The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Mark Twain
LITERATURE •
1985 •
PAPER
• 336 PAGES
An enormously influential American book, Twain's masterpiece of boyhood adventure is as much about America's growing pains as it is about Huck's coming of age. As crises of adolescence go, Huck's dawning awareness of the slave Jim's humanity is about as big as they come. Ages 12 and up.
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African Myths of Origin
• Stephe Belcher
LITERATURE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 544 PAGES
Traditional myths, fables and folklore from across the continent.
(AFR163, $17.00) |
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The Age of Bede
• J.F. Webb
• D.H. Farmer
HISTORY •
1998 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century provides insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland.
(GBR552, $15.00) |
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The Agricola and the Germania
• Tacitus
• Harold Mattingly
• S.A. Handford
HISTORY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 121 PAGES
Two texts of classical antiquity by Tacitus. Agricola is a eulogy for his father-in-law, the governor of Roman Britain. Germania is one of the earliest and most extensive account of the early Germanic World and the Goths, Visigoths, Vandals, Angles, Saxons, Celts, Vikings and other ancient peoples of the region.
(EUR182, $15.00) |
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All's Well That Ends Well
• William Shakespeare
LITERATURE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
The text of Shakespeare's dark comedy with scholarly notes.
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American Notes for General Circulation
• Charles Dickens
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 311 PAGES
Dickens was one of many Englishmen who traveled to America, fascinated by the character of the youthful nation. His account of his 1842 voyage is descriptive and often funny.
(USM116, $15.00) |
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
• Benvenuto Cellini
• George Bull
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1999 •
PAPER
• 465 PAGES
A fascinating glimpse at a man and an era, this translation of the autobiography of the Renaissance goldsmith and sculptor Benvenuto Cellini not only documents his fascinating life, but evokes the figures and society of 16th century Italy.
(ITL172, $16.00) |
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The Beggar's Opera
• John Gay
• T.O. Treadwell
LITERATURE •
1987 •
PAPER
• 128 PAGES
Written in 1728, John Gay's ballad opera is a satirical look at 18th-century London. It's the model for Brecht's Threepenny Opera.
(GBR460, $12.00) |
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The Book of the Courtier
• Baldasar Castiglione
HISTORY •
1976 •
PAPER
Castiglione's classic book of etiquette, told through a set of examples which portray the ideal Renaissance man and woman. Written between 1513-1518, this provocative treatise was inspired by a series of conversations among a group of aristocrats at the court of Urbino in 1507. Its central theme includes the nature of graceful behaviour, especially the impression of effortlessness, or "sprezzatura."
(ITL238, $15.00) |
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Candide
• Voltaire
• John Butt
LITERATURE •
1990 •
PAPER
• 144 PAGES
The Penguin Classics edition of Voltaire's satirical tale of the adventures of Candide and friends --- and basis for the Bernstein opera.
(FRN655, $11.00) |
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A Celtic Miscellany
• Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson
ANTHOLOGY •
1975 •
PAPER
• 352 PAGES
A survey of Celtic literature through the ages from bardic elegies to heroic sagas.
(IRE93, $16.00) |
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Chronicles
• Jean Froissart
• Geoffrey Brereton
HISTORY •
1978 •
PAPER
Written by one of Europe's great medieval historians and a witness to the events of the 14th century (including the Hundred Years War and the Black Death), this is the classic, firsthand account Europe at the eve of the Dark Ages.
(EUR128, $16.00) |
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The Comedy of Errors
• Frances E. Dolan
• William Shakespeare
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 79 PAGES
Shakespeare's raucus tale of mistaken identities and long-lost twins, set in Ephesus. In a slim, annotated Pelican Shakespeare edition.
(GBR773, $7.00) |
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The Complete Poems
• John Keats
• John Barnard
LITERATURE •
1977 •
PAPER
• 731 PAGES
A collection of every poem that John Keats ever wrote, in a portable paperback edition from "Penguin Classics."
