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Random House Inc, May 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Random House Inc, May 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Signet Classics, January 2005. Mass Market PaperBack. This 19th-century author created some of the most colorful and haunting fiction of his century (Kirkus Reviews). This sampling by the comic genius includes The Nose and the celebrated novella Taras Bulba. Includes a new Afterword. Reissue. More
Penguin Classics, December 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Ballantine Books, August 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Pocket, February 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Bantam, January 1973. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Ballantine Books, March 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Vintage, September 1954. Mass Market PaperBack. Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in English in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward..... More
Pocket, January 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Warner Books, 1980-01-01. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin UK, January 1944. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Harvest Books, March 1977. Mass Market PaperBack. Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence and even has love affairs. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. More
Pocket, August 1986. Mass Market PaperBack. More
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
Bantam Classics, March 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. In partnership with the New York Public Library, Doubleday is proud to introduce a very special collector's series of literary masterpieces. Lavishly illustrated with rare archival material from the library's extensive resources, including the renowned Berg collection, these editions will bring the classics..... More
Berkley, April 1976. Mass Market PaperBack. A deluxe hardcover edition of the world's greatest fantasy classic--part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman Winner of the AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition T. H. White's masterful retelling..... More
Bantam, 1964. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Warner Books, October 1988. Mass Market PaperBack. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this specially packaged, popularly priced hardcover edition of an American classic (with more than 30 million copies sold) celebrates the 35th anniversary of its original publication. More
Vintage, February 1986. Mass Market PaperBack. More
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
Avon, August 1989. Mass Market PaperBack. One of the most beloved novels of our time, Richard Adams's "Watership Down" takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the fields, forests and riverbanks far beyond our cities and towns. It is a...... More
Pocket, August 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. Will Barrett (also the hero of Percy's The Last Gentleman) is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a mental hospital escapee making a new life for herself..... More
Signet Classic / Penguin, 1985. Mass Market PaperBack. 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an..... More
Bantam Books, May 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of Mr. Jarvis Lorry, an official of Tellson's Bank in London who accompanies Lucie Manette to Paris. He has information that her father, Dr. Alexandre Manette, who had disappeared eighteen years ago, is alive. He..... More
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
Signet Classics, February 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. Crime and Punishment (1866) is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of great physical and psychological tension, pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocation of St..... More
William Morrow & Company, September 2019. Mass Market PaperBack. Paul Tremblay's terrifying twist to the home invasion novel--inspiration for the upcoming major motion picture from Universal Pictures "Tremblay's personal best. It's that good." -- Stephen King Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin..... More
Lb May & Assoc Inc, September 1999. Trade Paperback. With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a...... More
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, February 2007. Trade Paperback. Selected and Introduced by M.J. Elliott. That is not dead that can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor..... More
Signet Classics, July 2012. Mass Market PaperBack. Henry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks: Walden and Civil Disobedience. In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial..... More
Pocket, June 1973. Mass Market PaperBack. Missing page before title page; else, binding intact. Cover wear. Good reading copy only. More
Penguin, 1945. Mass Market PaperBack. First gathering of pages starting to pull away at hinge; else, very good. Cover still bright. Stored in plastic bag for future preservation. More
Scribner Paper Fiction, September 1987. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Grove Press. Mass Market PaperBack. Covers a tad soiled and corners curled, but '70s photo image still bright and wonderful. More
Dell, July 2017. Mass Market PaperBack. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A high-stakes thrill ride through the darkest corners of the Sunshine State, from the author hailed as "the best thriller writer alive" by Ken Follett We expect our judges to be honest and wise. Their integrity is the..... More
Bantam Classics, January 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, Hard Times was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the cheerful celebration of Victorian life one might have expected from the beloved author..... More
Modern Library College Editions. Mass Market PaperBack. Cover reveals signficant wear. Text block clean [769 pages]. More
Avon, March 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. One bright spring day in 1925, Gabriela arrives from the poverty-stricken backwoods of Brazil to the lively seaside port of Ilheus amid a flock of filthy migrant workers. Though wearing rags and covered in dirt, she attracts the attention of Nacib, a cafe owner..... More
Vintage, April 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her elderly husband, to the small town of Sweet Water where they live, to the prairie land itself, and to..... More
Ivy Books, December 1992. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Picador, January 2012. Mass Market PaperBack. How does one talk about love? Is it even possible to describe something at once utterly mundane and wholly transcendent, that has the power to consume our lives completely, while making us feel part of something infinitely larger than ourselves? Taking a unique approach..... More
Scholastic, Inc., January 1989. Mass Market PaperBack. Another outstanding title in the acclaimed series described as "a CD-ROM between covers." White Fang was written as the companion book to Jack London's classic 1903 runaway bestseller "The Call of the Wild." Seen through the eyes of White Fang--who is half dog..... More
