Honore de Balzac Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
For this volume, Sylvia Raphael has chosen twelve stories, including 'An Incident in the Reign of Terror, ' 'The Athiest's Mass,' and 'The Red Inn.' All of them reveal Balzac's ability to excite curiosity (as she co ... more.
Cao Xueqin Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $4.01
Divided into five volumes, of which The Crab-Flower Club is the second, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family. The two main characters, Bao-yu and Dai-yu, are set against a rich tap ... more.
Honore de Balzac Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
The imaginitive breadth and the intellectual depth of The Wild Ass's Skin make it one of the greatest of Balzac's 'Etudes philosophiques'. With its central symbol of the magic piece of shagreen, it expresses the peculiary Balza ... more.
Ivan Turgenev Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $10.00
First Love begins as a gentle comedy: a young boy falls in love with Zinaida, the capricious daughter of a down-at-heel Princess. But when he discovers the identity of her lover, the mood turns to one of torment and despair. With a realism ... more.
Soon after becoming emperor in A.D. 527, Justinian appointed a commission to review and codify all the legal practices of the last four centuries which were still valid. The result, The Digest of ... more.
Elizabeth Gaskell Penguin Classics Retail Price: $12.00
In Ruth, the author set out to portray, not 'the Condition of England' already famously addressed in Mary Barton, but the nature and sensibility of a fallen woman. In considering a 'fallen woman', Gaskell explores the worlds of nineteenth-c ... more.
Robert Louis Stevenson Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
The Master of Ballantrae opens in the old Scottish house of Durrisdeer, ancestral home of Duries, a family divided by the Jacobite rising of 1745. Its adventure draws in sea voyages, piracy, buri ... more.
Edwin A. Abbott Penguin Classics Retail Price: $12.00
A. Square's two-dimensional world is forever changed when the emissary Sphere brings the gospel of the third dimension. Part geometry lesson, part social satire, this science fiction classic enlarges readers' pe ... more.
Marguerite De Nava Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
Usually attributed to Marguerite de Navarre, the brilliant sister of Francis I of France, The Heptameron is located firmly in the tradition of Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The stories are related by five men ... more.
Guy De Maupassant Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $13.00
An intensely personal story of suspicion, jealousy and family love, Pierre and Jean is considered Maupassant's greatest novel. Guy de Maupassant (1850-93) was born near Dieppe, in Normandy, and all his life was deeply attached t ... more.
Charles Dickens Dover Publications Retail Price: $5.00 Sale Price: $4.99 You Save: $0.01
Charles Dickens' David Copperfield remains one of his most popular works. The most autobiographical of all his novels, he follows young orphan Copperfield as he grows up with his mother and brutal stepfather, attends boarding schoo ... more.
Sir Walter Scott Dover Publications Retail Price: $5.95
One of the greatest tales of chivalry and medieval life, Ivanhoe relates the interwoven lives of Richard the Lionhearted, Rebecca, King John, Robin Hood and other assorted characters from those times. Off to the crusades to prove himself wort ... more.
Friedrich Schiller Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
The Robbers and The Wallenstein are both concerned with freedom: with man's attempt to spread his wings and fly, to be the arbiter of his own destiny, even to change the world in accordance with his own designs. ... more.
Ivan Turgenev Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey at Frankfurt, and for the first time falls deeply, deliriously in love. Convinced that nothing can come in the way of everlasting happi ... 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 Warning Voice is the third, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family ( a story which closely accords with the fortunes of the author's own family). The two ma ... 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 Debt of Tears is the fourth, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family ( a story which closely accords with the fortunes of the author's own family). The t ... more.
Mark Musa, ed. Penguin Classics Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $14.99 You Save: $5.01
As a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian faith. As an autobiographer, he looked unsparingly at his own failures to depict universal moral struggles. As a visionary, he dared draw maps of Hell, with Purg ... more.
First published in 1897, Kipling's timeless seafaring adventure tells of the escapades of Harvey Cheyne, the son of an American millionaire who, after falling from a luxury ocean liner, is rescued by the raucous crew of the fishin ... more.
Hermann Palsson Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $10.49 You Save: $5.51
Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is the only medieval chronicle to have Orkney as the central place of action, and from it we derive much of our knowledge of the Northern Isles and Caithne ... more.
E.T.A. Hoffman Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
The duality of his nature is frequently reflected in some of his characters - Cardillac the goldsmith in Mademoiselle de Scudery and Nathaniel in The Sandman, for example. Cardillac is a virtuous indesutrious man by day but a ... more.
Charles Dickens Penguin Classics Retail Price: $9.00 Sale Price: $7.19 You Save: $1.81
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he e ... more.
Emily Bronte Penguin Classics Retail Price: $7.00 Sale Price: $5.99 You Save: $1.01
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thurshcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place year ... more.
Charles Dickens Penguin Classics Retail Price: $9.00 Sale Price: $7.19 You Save: $1.81
The orphan Pip's terrifying encounter with an escaped convict on the Kent marshes, and his mysterious summons to the house of Miss Havisham and her cold, beautiful ward Estella, form the prelude to his 'great expectations.' How Pip com ... more.
Charles Dickens Penguin Classics Retail Price: $8.00 Sale Price: $6.29 You Save: $1.71
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydn ... more.
Charles Dickens Penguin Classics Retail Price: $12.00
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt ... more.
H.G. Wells Penguin Classics Retail Price: $9.00 Sale Price: $7.19 You Save: $1.81
Propelled into the year 802,701 AD, a Victorian scientist is delighted by what he finds in the futuristic world. A beautiful elfin race, descended from mankind, reigns in peace and plenty. However, when the scientist discovers that this rac ... more.
Honore de Balzac Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $13.00
By 1819, when Balzac's novel opens, old Goriot is reduced to living in a mean forty-five franc room on the third floor, his fine cambric shirts and diamond pin long sold. Moon-faced, unhappy and unkempt, his only visitors are two gl ... more.
Honore de Balzac Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $4.01
This is seldom more evident than in Eugene Grandet, one of the earliest and finest of the novels in his great work. The love of money and passionate pursuit of it are seen as a driving force in post-Revolutionary France, and ar ... more.
Translated by W.F. Jackson Knight Penguin Classics Retail Price: $11.00
In this fresh prose translation, W.F. Jackson Knight discusses The Aeneid's impact on Western civilization and provides a list of variations from the Oxford text. ... more.
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