(GBR162, $17.00) |
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The Conference of Birds
• Farid-Ud-Din Attar
LITERATURE •
1984 •
PAPER
• 234 PAGES
This is a classic example of mystic Sufi verse, stunningly translated into English by Akham Darbandi and Dick Davis. Attar's masterpiece, which is sometimes called "The Parliament of Fowls," has had tremendous influence on the West, and was adapted into a fine English poem by Chaucer in the late 14th century.
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The Confidence-Man, His Masquerade
• Herman Melville
LITERATURE •
1991 •
PAPER
• 351 PAGES
Melville's final work of prose, a bewildering story of the Devil and his attempt to con a group of travelers aboard a riverboat on the Mississippi. It is a dense, curious work, set on April Fool's Day, where each passenger is exposed. It includes Melville's well known "The Metaphysics of Indian Hating," a satire of the legends and myths of America's past.
(USS44, $14.00) |
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A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court
• Mark Twain
LITERATURE •
1977 •
PAPER
• 410 PAGES
Twain's comic 1889 novel, in which a 19th-century American finds himself transported to 6th-century England. He takes with him his beliefs in liberty, fraternity and equality -- new concepts at the court of King Arthur. With the original illustrations by Dan Beard.
(GBR326, $10.00) |
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Coriolanus
• Jonathan Crewe
• William Shakespeare
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 139 PAGES
A tragedy based on the life of Roman leader Gaius Martius Coriolanus, in a slim, annotated Pelican Shakespeare edition.
(GBR774, $8.00) |
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David Copperfield
• Charles Dickens
LITERATURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 1024 PAGES
Perhaps Dickens most famous novel, and certainly his most autobiographical, this classic is noteworthy for its vivid and painful descriptions of orphan life in Victorian London.
(GBR381, $9.00) |
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A Dead Man's Memoir
• Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
LITERATURE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story about a failed writer that must deal with the theatrics of allowing his play to be taken up for production in a theater.
(RUS351, $15.00) |
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The Debacle
• Emile Zola
LITERATURE •
1973 •
PAPER
• 509 PAGES
Part of the "Penguin Classics" series, this is Zola's novel of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune, as seen through the stories of common soldiers. Strong on historical detail, it remains one of the most famous and powerful pieces on these devastating conflicts.
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The Decameron
• Giovanni Boccaccio
LITERATURE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 909 PAGES
While a plague rages through 14th-century Florence, 10 nobles seek refuge in the countryside for 10 days. Each tells a story every day, resulting in the 100 tales that form The Decameron. Boccaccio's celebration of passion and disdain for hypocritical clerics serves as a nice foil to Dante's strict moralism.
(ITL309, $15.00) |
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The Devils
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• David Magarshack
LITERATURE •
1954 •
PAPER
• 704 PAGES
The third of Dostoevsky's major novels is a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism depicting the disarray that follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town.
(RUS309, $14.00) |
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The Discovery of America by the Turks
• Jorge Amado
LITERATURE •
2012 •
PAPER
• 77 PAGES
In this sly picaresque, translated by the great Jorge Rabassa, follows the adventures of two Arab immigrants (Turks, ' as Brazilians call them) who arrive in the rough Brazilian frontier in 1903. A whimsical Brazilian take on The Taming of the Shrew, the two friends become involved in a merchant's farcical attempt to marry off his daughter.
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Domestic Manners of the Americans
• Frances Trollope
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1997 •
PAPER
• 416 PAGES
An entertaining, classic travelogue of a foreigner's sojourn in Cincinnati, then a frontier town, by the mother of Anthony (The Way We Live Now). Published upon her return to England, the book was a wild success in the 1830s. It's still a juicy, flavorful portrait of colonial America. The book also secured Ms. Trollope's fortune (after considerable hardship on this side of the Atlantic) and launched a literary dynasty.
(USM76, $17.00) |
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Early Christian Lives
• Carolinne White
LITERATURE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
These pioneering Lives are central sources for the major Christian monastic figures from St Antony, who died in 356, to St Benedict (c. 480-547). They also shed light on the beliefs and values of their celebrated authors. Athanasius' Life of Antony reveals the man who many believe was the first to set out into the Egyptian desert to pursue the path of poverty, abstinence and solitary prayer. St Jerome fought for the cause of chastity and asceticism in writing about Paul of Thebes, Hilarion and Malchus, while in his Life of Martin Sulpicius Severus described the achievements of a man who combined the roles of monk, bishop and missionary. Almost two hundred years later, Pope Gregory the Great in his Dialogues focused above all on St Benedict, whose Rule became the template for every subsequent form of monasticism. Full of vivid incidents and astonishing miracles, all these works proved hugely popular and influential and also inspired much of the visual imagery of the Middle Ages.
