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The Log from the Sea of Cortez  •  John Steinbeck
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1995 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES • FAVORITE
The classic account of a collecting trip to the Sea of Cortez with marine biologist Ed Ricketts, first published in 1941. Subtitled "A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research," this much-loved book captures the wonders of the Gulf of California and the joys of discovery. It's one of our favorite books. For those of you who have battled outboard engines, we especially recommend the hilarious few pages on the "Hansen Sea Cow." (BJA02, $16.00)		   The Log from the Sea of Cortez
In Patagonia  •  Bruce Chatwin
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1989 •  PAPER  • 204 PAGES • FAVORITE
A masterpiece of travel, history and adventure. This award-winning book captures the spirit of the land, history, wildlife and people of Patagonia. There's no travel writer as engaging, insightful and just plain wonderful as Bruce Chatwin. (PAT01, $15.00)		   In Patagonia
Our Man in Havana  •  Graham Greene
LITERATURE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES • FAVORITE
The story of a British vacuum cleaner salesman who gets accidentally drawn into cold war espionage with disastrous (and hilarious) results. Published in 1958, months before Castro and his men swept into Havana, the story is a portrait of an immensely corrupt, pre-revolutionary society. (CBA19, $15.00)		   Our Man in Havana
Malgudi Days  •  R. K. Narayan
LITERATURE •  2006 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES • FAVORITE
Wonderful tales about a fictional South Indian town by a beloved Indian writer. Malgudi is a composite of Narayan's two hometowns -- Mysore and Madras -- populated by quirky characters whose unique approaches to tradition and modernity are the stuff of great short stories. (IDA59, $15.00)		   Malgudi Days
Arabian Sands  •  Wilfred Thesiger
EXPLORATION •  2007 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES • FAVORITE
The last of the great British traveler-explorers, Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) journeyed among the nomadic camel-breeding peoples of Southern Arabia in the late 1940s, falling in love with the desert and ways of life of the Bedouin. This eloquent book, a Longitude favorite, is his tribute to vanished traditions. (ARB15, $16.00)		   Arabian Sands
The Worst Journey in the World  •  Apsley Cherry-Garrard
EXPLORATION •  2006 •  PAPER  • 573 PAGES • FAVORITE
One of the great tales of exploration, originally published in 1922. Cherry-Garrard's epic midwinter journey to the emperor penguin rookery is just a warm-up for the main event: his vivid account of Scott's doomed last expedition. This huge book, called the best adventure tale ever written, is well worth the effort. It was neighbor George Bernard Shaw, an early supporter of Cherry-Garrard, who bestowed the title. (ANT23, $18.00)		   The Worst Journey in the World
The Snow Leopard  •  Peter Matthiessen
EXPLORATION •  2008 •  PAPER  • 368 PAGES • FAVORITE
The most perceptive, acutely observed and personal of all his books, Matthiessen's account of a five-week journey through Nepal with George Schaller combines their quest for the magnificent cat with a moving introduction to Buddhism and the people and culture of the Himalayas. (NPL03, $16.00)		   The Snow Leopard
D.H. Lawrence and Italy  •  D.H. Lawrence
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 495 PAGES
A collection of D.H. Lawrence's travel writings on Italy, each wonderful and very different in tone. "Sea and Sardinia" is a nostalgic look at traditional ways of life on the island, "Twilight in Italy" an evocation of Lawrence's stay on Lake Garda and "Etruscan Places" a meditation on ancient lives. (ITL62, $18.00)		   D.H. Lawrence and Italy
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons  •  John Wesley Powell
EXPLORATION •  2003 •  PAPER  • 397 PAGES
The classic tale of adventure and exploration of the rivers and canyonlands of the Colorado Plateau, originally published in 1875 -- and still essential reading for any traveler to the Grand Canyon. The one-armed explorer/scientist Powell captures all the exhilaration and danger of adventure in unknown territory. He and his men explored 1,000 miles of often-treacherous river in what is now Utah and Arizona. (USW80, $17.00)		   The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
In the South Seas  •  Robert Louis Stevenson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 283 PAGES
A set of personal sketches describing a year (1888-1889) of travels in the Marquesas, Paumotus and the Gilberts, first written as magazine articles and then reworked to incorporate detail on local peoples and history, published posthumously. Stevenson was entranced by his experiences in the Pacific, and decided never to leave. He died in Samoa in 1894. (PAC147, $16.00)		   In the South Seas



Also Recommended

French Provincial Cooking  •  Elizabeth David  •  Julia Child   • FOOD  •  More than just a cookbook. In this influential classic, David includes a long introduction on the origins of food traditions in France, and asides on history, food traditions, literature and the pleasures of rural France. (FRN174, $18.00)
 		  
Italian Food  •  Julia Child  •  Elizabeth David   • FOOD  •  A literary, aromatic survey of Italy's many regions and regional cooking with recipes. (ITL298, $17.00)
 		  
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia  •  Rebecca West  •  Christopher Hitchens   • HISTORY  •  First published in 1941, this monumental work explores the complex history of Yugoslavia, its heroes, politics and culture. It's a big, challenging book -- some call it the best ever written on the Balkans. (BLK04, $27.00)
 		  
Buddhist Scriptures  •  Donald S. Lopez   • RELIGION  •  A Penguin classic, this anthology of teachings from the Buddhist cannon features never before published translations from Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese. Gathered by University of Michigan professor and scholar Donald S. Lopez. (REL20, $18.00)
 		  
King Harald's Saga  •  Magnus Magnusson  •  Paulsson Herman  •  Snorri Sturlusson  •  Hermann Palsson   • HISTORY  •  A classic biography of the last Viking warrior King Harald and an account of the 1066 conflict between Norway and England. (NOR19, $14.00)
 		  
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres  •  Henry Brooks Adams   • HISTORY  •  First published at the turn of the century, this classic work is a meditation on the Medieval world as reflected through its most famous religious structures. (FRN44, $18.00)
 		  
The Analects of Confucius  •  D. C. Lao  •  Confucius   • RELIGION  •  A popular and acclaimed modern translation of the writing of Confucius, an essential introduction to the man and his thoughts. Includes explanatory notes. (CHN123, $12.00)
 		  
