Dover Books on Literature & Drama
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News from Nowhere: Or an Epoch of Rest; Being Some Chapters from “A Utopian Romance”
$10.95 Read moreOne of the most literary and readable of utopian novels, News from Nowhere chronicles the impressions of a nineteenth-century visitor to the twenty-second century, who finds England transformed into a… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Morris, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: December 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0486434273
- Language: English
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Quicksand
$9.95 Read moreHelga’s mother is white, and her father is black — and absent. Ostracized throughout her lonely childhood for her dark skin, Helga spends her adult life seeking acceptance. Everywhere she goes — the… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Larsen, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0486451402
- Language: English
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
$4.95 Read moreThis prose rendering of a poem from the late fourteenth century (or earlier) recounts an adventure undertaken by King Arthur’s famous nephew, Sir Gawain. Brave and chivalrous, faithful to his word and… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Weston, Jessie L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 53
- Publish Date: August 22 2003
- ISBN10: 0486431916
- Language: English
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The Vagabond
$12.95 Read moreFrom the author of Gigi comes this tale of 33-year-old Renée Néré, recently divorced and seeking a new life as a vaudeville performer. Maxime, a wealthy playboy, tempts her from the path of indepen… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0486475859
- Language: English
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
$14.99 Add to cartA comical futurist fantasy, first published in 1904, about a tradition-loving suburban London community of the 1980s at war with its modernizing neighbors. Chesterton’s splendid storytelling gifts and… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 1991
- ISBN10: 048626551X
- Language: English
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The White Company
$24.99 Add to cartNow order the ranks, and fling wide the banners, for our souls are God’s and our bodies the king’s, and our swords for Saint George and for England With that rousing proclamation, twelve hundred knig… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 401
- Publish Date: December 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0486437639
- Language: English
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Last and First Men
$14.95 Add to cart“No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination,” declared Arthur C. Clarke of Last and First Men. This masterpiece of science fiction by British philosopher and writer Olaf S… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Stapledon, Olaf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0486466825
- Language: English
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Quo Vadis: A Tale of the Time of Nero
$24.99 Add to cartA young Roman soldier falls in love only to discover that his sweetheart belongs to a strange new cult–a group that meets in secret to worship their one and only god. The romance of Marcus Vinicius a… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Sienkiewicz, Henryk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0486476863
- Language: English
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Kokoro
$14.99 Add to cartRich in understanding and insight.–The New Yorker
What is love, and what is friendship? What is the extent of our responsibility to ourselves and to others? Kokoro, signifying the heart of things, e… [more below]- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Soseki, Natsume
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0486451399
- Language: English
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The Count of Monte Cristo
$14.95 Read more“A piece of perfect storytelling.” — Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo remains one of literature’s greatest adventures. Based on actual events, this sweeping … [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Dumas, Alexandre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0486456439
- Language: English
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Passing
$7.95 Add to cart“Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable.” — Alice Walker
“A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel.” –… [more below]- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Larsen, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: October 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0486437132
- Language: English