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The Economic Consequences of Peace
• John Maynard Keynes
HISTORY •
1995 •
PAPER
• 336 PAGES
An influential essay, originally published in 1920.
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Effi Briest
• Theodor Fontane
• Peter Demetz
LITERATURE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 228 PAGES
The best-known work (made into a Fassbinder movie) by the author who also wrote "A Man of Honor" and "The Eighteenth of March." Regarded by some as the Prussian novelist par excellence, Fontane was an astute observer of mores and conventions in late 19th-century Berlin and Brandenburg. This short, disurbing love story is set in Bismarck's Germany.
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Exile's Return, A Literary Odyssey in the 1920s
• Malcolm Cowley
LITERATURE •
1994 •
PAPER
• 347 PAGES
Disappointed with the American mindset following WWI, Cowley made Paris his home, as did Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos and other luminaries. Crowley recounts the lively scene and birth of a new American literature.
(FRN97, $16.00) |
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Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism
• Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
HISTORY •
1998 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
This 19th Century essay uses the story of the reigning dictator Facundo and the bloody civil wars to set up an opposition between European "Civilization" and native "Barbarism." It's a chronicle of the various conflicts associated with Facundo and his generals' rise to power and a fascinating glimpse of a pervasive mindset.
(ARG18, $17.00) |
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The Golden Days
• Cao Xueqin
• David Hawkes
LITERATURE •
1974 •
PAPER
• 544 PAGES
Volume One of The Dream of the Red Chamber, an epic family tale first published in 1793, (still one of China's favorite novels) beautifully translated, edited and with an introduction by David Hawkes. The Golden Days is the first book in a five-volume masterpiece which follows the fate of the Jia family and the magical stone of the title. It's an absorbing romantic tale, often called the greatest of Chinese novels, as interesting for its commentary on culture, aethestics, religion and world view as for the story.
(CHN223, $18.00) |
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The Guide
• R. K. Narayan
LITERATURE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
A comic look at the life of a rogue, set in Malgudi, a fictional town in southern India like many of Narayan's novels. Originally published in 1958.
(IDA310, $15.00) |
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Guide to Greece, Central Greece Vol. 1
• Pausanias
• Peter Levi
GUIDEBOOK •
1984 •
PAPER
• 608 PAGES
If you can't read the classical Greek (or didn't visit the classic sites during their heyday), here's the next best thing. A sprightly translation of Pausanias's comprehensive guide to the tombs, museums and sites in Central Greece during the height of Roman rule in the 2nd Century. He covers the history, mythology and religious significance of Athens, Delphi, Attica, Corinth and Mycenae.
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Guide to Greece, Southern Greece Vol II
• Pausanias
• Peter Levi
GUIDEBOOK •
1984 •
PAPER
• 560 PAGES
Pausanias was a Greek traveller and writer in the second century A.D. His Guide to Greece is an extremely comprehensive guide book for tourists, concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues and including a lot of information on the mythological, religious and historical background to the monuments described. It is so informative that it may be called the foundation of classical archaeology and this ancient Baedeker is still used as a guide to classical Greece.
(GRE340, $18.00) |
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Gulliver's Travels
• Jonathan Swift
LITERATURE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 280 PAGES
A handy edition of the classic satire about a wayward English seaman's adventures through strangely populated lands. Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver's encounters with the petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos give him new, bitter insights into human behavior. Following its initial publication in 1726, Swift's remarkable book has never been out print.
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The Harz Journey and Selected Prose
• Heinrich Heine
• Richie Robertson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 360 PAGES
A rich collection of prose by the beloved German Romantic poet, including meditations on travels in the Harz mountains, Lucca and Venice, as well as German history and his Jewish heritage.