The Aran Islands  •  J.M. Synge  •  Tim Robinson   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A much-loved turn-of-the-century account of the islands (as contrasted with mainland Ireland), drenched in the Celtic soul of the Irish. (IRE26, $15.00)
 		  
The Conquest of New Spain  •  J. M. Cohen  •  Bernal Diaz   • HISTORY  •  The historically important contemporary account of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs. (MEX91, $17.00)
 		  
The Histories  •  Herodotus   • HISTORY  •  In what may be the first travel book, Herodotus records the heroic struggle between Europe and Asia that culminated in the invasion of Greece by Xerxes. (MED15, $12.00)
 		  
The History of the Peloponnesian War  •  Thucydides  •  Walter Blanco  •  Jennifer Tolbert   • HISTORY  •  The classic account of the debilitating war between the two chief city-states, Athens and Sparta, from 431 to 404 B.C. (GRE102, $17.00)
 		  
The Rig Veda  •  Wendy Doniger   • RELIGION  •  Doniger's choice selection of 108 Sanskrit hymns (1200-900 B.C.E.), deftly translated and with notes. The earliest of the four surviving vedas, these hyms are a foundation of Hindu mythology and culture. (IDA355, $16.00)
 		  
The Secret History  •  G. A. Williamson  •  Procopius   • HISTORY  •  This is historical mudslinging only a Byzantine could devise, a withering expose of the scandals, intrigues and infidelities of the splendid empire and the court of Emperor Justinian by none other than its official historian. (TKY11, $15.00)
 		  
The Songlines  •  Bruce Chatwin   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • FAVORITE  •  Rory Stewart provides the introduction to this 25th anniversary edition of Bruce Chatwin's celebrated travelogue, which is as much about its gifted author -- and the meaning of travel -- as about the Aboriginal people and their ways of life. Chatwin transforms a journey through the Outback into an exhilarating, semi-fictional meditation on our place in the world. (AUS01, $16.00)
 		  
The Tibetan Book of the Dead  •  Graham Coleman  •  Gyurme Dorje   • RELIGION  •  The first complete English translation of an indispensable work on Tibetan religious beliefs. (TBT88, $22.00)
 		  
Tristes Tropiques  •  Claude Levi-Strauss  •  John Weightman  •  Doreen Weightman   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The classic, insightful account of the peoples of the Amazon by the inventor of structural anthropology. A demanding read, yet humorous and worthwhile. (AMZ14, $20.00)
 		  
On Painting  •  Cecil Grayson  •  Leon Battista Alberti   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A major early book on the theory of art, written in 1435. In it, Alberti addresses how to create the illusion of space, the education of artists and how to compose a picture. It's a useful tool in understanding Quattrocento art, and Piero's paintings in particular. (ITL601, $14.00)
 		  
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent  •  Alexander von Humboldt   • EXPLORATION  •  This is the book that Darwin took on his voyage around the world -- a classic account of naturalist and explorer Humboldt's 18th-century discoveries in South America. (SAM08, $17.00)
 		  
Sailing Alone Around the World  •  Joshua Slocum   • EXPLORATION • FAVORITE  •  A born storyteller and American hero, Slocum recounts his many adventures aboard the 36-foot wooden sloop Spray on the first-ever solo circumnavigation of the globe. (EXP03, $14.00)
 		  
South, The Endurance Expedition  •  Ernest Shackleton   • EXPLORATION  •  Shackleton's classic first-person account of the loss of the Endurance. With an introduction by Fergus Fleming and the remarkable photos by expedition photographer Frank Hurley. (ANT61, $19.95)
 		  
The Four Voyages  •  J. M. Cohen  •  Christopher Columbus   • EXPLORATION  •  Christopher Columbus's own accounts of his monumental discoveries (CRB129, $15.00)
 		  
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh  •  Vincent Van Gogh  •  Ronald De Leeuw  •  Arnold Pomerans   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  There are many versions of Van Gogh's letters, but this Penguin Classic edition is as good as any, a thorough selection of writing that highlights the artist's love for his art and family. (NTH52, $17.00)
 		  
Two Years Before the Mast  •  Richard H. Dana   • EXPLORATION  •  The visceral, gripping account of life at sea during an 1838 voyage from Boston to California that took seaman Richard H. Dana around Cape Horn. (PAT06, $16.00)
 		  
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides  •  Samuel Johnson  •  James Boswell   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Written when Johnson was 63 and Boswell 32 in 1773 (when they had been friends for ten years), these travel journals were the result of a three-month trip to Scotland. Johnson observed Scotland, and Boswell observed Johnson. (SCT07, $18.00)
 		  
A Russian Journal  •  John Steinbeck  •  Robert Capa   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Steinbeck's moving account of the people and everyday life in Russia, Ukraine and Caucasus circa 1948, with striking photographs by the great Robert Capra. (RUS275, $15.00)
 		  
Flaubert in Egypt  •  Francis Steegmuller  •  Gustave Flaubert   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Among the romantic European travelers in Egypt, Flaubert, via his letters and journal entries, stands out. The place inspired him, and his observations are still delightful reading. (EGY12, $16.00)
 		  
Hashish, A Smuggler's Tale  •  Henri De Monfreid   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Nobleman, adventurer and inspiration for the swashbuckling gun runner in the Adventures of Tintin, De Monfreid dodges blockades and pirates in this classic account of drug running from Aden to Suez in the early 20th century. (EGY315, $15.00)
 		  
Italian Hours  •  Henry James   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A classic series of travel essays written between 1872 and 1909 on the art, religion and people of Italy. James is an observant guide to Rome, Naples, Florence and other great destinations in the 19th century. (ITL07, $17.00)
 		  
Italian Journey, 1786-1788  •  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  •  W.H. Auden  •  Elizabeth Meyer   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  "Sicily is the key to everything" is only one of Goethe's many astute observations included in this Penguin Classics edition of his journals and letters from his grand tour of southern Italy. (ITL144, $18.00)
 		  
Journey Without Maps  •  Graham Greene   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A classic account of a 1930s journey of discovery from Sierra Leone to the Liberian coast. No one captures local personalities and complicated morality better than Graham Greene, who had a particular interest in West Africa. (WAF15, $16.00)
 		  
