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 | Sherlock Holmes; Selected Stories Product# 460451369 Selling for $12.95 "The intrepid London detective, with the help of his companion, Dr. Watson, investigates a variety of intriguing mysteries" |
 | The Wizard of Oz Product# 460544483 Selling for $4.99 "After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas." |
 | Uncle Shelby's Story of Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back Product# 460545846 Selling for $16.89 "Bestselling children's book author Shel Silverstein offers the witty, thought-provoking fable of a lion whose marksmanship makes him world famous, but who discovers that 'success' is not to his liking. 'A most amusing book, written in an easy, mildly mad style'.--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books." |
 | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Product# 460546257 Selling for $16.99 "Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter." |
 | The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman and Also the Strange Experiences of the Highly Magnified W Product# 460547555 Selling for $7.99 "A boy named Tip and his wooden creation, Jack Pumpkinhead, join together with the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman to defeat the wicked witch Mombi and discover the long-lost princess of Oz, Princess Ozma. Illustrations." |
 | The Romance of Tristan: And the Tale of Tristan's Madness Product# 460551617 Selling for $12 The legendary version of illicit and tragic passion. |
 | Dangerous Liaisons Product# 460551640 Selling for $11 "Two former lovers embark on a game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Marquise de Merteuil challenges the Vicomte de Valmont to seduce an innocent girl, the Vicomte is also occupied with the conquest of a married woman. But the consequences prove to be more serious, than they could have guessed." |
 | The Time Machine Product# 460551790 Selling for $9 "A Victorian scientist uses his remarkable invention, a time machine, to hurtle himself some eight hundred thousand years into the future and encounters a world populated by two distinct races, the childlike Eloi and the disgusting Morlocks who prey on the Eloi. Reprint." |
 | Esther Waters Product# 460552801 Selling for $9.95 "Seduced and abandoned by her feckless lover, Esther is forced to bring up her child alone. Her life is hard--she is first employed as a wet-nurse by heartless Mrs. Rivers, then becomes the virtual slave of miserly Mrs. Bingley. But Esther has her faith and the love of her child to support her. And when she accidentally meets her son's father again, now a rich man who wants to marry her, it seems that her fight for happiness is finally at an end." |
 | South Sea Tales Product# 460552812 Selling for $9.95 "In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of 'The Beach of Falesa', the folktale plots of 'The Bottle Imp' and 'The Isle of Voices', and the modernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in The Ebb-Tide. But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with representing the multiracial society of which their author had become a member. In this collection - the first to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume - Stevenson emerges as a witness both to the cross-cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism and to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonial world." |
 | Uncle Tom's Children Product# 460678650 Selling for $13.95 "Updated with passages deleted by the original publishers, this collection of short stories by the author of Native Son introduces a cast of colorful characters from the post-slavery era. By the author of The Outsider. Reprint. 10,000 first printing." |
 | The Secret Garden Product# 460679828 Selling for $4.99 "In this abridged adaptation of the classic novel, a lonely orphan discovers the wonders of a mysterious garden and befriends her invalid cousin." |
 | The Antiquary Product# 460679845 Selling for $15 "The third novel in the Waverley series, and Scott's personal favorite, The Antiquary centers on a young man called Lovel who meets Jonathan Oldbuck, a loquacious old antiquary, on a trip to Scotland. There Lovel falls in love with the daughter of Sir Arthur Wardour, a local landowner. However, with no wealth or title to offer, Lovel's feelings go unrequited until an extraordinary act of courage. With its vivid drama and exuberant pace, The Antiquary confirms Scott's reputation as the great storyteller of modern Europe." |
 | The Picture of Dorian Grey Product# 460679848 Selling for $8 "The handsome appearance of dissolute, young Dorian Gray remains unchanged while the features in his portrait become distorted as his degeneration progresses." |
 | Major Barbara Product# 460679849 Selling for $11 "In this sparkling comedy, originally staged in 1905, Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty. His energetic daughter Barbara, however, is a devout major in the Salvation Army. She sees her father as just another soul to be saved. But when the Salvation Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day." |
 | To the Lighthouse Product# 460680266 Selling for $13 "A landmark of modern fiction, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse explores thesubjective reality of everyday life in the Hebrides for the Ramsay family." |