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A Hazard of New Fortunes
• William Dean Howells
LITERATURE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 449 PAGES
A self-made millionaire and a social revolutionary are at odds with each other in a novel set against the background of a 19th-century New York streetcar strike.
(NYC201, $17.00) |
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Hippocratic Writings
• G.E.R Lloyd
• W.N. Mann
HISTORY •
1984 •
PAPER
A collection of writings attributed to Hippocrates, though most likely written by early Greek doctors and medical ethicists. The message throughout is clearly Hippocratic, though, and each piece shares the common goal of fleshing out the role of medicine and the physician in society.
(GRE161, $16.00) |
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The History and Topography of Ireland
• John O'Meara
• Gerald of Wales
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1984 •
PAPER
• 144 PAGES
Arguably the most authoritative primary source for what is known about medieval Ireland, this lively history by a twelfth-century Norman describes the land's topography, natural resources, and inhabitants in vivid detail.
(IRE92, $14.00) |
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The History of the Franks
• Gregory of Tours
• Lewis Thorpe
HISTORY •
1977 •
PAPER
• 720 PAGES
A history of life in France under the rule of the Merovingian Kings, written by the sixth-century bishop Gregory of Tours and ably translated by Lewis Thorpe.
(FRN529, $20.00) |
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History of the Kings of Britain
• Geoffrey of Monmouth
LITERATURE •
1977 •
PAPER
• 384 PAGES
Monmouth vivdly portrays legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur.
(GBR829, $18.00) |
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House of the Dead
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• David McDuff
LITERATURE •
1986 •
PAPER
• 362 PAGES
Dostoyevsky's semi-autobiographical novel of a man forced to endure ten years in a Siberian prison for the murder of his wife. Accused as a political subversive, Dostoyevsky himself spent four years in a prison camp.
(RUS261, $12.00) |
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Idylls of the King
• Alfred Tennyson
LITERATURE •
1989 •
PAPER
• 371 PAGES
The longest and most ambitious work of his career, Idylls is a reflection of Tennyson's lifelong interest in Arthurian themes. His personification of Arthur, the highest ideal of manhood and leadership, is achieved through a delicacy of phrase and metrical effect that are unmatched.
(GBR827, $15.00) |
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The Iliad
• Homer
• Robert Fagles
LITERATURE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 704 PAGES
In the excellent Fagles translation -- here presented in a deluxe paper edition -- Homer's Trojan epic hasn't aged a bit in the last 2,700 years. It's as exciting and engrossing as ever. Take it along to Troy and the Aegean.
(GRE173, $18.00) |
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The Iliad of Homer
• Homer
• Robert Fagles
LITERATURE •
1990 •
PAPER
• 704 PAGES
Acclaimed translator Robert Fagles captures the poetry and power of Homer's "Iliad," the astonishing tale of the Trojan war and rage of Achilles that is one of the foundations of western literature. This 1990 version has been much praised for its expressiveness and clarity. A talented and adventurous writer, Fagles has just completed a lively new translation of the Odyssey, the "sequel" to the Iliad focusing on Odysseus' ten-year adventure home.
(GRE20, $16.00) |
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The Iliad of Homer, A New Prose Translation
• Homer
• Martin Hammond
LITERATURE •
1987 •
PAPER
• 528 PAGES
Homer's tale of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans, here in a prose translation.
(GRE110, $13.00) |
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The Journey Through Wales and The Description of Wales
• Lewis Thorpe
• Gerald of Wales
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1978 •
PAPER
• 274 PAGES
A valuable historical account of the Medieval Welsh by Gerald of Wales, who traveled through the countryside in the company Archbishop of Canterbury in 1188.
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Jude the Obscure
• Thomas Hardy
LITERATURE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 484 PAGES
Hardy's last novel, the story of a young man of the working-class searching for an education and acceptance in the unforgiving world of Victorian England. "Penguin Classics" edition.
