Category: Classic Fiction

A Collection of Essays

By: Orwell, George

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 1970

Seller ID: 316246

ISBN-13: 9780156186001

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

George Orwell's collected nonfiction, written in the clear-eyed and uncompromising style that earned him a critical following One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell fought the injustices of his time with singular vigor through pen and paper. In this selection of essays, he ranges from reflections on his boyhood schooling and the profession of writing to his views on the Spanish Civil War and British imperialism. The pieces collected here include the relatively unfamiliar and the more celebrated, making it an ideal compilation for both new...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: Joyce

Price: $7.98

Publisher: The Viking Press : 1968

Seller ID: 471199

ISBN: 281CAO1008766

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens Classic Novel, (French Revolution; London, Love and Sacrifice), Ribbon Page Marker, Perfect for Gifting

By: Dickens, Charles,Press, Paper Mill

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Paper Mill Press : May 2020

Seller ID: 447544

ISBN-13: 9781774021705

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

By: Stegner, Wallace

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Penguin Classics : December 2000

Seller ID: 431871

ISBN-13: 9780141185477

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Stegner s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of personal, historical, and geographic discovery Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family. "Cause for celebration . . . A superb novel with an amplitude of scale and richness of detail altogether uncommon in contempora...
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Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)

By: Tolstoy, Leo

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Signet : November 2002

Seller ID: 457075

ISBN-13: 9780451528612

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: New

Leo Tolstoy's evocative tale of doomed love--one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. Upon it's publication, Anna Karenina startled the world with its powerful portrayal of the human need for love and happiness weighed against the rigid demands of society. Its heroine, the sensual, rebellious Anna, renounces a respectable yet stifling marriage for an extramarital affair that offers a taste of passion even as it ensnares her in a trap for destruction. Her story contrasts with that of Levin, a young, self-doubting agnostic who takes a different path to fulfillment and finds faith an...
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Arabesques (New York Review Books Classics)

By: Shammas, Anton

Price: $17.95

Publisher: NYRB Classics : January 2023

Seller ID: 475028

ISBN-13: 9781681376929

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Breakfast at Tiffany's (Vintage International)

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Vintage : October 1993

Seller ID: 446924

ISBN-13: 9780679745655

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the
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Can You Forgive Her? (Penguin Classics)

By: Trollope, Anthony

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Penguin Classics : June 1975

Seller ID: 450052

ISBN-13: 9780140430868

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Anthony Trollope's stock-in-trade was the life of the great drawing rooms of mid-Victorian England, where the thirst for wealth and political power and the need for love continually formed and reformed in unexpected, illuminating combinations. Can You Forgive Her?, the story of Alice Vavasor, her conundrums in love, and her confusions about the rights and duties of a modern, is the first novel in his magnificent Palliser series; it is energized on every page by the affectionate and ironicdelight Trollope felt in observing the entanglements of his splendid characters. For more than seventy year...
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Christmas Carol

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Paper Mill Press : January 2018

Seller ID: 447518

ISBN-13: 9781774021989

Binding: Novelty

Condition: New

Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)

By: Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Vintage : February 1993

Seller ID: 402804

ISBN-13: 9780679734505

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. The best (translation) currently available--Washington Post Book World.
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Doctor Thorne (The World's Classics)

By: Trollope, Anthony

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : May 1981

Seller ID: 450004

ISBN-13: 9780192815088

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Dubliners: Centennial Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By: Joyce, James

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : May 2014

Seller ID: 423697

ISBN-13: 9780143107453

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

For the centennial of its original publication, an irresistible Deluxe Edition of one of the most beloved books of the 20th century--featuring a foreword by Colum McCann, the bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic Perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyce's Dubliners is a vivid and unflinching portrait of "dear dirty Dublin" at the turn of the twentieth century. These fifteen stories, including such unforgettable ones as "Araby," "Grace," and "The Dead," delve into the heart of the city of Joyce's birth, capturing the cadences of...
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Edith Wharton : Novellas and Other Writings : Madame De Treymes / Ethan Frome / Summer / Old New York / The Mother's Recompense / A Backward Glance (Library of America)

By: Wharton, Edith

Price: $18.98

Publisher: Library of America : April 1990

Seller ID: 449983

ISBN-13: 9780940450530

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

some damage to DJ, some staining on pages
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $18.99

Publisher: Scribner : July 1995

Seller ID: 383334

ISBN-13: 9780684803357

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight, For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria an...
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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By: Pynchon, Thomas

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : October 2006

Seller ID: 450519

ISBN-13: 9780143039945

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A Penguin Classic Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. This Penguin Classics deluxe edition features a specially designed cover by Frank Miller along with french claps and deckle-edged paper. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-sp...
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Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, (Classic Literature, Pip the Blacksmith Apprentice, Coming of Age Novel, Essential Reading) Ribbon Page Marker, Perfect for Gifting

By: Dickens, Charles,Press, Paper Mill

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Book Depot, Inc. (Paper Mill Press) : April 2018

Seller ID: 447545

ISBN-13: 9781926444277

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift Classic Novel, (Adventure, Exploring), Ribbon Page Marker, Perfect for Gifting

By: Swift, Jonathan,Press, Paper Mill

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Paper Mill Press : May 2020

Seller ID: 447559

ISBN-13: 9781774021682

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary (Penguin Classics)

By: Conrad, Joseph

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : September 2007

Seller ID: 436307

ISBN-13: 9780141441672

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Heart of Darkness is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recounting his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz. Traveling upriver into the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, wraith-like figure. Marlow's discovery of how Kurtz has gained his position of power over the local people involves him in a radical questioning, not only of his own nature and...
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Iliad or the Poem of Force

By: Weil, Simon

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Pendle Hill Publications : August 1985