Life of St. Columba  •  Adomnan of Iona  •  Richard Sharpe   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An early account of the life of St. Columba (521-97), the 6th-century abbot who established the monastery on Iona. Written by Adomnan of Iona at the turn of the 8th century, it introduces the profoundly spiritual man as well as his famous abbey. (IRE103, $18.00)
 		  
North of South, An African Journey  •  Shiva Naipaul   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  A sharp portrait of Africa, circa 1979. A brilliant and provocative observer, Naipaul meditates on the various peoples he encounters in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The best, most insightful thing we've read about race relations in Africa. (EAF28, $16.00)
 		  
Personal Memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant  •  Ulysses S. Grant   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A remarkable (and big) account of a rich life, from a poor boy on the frontier to a great general and president, written by Grant on his deathbed -- and originally edited by none other than Mark Twain. (USS33, $18.00)
 		  
Pictures from Italy  •  Charles Dickens   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  "Pompeii is something so wonderful" is among the many observations in Dicken's lively reflections of the life, culture and people of Italy, drawn from his time in Genoa in 1844. (ITA119, $16.00)
 		  
Roughing It  •  Mark Twain   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Twain's classic work on the American West, written as he was abandoning the peripatetic life and settling down in the 1870s. Funny, irreverent, acutely observed this is vintage Twain, covering his travels in California, Nevada and Hawaii. With all 304-first edition illustrations, specially prepared maps, facsimile manuscript pages and commentary. (HWI14, $16.00)
 		  
Sea and Sardinia  •  D.H. Lawrence   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A marvelous account of a trip to Sardinia, evoking both the charms and travails of the then-remote island, and the personality of the author. It's a pleasingly exaggerated, accessible portrait of life on the island, circa 1921. (ITL349, $16.00)
 		  
Six Records of a Floating Life  •  Shen Fu  •  Leonard Pratt  •  Chiang Su-Hui   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  First published in 1809, Shen Fu's recounting of his life during the Ching dynasty in China gives a candid look at the social customs and cultural traditions of that era, and doubles as a tender love story. (CHN275, $14.00)
 		  
The Flame Trees of Thika  •  Elsbeth Huxley   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The classic account of a young woman's life as a pioneering settler in Thika, Kenya. Huxley looks back at her intrepid parents and the home they made together in Kenya's Highlands. (EAF24, $16.00)
 		  
The Journals of Captain Cook  •  James Cook  •  Philip Edwards   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Cook's narrative of his expeditions between 1768 and 1779. Includes his explorations of Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii, and a host of other previously unheard-of Pacific locales. (PAC98, $15.00)
 		  
The Lawless Roads  •  Graham Greene  •  David Rieff   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A riveting account of Graham's journeys through Tabasco and Chiapas in the 1930s, including his time in San Cristobal de Las Casas and Palenque. Greene was in Mexico investigating the impact of the anti-Church policies of President Calles. (MEX164, $15.00)
 		  
The Lives of the Artists, Vol 1  •  Giorgio Vasari  •  Julia Conway and Peter Bondanella   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Written in the mid-16th century, Vasari starts with Giotto as painting's prophet and ends with Michelangelo as its messiah in these short, influential biographies. (ITL17, $14.00)
 		  
The Oregon Trail, Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life  •  Francis Parkman  •  David Levin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The original, 19th-century account by the great American historian and romantic, based in part on the author's wanderings on the Oregon Trail through the plains of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas. (USW369, $16.00)
 		  
The Travels of Marco Polo  •  Marco Polo  •  Ronald Lantham   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The memories of a 13th-century journey to China along the Silk Road, among the most famous travel accounts ever. Describing exotic plants, birds, precious gems, silks, and spices with a merchant's eye, this superb geographer recounts his 20 years of travel. (CAS05, $15.00)
 		  
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen  •  Tadeusz Borowski  •  Barbara Vedder  •  Jan Kott   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A series of uninflected, austere stories, published in Polish after WWII -- and drawn from the author's experiences in Auschwitz and Dachau from 1943 to 1945. (GER95, $15.00)
 		  
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel  •  Jerome Jerome  •  Jeremy Lewis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  Written in 1889, "Three Men in a Boat" (to say nothing of the dog!) is a laugh-out-loud account of a man-powered voyage along the River Thames, full of detail on life and lore. A Longitude favorite. (GBR28, $12.00)
 		  
To Jerusalem and Back, a Personal Account  •  Saul Bellow   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The great novelist meditates on Israel in this brief memoir of a trip to Jerusalem. (ISR21, $15.00)
 		  
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes  •  Robert Louis Stevenson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Stevenson's sprightly, humorous account of ten days with a stubborn donkey named Modestine in the French Cevennes. (FRN538, $16.95)
 		  
Travels with Charley  •  John Steinbeck   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  On the road in a van with a poodle, Steinbeck sets out to discover America on a jaunt from Maine to California. Fiftieth anniversary edtion. (USA32, $16.00)
 		  
A Grain of Wheat  •  Ngugi wa Thiong'o   • LITERATURE  •  Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency. (EAF387, $16.00)
 		  
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories  •  Guy de Maupassant   • LITERATURE  •  Set in in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes and playboys, in Normandy at sea and in the South of France, the 34 gems in this Penguin Classics collection are vintage Maupassant: economical, darkly humorous and brilliant. (FRN757, $12.00)
 		  
A Tale of Four Dervishes  •  Mir Amman   • LITERATURE  •  A King in seclusion encounters four wandering dervishes -- three princes and a rich merchant -- who share tales of lost love in 14th century Turkey. (TKY149, $13.00)
 		  
A Tale of Two Cities  •  Charles Dickens   • LITERATURE  •  Dickens' famous tale of love and intrigue, set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. (GBR100, $8.00)
 		  
A Tiger for Malgudi and The Man-Eater of Malgudi  •  R. K. Narayan   • LITERATURE  •  Two comic gems from the father of modern Indian fiction, with an introduction by Pico Iyer. (IDA645, $16.00)
 		  
Angle of Repose  •  Wallace Stegner   • LITERATURE  •  A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of one man's search for his grandparents' story. It beautifully weaves the history of the American West and a glimpse of their life in California, Colorado and Idaho. (USW301, $17.00)
 		  