(GBR450, $10.00) |
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The Koran
• N. J. Dawood
RELIGION •
2004 •
PAPER
• 464 PAGES
The clear, fluent, authoritative English rendering of this holiest of Muslim texts preserves the characteristic flavor and rhythm of the original, following the sequence of the Koranic suras
(ISL87, $13.00) |
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The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories
• Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
LITERATURE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 128 PAGES
• FAVORITE
A collection of eleven stories, "The Lady with the Little Dog," "The House with the Mezzanine," "My Life," "Peasants," "A Visit to Friends," "Ionych," "About Love," "In the Ravine," "The Bishop," "The Bride," and "Disturbing the Balance," written during the last 10 years of Chekhov's life.
(RUS404, $15.00) |
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The Last Chronicle of Barset
• Anthony Trollope
LITERATURE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 928 PAGES
First published in 1867, this the final volume in Trollope's trilogy that also includes The Warden and Barchester Towers.
(GBR441, $14.00) |
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The Last Days of Socrates
• Plato
HISTORY •
2003 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
A Penguin Classics edition of Plato's three dialogues on Socrates, the charges gainst him, his famous defense, and the events leading to his execution.
(GRE258, $13.00) |
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
• Peter Abelard
• Betty Radice
HISTORY •
2004 •
PAPER
• 309 PAGES
The correspondence of the famous 12th-century lovers, translated from the medieval French. This Penguin Classic edition translated by Betty Radice. Peter Abelard's "Historia Calamitatum" is a classic.
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
• Charles Dickens
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 864 PAGES
This satirical novel, his sixth, is one of Dicken's few that leaves Mother England for a extended (and caustic) foray onto American shores. Not surprisingly, it followed the author's first voyage to America.
(GBR462, $14.00) |
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The Life and Death of King John
• Claire McEachern
• William Shakespeare
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 104 PAGES
The Penguin Classics edition, edited by Claire McEachern.
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The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself
• J.M. Cohen
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1988 •
PAPER
• 316 PAGES
Utterly transformed by her religious experiences, converted at age forty, Saint Teresa maintained an analytical and critical view of ecstasy and feared false mysticism. This book is widely read in Spain.
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The Long Valley
• John Steinbeck
LITERATURE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
A collection of 13 of Steinbeck's greatest stories, including the celebrated "Red Pony."
(USA91, $15.00) |
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The Marble Faun
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
LITERATURE •
1990 •
PAPER
• 528 PAGES
Hawthorne's classic 1860 novel about American expatriates in Rome depicts a blissful holiday that takes a tragic turn. While vividly describing the sites of the ancient city, Hawthorne questions the meanings of art, culture and the Old and New Worlds.
(ITL581, $15.00) |
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The Marrow of Tradition
• Charles Waddell Chesnutt
• Eric J. Sundquist
LITERATURE •
1993 •
PAPER
• 346 PAGES
Based on the violence that erupted in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898, this novel dramatizes the politically charged race riots that engulfed the city.
(USS127, $16.00) |
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Medea and Other Plays
• Euripides
• Philip Vellacott
LITERATURE •
1976 •
PAPER
• 199 PAGES
Euripides' classic drama of jealously and vengeance is brought to life in a modern translation by Philip Vellacot, who provides critical commentary as well. This book also includes three other staples of Greek theatre -- "Hecuba," "Electra" and "Heracles."
(GRE90, $11.00) |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Russ McDonald
• William Shakespeare
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 88 PAGES
Shakespeare's delightful comedy of fairies and love-potions featuring the mischeivous Puck. The slim, annotated Pelican Shakespeare edition.
(GBR775, $7.00) |
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News from Nowhere and Other Writings
• William Morris
LITERATURE •
1994 •
PAPER
• 480 PAGES
English designer and socialist William Morris's utopian fantasy is short on plot, but long on ideas and evocative descriptions of 19th-century London. A Penguin classic, originally published in 1890.
(GBR600, $17.00) |
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The Nibelungenlied
• A. T Hatto
LITERATURE •
1965 •
PAPER
• 416 PAGES
The definitive Penguin Classics translation of the anonymous 12th-century epic of the life and death of the hero Siegfried and the revenge of his bride Queen Kriemhild -- inspiration for both Wagner's Ring Cycle and for Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
(GER248, $17.00) |
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Niels Lyhne
• J. P. Jacobsen
• Tina Nunnally
LITERATURE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 187 PAGES
An award-winning translation of the much-loved Danish novel, originally published in 1880, realistic in the physical detail of the life and times the young poet of the title, who discovers himself through encounters with six strong-willed women.