Scribner, June 1996. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Signet Classics, February 2000. Mass Market PaperBack. In 1896, at the age of forty-seven, Sarah Orne Jewett published this classic novel of a female writer looking for seclusion and inspiration in the coastal town of Dunnet Landing, Maine. Returning to the women and men of small New England towns for..... More
Penguin Books, January 1993. Mass Market PaperBack. Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), September 1993. Mass Market PaperBack. A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a...... More
Perennial, August 1942. Mass Market PaperBack. The stories and novels representing Stephen Crane's art at its finest. Includes "The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Monster, The Blue Hotel," and other short stories. More
Vintage, September 1957. Mass Market PaperBack. Introduction by John Bayley; Translation by Natalie Duddington. More
Fawcett Publication, 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. Crest Book R538. More
Bantam Classics, 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain's story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing subsequent generations of..... More
Bantam Classics, August 1997. Mass Market PaperBack. Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, " Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England..... More
bantam, 1964. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin Classics, January 1961. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin Classics, December 1975. Mass Market PaperBack. 'Stendhal always considered this his principal work, ' wrote Henri Martineau, 'because in it he had expressed his most cherished ideas, his most imtimate beliefs, all that science of happiness to which he attached so much importance, above all because he had enclosed..... More
Penguin Classics, August 1986. Mass Market PaperBack. The diversity of stories in this collection is great, their psychological depth and philosophical richness even greater. Chekhov (1860-1904) composed most of the stories in the 1890s, although 'The Fiancee, ' written at the same time as his dramatic masterpiece, "The Cherry Orchard..... More
Penguin Books, December 1979. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin Group USA Inc, December 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. More commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo's Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin Classics, 1983-06-30. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin Classics, January 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Living at a time of religious strife and the decline of the intellectual optimism that had begun in the Renaissance, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) expressed in his writings both a deep skepticism about human affairs and a wide-ranging intellectual curiosity reflective of..... More
Panther, January 1977. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Signet, July 2021. Mass Market PaperBack. Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. This Signet Classics edition of Passing includes an Introduction by Brit Bennett, the bestselling author of The Vanishing Half. Irene Redfield..... More
Pocket, November 1998. 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
Grove Press / Black Cat Book, 1981. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback 23rd printing, 1981. Edgeworn with internal marginal darkening & foxing/spots. [348 pages]. More
Grove Press, 1978. First Edition. Paper Back. Mass market paperback with darkened of front & rear cover verso. [147 pages]. More
Vintage, March 1983. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was..... More
Grove Press, January 1965. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass Market paperback. 4th printing. Sun tanned spine. Previous owner's name stamp inside verso of front cover & final page of text. Dust stains & darkened margins of cover front & rear. [279 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, USA, June 1980. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin American Library, December 1982. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with lightly bowed spine. [442 pages]. More
Lb May & Assoc Inc, April 1999. Trade Paperback. Edited with an Introduction, Chronology, Notes, Bibliography and Glossary by Roy Booth, Royal Holloway College, University of London. John Donne (1572-1631) is a poet of concerted emotional and intellectual force, whose strenuously original approach to the subject matter, diction and form..... More
Penguin Books, (1979). Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. [547 pages]. More
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
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
Signet, November 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. slight shelfwear and corner bumping; notable page yellowing; otherwise in very good condition. More
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
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
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
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
Penguin (Non-Classics), September 1978. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 8th mass market printing, 1988. Clean, sound with mild edgewear. [286 pages]. More
Harpercollins (Mm), October 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Avon, 1946. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild user wear with rose red tinted textblock edges. [193 pages]. More
Ace, January 1983. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Mild shelfwear and superficial vertical creasing of spine. First Ace edition, but later printing, that was originally published in hardback,1968 and paperback, 1976. Cover art and design by Barclay Shaw. [380 pages]. More
Penguin USA, September 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the tale of an ancient curse suddenly given a terrifying modern application. The grey towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor hold many secrets for Holmes and Watson to unravel. The detective is..... More
Ballantine Books, January 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Bantam, February 1983. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback reprint. Slightly bowed spine. More
Penguin, 1984. Paper Back. 12mo. with edgewear and dust stained edges. [214 pages plus eight pages of ads for Penguin books.]. More
Vintage/ Random House, October 1971. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. First Vintage paperback edition. Sun lightened spine. Darkening/tanning of internal pages. [510 pages + eighteen page list of Vintage titles.]. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1980. Mass Market PaperBack. To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light— these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been..... More
Vintage Books, January 1998. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), April 1977. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Bantam, October 1993. Mass Market PaperBack. More
McGraw-Hill Companies, July 1986. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Oxford University Press, September 1988. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Fawcett Crest, 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. Fawcett Crest Book R538; notable underlining and marginalia in ink throughout; pages yellowing, but good reading copy. More
Bantam Classics, July 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this..... More
Signet Classics, February 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. More