Barchester Towers  •  Anthony Trollope   • LITERATURE  •  Trollope's1857 sequel to The Warden. (GBR440, $12.00)
 		  
Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories  •  Herman Melville   • LITERATURE  •  This collection of short fiction includes Las Encantadas, set in a highly stylized Galapagos (which Melville visited during his whaling days). (GPS37, $10.00)
 		  
Brighton Rock  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE  •  "Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him..." starts this chilliong tale of volience in pre-war England. J.M. Coetzee introduces this centennial edition. (GRB43, $16.00)
 		  
Captain Blood  •  Rafael Sabatini   • LITERATURE  •  An original riveting tale of swashbuckling adventure on the Spanish Main. (CRB165, $16.00)
 		  
Captains Courageous  •  Rudyard Kipling   • LITERATURE  •  Kipling's classic adventure story of a spoiled boy who is washed overboard, rescued by fishermen, and becomes a sailor. (USE410, $13.00)
 		  
Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories  •  Giovanni Verga   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of short stories set in rural Sicily. (ITL202, $16.00)
 		  
Collected Short Stories, Vol. 1  •  W. Somerset Maugham   • LITERATURE  •  Maugham's very human tales take place in the South Seas, America and Europe, including several stories set on the French Riviera, notably "The Three Fat Women of Antibes." (FRN653, $18.00)
 		  
Collected Short Stories, Volume 4  •  W. Somerset Maugham   • LITERATURE  •  Maugham can evoke turn-of-the-century colonial Asia like no other. This collection of stories features many set in Malaysia, Borneo and other southeast Asian locales, including the well-known tale "The Letter." (SEA01, $18.00)
 		  
Complete Short Stories  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE  •  Pico Iyer introduces this Penguin Classics edition of forty-nine stories by the master. (GRB45, $18.00)
 		  
Crime and Punishment  •  Fyodor Dostoevsky  •  David McDuff   • LITERATURE  •  Dostoevsky's thriller of murder and redemption is redolent of St. Petersburg's atmosphere. A cornerstone of Russian literature, and one of the greatest detective stories ever told. (RUS18, $16.00)
 		  
Daisy Miller  •  Henry James   • LITERATURE  •  A classic story of a young American woman's innocent flirtation and its misinterpretation by a sophisticated European man, set in Lac Leman and Chillon. This is James' first fictional work to gain mass popularity and one of his great American female portraits. (SWZ09, $7.00)
 		  
Death in Venice and Other Tales  •  Thomas Mann   • LITERATURE  •  Neugroschel's fresh translations of Mann's celebrated title tale and 11 other classic stories capture the sensuality of the German original. (ITL996, $13.00)
 		  
Don Quixote  •  Miguel de Cervantes  •  John Rutherford   • LITERATURE  •  The most famous work in Spanish literature, rendered in a lively, modern translation. It is the picaresque tale of a romantic, mad gentleman who imagines himself a knight errant. (SPN23, $15.00)
 		  
Dracula  •  Bram Stoker   • LITERATURE  •  The vampire novel that started it all, based on the legend of "Vlad the Impaler." The gothic shocker is set within the dank castles and misty forests of Transylvania, and the foggy streets and staid country houses of Victorian England. (EUR125, $11.00)
 		  
Drawing Conclusions  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  Commissario di Polizia of the city of Venice, Guido Brunetti has lost none of his wry humor, love of food and family or impatience with police headquarters in this 20th novel in the series, in which he, the ever-resourceful Signorina Elttra and Inspector Vianello probe into what appears to be a simple case of an old woman who died quietly at home. (ITA241, $15.00)
 		  
Dubliners  •  James Joyce   • LITERATURE  •  James Joyce's unsurpassed collection of short stories depicting ordinary life in Dublin among the lower middle class -- a milestone in the history of prose fiction. (IRE15, $11.00)
 		  
East of Eden  •  John Steinbeck   • LITERATURE  •  Steinbeck's story of two families in rural California, and the violent fates that befall them. Covering the period from the Civil War to World War I, this story of connected families is a retelling of the early chapters of Genesis. (USW152, $17.00)
 		  
Egil's Saga  •  Bernard Scudder  •  Svanhildur Oskarsdottir   • LITERATURE  •  This chronicle of war and rivaly between ruling clans, written in the 13th century, blends history and legend. It's a vivid portrait of the Viking world. The action is set in 10th-century southern Scandinavia, the Baltic, Iceland and the North Sea. (VIK06, $16.00)
 		  
Erewhon  •  Samuel Butler  •  Peter Mudford   • LITERATURE  •  Butler's classic Victorian novel inspired by his experiences in 1860s New Zealand. A satirical account of a journey to an upside-down country at the end of the world, where sick people are thrown in jail and murderers are taken to the hospital. (NZL65, $14.00)
 		  
Exemplary Stories  •  Miguel de Cervantes  •  Cyril A. Jones   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of short fiction by Cervantes, often known as the Exemplary Novels and including The Little Gypsy Girl, Rinconete and Cortadillo, The Glass Graduate, The Jealous Extremaduran, The Deceitful Marriage, and The Dog's Colloquy. (SPN268, $14.00)
 		  
Fairy Tales  •  Hans Christian Andersen  •  Tina Nunnally  •  Jackie Wullschlager   • LITERATURE  •  This bicentennial publication by award-winning translator Nunnally includes 30 of Andersen's most popular tales. (DMK32, $17.00)
 		  
Fathers and Sons  •  Ivan Turgenev   • LITERATURE  •  The classic novel by the most accessible of the great Russian novelists. (RUS19, $13.00)
 		  
Fifth Business  •  Robertson Davies   • LITERATURE  •  The great man of Canadian letters wrote a slew of novels, many set in rural Ontario and Toronto. This is the gem that launched his career, laugh-out-loud funny and filled with memorable characters and dazzling prose. (USW42, $15.00)
 		  
Growth of the Soil  •  Knut Hamsun   • LITERATURE  •  The epic tale of a homesteader in the mountainous Norwegian interior, which helped win Hamsun a Nobel Prize in 1920. (NOR36, $15.00)
 		  
Hindu Myths  •  Wendy Doniger   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A sourcebook, translated from the Sanskrit, this anthology is drawn from editor and University of Chicago professor Doniger's courses on Hinduism and mythology. (IDA347, $16.00)
 		  
Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories  •  Herman Palsson   • LITERATURE  •  This collection of the most famous of Icelandic sagas includes stories with titles like Thorstein the Staff-Struck and Ale Hood. Dating from the 12th century, these tales vividly recreate the society of medieval Iceland. (ICL31, $14.00)
 		  
Kidnapped  •  Robert Louis Stevenson   • LITERATURE  •  Set in 18th-century Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, this is a story of attempted murder, shipwreck, and kidnapping as told by a young Whig. (SCT02, $9.00)
 		  
Kim  •  Rudyard Kipling   • LITERATURE  •  For the sheer pleasure of its prose, insight into the British in India and its extraordinary sense of place, you can't do better than Kipling's Great Game classic about a boy who travels the Grand Trunk Road with the Dalai Lama. (IDA65, $9.00)
 		  
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wreath, The Wife, The Cross  •  Sigrid Undset  •  Tina Nunnally   • LITERATURE  •  A masterful historical epic by the Nobel Prize-winning author, first published in 1927. This omnibus edition follows the life of one woman from birth to death in devoutly Catholic 14th-century Norway. A cornerstone of Scandinavian literature, the trilogy is a powerful introduction to the medieval society. (NOR40, $27.00)
 		  
Lady Chatterley's Lover  •  D. H. Lawrence   • LITERATURE  •  Constance Chatterley turns from a sterile marriage to a passionate relationship with a spiritually independent Derbyshire gamekeeper in Lawrence's classic tale of society and sex. (GBR816, $14.00)
 		  
Le Morte D'Arthur  •  Thomas, Sir Malory   • LITERATURE  •  A full retelling of the Arthurian legends, edited by William Caxton in 1485. (GBR828, $16.00)
 		  
Lord Jim  •  Joseph Conrad   • LITERATURE  •  First published in 1900, this novel has become a classic: the story of a young British sailor in Malaysia who aban-dons ship in a moment of cowardice, an act that marks his life forever. (SEA03, $8.00)
 		  
Madame Bovary  •  Lydia Davis  •  Gustave Flaubert   • LITERATURE  •  The landmark novel of a woman who suffers in search of relief from her humdrum life in a provincial village outside Rouen. (FRN301, $16.00)
 		  
Max Havelaar or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company  •  Multatuli  •  Roy Edwards   • LITERATURE  •  A powerful and satirical story of corruption in Dutch colonial Java first published in 1860 by a former civil servant. (INS75, $16.00)
 		  
Moby Dick  •  Herman Melville   • LITERATURE  •  The American classic about the legendary white whale, set in New England. (OCE111, $15.00)
 		  
Monsignor Quixote  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE  •  A village priest, elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, who travels to Madrid accompanied by his best friend, Sancho, the Communist ex-mayor of the village, in Greene's lighthearted variation on Cervantes. (SPN436, $16.00)
 		  
Moon and Sixpence  •  Somerset Maugham   • LITERATURE  •  Maugham's well-regarded 1919 novel, inspired by the life of Gauguin; it's the powerful story of a man who relinquishes his family to pursue his dream of becoming a painter, eventually moving to the South Pacific. (PAC16, $14.00)
 		  
Mysteries  •  Knut Hamsun  •  Sverre Lyngstad   • LITERATURE  •  An odd character settles in a small Norwegian village and charms the locals. First published in 1890, this book is an insightful look at life in Norway and our favorite of Hamsun's many novels. (NOR08, $16.00)
 		  
Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches  •  Nobuyuki Yuasa  •  Basho Matsuo   • LITERATURE  •  These marvelous prose-and-poetry sketches by the famous poet wanderer Basho (1644-94) invoke the mysteries of the cosmos manifest in the Japanese landscape. With some of the most perfect 17-syllable haiku ever composed. (JPN91, $14.00)
 		  
Njal's Saga  •  Robert Cook   • LITERATURE  •  The tales of heroic (and handsome) Gunnar Hamundarson and his scheming friend Njal. Originally written in Icelandic sometime in the 13th century AD, it's an earthy tale with a strong sense of place, featuring murder, mayhem, a famous feud and noble deeds. (ICL16, $17.00)
 		  
Noli Me Tangere, A Novel  •  Jose Rizal  •  Harold Augenbraum   • LITERATURE  •  First published in Berlin in 1887 by the Filipino national hero, Noli me Tangere (Touch Me Not), a beloved cornerstone of Filipino literature, helped establish the Filipino national identity -- and inspire a revolution. (PLP32, $18.00)
 		  
Northland Stories  •  Jonathan Auerbach  •  Jack London   • LITERATURE  •  London's turn-of-the-century tales of life in the remote wilderness, inspired by the Gold Rush of 1897. (ALA131, $16.00)
 		  
Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard  •  Joseph Conrad   • LITERATURE  •  In the harbor town of Sulaco in Conrad's fictional country between the Andes and Pacific, a vivid cast of characters play out scenes of corruption and greed. (SAM136, $16.00)
 		  
Omoo  •  Herman Melville   • LITERATURE  •  The second entry in Melville's triology set in the Marquesas and South Pacific. (PAC93, $16.00)
 		  
On the Road  •  Jack Kerouac   • LITERATURE  •  The original, unedited, rougher, wilder and more provocative 50th anniversary edition of the famed Beat poet's landmark work. (USA16, $17.00)
 		  
Orient Express  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE  •  Greene's 1932 spy thriller, in which a memorable cast of eccentrics speeds across Europe from Ostend to Constantinople aboard the Orient Express. (GBR501, $16.00)
 		  
Orkneyinga Saga, The History of the Earls of Orkney  •  Hermann Palssom  •  Paul Edwards   • LITERATURE  •  A fusion of myth and legend, circa A.D. 1200, by an unnamed Icelandic author. The medieval chronicle has its center of action among the Orkney Islands, describing their conquest by Norwegian kings during the Viking expansion of the ninth century. (VIK07, $16.00)
 		  
Petals of Blood  •  Ngugi wa Thiong'o   • LITERATURE  •  In this tale of political greed and hypocrisy, first published in 1977, the Kenyan novelist follows the fate of three men suspected of murder in a small village in the highlands. (EAF135, $16.00)
 		  