(DMK39, $16.00) |
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North American Indians
• George Catlin
JOURNAL •
2004 •
PAPER
• 560 PAGES
A painter and naturally acute observer, Catlin's paintings and firsthand account of travels from 1831 to 1837 document the manners, customs and traditions of the Great Plain Indians before the full and devastating impact of westward expansion. Originally published in 1860, in two volumes, as Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians.
(USW532, $17.00) |
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Northanger Abbey
• Jane Austen
LITERATURE •
1996 •
PAPER
• 219 PAGES
Jane Austen's first novel parodies the Gothic thrillers of her day. Catherine Morland is a country girl spending a season in sophisticated Bath, where she falls for Henry Tilney, who invites her home to his possibly haunted mansion. Austen's wit is as keen as ever in this ruthless depiction of English high society.
(GBR313, $8.00) |
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Oblomov
• Ivan Goncharov
• David Magarshack
LITERATURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 496 PAGES
The masterful portrait of upper-class decline that made Goncharov famous.
(RUS310, $16.00) |
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Once There Was a War
• John Steinbeck
LITERATURE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
On assignment for The New York Herald Tribune and writing from Italy, North Africa, and England, Steinbeck crafts an indelible portrait of life in wartime.
(GBR722, $15.00) |
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Furies.
• Aeschylus
• Robert Fagles
• W.B. Stanford
LITERATURE •
1984 •
PAPER
• 335 PAGES
Another great work of ancient Greek theatre, The Oresteia trilogy tells the story of Agamemnon and his family (Clytemnestra, Iphigenia and Orestes), who are dysfunctional to epic proportions. These are tales of murder, betrayal and vengeance, translated beautifully by Robert Fagles.
(GRE99, $14.00) |
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The Pickwick Papers
• Charles Dickens
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 800 PAGES
First published in installments in 1836 and wildly successful in its day, this is the book that launched Dickens' career. It tells of Samuel Pickwick's highly comedic adventures in the wide world, including a riotous sequence among the aristocrats of Bath.
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The Poem of the Cid: A Bilingual Edition with Parallel Text
• Ian Michael
• Rita Hamilton
• Janet Perry
LITERATURE •
1985 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
The medieval epic in a bilingual edition.
(SPN273, $16.00) |
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The Portable Beat Reader
• Ann Charters
ANTHOLOGY •
2003 •
PAPER
• 645 PAGES
The biographer of Jack Kerouac and expert on the Beat generation compiles an anthology of poetry and prose from the era. Included are excerpts from Kerouac's "On the Road," Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," William S. Burroughs' "Naked Lunch" and works by Herbert Huncke, Ray Bremser, Bob Dylan, Diane Di Prima, and others.
(GEN130, $20.00) |
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Praise of Folly and Letter to Maarten Dorp
• Desiderius Erasmus
LITERATURE •
1994 •
PAPER
• 188 PAGES
This best-known, witty essay by the great Dutch humanist satirizes the excesses of the Catholic church, the piousness of aristocrats and the severity of school teachers. In "Letter to Maarten Dorp," Erasmus defends his anti-theological stance. The two works are key to understanding the origins of the Protestant Reformation and the largely secular art of the Northern Renaissance.
(NTH44, $14.00) |
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
• Aeschylus
• Philip Vellacott
LITERATURE •
1961 •
PAPER
• 160 PAGES
The Penguin Classics edition.
(GRE248, $13.00) |
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Pygmalion
• George Bernard Shaw
LITERATURE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 176 PAGES
George Bernard Shaw's renowned adaptation of Ovid's classic myth, set in 19th-century London. Shaw's play features Professor Henry Higgins, who tries to transform east-ender Eliza Doolittle into a proper English lady. Unlike Ovid's Galatea, Higgins' independent-minded love interest does not acquiesce. Later adapted for musical theatre and the screen as My Fair Lady.