 | Trilby Product# 460680293 Selling for $10.95 "Immensely popular for a number of years, the novel of trilby led to a hit play, a series of popular films, and the trilby hat. The setting of the story reflects the author's bohemian years as an art student in Paris; indeed, James McNeil Whistler was to recognize himself in one of the early serialized instalments." |
 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass; And What Alice Found There Product# 460680295 Selling for $8.95 "By falling down a rabbit hole, Alice experiences unusual adventures with a variety of nonsensical characters." |
 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Product# 460680346 Selling for $17.99 "HarperCollins UK Audio Classics presents abridged and unabridged readings of the world's favorite literary masterpieces. Among the distinguished readers are Christopher Lee, Derek Jacobi, Simon Callow, Linus Roache, Elizabeth McGovern, Terry Jones, Peter Firth, and Rufus Sewell. Each package of cassettes in the Audio Classics series is beautifully packaged and shrink-wrapped." |
 | The Secret Agent Product# 460680347 Selling for $16.99 "HarperCollins UK Audio Classics presents abridged and unabridged readings of the world's favorite literary masterpieces. Among the distinguished readers are Christopher Lee, Derek Jacobi, Simon Callow, Linus Roache, Elizabeth McGovern, Terry Jones, Peter Firth, and Rufus Sewell. Each package of cassettes in the Audio Classics series is beautifully packaged and shrink-wrapped." |
 | Pearl and Sir Orfeo Product# 460680348 Selling for $16.99 "HarperCollins UK Audio Classics presents abridged and unabridged readings of the world's favorite literary masterpieces. Among the distinguished readers are Christopher Lee, Derek Jacobi, Simon Callow, Linus Roache, Elizabeth McGovern, Terry Jones, Peter Firth, and Rufus Sewell. Each package of cassettes in the Audio Classics series is beautifully packaged and shrink-wrapped." |
 | Captains Courageous Product# 460680846 Selling for $2 "After being washed overboard from an ocean liner, fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne, spoiled son of a millionaire, is rescued by New England fishermen who put him to work on their boat." |
 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Product# 460680860 Selling for $23.95 A young girl from an impoverished family comes of age in Brooklyn at the turn of the twentieth century. |
 | By the Shores of Silver Lake Product# 460681091 Selling for $16.99 The Ingalls family moves again as Pa follows the railroad to the Dakota Territory. Sequel to On the banks of Plum Creek |
 | These Happy Golden Years Product# 460681094 Selling for $17.89 "Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in the log cabin described in Little House In The Big Woods. As her classic Little House books tell us, she and her family traveled by covered wagon across the Midwest. She and her husband, Almanzo Wilder, made their own covered-wagon trip with their daughter Rose, to Mansfield, Missouri. For millions of readers, she lives forever as the little pioneer girl in the beloved Little House books." |
 | The Complete Chronicles of Narnia Product# 460681129 Selling for $50 "In celebration of the 100th anniversary of C.S. Lewis's birth, HarperCollins proudly published all seven titles of 'The Chronicles of Narnia' in one deluxe edition: a handsome, jacketed book that features the original illustrations newly painted in full color." |
 | Very Far Away Product# 460681208 Selling for $17.89 "A little boy and his animal friends discover that running away from their problems isn't going to solve them, in a delightful reissue of this classic story first published in 1957." |
| The Griffin and the Minor Canon Product# 460681210 Selling for $17.89 "Through a two-year publishing program, we have been privileged to welcome back into print hardcover editions of twenty-one treasures from the Sendak backlist. The program has showcased Sendak's varied and distinctive styles, from the serious to the silly, the dreamlike to the dramatic. In the program's final season, we are happy to reintroduce a book that uses all of those styles to explore the wonders of the most beloved verses and songs from childhood. Sendak created some of his loveliest and most endearing full-color art for this book, which is perfect for bedtime or any time at all." |
| Henry and Beezus Product# 460681273 Selling for $18 "Will Henry get a bike in time for the big parade? When he asks Beezus to bid on one at the auction, he never dreams she'll buy a girl's bike! Henry's friends on Klickitat Street think the broken-down bike is pretty funny. Even Beezus's little tag-along sister, Ramona, has shiny new wheels! Ever optimistic, Henry tries to win a new bike and instead wins a prize that gets his friends howling with laughter. No wonder generations of readers have loved Henry Huggins!" |
 | Just a Snowman Product# 460681416 Selling for $3.99 "When school is cancelled after a heavy snowfall, Little Critter wants to build a snowman, but first he has to help his little sister and his father, and then his friends want him to join them in the winter fun they prefer." |
 | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Product# 460681469 Selling for $17.89 "Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter." |
 | On the Banks of Plum Creek Product# 460681596 Selling for $8.99 "Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers. Newbery Honor Book. Original." |