Portable Dorothy Parker  •  Dorothy Parker   • LITERATURE  •  An illustrated collection of the poems, stories, reviews, and articles of Dorothy Parker, one of New York City's most sharp-tongued writers. (NYC07, $22.00)
 		  
Rob Roy  •  Sir Walter Scott   • LITERATURE  •  Adventure in the highlands of 18th-century Scotland starring the dashing outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor. Part of the "Penguin Classics" series, this book contains explanatory notes and an introduction that sets it in its historical context. (SCT20, $13.00)
 		  
Robinson Crusoe  •  Daniel Defoe   • LITERATURE  •  It's worth revisiting this classic before exploring Selkirk Island. (PAC30, $9.00)
 		  
Romola  •  George Eliot   • LITERATURE  •  George Eliot is best-known for novels of English country life, but in this book she recreates Renaissance Florence. (ITL318, $15.00)
 		  
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam  •  Omar Khayyam  •  Edward Fitzgerald   • LITERATURE  •  Fitzgerald's well-known interpretation of Khayyam's classic Sufi poem. (IRN14, $11.00)
 		  
Russian Short Stories  •  Robert Chandler   • LITERATURE  •  This fine collection of tales captures the sweep and soul of Russian literature, including works by Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Tolstoy along with lesser-known greats. (RUS288, $18.00)
 		  
Salammbo  •  Gustave Flaubert  •  A.J. Krailsheimer   • LITERATURE  •  A highly fanciful romance set in the ancient city of Carthage at the height of the Punic Wars. (TUN23, $15.00)
 		  
Selected Writings, Ruben Dario  •  Ruben Dario   • LITERATURE  •  This anthology of the beloved Nicaraguan modernist poet includes his best-known work presented in English and Spanish, along with short stories, fables, profiles, travel writing, journalism and letters. (CAM123, $20.00)
 		  
Seven Viking Romances  •  Hermann Palssom  •  Paul Edwards   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Entertaining sagas telling of Viking kings, adventurers and gods. (VIK04, $16.00)
 		  
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays  •  Luigi Pirandello   • LITERATURE  •  The Sicilian Pirandello's groundbreaking 1921 play, a sensation, in which six people stumble into a rehearsal and demand to be included. (ITL815, $14.00)
 		  
Tales of Hoffmann  •  E.T.A. Hoffman   • LITERATURE  •  From the author of the Nutcracker, this series of stories creates a complex portrait of humanity, ranging from the macabre to the absurd, from innocent fairy tales to lurid crime stories. (GER199, $16.00)
 		  
Tales of the Pacific  •  Jack London   • LITERATURE  •  Jack London spent the last year and a half of his life in and around the Hawaiian Islands. This collection of tales, skirting the line between fiction and non-fiction, is some of his last and best writing, richly evoking the islands. (PAC02, $13.00)
 		  
The Aeneid  •  Virgil  •  Robert Fagles   • LITERATURE  •  Robert Fagles tackles Virgil's epic poem of Aeneas and his Mediterranean wanderings with the same fluid verse and narrative flair as in his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey. (ITL798, $16.00)
 		  
The Age of Alexander, Nine Greek Lives  •  Plutarch   • LITERATURE  •  Plutarch's classic history of Alexander the Great. (GRE139, $15.00)
 		  
The Betrothed  •  Alessandro Manzoni   • LITERATURE  •  By many accounts the first modern Italian novel, Manzoni's 1827 classic concerns star-crossed lovers in 17th-century Lombardy. Promoted during unification, Italy's best-known novel has been made into films and a musical. (ITL414, $18.00)
 		  
The Black Tulip  •  Alexandre Dumas   • LITERATURE  •  A gripping classic about love and adventure and tulips. In 17th-century Holland, Cornelius von Baerle is falsely accused and jailed. He fights for his freedom with the aid of his jailer's beautiful daughter. (NTH84, $14.00)
 		  
The Bostonians  •  Henry James   • LITERATURE  •  Henry James' satirical novel of the battle of the sexes is well worth the read. In it, Basil, a Mississippi lawyer, and Olive, a Boston feminist, compete for the affections of the same woman. Originally published in 1886, it was one of the first American novels to deal with lesbianism. (BOS13, $20.00)
 		  
The Canterbury Tales (In Modern English)  •  Geoffrey Chaucer  •  Nevill Coghill   • LITERATURE  •  A Penguin Classics edition of the cornerstone of medieval English literature, Chaucer's unfinished tales of pilgrims en route to Canterbury. (GBR250, $10.00)
 		  
The Captain and the Enemy  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE  •  Graham Greene returns to classic themes of mystery, deceit and espionage in this accomplished short novel, his 23rd and last book, set in Panama. (CAM53, $15.00)
 		  
The Comedies  •  Terence  •  Betty Radice   • LITERATURE  •  Six comedies by the Roman dramatist portraying domestic problems and romantic escapades of an upper-middle-class society. (ITL801, $16.00)
 		  
The Cross  •  Sigrid Undset  •  Tina Nunnally   • LITERATURE  •  This is the third volume in Undset's trilogy of historical novels recreating a woman's life during the Middle Ages in devoutly Catholic Norway. (NOR17, $16.00)
 		  
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories  •  David McDuff  •  Anthony Briggs  •  Ronald Wilks  •  Leo Tolstoy   • LITERATURE  •  This collection of stories explores Tolstoy's persistent themes of life and death. More experimental than his novels, Tolstoy's stories are essential reading for anyone interested in his development as one of the major writers and thinkers of his time. (RUS377, $11.00)
 		  
The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray  •  Jorge Amado   • LITERATURE  •  Set in Bahia like all is work, Jorge Amado's marvelously titled, uproarious novella follows the exploits of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, who abandons his life as exemplary employee of the State Bureau of Revenue to assume the identity of Quincas Water-Bray, a champion drunk and all-around rapscallion. Newly translated by Gregory Rabassa, this Penguin Classics edition is published in celebration of the centennial of Jorge Amado's birth. Published for the first time in English, also brilliantly translated by Rabassa, is Amado's The Discovery of America by the Turks, a Brazilian take of The Taming of the Shrew. The house in Ilheus where Amado spent most of his life, built by his father in the 1920s, today houses the Ilheus Cultural Foundation. (BZL101, $14.00)
 		  
