Giorgio Vasari Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00
Vasari was himself a painter, but he is really remembered for these biographies which begin with Cimabue and Giotto in the late thirteenth century and trace the developments in Italian art down to the golden epoch of Le ... more.
Fyodor Dostoevsky Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $12.00
It takes place in a world of office, lodging-house and seamstress's rooms and consists of an impoverished love affair in letters between a copy clerk and a young girl who lives opposite him. Of the other stories in th ... more.
Leo Tolstoy Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
The early stories in this collection- 'The Raid', The Woodfelling', 'The Prisoner of the Caucasus' - take us back to the action-packed years 1851-54 that Tolstoy spent with the Russian army in the wild an ... more.
Edwards Multatuli Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
One of the most forceful indictments of colonialism ever written, this 'sent a shiver' through the Dutch nation when it was first published in 1860 and, even after 120 years, it is still capable of arousing strong emotions. It tells ... more.
Ivan Turgenev Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Drawn from his first-hand observation of the countryside and its ways of life, Turgenev's anecdotes, portraits and lyrical impressions depict the peasants and the tyranny of serfdom with such immediacy that when the first of these ... more.
Wendy Doniger Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
The Sanskrit text was first translated into English in 1794, and translations into other European languages swiftly followed. For Nietzsche the humane wisdom of Manu far surpassed that of the New Testament; for the British Ra ... more.
Abbe Prevost Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $12.00
In Manon Lescaut the young Chevalier des Grieux recounts the tragic story of his passion for Manon and betrayal at her hands. Capricious, mercenary, alert to virtue but alive to pleasure, Manon is one of literature's great ... more.
Jan Potocki Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $4.01
The novel's narrator, Alphonse van Worden, a young Walloon officer journeying to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739, is diverted into the Sierra Morena and mysteriously detained in the company of thieves, cabbalists, ... more.
George Buchner Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Fired by a constant tension between the complementary extremes of optimism and pessimism, Buchner's writing was far ahead of its time and is as relevant now as the day it was written. Heinrich Boll has spoken ... more.
Madame de Lafayette Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $13.00
It is the first French novel and already modern - and particularly French - in its depth of psychological analysis, its purity of language and classical simplicity of plot. Set at the court of Henri II, it explores the ... more.
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
First published in France in 1825, this remarkable book reflects a new era in French cuisine: the advent of the restaurant and the freedom of the bourgeois to eat out, selecting each dish with precision and ant ... more.
Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroyin ... more.
E.T.A. Hoffman Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Hoffman was a follower of Cervantes and Sterne, a pioneering 'magic realist', fascinated by Gothic horror, extreme mental states and supernatural events occuring within sharply rendered social settings. A talented ... more.
Fyodor Dostoevsky Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Dostoyevsky's narrator has been summoned to his unlce Colonel Rostanov's remote country estate in the hope that he will act as decoy and rescue Rostanev's former ward, Nastenka Yezhevikin, from the tyranny of Opiskin, ... more.
Ovid Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
One of the fullest and most enjoyable sources of information on Roman myth and religion, the Fasti is both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles and genres, comic, tragic, elegiac, epic, and er ... more.
Juvenal Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer vibrant energy of everyday Roman life. A member of the traditional land-owning class, which was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of ... more.
Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
This revised volume contains Bede's 'Life of Cuthbert' and 'Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow'; Eddius's 'Life of Wilfrid; the Voyage of St. Brendan' and new to this editions, 'The Anonymous History of Abbot Ceolfrith. Each work is set in ... more.
Jesse Byock Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Based on Viking Age poems, the saga combines mythology, legends and sheer human drama. At its heart are the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer who acquires runic knowledge from one of Odin's Valkyries. Yet is it also set in a ver ... more.
Laise are stories in verse based on Breton tales, depicting a moment of crisis in a love relation always intense and refined, and often far more complicated than our recieved view of courtly love might lead us to suppose. The lover ... more.
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn Random House, Inc Retail Price: $5.99 Sale Price: $5.49 You Save: $0.5
Alexander solzhenitsyn's 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' is beyond doubt the most startling work ever to have been published in the Soviet Union. Apart from being a literary maste ... more.
Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation-often as a result of love or lusthere men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraord ... more.
Returning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshkin - known as 'the idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife and his three daughters. ... more.
The story of the Iliad centers on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilles'' killing of Hector and determine the fate of Troy. With compassion and humanity, he presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human ... more.
Gustave Flaubert Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $9.00 Sale Price: $7.19 You Save: $1.81
Gustave Flaubert blends the scenery of revolutionary France, satire, and a forbidden love story with a young man in personal turmoil as he attempts to reach the upper levels of society. Frederic Moreau, a law student, falls into ... more.
George Chapman Calif Princeton Fulfilment Retail Price: $29.95 Sale Price: $21.99 You Save: $7.96
George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet, 'On Firs ... more.
Anton Chekhov Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
The Shooting Party wraps a story of concealed love and fatal jealousy into a classic murder mystery. When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called to investigate. ... more.
A Greek Classic, Herodotus' history covers how a small band of the city-states kept the Persians at bay, yet also includes a number of fascinating digressions of both truth and legend. A compelling look at the world through the lens of the fi ... more.
The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - ship-wrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of ... more.
Anton Chekhov Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
From his teenage years in provincial Russia to his premature death in 1904, Anton Chekhov wrote thousands of letters to a wide range of correspondents. This fascinating new selection tells Chekhov's story as a man and a writer throug ... more.
Remade into movies, shortened for TV, and adapted for younger readers, not many have actually read the full Count of Monte Cristo. Well-worth the effort, this lively translation is as riveting a tale now as when it was first ... more.
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