| Uncle Tom's Children Product# 460681633 Selling for $13.95 "Updated with passages deleted by the original publishers, this collection of short stories by the author of Native Son introduces a cast of colorful characters from the post-slavery era. By the author of The Outsider. Reprint. 10,000 first printing." |
 | Double Indemnity Product# 460681878 Selling for $29.95 An unfaithful and unscrupulous wife exploits a morally inert insurance salesman in a scheme to murder her husband and collect his insurance. Book available. |
 | Charlotte's Web: Special Read-aloud Edition Product# 460682128 Selling for $15.99 "Wilbur, the pig, is despondent when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner, until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him." |
 | The Perfect Word Product# 460682129 Selling for $3.99 "When Templeton the rat meets Wilbur the pig, he and the other farm animals come up with a plan to help save Wilbur." |
 | Sounder Product# 460682274 Selling for $7 "A timeless classic, winner of the John Newberry Medal, and the basis of an acclaimed film, 'Sounder is a novel that tells of the courage and love that bind a black family together despite the extreme prejudice and inhumanity it faces in the Deep South." |
 | Little Town on the Prairie Product# 460682684 Selling for $6.99 "The little settlement of The Long Winter becomes a frontier town and Laura, at age 15, receives a certificate to teach school." |
 | The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set Product# 460682707 Selling for $55.93 "Book 1. The Magician's Nephew. Book 2. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. Book 3. The Horse and His Boy. Book 4. Prince Caspian. Book 5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Book 6. The Silver Chair. Book 7. The Last Battle." |
 | The Chronicles of Narnia, Full Color Boxed Set Product# 460682729 Selling for $59.99 This collection includes all seven novels in the series. |
 | Prince Caspian Product# 460682730 Selling for $8.99 The four Pevensies help Capsian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throne. |
 | The Silver Chair Product# 460682731 Selling for $8.99 Jill and Eustace must rescue the Prince from the evil Witch. |
 | Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set Product# 460682859 Selling for $45 "Includes 'The Horse and His Boy, The Last Battle, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Magician's Nephew, Prince Caspian, The Silver Chair' and 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.'" |
 | The Adventures of Sally Product# 460686392 Selling for $8 "Pretty, impecunious Sally Nichols never dreamed a fortune could prove a disadvantage--until she became an heiress and watched in bewilderment as her orderly existence went haywire. 'A creature of pure light and joy'.--NEW STATESMAN. P.G. Wodehouse re-release." |
 | Sylvia's Lovers Product# 460686633 Selling for $13 "A moving tale of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, set in the time of Napoleon, against the tensions of wartime. As the author depicts Sylvia's fateful decision to marry one man while loving the other, she deftly interweaves the eternal themes of jealousy, unrequited love, and the consequences of individual choice." |
| The Picture of Dorian Grey Product# 460686646 Selling for $8 "The handsome appearance of dissolute, young Dorian Gray remains unchanged while the features in his portrait become distorted as his degeneration progresses." |
| Major Barbara Product# 460686647 Selling for $11 "In this sparkling comedy, originally staged in 1905, Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty. His energetic daughter Barbara, however, is a devout major in the Salvation Army. She sees her father as just another soul to be saved. But when the Salvation Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day." |
 | Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Product# 460686648 Selling for $10 "With its unflinching portrayal of the squalor and brutality of turn-of-the-century New York, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets produced a scandal when it was first published in 1893. Crane's novel chronicles the life of Maggie Johnson, the daughter of a cruel father and drunken mother, who finds work in a collar factor and is seduced by her brother's menacing friend, Pete. Disowned by her mother, Maggie becomes a prostitute and, ultimately, a victim of despair. But more than the tale of a young woman's tragic fall, the novel is also a powerful exploration of the destructive forces that underlie urban society and human nature. This volume also includes 'George's Mother' and eleven other tales and sketches of New York written between 1892 and 1896. Together in their poised realism these tales confirm Crane's place as the first modern American writer." |
 | The Complete Odes and Epodes: With the Centennial Hymn Product# 460686664 Selling for $15 "Hoace's Odes- allusive and exquisitely crafted poems of politics and the all-too-fleeting pleasure of friendship, love and wine- are without parallel in their influence on European literature. The Epodes, by contrast, are most notable for their coarse abuse and lively obscenity." |
 | The Histories Product# 460686683 Selling for $10 "The World Literature series reproduces the greatest books the world over with only the highest production standards. History, philosophy, psychology, political theory, fiction, and ancient texts are now accessible to everyone at an extremely affordable price." |
