Category: Classic Literature

Aesop's Fables (Signet Classics)

By: Aesop

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Signet Classics : October 2004

Seller ID: 164195

ISBN-13: 9780451529534

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

This exclusive Signet Classic edition contains 203 of Aesop's most enduring and popular fables, translated into readable, modern American English and beautifully illustrated with classic woodcuts by the great French artist J. J. Grandville. It is both amazing and wonderful that so much of the richness of our language and our moral education still owes a huge debt to a Greek slave who was executed more than two thousand years ago. Yet "sour grapes," "crying 'wolf, '" "actions speak louder than words," "honesty is the best policy," and literally hundreds of other metaphors, axioms, and ideas tha...
View More...

James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / A Death in the Family / shorter fiction (LOA #159) (Library of America James Agee Edition)

By: Agee, James

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Library of America : September 2005

Seller ID: 166948

ISBN-13: 9781931082815

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A passionate literary innovator, eloquent in language and uncompromising in his social observation and his pursuit of emotional truth, James Agee (1909-1955) excelled as novelist, critic, journalist, and screenwriter. In his brief, often turbulent life, he left enduring evidence of his unwavering intensity, observant eye, and sometimes savage wit. This Library of America volume collects his fiction along with his extraordinary experiment in what might be called prophetic journalism, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), a collaboration with photographer Walker Evans that began as an assignment...
View More...

Little Women (Painted Edition) (Harper Muse Classics: Painted Editions)

By: Alcott, Louisa May

Price: $34.99

Publisher: Harper Muse : November 2022

Seller ID: 188203

ISBN-13: 9780785294801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Little Women; Little Men; Jo's Boys; Eight Cousins; Jack and Jill; and, Under the Lilacs; 6 Volume Set of the Junior Deluxe Edition

By: Alcott, Louisa May

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Nelson Doubleday : January 1955

Seller ID: 188280

ISBN: B00HRC8K4C

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Divine Comedy, Part 2: Purgatory (Penguin Classics) (v. 2)

By: Alighieri, Dante

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : January 1970

Seller ID: 188240

ISBN-13: 9780140440461

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The second volume of Dante's Divine Comedy Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through the first seven levels, Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise, and through these encounters he is himself transformed into a stronger and better man. For it is only when he has learned from each of these levels that he can ascend to the gateway to Heaven: the Garden...
View More...

The Divine Comedy, Part 3: Paradise (Penguin Classics)

By: Alighieri, Dante

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : July 1962

Seller ID: 188245

ISBN-13: 9780140441055

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The third volume of Dante's Divine ComedyTo the consternation of his more academic admirers, who believed Latin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. Taking two threads of a story that everybody knew and loved - the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, and the story of the lover who has to brave the Underworld to find his lost lady - he combined them into a great allegory of the soul's search for God. He made it swift, exciting and topical, lavishing upon it all his learning...
View More...

Zorro: A Novel

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harper : May 2005

Seller ID: 188604

ISBN-13: 9780060778972

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so wellBorn in southern California late in the eighteenth century, he is a child of two worlds. Diego de la Vega's father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego learns from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, the ways of her tribe while receiving from his father lessons in the art of fencing and in cattle branding. It is here, during Diego's childhood, filled with mischief and adventure, that he witnesses the brutal inj...
View More...

Lucky Jim

By: AMIS, KINGSLEY

Price: $3.75

Publisher: Penguin Group USA Inc : September 1993

Seller ID: 32110

ISBN-13: 9780140186307

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In his send-up of the academic world, the author poked fun at the British way of life, and gave post-war fiction a new and enduring figure to laugh at.
View More...

Henry and June: From 'A Journal of Love' -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)

By: Anais Nin

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Harvest Books : October 1990

Seller ID: 186402

ISBN-13: 9780156400572

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin's life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller
View More...

Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Clarke

By: ANDREWS, RAYMOND

Price: $2.99

Publisher: Peachtree Pub Ltd : May 1994

Seller ID: 32108

ISBN-13: 9781561450909

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Remains of Old Latin, Volume II, Livius Andronicus. Naevius. (Loeb Classical Library No. 314)

By: Andronicus, Livius,Naevius,,Pacuvius,,Accius,

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : January 1936

Seller ID: 146216

ISBN-13: 9780674993471

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Loeb edition of early Latin writings is in four volumes. The first three contain the extant work of seven poets and surviving portions of the Twelve Tables of Roman law. The fourth volume contains inscriptions on various materials (including coins), all written before 79 BCE.Volume I. Q. Ennius (239-169) of Rudiae (Rugge), author of a great epic (Annales), tragedies and other plays, and satire and other works; Caecilius Statius (ca. 220-ca. 166), a Celt probably of Mediolanum (Milano) in N. Italy, author of comedies.Volume II. L. Livius Andronicus (ca. 284-204) of Tarentum (Taranto), autho...
View More...

The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)

By: Anonymous

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : May 1990

Seller ID: 158424

ISBN-13: 9780140445329

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

On 15 August 778, Charlemagne's army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant epic poem in French. The Song of Roland, written by an unknown poet, tells of Charlemagne's warrior nephew, Lord of the Breton Marches, who valiantly leads his men into battle against the Saracens, but dies in the massacre, defiant to the end. In majestic verses, the battle becomes a symbolic struggle between Christianity and paganism, while Rola...
View More...

Beowulf

By: Anonymous,

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Borders Group Inc. : January 2007

Seller ID: 188537

ISBN-13: 9781587264801

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Persuasion (The Novels of Jane Austen in Ten Volumes)

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent and Company : 1892

Seller ID: 183988

ISBN: 281ALV1002677

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Pride and Prejudice (Everyman's Library)

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Everyman's Library : October 1991

Seller ID: 174932

ISBN-13: 9780679405429

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it--and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet. And everyone is held fast not only by the novel's romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by the author's wit and feeling but by her subtle o...
View More...

Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : January 2003

Seller ID: 186331

ISBN-13: 9780141439518

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Austen's most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadFew have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen's beloved classic Pride and Prejudice. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved siste...
View More...

Persuasion: The Complete Novel, Featuring the Characters' Letters and Papers, Written and Folded by Hand

By: Austen, Jane,Heller, Barbara

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Chronicle Books : October 2022

Seller ID: 186648

ISBN-13: 9781797216850

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Image for Pride and Prejudice: The Complete Novel, with Nineteen Letters from the Characters' Correspondence, Written and Folded by Hand (Classic Novels x Chronicle Books)

Pride and Prejudice: The Complete Novel, with Nineteen Letters from the Characters' Correspondence, Written and Folded by Hand (Classic Novels x Chronicle Books)

By: Austen, Jane,Heller, Barbara

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Chronicle Books : September 2020

Seller ID: 188636

ISBN-13: 9781452184579

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This deluxe edition brings to life the letters exchanged among Jane Austen's characters in Pride and Prejudice. Glassine pockets placed throughout the book contain removable replicas of 19 letters from the story. These powerful epistles include Lydia's announcement of her elopement, Mr. Collins's obsequious missives, and of course Darcy's painfully honest letter to Elizabeth. - Nothing captures Jane Austen's vivid emotion and keen wit better than her characters' correspondence.- Each letter is re-created with gorgeous calligraphy.- Letters are hand-folded with painstaking attention to historic...
View More...

The Fountainhead (Student Edition)

By: Ayn Rand

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Signet : January 1993

Seller ID: 179797

ISBN-13: 9780451231000

Binding: Mass

Condition: Used - Good

Another Country

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Vintage : February 1993

Seller ID: 154517

ISBN-13: 9780679744719

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime.

Brilliantly and fiercely told. --The New York Times

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
View More...

$0.00 (0 Items)

Category: Classic Literature