... more.
Charles Chesnutt Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
First published in 1900 during an era when many white American leaders waxed hysterical about the threat to 'Anglo-Saxon civilization' posed by racial intermixing, The House Behind the Cedars sensitively explores ... more.
Abraham Cahan Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
In this powerful, prophetic story of Jewish-American life in the turn-of-the-century New York, a young immigrant workshis way from desperate poverty to material success in the garment industry, only to find himself a failure ... more.
Upton Sinclair Simon & Schuster Trade Sales Retail Price: $5.95 Sale Price: $5.49 You Save: $0.46
Upton Sinclair's unflinching chronicle of crushing poverty and oppression set in Chicago in the early 1900s. This classic edition includes the following: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information. A chr ... more.
Frank Norris Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, this is a stunning novel of the waning days of the frontier West. To the tough-minded and self-reliant farmers, the mono ... more.
Malcolm Cowley Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed 'The Lost Generation' are brought to life here by one of the group's most notable members. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemin ... more.
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