 | Sons and Lovers Product# 460686838 Selling for $12 "The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul. Set in Nottinghamshire, this work is an autobiographical portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations." |
 | Captain Blood Product# 460686881 Selling for $14 "Peter Blood is a physician and an English gentleman who becomes a pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels who were fighting the oppressive King James, Blood flees England and becomes enslaved on a Barbados plantation of buccaneers. When he escapes, no ship sailing the Spanish Main is safe from Blood and his companions. Abounding with adventure, color, romance, and strong social commentary on the evils of slavery and the dangers of intolerance, this classic adventure is a story about how oppression drives men to desperate actions, how fate plays a hand in everyone's life, and how love is ultimately the greatest power of all." |
 | Wind in the Willows Product# 460687431 Selling for $24 "When shy Mole climbs out of his hole and into the fresh spring air, he meets Ratty. The two set off for a day on the river, and thus begins this classic tale of deep friendship and adventure. Even before the publication of the first edition in 1908, Kenneth Grahame's beloved characters appeared in gentle letters from the author to his young son. Those letters and the charming story itself inspired internationally acclaimed artist Michael Foreman to create the luminous illustrations for this unabridged edition. Perfect for gift giving, this exquisite volume features several reproductions of Grahame's letters, along with photographs of father and son, a note about the author, an illustrator's note, and a sewn-in ribbon bookmark." |
| To the Lighthouse Product# 460687702 Selling for $13 "A landmark of modern fiction, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse explores thesubjective reality of everyday life in the Hebrides for the Ramsay family." |
 | The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen; Volume III: Mansfield Park Product# 460687738 Selling for $29.95 "Mansfield Park is a study of three families-the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices-with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its center. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, and who have taken her under their roof, are not appreciated until they are tried against the brilliant and witty Mary and Henry Crawford, the unfortunate consequences of whose influence are felt by everyone." |
 | The Vicar of Wakefield Product# 460687796 Selling for $6.95 "A vicar and his charming, if vain, family fall victim to undeserved misfortune in this eighteenth-century classic" |
 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Product# 460687797 Selling for $7.95 A witty eighteenth-century gentleman recounts his life and the comic adventures of his English country family |
| The Raid and Other Stories Product# 460687798 Selling for $7.95 "Nine stories portray the harsh realities of the Crimean War, their impact on the participants, and other moments of spiritual crisis" |
 | The Absentee Product# 460687799 Selling for $9.95 "Lord Clonbrony and his ambitious, worldly wife lead an extravagant social life in London on the proceeds of their estates in Ireland. Their son, Lord Colambre, refusing to marry the heiress arranged for him by his mother, decides instead to investigate, incognito, how the family estates in Ireland are being managed. Appalled at the corruption, mismanagement, and poverty he finds, but encouraged by the affectionate goodwill of the tenants and the honesty of his father's agent Burke, he finds a solution to the problem of his father's debts and his family's wilful indifference, in absentia." |
 | Orley Farm Product# 460687801 Selling for $9.95 "With its concern for social issues and its extensive coverage of middle-class and landed life, Orley Farm is a novel that demands attention in the rich field of nineteenth-century fiction." |
 | The Nether World Product# 460687805 Selling for $10.95 "This is a tale of intrigue, as rapacious schemers try to wrest a fortune out of a mysterious old man who has returned to their midst, and of thwarted love. There is no sentimentality. This is a world in which the strong exercise power against their own kind, scheming and struggling for survival, a world from which, Gissing bleakly maintains, there can be no escape." |
 | White-Jacket; Or, The World in a Man-of-War Product# 460687807 Selling for $7.95 "In 1843, after years of voyaging in the South Seas, Herman Melville signed up as a seaman on the man-of-war UNITED STATES, headed for home. What he observed formed the basis for this expose of autocratic practices which meted out to white men on board the same treatment as black slaves received on plantations. Published in 1850, WHITE JACKET reflected deep-rooted tensions that led to the Civil War 15 years later." |
 | Poor Miss Finch Product# 460687809 Selling for $11.95 "Wilkie Collins's intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better-known novels, but it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of nineteenth-century realist fiction, Collins not only takes a blind person as his central character but also explores the idea of blindness and its implications. His sensitive presentation of the difficulties, disappointments, and occasional delights which follow the recovery of sight by someone blind since infancy is still one of the best accounts in fiction of a problem which continues to intrigue philosophers, psychologists, and the general public, as it has done since it was first discussed by Locke and Berkeley in the eighteenth century." |