The End of The Affair  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE  •  Michael Gorra introduces this centennial edition. (GRB42, $15.00)
 		  
The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War  •  Jaroslav Hasek  •  Cecil Parrott   • LITERATURE  •  The deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army, dismissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by the Russians in World War I, then captured by his own troops. (CZH11, $16.00)
 		  
The Honorary Consul  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE  •  Greene swirls passion, ruin, politics and absurd hope in this tale, he called it his favorite, of a bungled kidnapping in Corrientes, a dusty Provincial city on the border with Paraguay. Not even a real diplomat, the whiskey-drinking, broken down Charley Fortnum, a yerba farmer, is one of Greene's great creations. (ARG85, $17.00)
 		  
The Hound of the Baskervilles  •  Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle   • MYSTERY  •  Conan Doyle's only full-length novel featuring the beloved Sherlock Holmes, this intrigue is set on in eerie Dartmoor. (GBR772, $12.00)
 		  
The House of Mirth  •  Edith Wharton   • LITERATURE  •  The classic turn-of-the-century novel of one beautiful New Yorker's demise. It's also a marvelous portrait of the city circa 1900, its surrounding country estates and Byzantine formalities. (NYC43, $11.00)
 		  
The Human Factor  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE  •  Colm Toibin introduces this centennnial edition of The Human Factor, the morally complex tale of a high-level operative of the British Secret Service who acts as a double agent to benefit his family. (GRB41, $16.00)
 		  
The Iliad/The Odyssey  •  Robert Fagles   • LITERATURE  •  A combined edition of the celebrated Fagles translation of Homer. (GRE197, $36.00)
 		  
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories  •  Washington Irving   • LITERATURE  •  Traveling to the Hudson River Valley? Stay awake at night with this great, suspenseful yarn -- or rest easy and read some of the American master's gentler short works. (NYC23, $10.00)
 		  
The Marsh Arabs  •  Wilfred Thesiger   • LITERATURE  •  Thesiger's masterful account of the distinctive customs, traditions and way of life of the Ma'dan, a once isolated, ancient people of the watery marsh and reeds of Southern Iraq. (IRQ19, $16.00)
 		  
The Master and Margarita  •  Larissa Volokhonsky  •  Richa Pevear  •  Mikhail Bulgakov   • LITERATURE  •  Pevear and Volokhonsky's incisive new translation of Bulgakov's satiric masterpiece -- part fairytale, part fable and part slapstick -- set in someplace like Moscow and written in the 1930s during the height of Stalin's reign. (RUS44, $15.00)
 		  
The Merry Wives of Windsor  •  William Shakespeare   • LITERATURE  •  Shakespeare's farce that finds Henry IV's Falstaff transplanted to the genre of comedy. (GBR458, $8.00)
 		  
The Ministry of Fear  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE  •  A thriller set in London during the Blitz by the master of atmosphere and ambiguity. (GBR571, $16.00)
 		  
The Odyssey  •  Homer  •  Robert Fagles   • LITERATURE  •  The blind bard's epic in a translation celebrated for its clarity and expressiveness. Take is along for a voyage in Homeric lands and waters. (GRE45, $18.00)
 		  
The Painter of Signs  •  R. K. Narayan   • LITERATURE  •  Narayan's tale about Raman, a simple, pious sign painter who is deeply set in his work and routine -- until a spirited young free-thinker named Daisy arrives to bring birth control to the village. (IDA341, $14.00)
 		  
The Pearl  •  John Steinbeck   • LITERATURE  •  A poor fisherman dreams of wealth and happiness for his family when he finds a priceless pearl. (MEX243, $13.00)
 		  
The Penguin Classics Library, Complete Collection  •  Penguin Classics   • LITERATURE  •  Or get the whole library from Abbot to Zola, 1,082 books in all, priced at 41% off. (WLD150, $7900.00)
 		  
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon  •  Shonagon Sei  •  Ivan Morris   • LITERATURE  •  Exquisite short essays and vignettes of Japanese court life in the Heian period. (JPN76, $17.00)
 		  
The Professor  •  Charlotte Bronte   • LITERATURE  •  Bronte's first novel, published posthumously, based on her experiences with Emily as a language student in Brussels in 1842. (BLG27, $12.00)
 		  
The Prose Edda  •  Snorri Sturluson  •  Jesse Byock   • LITERATURE  •  A new translation of one of the most influential and entertaining medieval Icelandic sagas, the source for much of what we know of Norse mythology. (ICL26, $17.65)
 		  
The Quiet American  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE • FAVORITE  •  A classic, this is the most famous Western work of fiction on Vietnam. Greene writes of a love triangle between a war correspondent, his Vietnamese consort and an optimistic young American during the last days of French rule. (VNM08, $16.00)
 		  
The Ramayana, A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic  •  R. K. Narayan   • LITERATURE  •  The great Indian novelist's translation of the adventures of the god Vishnu incarnated as Prince Rama, the Hindu epic tale of heroism, love and fate. (IDA311, $15.00)
 		  
The Saga of Gosta Berling  •  Selma Lagerlof   • LITERATURE  •  Lagerlof's first and best-loved novel, the basis for the 1924 silent film that launched Greta Garbo's career. Set at a country estate in 1820s wintry rural Sweden, this epic novel by the Swedish Nobel Prize-winner (the first woman to win the prize) follows the fate of a defrocked minister and the women who fall under his spell. (SWE59, $17.00)
 		  
The Saga of the People of Laxardal and Bolli Bollason's Tale  •  Keneva Kunz   • LITERATURE  •  This beloved Icelandic saga from the 13th century, possibly written by a woman, recounts years of betrayal, battle and romance: the stories of headstrong heroines in a changing world. In a new translation. (VIK31, $16.00)
 		  
The Secret Garden  •  Frances Hodgson Burnett  •  Tasha Tudor   • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  Sullen orphan Mary's life changes when she discovers an abandoned garden hidden on her uncle's staid Yorkshire estate. As she nurses the garden and her sickly cousin back to health, she herself begins to blossom. (GBR391, $16.00)
 		  
