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100 Best-Loved Poems
$5.00 Add to cartHere are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these sp
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Smith, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 04 1995
- ISBN10: 0486285537
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Letter
$6.00 Add to cartAn “A” for “adultery” marks Hester Prynne as an outcast from the society of colonial Boston. Although forced by the puritanical town fathers to wear a bright red badge of shame, Hester steadfastly res
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 02, 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280489
- Language: English
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The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone
$8.00 Add to cartThe stirring tale of a legendary royal family’s fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of Greek drama. Sophocles’ three-play cycle, chronicling Oedipus’s … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 23 2006
- ISBN10: 048645049X
- Language: English
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A Tale of Two Cities
$7.00 Add to cartIt was the time of the French Revolution — a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocen
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 31, 1998
- ISBN10: 0486406512
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery
$6.00 Add to cartBorn in a Virginia slave hut, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for African Americans of his day. In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Washington, Booker T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 04, 1995
- ISBN10: 0486287386
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
$6.00 Add to cartIn this celebrated work, his only novel, Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic ho
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 13 1993
- ISBN10: 0486278077
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
$5.00 Add to cartWhether forming a pirate gang to search for buried treasure or spending a quiet time at home, sharing his medicine with Aunt Polly’s cat, the irrepressible Tom Sawyer evokes the world of boyhood in ni… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 27 1998
- ISBN10: 0486400778
- Language: English
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The Brothers Karamazov
$15.00 Add to cartCompleted only a few months before the author’s death, The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoyevsky’s largest, most expansive, most life-embracing work. Filled with human passions ― lust, greed, love, … [more below]
- Series: Dover Giant Thrift Editions
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0486437914
- Language: English
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Great Speeches of the Twentieth Century
$9.00 Add to cartA great speech can stir the soul — and move a nation. This compact and affordable anthology gathers complete speeches and selected excerpts from some of the twentieth century’s most memorable address
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Blaisdell, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 17, 2011
- ISBN10: 0486474674
- Language: English
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Frankenstein
$6.00 Add to cartFew creatures of horror have seized readers’ imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein’s terrible creation and th
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 21, 1994
- ISBN10: 0486282112
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$4.50 Add to cartFormer slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) led an astounding life. Physi
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 13, 1995
- ISBN10: 0486284999
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions)
$7.00 Add to cartThis landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 20 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280411
- Language: English
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Heart of Darkness
$5.00 Add to cartAlthough Polish by birth, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is regarded as one of the greatest writers in English, and Heart of Darkness, first published in 1902, is considered by many his “most famous, fine
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0486264645
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$6.00 Read moreThe true story of an individual’s struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. Th
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0486419312
- Language: English
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The Imitation of Christ
$5.00 Add to cartThis classic of Christian devotional literature has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries. Both Protestants and Catholics — as well as mystics and historians of religious though… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Thomas ? Kempis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 139
- Publish Date: September 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0486431851
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment
$9.00 Add to cartThe two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 22, 2001
- ISBN10: 0486415872
- Language: English
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$6.00 Add to cartReferring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was “the most stupendous event of my whole life”; Ernest Hemingway declared that “al
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 26, 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280616
- Language: English
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Dracula
$8.00 Add to cartDuring a business visit to Count Dracula’s castle in Transylvania, a young English solicitor finds himself at the center of a series of horrifying incidents. Jonathan Harker is attacked by three phant… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Stoker, Bram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0486411095
- Language: English
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The World’s Greatest Short Stories: Selections from Hemingway, Tolstoy, Woolf, Chekhov, Joyce, Updike and More
$8.00 Read moreWonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe.
Included… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Daley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: 28-Apr-06
- ISBN10: 0486447162
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice
$7.00 Add to cartOne of the most universally loved and admired English novels, Pride and Prejudice was penned as a popular entertainment. But the consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775-1817) transformed this efferve… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: 12-Apr-95
- ISBN10: 0486284735
- Language: English