(GBR534, $10.00) |
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The Quest of the Holy Grail
• Pauline Matarasso
LITERATURE •
1969 •
PAPER
• 304 PAGES
The original text of the grail myth, written in 13th-century France.
(GBR837, $16.00) |
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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
• Ryunosuke Akutagawa
LITERATURE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 268 PAGES
Modern and pre-modern clash in this crisp new edition of Akutagawa's celebrated stories.
(JPN317, $17.00) |
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Reveries of a Solitary Walker
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Peter France
LITERATURE •
1980 •
PAPER
• 154 PAGES
A classic organized into ten walks Rousseau took through Paris, ruminating on the actions of his past and the components of happiness.
(FRN217, $12.00) |
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
• William Dean Howells
LITERATURE •
1983 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
A classic novel of the Gilded Age, where wealth and the Boston aristocracy collide as entrepreneur Silas Lapham attempts to translate his riches into social status by marrying off his daughters. Howells, a realist, explores the relationship between morality and money as Lapham can only find moral renewal through bankruptcy. Originally published in 1885.
(BOS21, $16.00) |
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Robbers and Wallenstein
• Friedrich Schiller
LITERATURE •
1980 •
PAPER
• 480 PAGES
This Penguin classics edition includes both Schiller's tragedy of liberty and fraternity, Robers, written in 1780, and his masterpeice, the trilogy Wallenstein.
(GER255, $17.00) |
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The Romance of Tristan, And the Tale of Tristan's Madness
• Beroul
LITERATURE •
1978 •
PAPER
• 176 PAGES
One of the earliest extant versions of the Tristan and Yseut story, Beroul's French manuscript of The Romance of Tristan dates back to the middle of the twelfth century. It recounts the legend of Tristan, nephew of King Mark of Cornwall, and the king's Irish wife Yseut, who fall passionately in love after mistakenly drinking a potion.
(GBR832, $13.00) |
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Romeo and Juliet
• William Shakespeare
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
The Penguin Pelican edition, edited by Peter Holland.
(ITL852, $7.00) |
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Selected Letters
• Madame de Sevigne
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1988 •
PAPER
• 319 PAGES
The collected letters of Madame de Sevigne evoke life 17th century France.
(FRN226, $16.00) |
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Selected Poems
• Thomas Hardy
LITERATURE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 255 PAGES
A collection of the great novelist's poetic works.
(GBR826, $14.00) |
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Selected Poems
• D. H. Lawrence
LITERATURE •
2009 •
PAPER
• 275 PAGES
A collection of Lawrence's best poetry.
(GBR825, $16.00) |
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Shahnameh, The Persian Book of Kings
• Abolqasem Ferdowsi
• Azar Nafisi
• Dick Davis
LITERATURE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 877 PAGES
A new translation of the late-tenth-century Persian epic follows its story of pre-Islamic Iran's mythic time of Creation through the seventh-century Arab invasion, tracing ancient Persia's incorporation into an expanding Islamic empire.
(MDE161, $27.00) |
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
• Bartolome de las Casas
• Nigel Griffin
HISTORY •
1992 •
PAPER
• 143 PAGES
A Dominican friar, Las Casas wrote this account in 1542 after witnessing the devastation wrought by Columbus and those who came after him. It is full of graphic violence, an appeal to the conscience of the Spanish monarchy to end the massacre of a people in the name of Christianity and the quest for gold. A spirited classic of human rights literature and the definitive refutation of those who would romanticize the conquest.
(CRB44, $14.00) |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Brian Stone
LITERATURE •
1959 •
PAPER
• 185 PAGES
Probably the most famous of the romantic tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, this is the 14th-century poem of chivalry and heroism that inspired many others in its wake. Composed by an unknown contemporary of Chaucer.
(GBR247, $11.00) |
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The Sonnets
• William Shakespeare
LITERATURE •
2001 •
PAPER
The Pelican Shakespeare edition of the complete sonnets.
(GBR760, $8.00) |
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Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings
• Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
LITERATURE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 198 PAGES
This sampling of Pushkin's short stories includes his autobiographical "A Journey to Arzrum," the tale of travels from Moscow across the Caucasus and Georgia to Turkey during the war of 1829. Translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by John Bayley.