 | Against Nature; A Rebours Product# 460687811 Selling for $13.95 "As Joris-Karl Huysmans predicted in 1884, Against Nature (A rebours) was fated to be a novel like no other. Resisting the models of classic nineteenth-century fiction, it focuses on the attempts of its anti-hero, the hypersensitive neurotic and aesthete Des Esseintes, to escape Paris and the vulgarity of modern life. Holed up in his private museum of high taste, he indulges his pleasure in fine art and literature. A compendium of fin-de-siecle cultural decadence, Against Nature anticipates strains of modernism in its appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarme, and Poe. This new translation is supplemented by substantial annotation to enhance the understanding of a highly allusive work." |
 | Corinne, or Italy Product# 460687813 Selling for $16.95 "Corinne, or Italy, is both the story of a Love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil, and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature, and art of Italy. Stael, the subject of recent feminist rediscovery, weaves discreet political allusion into her romance, and upon its publication Napoleon renewed her order of exile. Sylvia Raphael's new translation preserves the natural character of the French original, while the notes and introduction place this extraordinary work of European Romanticism in its historical and political context." |
 | The Mysteries of Udolpho Product# 460687814 Selling for $13.95 "Ann Radcliffe's orphaned heroine Emily St. Aubert finds herself imprisoned in her evil guardian Count Montoni's gloomy medieval fortress in the remote Apennines. Terror is the order of the day inside the walls of Udolpho, as Emily struggles against Montoni's rapacious schemes and the threat of her own psychological disintegration. A bestseller in its day and a potent influence on Sade, Poe, and other writers, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) is Radcliffe's classic work of Gothic fiction. With its dream-like plot and hallucinatory rendering of its characters' psychological states, the novel remains a profound and fascinating challenge to modern readers." |
| The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories Product# 460687817 Selling for $6.95 A collection of stories focuses on the Klondike gold rush and shares two stories told from a canine perspective |
 | Notre-Dame de Paris Product# 460687821 Selling for $7.95 "Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the center of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre - Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion." |
 | The Prisoner of Zenda Product# 460687822 Selling for $7.95 "Anthony Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from a comfortable life in London to fast-moving adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land steeped in political intrigue. Rassendyll bears a striking resemblance to Rudolf Elphberg who is about to be crowned King of Ruritania. When the rival to the throne, Black Michael of Strelsau, attempts to seize power by imprisoning Elphberg in the Castle of Zenda, Rassendyll is obliged to impersonate the King to uphold the rightful sovereignty and ensure political stability. Rassendyll endures a trial of strength in his encounters with the notorious Rupert of Hentzau, and a test of a different sort as he grows to love the Princess Flavia. Five times filmed, The Prisoner of Zenda has been deservedly popular as a classic of romance and adventure since its publication in 1894." |
 | The Thirty-Nine Steps Product# 460687824 Selling for $8.95 "John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an 'ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Hannay is hunted across the Scottish moors by police and spy-ring alike, and must outwit his intelligent and pitiless enemy in the corridors of Whitehall and, finally, at the site of the mysterious thirty-nine steps. The best-known of Buchan's thrillers, The Thirty-Nine Steps has been continuously in print since first publication and has been filmed three times. In this, the only critical edition, Christopher Harvie's introduction interweaves the writing of the tale with the equally fascinating story of how John Buchan, publisher and lawyer, came in from the cold and, via The Thirty-Nine Steps, ended the war as spymaster and propaganda chief." |
 | La Reine Margot Product# 460687833 Selling for $13.95 "LA REINE MARGOT (1845) is a novel of suspense and drama which recreates the violent world of intrigue, murder, and duplicity of the French Renaissance. This revised edition of the classic translation of 1846 is richly annotated. An Introduction sets Dumas and his works in their literary, historical, and cultural context." |
| Trilby Product# 460687836 Selling for $10.95 "Immensely popular for a number of years, the novel of trilby led to a hit play, a series of popular films, and the trilby hat. The setting of the story reflects the author's bohemian years as an art student in Paris; indeed, James McNeil Whistler was to recognize himself in one of the early serialized instalments." |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass; And What Alice Found There Product# 460687838 Selling for $8.95 "By falling down a rabbit hole, Alice experiences unusual adventures with a variety of nonsensical characters." |
