George Orwell, George Crwell, Julian Symons Random House, Inc Retail Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $6.01
Animal Farm is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, and its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master and then submit to a tyrann ... more.
Carl Von Clausewitz Random House, Inc Retail Price: $28.00 Sale Price: $19.99 You Save: $8.01
On War by Carl von Clausewitz edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Carl von Clausewitz was a staff officer who served with great distinction during the Napo ... more.
Honore de Balzac Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
In Cousin Pons (1848) Balzac develops, with astonishing virtuosity, the theme of family relationships that he explored in Cousin Bette but from an entirely different angle. Whereas Bette was the incarnation of deliberate vindictivenes ... more.
Baroness Orczy Dover Publications Retail Price: $3.50 Sale Price: $3.5 You Save: $0
An irresistible blend of romance, intrigue, and suspense, this timeless historical adventure recalls the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution, when ruthless mobs ruled the streets of Paris and hundreds of royals were ... more.
Ivan Turgenev Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
On one level the story is about the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again only to lose it. The sense of loss and of unfulfilled promise, bea ... more.
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By means of this unusual art form, Ovid personalizes and brings to life many of the outstanding women of classical myth, such as Penelope, Dido and Ariadne. The final 'double letters' of the book allow legendary heroes such as Paris to initiate the corres ... more.
Honore de Balzac Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $5.01
The novel revolves around the contrasting characters of two brothers. Philippe Bridau, the elder, Napoleon's aide-de-camp at the battle of Montereau, had a brief but glorious career in the army before the fall of the Emperor. A handsom ... more.
Miguel de Cervantes Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Cervante's Exemplary Stories resist facile classification. All the stories are exemplary in the literary sense, with their exquisite delineation of character, smooth flow of narrative and richness of dialogue. Yet they rang ... more.
Honore de Balzac Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
Blzac's hero in Lost Illusions is young provincial would-be poet, whose feminine grace belies his driving ambition. he is naive, inexperienced and weak, but has genuine talent. Taken up by Madame de Bargeton, Lucien prepares t ... more.
Charles Dickens Dover Publications Retail Price: $5.00 Sale Price: $4.49 You Save: $0.51
The emotional tale of Little Nell and her doting grandfather was an immediate popular success in 1840-41. Played out against the backdrop of a cold and brutal London, the twosome abandon their home to escape debt and roam th ... more.
Alessando Manzoni Penguin Classics Retail Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $4.01
Renzo and Lucia are prevented from marrying by the tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they're separated, and must face plague, famine, and imprisonment, as well as a variety of strange and mysterio ... more.
Joseph Jacobs Random House, Inc Retail Price: $16.95
Joseph Jacobs' English Fairy Tales illustrated by John Batten Some of the tales included in this book are: The History of Tom Thumb, The Cat and the Mouse, The Pied Piper, and many more. ... more.
Montesquieu Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $13.00
A bestseller in his own day, Montesquieu's Persian Letters are more than Western fantasy's about the 'exotic east'. Rather, his orientalist fantasies about two Persian men who leave their harem to see the wonders of Paris and th ... more.
Lady Sarashina Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Born in A.D. 1008 at the height of the Heian period, Lady Sarashina probably wrote most of her work towards the end of her life, long after the events described. Thwarted and saddened by the real world with all its d ... more.
Juan Mascaro Penguin Classics Retail Price: $11.00
Probably compiled in the third century B.C., the verses encompass the struggle towards Nirvana - the supreme goal for the Buddhist - and point out the narrow Path of Perfection that leads to it. 'In the Dhammapada we can hear the ... more.
Cao Xueqin Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
Divided into five volumes, of which The Golden Days is the first, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords with ... more.
Samuel Butler Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $13.00
With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, the novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth ... more.
Ivan Turgenev Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
'superfluous man' typical of Russia's intelligentsia in the 1840's he is none the less a failure in the vein of Don Quixote or Hamlet. His pettiness, his habit of interfering in other people's lives and borrowing their money, his sterility in th ... more.
Samuel Butler Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Butler's tale of a traveler to a remote island, based on his experiences in New Zealand, combines the elements of traditional utopian fiction and the picaresque novel; the influence of The Origin of Species on Butler's writing is apparent. ... more.
Walter Scott, Andrew Hook Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00
It was Waverly (considered 'indescribably sensational' by one American scholar) that may be considered as the instrument of that success - the historical novel,properly speaking, did not exist before Scott wrote it. Yet, as the c ... more.
Anthony Trollope Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Alice Vavasour has broken off her engagement with John Grey, her faultless fiance, in order to marry her cousin George. According to the Victorian moral code, Alice must pay for her poor behaviour, but the reader forgives h ... more.
Walter Scott, Tony Inglis Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Early in 1817 Scott received in an unsigned letter the seed of The Heart of Mid-Lothian and began immediately to shape from historical fact the story of Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid who, while refusing to lie ... more.
Guy De Maupassant Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
'Bel-Ami', is a provincial determined to succeed in the corrupt Paris of the Third Republic. At first naive, he soon begins to understand the truth behind the scenes - the sleaziness, manipulation and mediocrity which underlie ... more.
Olive Schreiner Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00
This novel is one of the most astonishing, least expected fiction masterpieces of its time and one which has had an enduring influence. Two cousins grow up in the 1860s on a lonely Bible-dominated farm in the thirsty ... more.
Gustave Flaubert Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $19.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $5.01
This is the story of two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris. Following an unexpected inheritance, they decide to give up their jobs and explore the world of ideas. This edition includes the Dictionary of R ... more.
Anthony Trollope Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $12.00
In this second novel of the Barsetshire Chronicles series, Trollope continues the story begun in The Warden and explores the conflict between the High and Low Church during the mid-Victorian period. ... more.
Anthony Trollope Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $12.00
The first book in the Barsetshire Chronicles tells the story of an elderly clergyman who resigns his church sinecure when it becomes the center of public controversy. ... more.
Samuel Johnson Penguin Classics Retail Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $6.01
Their journals, published together here, perfectly complement each other. Johnson's majestic prose and hawk eye for curious detail take in everything from the stone arrowheads found in the Hebrides, ... more.
Jeffrey Gantz Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $13.00
Nothing illustrates the strange nature of these Welsh stories better than this vertically halved tree. The combination of fact and fantasy, of myth, history and folklore in The Mabinogion conjures up a magical enchated world, which is n ... more.
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