(RUS232, $14.00) |
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The Taming of the Shrew
• William Shakespeare
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
The Penguin Pelican edition, edited by Peter Holland.
(ITL851, $8.00) |
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Tao Te Ching
• D. C. Lao
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RELIGION •
1985 •
PAPER
• 131 PAGES
Fourth-century B. C. classic by the Taoist poet Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching has been translated more than any other work, and D. C. Lao's stark, lyrical poetry renders both the complexity and simplicity of the original thought.
(CHN243, $10.00) |
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The Tempest
• William Shakespeare
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
The Penguin Pelican edition, edited by Peter Holland.
(BRM13, $7.00) |
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Ten Days That Shook the World
• John Reed
HISTORY •
2007 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
An eyewitness account of the greatest revolution of the 20th century. This political classic captures the spirit of those heady days of excitement and idealism before disillusion and cynicism set in. Reed, an American journalist, became a hero of the revolution himself and was buried under the Kremlin wall.
(RUS13, $13.00) |
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Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son
• Sholem Aleichem
LITERATURE •
2009 •
PAPER
• 352 PAGES
A Penguin Classics edition of Sholem Rabinovich's winning Yiddish tales, including, famously, the source material for Fiddler on the Roof.
(RUS387, $16.00) |
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Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
• Sophocles
• Robert Fagles
• Bernard Knox
LITERATURE •
1984 •
PAPER
• 430 PAGES
The Oedipus Trilogy, a foundation of Greek tragedy, is as powerful today as ever. This edition is another in the line of wonderful translations by noted scholar Robert Fagles.
(GRE98, $13.00) |
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The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice
• William Shakespeare
LITERATURE •
2001 •
PAPER
The Pelican Shakespeare edition of this famous tragedy of deception and passion.
(ITL936, $7.00) |
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Mary Beth Rose
• William Shakespeare
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 92 PAGES
One of Shakespeare's early comedies.
(GBR612, $8.00) |
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Two Lives of Charlemagne
• Nofker the Stammerer Einhard
• Lewis G.M. Thorpe
HISTORY •
1969 •
PAPER
• 227 PAGES
Two 8th-century histories of Charlemagne and his military conquests. Both present a vivid account of his life and times, already establishing him as a legendary character. Thorpe's translation preserves the clarity and vividness of the Latin original.
(FRN77, $15.00) |
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Villette
• Charlotte Bronte
LITERATURE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 672 PAGES
The Brussels novel, some say Bronte's finest. The book (and its heroine Lucy Snowe) draws on the author's schoolteacher days. It's Bronte's last published work: an emotionally complex, somber tale with Gothic elements and flashes of humor. Villette (aka Brussels) is also a realistic portrait of the cosmopolitan city.
(BLG17, $12.00) |
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The Voyage of Argo
• Apollonius of Rhodes
• Emil V. Rieu
LITERATURE •
1977 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
The story of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts on their quest for the Golden Fleece. Aided by a map and a glossary, Emil V. Rieu's translation of the original epic by Apollonius of Rhodes, is readable and informative. A classic in the works of Greek mythology.
(GRE91, $15.00) |
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The War with Hannibal
• Titus Livy
HISTORY •
1965 •
PAPER
• 711 PAGES
From a decidedly Roman perspective, the original Roman history of the war with Carthage, translated from Latin.
(TUN05, $18.00) |
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Weep Not, Child
• Ngugi wa Thiong'o
LITERATURE •
2012 •
PAPER
• 176 PAGES
First published in 1964, Weep Not, Child is a moving novel about the impact of the Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular.
(EAF388, $15.00) |
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The Winter's Tale
• Frances E. Dolan
• William Shakespeare
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 116 PAGES
In this tragicomedy, one of the last plays Shakespeare wrote, an infant princess is abandoned, the King of Belgium is forced to disguise himself as a shepard, and the Queen of Sicily resurrected. It also includes one of Shakespeare's most famous stage directions: "Exit, pursued by a bear."
(GBR614, $8.00) |
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