 | Adam Bede Product# 460687845 Selling for $9.95 Eliot probes deeply into the psychology of commonplace people caught in the act of uncommon heroics. Alexandre Dumas called this novel 'the masterpiece of the century.' |
 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Product# 460687847 Selling for $12.95 "He's rude, arrogant, cold, unfriendly, and easily bored. But nobody minds, because Sherlock Holmes is a genius at solving mysteries. This collection of some of Holmes's most intriguing cases includes unabridged tales of blackmail, lost fortunes, and, of course, murder." |
 | Kim Product# 460687848 Selling for $6.95 "Reared in the teeming streets of India at the turn of the century, the orphan Kim is the 'Friend of all the world', an imp with an endless interest in the extraordinary characters he meets daily. One of them, an old Tibetan lama, sets him on the path that will lead him to travel the Great Trunk Road, and become a spy for the British." |
 | Sister Carrie Product# 460687850 Selling for $12.95 "Young Carrie Meeber leaves home for the first time and experiences work, love, and the pleasures and responsibilities of independence in late-nineteenth-century Chicago and New York" |
 | The Secret Garden Product# 460687851 Selling for $8.95 "An orphan, sent from India to England to live with her unpleasant uncle, discovers an abandoned and unusual garden on the north country estate." |
 | Sculpture Since 1945 Product# 460687860 Selling for $27.95 "In more than 130 beautiful illustrations, Causey examines innovative and avant-garde works of sculpture in relation to contemporary events, festivals, commissions, the marketplace, and the changing functions of museums. 134 illustrations, 60 in color." |
 | Beloved Product# 460765727 Selling for $14.95 "Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is haunted persistently by the ghost of the dead baby girl whom she sacrificed" |
 | The Neverending Story Product# 460765732 Selling for $7.99 "Shy, awkward Bastian is amazed to discover that he has become a character in the mysterious book he is reading and that he has an important mission to fulfill." |
 | Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life Product# 460765738 Selling for $10 "The plot turns on Mary's romantic choice between Henry Carson, the son of a rich industrialist, and her working class lover Jem Wilson, and the rivalries between them. The class-divide and the widening gap between rich and poor are central themes in a novel originally named after Mary's father, John Barton." |
 | Crime and Punishment Product# 460765745 Selling for $13 "'A detective novel, an indictment of urban oscial conditions in nineteenth-century Russia, a religious epic, a study in criminal psychopathology, and a proto-Nietzschean analysis of the 'will to power' . . . Crime and Punishment is all these things--but it is more', writes McDuff in the Introduction to this major new translation. More accurate than previous translations." |
 | The Grapes of Wrath Product# 460765775 Selling for $16 Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression. |
| Corinne, or Italy Product# 460765860 Selling for $16.95 "Corinne, or Italy, is both the story of a Love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil, and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature, and art of Italy. Stael, the subject of recent feminist rediscovery, weaves discreet political allusion into her romance, and upon its publication Napoleon renewed her order of exile. Sylvia Raphael's new translation preserves the natural character of the French original, while the notes and introduction place this extraordinary work of European Romanticism in its historical and political context." |
 | The Warden Product# 460765865 Selling for $9.95 "This book centres on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to the purposes of the foundation. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his reforming zeal to exposing what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he is in love with Mr. Harding's daughter Eleanor." |
 | Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales Product# 460765866 Selling for $12.95 "Gathers twenty of Hawthorne's tales of Puritan New England dealing with superstition, guilt, moral pride, and the supernatural" |
 | Persians Product# 460765906 Selling for $12.95 "Based on the conviction that only translator who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals." |
 | A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man Product# 460765947 Selling for $17.99 "HarperCollins UK Audio Classics presents abridged and unabridged readings of the world's favorite literary masterpieces. Among the distinguished readers are Christopher Lee, Derek Jacobi, Simon Callow, Linus Roache, Elizabeth McGovern, Terry Jones, Peter Firth, and Rufus Sewell. Each package of cassettes in the Audio Classics series is beautifully packaged and shrink-wrapped." |
 | Vanity Fair Product# 460765949 Selling for $16.99 "HarperCollins UK Audio Classics presents abridged and unabridged readings of the world's favorite literary masterpieces. Among the distinguished readers are Christopher Lee, Derek Jacobi, Simon Callow, Linus Roache, Elizabeth McGovern, Terry Jones, Peter Firth, and Rufus Sewell. Each package of cassettes in the Audio Classics series is beautifully packaged and shrink-wrapped." |