The Street of Crocodiles  •  Bruno Schulz   • LITERATURE  •  These remarkable stories draw on Schulz's childhood and the people, places and events of provincial Poland in the early 20th century. (PLD24, $16.00)
 		  
The Third Man and the Fallen Idol  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE  •  A haunting tale and penetrating portrait of Vienna after World War II, "The Third Man" is the result of Greene's collaboration with Carol Reed on the classic movie. "The Fallen Idol" is a separate tale of intrigue set in Britain. (AST30, $14.00)
 		  
The Three Musketeers  •  Alexandre Dumas   • LITERATURE  •  Never mind the movie (opening October 21).This French standard is rip-roaring fare for young adults, who'll stay up 'til the wee hours to find out what became of D'Artagnan, Aramis, Athos, Porthos and the nefarious Lady DeWinter. Richard Pevear's major new translation of Dumas' enduring tale captures the wit, romance and rollicking pace of the original. (FRN674, $16.00)
 		  
The Tunnel  •  Margaret Sayers Peden  •  Ernesto Sabato   • LITERATURE  •  Penguin Classics marks the 100th anniversary of Sabato's birth with new translation of his best-known novel -- a tale of obsessive love that captures the existential soul of Buenos Aires. (ARG119, $15.00)
 		  
The Underdogs, A Novel of the Mexican Revolution  •  Mariano Azuela   • LITERATURE  •  Azuela's celebrated and perceptive novel of the Mexican Revolution (1910) delves into the psyche and circumstances of the men and women on the front lines fighting for control of Mexico. Through detailed images of Mexico and its people, the story shares realities of a revolution that shaped the modern Mexican nation. (MEX296, $10.00)
 		  
The Vinland Sagas  •  Keneva Kunz   • LITERATURE  •  The classic chronicle of the adventures of Eirik the Red and his son, Leif Eirikson, who explored North America 500 years before Columbus, in a vibrant new translation. (VIK30, $16.00)
 		  
The Warden  •  Anthony Trollope   • LITERATURE  •  Trollope's 1855 tale set in a Victorian English Bishopric. (GBR439, $12.00)
 		  
The Wife  •  Sigrid Undset  •  Tina Nunnally   • LITERATURE  •  This is the second volume in Undset's trilogy of historical novels recreating a woman's life during the Middle Ages in devoutly Catholic Norway. (NOR16, $16.00)
 		  
The Wreath  •  Sigrid Undset  •  Tina Nunnally   • LITERATURE  •  A romantic masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian author, first published in 1927. The first volume in Undset's trilogy of historical novels recreating a woman's life during the Middle Ages in devoutly Catholic Norway. Also available are the other two parts of the trilogy, "The Mistress of Husaby" (NOR16) and "The Cross" (NOR17). (NOR10, $15.00)
 		  
Tom Jones  •  Henry Fielding   • LITERATURE  •  This great comic adventure novel, whose hero is thought to be illegitimate, was so shocking in its time that it was held responsible by some for two earthquakes that hit London soon after its publication in the 18th century. Even Dr. Johnson warned against its ribaldry! (GBR84, $16.50)
 		  
Tortilla Flat  •  John Steinbeck   • LITERATURE  •  First of his Monterey novels, Steinbeck peoples his tales of life in run-down Tortilla Flat with a colorful cast of memorable characters. (USW149, $15.00)
 		  
Travels with My Aunt  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE  •  Greene's wickedely funny odyssey of a retired bank teller and his anything but conventional "Aunt." You may have seen the movie. (GBR500, $16.00)
 		  
Typee, A Peep at Polynesian Life  •  Herman Melville   • LITERATURE  •  The most popular of Melville's books during his lifetime, this partly autobiographical work first published in 1846 tells the story of Tommo, a Yankee sailor who jumps ship and enters the flawed Pacific paradise of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. (PAC14, $14.00)
 		  
Untouchable  •  Mulk Raj Anand  •  E. M. Forster   • LITERATURE  •  Referred to by some as his nation's answer to Charles Dickens, the author tackles India's caste system with urgency and conviction. (IDA180, $13.00)
 		  
Vis & Ramin  •  Fakhr al-Din Gurgani   • LITERATURE  •  This Penguin Classics edition of the epic tale of war and forbidden love, set in 11th-century Persia, is in a new translation by Dick Davis. (IRN83, $17.00)
 		  
Voss  •  Patrick White   • LITERATURE  •  White's 1957 epic, based upon the extravagant life and exploits of the 19th-century Prussian explorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt, who disappeared on an expedition into the Australian outback. (AUS210, $18.00)
 		  
Wuthering Heights  •  Emily Bronte   • LITERATURE  •  The Yorkshire moors have never been wilder or more conducive to tragedy than in this great romantic novel by Emily Bronte, which concerns an illicit and ill-fated love affair. (GBR307, $7.00)
 		  
Zazie in the Metro  •  Raymond Queneau   • LITERATURE  •  Queneau's delirious short novel of a country girl, her loony uncle and some disapproving gendarmes on a madcap tour of Paris. Louis Malle made it into a film in 1960. (FRN434, $16.00)
 		  
Moby-Duck  •  Donovan Hohn   • SCIENCE • NEW  •  Hohn's accidental odyssey into the fate of many thousand rubber ducks takes him into the world of oceanography, tides and currents, Arctic research and the shadowy realms of manufacture in China. It's a high adventure, harebrained perhaps, but compelling, especially for those of us who have spent time at sea; Hohn experiences some truly terrible weather. (OCE176, $16.00)
 		  
Principles of Geology  •  Charles Lyell  •  James A. Secord   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A groundbreaking treatise on how the world works. (NAT26, $18.00)
 		  
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex  •  Charles Darwin   • SCIENCE  •  Darwin's great work on human evolution, published to much controversy in 1871. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Adrian Desmond. (NAT87, $18.00)
 		  
Under the Sea-Wind  •  Rachel Carson   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Carson's luminous portrait of sea and shore creatures, a classic of nature writing and the first of her many books. Centennial edition. (OCE109, $17.00)
 		  
Riders of the Purple Sage  •  Zane Grey    •  A best-selling dime novel of the mythic West, a classic hymn to the land and the rough-and-ready Western code of honor among the cowboys and frontiersmen. (USW15, $14.00)
 		  
 
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