Literature
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
$6.95 Add to cartIn 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the m
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01, 1984
- ISBN10: 0553213458
- Language: English
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The Metamorphosis: The Illustrated Edition
$15.00 Add to cartA stunning graphic novel adaptation of Franz Kafka’s famous story of a man who finds himself transformed into a monstrous cockroach.
“Darkly appropriate . . . Kuper’s work rivals that of Art Spiegelma- Author: Kuper, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 20, 2004
- ISBN10: 1400052998
- Language: English
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A Tale of Two Cities
$6.95 Add to cartThe French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens’s famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times…
The storming of the Bastille…the death carts with their doomed human car- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 06, 2007
- ISBN10: 0451530578
- Language: English
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The Once and Future King
$26.00 Add to cartT. H. White’s masterful retelling of the saga of King Arthur is a fantasy classic as legendary as Excalibur and Camelot, and a poignant story of adventure, romance, and magic that has enchanted reader
- Author: White, T. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 01, 2011
- ISBN10: 0441020836
- Language: English
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The Good Earth
$18.99 Add to cartThe timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece following a humble farmer’s journey through 1920s China returns with this beautifully repackaged edition that celebrates its nearly ninety years as an A
- Author: Buck, Pearl S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 02, 2020
- ISBN10: 1982147172
- Language: English
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$9.00 Add to cartThe classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen and a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of … [more below]
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0143107321
- Language: English
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Dracula
$11.00 Add to cartBram Stoker’s peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discover… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Stoker, Bram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 014143984X
- Language: English
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The Time Machine
$11.00 Add to cartWells’s genre-defining novel of time travel
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, content- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 31 2005
- ISBN10: 0141439971
- Language: English
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The Complete Jane Austen Collection
$39.99 Add to cartThe perfect gift for any Jane Austen lover for only 19.99. Each boxset contains six books, together creating a comprehensive collection of Austen’s best and much-loved works. Beautifully packaged in
- Series: Wordsworth Box Sets
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 2336
- Publish Date: April 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1840227486
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
$9.00 Add to cartAn astounding novel of decadence, debauchery, and secrecy from one of Ireland’s greatest writers. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Enthralled by his own- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0141439572
- Language: English
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Notes of a Native Son
$16.00 Add to cart#26 on The Guardian’s list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem,- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0807006238
- Language: English
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Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children’s Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death
$19.00 Add to cartKurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time).
Selected by the Modern Library as one of t- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 12, 1999
- ISBN10: 0385333846
- Language: English
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
$10.99 Add to cartAn international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is one of the defining works of the 1960s.
In this classic novel, Ken Kesey’s hero- Author: Kesey, Ken
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01, 1963
- ISBN10: 0451163966
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$19.00 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980026
- Language: English
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Danse Macabre
$21.00 Add to cartBefore he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular cult… [more below]
- Author: King, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1439170983
- Language: English
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Shutter Island
$19.99 Add to cartThis New York Times bestseller is an arresting psychological thriller in which two U.S. Marshals hunting for an escaped mental patient unveil a nightmare world of CIA drug trials, Nazi inspired eugeni
- Author: Lehane, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 0063072939
- Language: English
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The Woman in White
$6.95 Add to cartWilkie Collins’ classic tale of murder, intrigue, madness, and mistaken identity
ONE OF TIME‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME “There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road–the- Author: Collins, Wilkie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: April 01 1985
- ISBN10: 055321263X
- Language: English
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Comfort Is an Old Barn: Stories from the Heart of Maine
$18.95 Read moreAmy Calder is an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist, covering city government and everything from murders and car crashes to fires and drug busts. Her 34-year career started at the Watervi… [more below]
- Author: Calder, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1952143470
- Language: English
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The Limit of the Useful
$34.95 Add to cartThe first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher’s later thought.
In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L’exp?ience- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047330
- Language: English
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Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
$17.00 Add to cart“At a time when many Americans . . . are engaged in deep reflection about the meaning of the nation’s history [this] is an exceptionally useful companion for those who want to do so with honesty and i… [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1984878425
- Language: English