 | On the Banks of Plum Creek Product# 460766069 Selling for $22 "America's Original Pioneer Girl Laura's family's first home in Minnesota is made of sod, but Pa builds a clean new house made of sawed lumber beside Plum Creek. The money for materials will come from their first wheat crop. Then, just before the wheat is ready to harvest, a strange glittering cloud fills the sky, blocking out the sun. Soon millions of grasshoppers cover the field and everything on the farm. In a week's time, there is no wheat crop left at all. 'On the Banks of Plum Creek is the fourth book in the Laura Years series. Performed by Cherry Jones." |
 | HarperCollins Treasury of Picture Book Classics: A Child's First Collection Product# 460766071 Selling for $30 Contains twelve full-sized reproductions of classic picture books accompanied by background information for the reader. |
 | The Three Bears Product# 460766074 Selling for $5.99 Relive the classic story of the three bears and an unexpected guest. |
 | Wringer Product# 460766108 Selling for $16.99 "From Newbery Medal winner Jerry Spinelli comes a gripping tale of how one boy learns how not to be afraid. For as long as Palmer LaRue can remember, he has dreaded the day he turns ten--the day he'll take his place beside the other ten-year-old boys in town and become a wringer. Will he find the courage to stand up to his town? 1998 Newbery Honor Book; ALA Notable Children's Books of 1998; 'School Library Journal' Best Books of 1997." |
 | The Owl and the Pussycat Product# 460766116 Selling for $16.89 "After a courtship voyage of a year and a day, Owl and Pussy finally buy a ring from Piggy and are blissfully married." |
 | Holiday Collection Product# 460766185 Selling for $6.99 "Three holiday classics come to life on this CD. Description Includes: 'The Gift of the Maji - O. Henry Performed by Julie Harris 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens Performed by a full cast, including Sir Ralph Richardson and Paul Scolfield 'The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus by Ogden Nash Performed by the author." |
 | Magician's Nephew, The, Color Gift Edition Product# 460766196 Selling for $19.99 "The first book in The Chronicles of Narnia is now available in a full-color, unabridged gift edition that includes all of the original Pauline Baynes illustrations. This handscome new edition will make a wonderful family keepsake to read aloud together." |
 | The Story Of Doctor Dolittle: Being The History Of His Life At Home And Astonishing Adventures In Froeign Parts Product# 460766326 Selling for $6.99 "Doctor John Dolittle loves animals. He loves them so much that his home and office overflow with animals of every description. When Polynesia the parrot teaches him the language of the animals, Doctor Dolittle becomes a world-famous doctor, traveling even as far away as Africa to help his friends. This edition of the beloved children's classic contains black-and-white illustrations by Michael Hague and has been edited by award-winning authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack for modern audiences." |
 | Little Critter Storybook Collection Product# 460766342 Selling for $11.99 "In a treasury of favorite stories, children can join Little Critter as he builds a snowman, spends a weekend with his grandparents, enters the school science fair, drives a dump truck, and captains a tugboat." |
 | Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose: One-hundred Best Loved Verses Product# 460766349 Selling for $13.95 "Presents a collection of nearly one hundred nursery rhymes, including 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' and other familiar poems, as well as 'Mary had a Pretty Bird' and other less familiar ones." |
 | Black Beauty Product# 460766370 Selling for $6.99 A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. |
 | Shadrach Product# 460766543 Selling for $5.95 "Even after Davie had had the little black rabbit, Shadrach, for several weeks, it was still almost unbelievable. Every morning when Davie woke up it was a miracle all over again-there in his grandfather's barn sat a wriggly black rabbit, and it was his. Davie had never been happier...until the day Shadrach slipped through the slats of his hutch and disappeared." |
 | Jo's Boys Product# 460767619 Selling for $4.99 "Ten years after the school at Plumfield was founded, there is now a college, built with a legacy from old Mr. Lawrence. All of Jo March's original children are grown young men and women now. But young men face as many troubles as children do, and they are still 'Jo's boys.'" |
| The Neverending Story Product# 460767624 Selling for $7.99 "Shy, awkward Bastian is amazed to discover that he has become a character in the mysterious book he is reading and that he has an important mission to fulfill." |
 | The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Product# 460767632 Selling for $7.95 "For more than two centuries, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe has delighted readers with its delicate portrayal of physical and emotional survival. Shipwrecked upon a deserted island, a sailor most somehow build a new life." |
| Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life Product# 460767635 Selling for $10 "The plot turns on Mary's romantic choice between Henry Carson, the son of a rich industrialist, and her working class lover Jem Wilson, and the rivalries between them. The class-divide and the widening gap between rich and poor are central themes in a novel originally named after Mary's father, John Barton." |
 | Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard Product# 460767669 Selling for $14 "First published in 1904, this book deals with Latin America. It offers a picture of an insurrectionary society and the opportunities it provides for moral corruption." |
| The Grapes of Wrath Product# 460767722 Selling for $16 Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression. |
 | The Shadow-Line Product# 460767919 Selling for $6.95 "On his first voyage in command, a young sea captain worries that he is somehow to blame for the fever that afflicts his crew and the windless skies which prevent the ship's progress" |
 | The Masterpiece Product# 460767923 Selling for $10.95 "The tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius." |
 | Miss or Mrs?, The Haunted Hotel, The Guilty River Product# 460767925 Selling for $13.95 "Wilkie Collins brought to the novella all the qualities for which his full-length fiction is renowned: gripping situations, an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and page-turning suspense. The fast-paced Miss or Mrs? (1871), with its extraordinary heroine, features attempted murder, blackmail, clandestine marriage, and commercial fraud. Eerie and psychologically absorbing, The Haunted Hotel (1878) is set in a modern hotel converted from an ancient Venetian palazzo that houses a grisly secret. The Guilty River (1886), one of Collins's most haunting tales, blends nostalgia and violence as two alienated men find themselves attracted to the same woman. All three novellas reflect the prevailing themes of Collins's later work: the exploration of legal aspects of marriage, his preoccupation with the figure of the Outsider in Victorian society, and the depiction of unconventional relationships. This edition sets Collins's novellas in the context of his literary career, and the late-Victorian reading public." |
| The Warden Product# 460767927 Selling for $9.95 "This book centres on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to the purposes of the foundation. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his reforming zeal to exposing what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he is in love with Mr. Harding's daughter Eleanor." |
| Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales Product# 460767929 Selling for $12.95 "Gathers twenty of Hawthorne's tales of Puritan New England dealing with superstition, guilt, moral pride, and the supernatural" |
 | Business Venture 1; Student's Book Product# 460768013 Selling for $17.75 "The new two-level edition of 'Business Venture contains a great deal of new and updated material while retaining many of the most popular features of the original course, including the carefully graded language practice, paced listening activities, and the Culture Files. The new editions of the 'Student Books have a wide range of authentic business settings and more dialogue practice, pair work, and information-gap activities. They also contain business board games for language practice. The 'Teacher's Books offer notes, ideas for extra activities, photocopiable activities and tests. The 'Workbooks, which include Answer Keys, contains supplementary practice activities. The 'Cassette contains listening passages for each unit and features a wide variety of international voices." |
 | Business Venture 1; Workbook Product# 460768014 Selling for $8.95 "The new two-level edition of 'Business Venture contains a great deal of new and updated material while retaining many of the most popular features of the original course, including the carefully graded language practice, paced listening activities, and the Culture Files. The new editions of the 'Student Books have a wide range of authentic business settings and more dialogue practice, pair work, and information-gap activities. They also contain business board games for language practice. The 'Teacher's Books offer notes, ideas for extra activities, photocopiable activities and tests. The 'Workbooks, which include Answer Keys, contains supplementary practice activities. The 'Cassette contains listening passages for each unit and features a wide variety of international voices." |
 | Business Venture 2; Student's Book Product# 460768016 Selling for $17.75 "The new two-level edition of 'Business Venture contains a great deal of new and updated material while retaining many of the most popular features of the original course, including the carefully graded language practice, paced listening activities, and the Culture Files. The new editions of the 'Student Books have a wide range of authentic business settings and more dialogue practice, pair work, and information-gap activities. They also contain business board games for language practice. The 'Teacher's Books offer notes, ideas for extra activities, photocopiable activities and tests. The 'Workbooks, which include Answer Keys, contains supplementary practice activities. The 'Cassette contains listening passages for each unit and features a wide variety of international voices." |
| Persians Product# 460768169 Selling for $12.95 "Based on the conviction that only translator who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals." |
 | Martin Rivas Product# 460768344 Selling for $38 "Widely acknowledged as the first Chilean novel, Martin Rivas (1862) by Alberto Blest Gana (1830-1920) is at once a passionate love story and an optimistic representation of Chilean nationhood. Written shortly after a decade of civil conflict, it is an indispensable source for understanding politics and society in nineteenth-century Chile." |