The Power and the Glory
Penguin (Non-Classics), July 1977. Mass Market PaperBack. More
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Mansfield Park
Penguin Classics, January 1999. Mass Market PaperBack. Features Fanny Price, a girl from a poor family brought up in a splendid country house and possessed of a vast reserve of moral fortitude and imperturbability. As is. Marked USN on the top of the print block. More
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Penguin USA, January 1985. Mass Market PaperBack. The tale of a youth whose features, year after year, retain the same appearance of innocent beauty while the shame of his abhorrent vices becomes mirrored on the features of his portrait. More
Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
Bantam Classic & Loveswept, February 1983. Mass Market PaperBack. Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of..... More
Hamlet (Bantam Classic)
Bantam Classics, June 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is considered the jewel in the crown of a triumphant theatrical career. Now Kenneth Branagh plays the leading role and co-directs a brillant ensemble..... More
Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 6)
Ace, February 1996. Mass Market PaperBack. Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres..... More
The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition))
Vintage, November 2008. Mass Market PaperBack. NATIONAL BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE WINNER National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York..... More
Virtue of Selfishness : A New Concept of Egoism
New Amer Library, July 1989. Mass Market PaperBack. A collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's controversial, groundbreaking philosophy. Since their initial publication, Rand's fictional works--Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged--have had a major impact on the intellectual scene. The underlying theme of her..... More
Lord of the Flies
Perigee Trade, June 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. When "Lord of the Flies" appeared in 1954 it received unprecedented reviews for a first novel. Critics used such phrases as "beautifully writeen, tragic and provocative... vivid and enthralling... this beautiful and desperate book... completely convincing and often very frightening... its progress is..... More
A Streetcar Named Desire
Signet, August 1989. Mass Market PaperBack. "A Streetcar Named Desire" is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche DuBois, the haggard and fragile southern beauty whose pathetic last grasp at happiness is cruelly destroyed. It shot Marlon Brandon..... More
Neoplatonic Philosophy: Introductory Readings
Hackett Publishing Company, March 2004. Trade Paperback. The most comprehensive collection of Neoplatonic writings available in English, this volume provides translations of the central texts of four major figures of the Neoplatonic tradition: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus. The general Introduction gives an overview of the period and takes a...... More
Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
Penguin (Non-Classics), March 1988. Trade Paperback. Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While..... More
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Vintage, October 2010. Trade Paperback. A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist. Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side..... More
The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics)
Oxford University Press, USA, July 1998. Trade Paperback. This revised translation of Aristotle's classic treatise contains all ten books of his vastly influential work of moral philosophy. Founded on the famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates taking the middle course between excess and deficiency, the book offers an..... More
Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War
Da Capo Press, May 1999. Trade Paperback. Shortly after withdrawing from World War I, Russia descended into a bitter civil war unprecedented for its savagery: epidemics, battles, mass executions, forced labor, and famine claimed millions of lives. From 1918 to 1921, through great cities and tiny villages, across untouched forests..... More
Count Zero
Ace Trade, March 2006. Trade Paperback. A stylish, street smart, frighteningly probable parable of the future from the visionary, New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency. A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission..... More
The Art of Travel
Vintage, May 2004. Trade Paperback. Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the..... More
Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
Penguin (Non-Classics), May 2004. Trade Paperback. The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as "flawless," Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious..... More
The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 2002. Trade Paperback. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, "The Grapes of Wrath" is also the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west..... More
Ethics (Revised)
Wordsworth Editions, March 2001. Trade Paperback. Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after..... More
Better Chess for Average Players
Dover Publications, April 1996. Trade Paperback. Designed for the typical amateur player who wants to improve his or her chess skills, this clear, straightforward guide provides the extra knowledge and technique that turns a losing player into a winner. 384 diagrams. More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Oxford World's Classics)
Oxford University Press, June 2008. Trade Paperback. The Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, the March Hare, and of course Alice--the characters of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are familiar to readers around the world. This new paperback edition features the original illustrations by John Tenniel--plus informative annotations..... More
The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides I (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
University Of Chicago Press, February 1955. Trade Paperback. In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries..... More
Fool's Paradise
Vintage, April 1988. Trade Paperback. More
The Pathfinders: The Saga of Exploration in Southern Africa
Penguin Books, October 1987. Trade Paperback. More
