H.G. Wells Random House, Inc Retail Price: $4.95 Sale Price: $4.49 You Save: $0.46
Spine-tingling and entertaining, THE INVISIBLE MAN is a science fiction classic. To its author, H.G. Wells, the novel was as compelling as 'a good gripping dream.' But to generations of readers, the terrible and evil experiment of the demen ... more.
Jules Verne Random House, Inc Retail Price: $4.99 Sale Price: $4.49 You Save: $0.5
A fastidious English gentleman makes a remarkable wager--he will travel around the world in eighty days or forfeit his life's savings. Thus begins Jules Verne's classic 1872 novel, which remains unsurpassed in sheer story ... more.
Victor Hugo Random House, Inc Retail Price: $5.95 Sale Price: $5.49 You Save: $0.46
Before the huge crowd that packed the cathedral square, Esmeralda stood between two executioners. Suddenly, Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, rushed at the executioners and felled them with his enormous fists. He snatc ... more.
Daniel Defoe Random House, Inc Retail Price: $5.95 Sale Price: $5.49 You Save: $0.46
This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in a storm, possessing only a knife, a box of tobacc ... more.
Emmuska Orczy Orczy Random House, Inc Retail Price: $4.95 Sale Price: $4.49 You Save: $0.46
It is 1792 and France is in the grip of a seething, bloody revolution. Mobs roam the Paris streets hunting down royalists, barricades block any chance of escape, and every day hundreds die under the blade of Madame Guilloti ... more.
Jules Verne Random House, Inc Retail Price: $5.95 Sale Price: $5.49 You Save: $0.46
When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Imprey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to ... more.
William Makepeace Thackeray Random House, Inc Retail Price: $6.95 Sale Price: $5.99 You Save: $0.96
A deliciously satirical attack on a money-mad society, Vanity Fair, which first appeared in 1847, is an immensely moral novel, and an immensely witty one. Lengthy and leisurely in pace, the novel follows the adventures of ... more.
Phillip Lopate Random House, Inc Retail Price: $21.00 Sale Price: $15.99 You Save: $5.01
For more than 400 years the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. The Art of the Personal Essay is the first anthology to celebrate this lively, fertile genre. Distinguis ... more.
Lord Byron Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $4.01
Byron's novel tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sol ... more.
Charles Dickens Dover Publications Retail Price: $3.50 Sale Price: $3.5 You Save: $0
Oliver Twist's famous cry of the heart--'Please, sir, I want some more'--has resounded with generations of readers of all ages. The author poured his own youthful experience of Victorian London's unspeakable squalor into this realistic ... more.
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(PUBLittle, Brown)'A satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers' row (Swift, Pope, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters,'---Time. Waugh's matchless works seem as perceptive, penetrating, a ... more.
Harriet Rubin Simon & Schuster Trade Sales Retail Price: $13.00
'An infectious blend of accessibility, erudition, and practical wisdom. Acting as our Virgil, Rubin follows Dante not only through the haunted realms of his Commedia, but through the ... more.
Edmund Burke Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $14.49 You Save: $5.51
The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies. As a member of the House of Commons during the late eighteenth centur ... more.
Arthur Conan Doyle Dover Publications Retail Price: $2.50 Sale Price: $2.5 You Save: $0
Undoubtedly the best-known detective in literature, Sherlock Holmes was the creation of British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), who endowed his super sleuth with an extraordinary facility for solving c ... more.
Herbert Mason Houghton-mifflin Retail Price: $8.95 Sale Price: $7.19 You Save: $1.76
National Book Award finalist! The most widely read translation of that famous tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend---this book has been in print for 30 years and is widely studied in literature courses alongside Beow ... more.
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Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats--Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century--produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, e ... more.
Daniel Defoe Random House, Inc Retail Price: $15.95 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.96
This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in a storm posses ... more.
Arthur Conan Doyle Random House, Inc Retail Price: $13.90
The perfect set for the sleuths you know--whether yourself or someone else--this boxed, two volume set contains all four novels along all 56 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories. From The Sign of th ... more.
William Golding Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00
Few works in literature have received as much popular and critical attentionas Nobel Laureate William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Since its publication in 1954, it has amassed a cult following, and has significantl contri ... more.
George Eliot Dover Publications Retail Price: $2.50 Sale Price: $2.5 You Save: $0
As a young man Silas Marner shut himself off from the world after being wrongfully accused of theft and losing the girl he loved. Much later in life, the lonely embittered weaver experiences two jolting events: he is robbed of his meager h ... more.
Anne Frank Random House, Inc Retail Price: $5.99 Sale Price: $5.49 You Save: $0.5
Anne Franks' diary has touched the lives of thousands; her touching commentary on the times in which she lives provides a fascinating portrait of human courage and spirit. After her diary's discovery in the attic where she spent t ... more.
Victor Hugo Random House, Inc Retail Price: $5.99 Sale Price: $5.49 You Save: $0.5
Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Miserables is not only a superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean Valijean struggle ... more.
George Gissing Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
His novel is at once a major social document and a story that draws us irresistibly into the twilt world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acquaintances in Grub Street including Jasper Milvain, an ambitio ... more.
Sir Thomas Malory Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery, and death. Edited and first published by William Caxton in 1485, Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's unique and splendid version of the Arthurian l ... more.
Richard Hakluyt Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
The English, in fact , were late-comers to the profitable business of distant trade and voyages of discovery, and Hakluyt wrote his documents partly with a view to stimulating national pride in this area. By the sixteenth centu ... more.
Leo Tolstoy Random House, Inc Retail Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $4.01
This novel of love, adventure, and male rivalry on the frontiers of nineteenth-century Russia -- completed in 1862, when Tolstoy was in his early thirties -- has always surprised readers who know Tolstoy best through the vast, panoramic fi ... more.
Samuel Richardson Penguin Classics Retail Price: $10.00
Told in a series of letters, it is a story of a serving maid who is relentlessly pursued by her dead mistress's son. In defending her virginity so vigorously, Pamela, the first important English heroine to actually work for he ... more.
Daniel Defoe Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Roxana (1724) was Defoe's last novel. It is a fascinating work, simultaneously strange and tragic, which dramatizes the moral deterioration and degradation of its complex heroine. Mlle Beleau, or Roxana as s ... more.
Oliver Goldsmith Penguin Classics Retail Price: $10.00
The story opens in the country parsonage of Dr. Primrose, a kindly man who has a good heart, a good family and a good income. Suddenly, his idyllic life is cruelly devastated by a series of misfortunes, and he ends up in ga ... more.
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