Mass Market Literature
Silas Marner (Signet Classic)
Signet Classics, March 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. After suffering betrayal and rejection, Silas Marner leaves his community to settle in a strange place. There the lonely weaver becomes obsessed with accumulating money, until one day a little golden-haired orphan girl wanders into his home... Set at the beginning of the..... More
Slow Learner
Bantam, June 1985. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 2nd printing thus. Mass market paperback with front cover design by Fred Marcellino. [199 pages]. More
Split Images (City Primeval)
Avon Books (Mm), October 1995. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Les Miserables (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, April 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. The classic novel--and hit Broadway show--about escaped convict Jean Valjean has been adapted with easy-to-read text, large type, and short chapters. This engaging adaptation of the timeless tale is ideal for reluctant readers and kids not yet ready to tackle the original. More
Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain (Bantam Classic)
Bantam Classics, April 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain's inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to..... More
Song of Solomon (Signet)
Signet, November 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. slight shelfwear and corner bumping; notable page yellowing; otherwise in very good condition. More
Animal Farm
Signet Classics, March 1996. Mass Market PaperBack. Since its publication fifty years ago, "Animal Farm" has become one of the most controversial books ever written. It has been translated into seventy languages and sold millions of copies throughout the world. This edition is being published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary..... More
Night
Bantam, April 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. "Night" -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as "The Diary..... More
The Awakening
Avon, November 1994. Mass Market PaperBack. First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, "The Awakening" has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a...... More
Persuasion
Signet Classics, February 2008. Mass Market PaperBack. Featuring one of her most likeable characters, this sparkling love story set in a seaside resort is Jane Austen's final finished work. "There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison." Since Anne Elliot..... More
The Count of Monte Cristo (Signet Classics)
Signet Classics, April 2005. Mass Market PaperBack. In his rousing adventure story, Alexandre Dumas employs all the elements of compelling drama--suspense, intrigue, love, vengeance, and the triumph of good over evil--that contribute to this classic novel's irresistible and timeless appeal. In the post-Napoleonic era, a young sailor from Marseilles is..... More
The Consolation of Philosoophy (Classics S.)
Penguin Classics, August 1976. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius was also an exceptional Greek scholar, and it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned when he fell from favor and was imprisoned in Pavia. Written in the period leading up..... More
Strangers on a Train (Penguin Crime Fiction)
Penguin, 1987. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Cover photograph by Paul Wakefield. [256 pages]. More
Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, May 1990. Trade Paperback. "Candide" is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is..... More
Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classic)
Bantam Classics, July 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. A masterpiece of modern literature that mirrors Maugham's own career. Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in..... More
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Anchor Books)
Doubleday Anchor, 1998. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. English novelist, poet, and essayist Graves, author of "I, Claudius" describes the break he made with his past in 1929. In chronicling his youth, World War I experiences, and years at Oxford, Graves gives parallel accounts of the end of his own innocence..... More
One Half of Robertson Davies
Penguin (Non-Classics), September 1978. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 8th mass market printing, 1988. Clean, sound with mild edgewear. [286 pages]. More
Billy Bathgate: A Novel
Harpercollins (Mm), October 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Down and Out in Paris and London
Harvest Books, March 1972. Trade Paperback. From the author of 1984, the classic semi-autobiographical story about the adventures of a penniless British writer in two cities. Down and Out in Paris and London follows the journey of a writer among the down-and-out in two great cities. Without self-pity and often..... More
The Squealer -112
Avon, 1946. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild user wear with rose red tinted textblock edges. [193 pages]. More
Down and Out in Paris and London
Harvest Books, March 1972. Trade Paperback. From the author of 1984, the classic semi-autobiographical story about the adventures of a penniless British writer in two cities. Down and Out in Paris and London follows the journey of a writer among the down-and-out in two great cities. Without self-pity and often..... More
The Member of the Wedding
Bantam, September 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. Out of the poignant loneliness of adolescence and the strange bond between black and white in the American South of the 1940s, Carson McCullers fashioned one of the most beautiful plays ever to appear on the Broadway stage. Already considered a classic of the..... More
Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics)
Signet Classics, January 2007. Mass Market PaperBack. From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. His cravings take him to Paris at age eighteen to try his hand at art, then back to London to..... More