John Ruskin Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
The most influential art theorist and critic of his age, an outstanding man of letters, a sensitive painter and draughtsman, Ruskin's social criticism shocked and angered the establishment and many of his admirers. First and foremost and ... more.
Alexandre Dumas Random House, Inc Retail Price: $6.95 Sale Price: $5.99 You Save: $0.96
Perhaps the greatest 'cloak and sword' story ever written,The Three Musketeers, first published in 1844, is a tale for all time. Pitting the heroic young d'Artagnan and his noble compatriots Athos, Porthos, and Aramis against ... more.
Samuel Richardson Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $26.00 Sale Price: $18.99 You Save: $7.01
In Clarissa, one of the greatest European novels and it's author's triumph, Samuel Richardson had the luck or prescience to hit upon a story that became a myth to his own age, and remains so now. How Clarissa, in resisting parent ... more.
Maria Edgeworth Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Stylish, sceptical, cosmopolitan, heir to Swift's fantasy and wit, Maria Edgeworth's fiction explores the relations of England and Ireland at a time of historical crisis. Castle Rackrent is Irish family history vividly and unreliably ... more.
Anthony Trollope Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
The fifth of the Barsetshire Chronicles and sequel to Framely Parsonage, The Small House at Allington (1864) introduces Lily Dale, Trollope's most admired heroine, and recounts the tale of her love for the ambitious, s ... more.
William Morris Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $5.01
William Morris was a dreamer with a genius for turning dreams into reality. Self-taught in thirteen different crafts, some of them ancient ones that had died out, he became the greatest European pattern-designer since the Middle A ... more.
Leon Battista Alberti Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Alberti wrote De Pictura in Latin in 1435 and in true Renaissance spirit made an Italian translation the following year. He unfolds his theories step by step. In Book One he explains the process of vision, in Book Two he sets out ' ... more.
Frances Burney Gina D's Kids Club Retail Price: $13.95 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $2.96
Written in secret, the manuscript copied for her publisher in disguised handwriting, Frances Burney's first novel Evelina appeared anonymously in 1778. It was a sequel to Caroline Evelyn, the novel burned by its author when she was fifteen; ... more.
Margaret Cavendish Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Flamboyant, theatrical, exuding ambiguous sexuality, Margaret Cavendish, was one of the seventeenth century's most striking figures, experimental in her personality as much as in her prolific writings.... The Blazing World, is ... more.
George Gissing Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Two such 'odd' women, women suffering the humiliation of being elderly and unmarried in Victorian society, are Virginia and Alice Madden, eking out a tiny income in a stifling and genteel boarding house. Their younger sister Monica ... more.
Henry Fielding Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.00
Henry Fielding (1707-54) turned to novel writing when his outspoken satirical play so annoyed Walpole's Government that a new Licensing Act was introduced to drive him from the stage. He began with Shamela (1741), a brilliant ... more.
Anthony Trollope Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $13.00
Mr Peacocke, a Classical scholar, has come to Broughtonshire with his beautiful American wife to live as a schoolmaster. But when the blackmailing brother of her first husband-a reprobate from Louisiana--appears at the school ... more.
Wilkie Collins Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $9.00 Sale Price: $7.19 You Save: $1.81
T. S. Eliot famously described The Moonstone as the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels, but as Sandra Kemp discusses in her Introduction, it offers many other facets, which reveal Collins's sensibilities as ... more.
Elizabeth Gaskell Penguin Classics Retail Price: $12.00
This is the story of Margaret Hale and explores the exploitation of the working class, linking the plight of workers with that of women and probing the myth and reality of the 'north-south divide'. ... more.
George Eliot Penguin Classics Retail Price: $11.00
'I meant everything in the book to be related to everything else,' wrote George Eliot of her last novel. Daniel Deronda opens with one of the most memorable encounters in fiction: Gwendolen Harleth, alluring yet unsettling, is poised ... more.
Robert Louis Stevenson Penguin Classics Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
In the South Seas records Stevenson's travels with his wife Fanny and their family in the Marquesas, the Paumotus and the Gilbert Islands during 1888-9. Origionally drafted in journal form while Stevenson travelled, ... more.
Dostoevsky Random House, Inc Retail Price: $16.95 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $5.96
It is a murder story, told from a murderer's point of view, that implicates even the most innocent reader in its enormities. It is a cat-and-mouse game between a tormented young killer and a cheerfully implacable detective. It is a p ... more.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear Random House, Inc Retail Price: $18.95 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $4.96
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russia in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky concieved Demons as a 'novel-pamphlet' in which he would say ... more.
Elizabeth Gaskell Penguin Classics Retail Price: $10.00
Mary Barton, the daughter of a disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover in hopes of marrying Henry Carson, the mill-owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot b ... more.
Unfairly judged by her sisters and critics, Anne Bronte had a singular vision of women's rights that extended beyond the 'rights' given in her own time.
Divided into a unique three-part style, we learn of Helen Huntington's ... more.
Lady Mary Montagu Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $14.99 You Save: $5.01
Ranging over everything from gossip to politics, science to literature, they reveal very different aspects of her personality to her husband, sister and female circle, to her beloved daughter and her errant son. The fa ... more.
Elizabeth Gaskell Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Elizabeth Gaskell's Life appeared in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim among Victorian readers curious to discover more about the writer who had given Jane Eyre the subtitle, An Autobiography. In writing about Charlotte ... more.
J.R.R. Tolkien Houghton-mifflin Retail Price: $30.00 Sale Price: $19.49 You Save: $10.51
For readers who wish The Lord of the Rings would never end, here's reason to rejoice! Compiled by Tolkien's son Christopher, these wonderful myths and legends were begun in 1916 and left incomplete. Together with fas ... more.
Andrew Sanders Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.00
'Dombey and Son' Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr Dombey's life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships'
Giambattis Vico Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $4.01
Although Vico (1668-1744) lived his whole life as an obscure academic in Naples, his New Science is an astonishingly ambitious attempt to decode the history, mythology, and law of the ancient world. It argues that the key to true understand ... more.
Lady Murasaki Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Although it opens with a lyrical description of the Tsuchimikado mansion in autumn and gives vivid accounts of court events and ceremonies, the work is in no sense an official chronicle. Spiced with anecdote, searching self-analys ... more.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon Penguin Classics Retail Price: $12.00
Weathering critical scorn, Lady Audley's Secret (1862) quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, sharing the honour only with Wilkie Collins. Addictive, cunningly p ... more.
Matthew Lewis Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.00
Savaged by critics for its blasphemy and obscenity particularly since the author was a Member of Parliament, The Monk soon attracted thousands of readers keen to see if it lived up to its lurid reputation. With acute psychological insight, Lewis ... more.
Wilkie Collins Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
By the time The Law and the Lady appeared in 1875, The Woman in White and The Moonstone had already established Collins as the leading practitioner of 'sensation fiction'. The Law and the Lady builds on this tradition by introducing one ... more.
Mrs. Oliphant Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Thus wrote Q.D. Leavis, who declared Margaret Oliphant's heroine Lucilla to be the 'missing link' in nineteenth-century literature between Jane Austen's Emma and George Eliot's Dorothea Brooke, and 'more entertaining, more impressiv ... more.
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