Seller ID: 39634

ISBN-13: 9780875740911

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In Cold Blood

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Vintage : February 1994

Seller ID: 456718

ISBN-13: 9780679745587

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The most famous true crime novel of all time, In Cold Blood is the bestseller that haunted its author long after he finished writing it. Chills the blood and exercises the intelligence ... harrowing. --The New York Review of Books On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. In one of the first non-fiction novels ever written, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation...
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Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Classic Novel, (Love, Family, Independence, Orphan Courage), Ribbon Page Marker, Perfect for Gifting

By: Bronte, Charlotte,Press, Paper Mill

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Paper Mill Press : January 2018

Seller ID: 447550

ISBN-13: 9781926444246

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

John Dryden's Imagery

By: Hoffman, Arthur W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Univeristy of Florida Press : 1968

Seller ID: 6546

ISBN-13: 9789110002449

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Kilometer 101 (New York Review Books Classics)

By: Osipov, Maxim

Price: $17.95

Publisher: NYRB Classics : October 2022

Seller ID: 459987

ISBN-13: 9781681376868

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Little Women Louisa May Alcott Classic Novel (Love, Family and Transition to Womanhood, Required Literature), Ribbon Page Marker, Perfect for Gifting

By: Alcott, Louisa May,Press, Paper Mill

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Paper Mill Press : April 2019

Seller ID: 447548

ISBN-13: 9781926444222

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Classic Novel (Required Reading, Essential Literature), Ribbon Page Marker, Perfect for Gifting

By: Flaubert, Gustave,Press, Paper Mill

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Paper Mill Press : June 2020

Seller ID: 447553

ISBN-13: 9781774021798

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Mansfield Park (Vintage Classics)

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Vintage : September 2007

Seller ID: 436328

ISBN-13: 9780307386885

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Mansfield Park encompasses not only Jane Austen's great comedic gifts and her genius as a historian of the human animal, but her personal credo as well--her faith in a social order that combats chaos through civil grace, decency, and wit. At the novel's center is Fanny Price, the classic "poor cousin," brought as a child to Mansfield Park by the rich Sir Thomas Bertram and his wife as an act of charity. Over time, Fanny comes to demonstrate forcibly those virtues Austen most admired: modesty, firm principles, and a loving heart. As Fanny watches her cousins Maria and Julia cast aside their scr...
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Moby Dick (Harperperennial Classics)

By: Melville, Herman

Price: $15.99

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics : June 2011

Seller ID: 477206

ISBN-13: 9780062085641

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickMelville's classic tale of obsession and the sea, one of the most important and enduring masterworks of nineteenth-century literature, Moby Dick is a riveting drama, exploring rage, hope, destiny, and the deepest questions of moral truth. "Call me Ishmael."Thus begins one of the most famous journeys in literature--the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod and its embattled, monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Ishmael quickly learns that the Pequod's captain sails for revenge against the elusive Moby Dick, a sperm whale with a snow-white hump and mottled skin that destr...
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Mrs. Dalloway

By: Woolf

Price: $9.98

Publisher: The Modern Library -- Random House : 1928

Seller ID: 469783

ISBN: 281CAO1008694

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

O. Henry: The Fiction (Complete and Unabridged) - The Gift of the Magi, The Ransom of Red Chief, A Retrieved Reformation, The Cop and the Anthem, The Furnished Room, and more

By: Henry, O.

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Barnes & Noble : January 2006

Seller ID: 477862

ISBN-13: 9780760781227

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Oil! (Penguin Classics)

By: Sinclair, Upton

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : April 2023

Seller ID: 473365

ISBN-13: 9780143137443

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Classic Novel, (Coming of Age, Orphan, Required Literature), Ribbon Page Marker, Perfect for Gifting

By: Dickens, Charles,Press, Paper Mill

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Paper Mill Press : January 2019

Seller ID: 447543

ISBN-13: 9781926444215

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Signet Classics)

By: Milton, John

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Signet : November 2010

Seller ID: 455814

ISBN-13: 9780451531643

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: New

These controversial epic poems demonstrate Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and drama in profound explorations of the moral problems of God's justice-and what it truly means to be human.
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Persuasion

By: AUSTEN, JANE, BEER, GILLIAN

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Penguin USA : May 2003

Seller ID: 433000

ISBN-13: 9780141439686

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Jane Austen's last completed novel, marrying witty social realism to a Cinderella love story At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is...
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Persuasion, Jane Austen Classic Novel, (Anne Elliot, Victorian England, Love and Loss), Ribbon Page Marker, Perfect for Gifting

By: Austen, Jane,Press, Paper Mill

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Paper Mill Press : May 2020

Seller ID: 447546

ISBN-13: 9781774021774

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Phineas Finn: The Irish Member (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Trollope, Anthony

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press : December 2008

Seller ID: 450043

ISBN-13: 9780199537730

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The novel is set against the background of the Reform Bill of 1867, and focuses on an Irish Member o
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Precious Bane (Virago Modern Classics)

By: Webb, Mary

Price: $15.99

Publisher: Virago : February 2022

Seller ID: 478929

ISBN-13: 9780349015644

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Pride and Prejudice (Everyman's Library)

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Everyman's Library : October 1991

Seller ID: 429716

ISBN-13: 9780679405429

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it--and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet. And everyone is held fast not only by the novel's romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by the author's wit and feeling but by her subtle o...
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Sense and Sensibility (Signet Classics)

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Signet : July 2008

Seller ID: 436386

ISBN-13: 9780451531018

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: New

Two sisters of opposing temperaments who share the pangs of tragic love provide the theme for Jane Austen's dramatically human narrative. Elinor, practical and conventional, is the perfection of sense. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, is the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters--and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility gives way to sense. Jane Austen's authentic representation of early-nineteenth-century middle-class provincial life, writt...
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