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Reducere. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume. Frederick Douglas...

Reducere. A new translation, with an Introduction, by Gregory Hays Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121-180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome ...

DescriptionA new edition of Kate Chopin's controversial masterpiece, an essential novel in the canon of early feminism--with an introduction by Car...

"I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me."--The Comedy of Errors Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fres...

Uncertain of their standing in court and fearing for their lives, Rosalind and Orlando are forced into exile in the Forest of Arden, only to become...

Reducere. Called a 'perfect novel' by Harold Bloom, Persuasion was written while Jane Austen was in failing health. She died soon after its completion, and i...

The dramatic concluding months of The Wars of the Roses provide the setting for Shakespeare's incomparable saga of power and intrigue. Under the ed...

One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter's Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jea...

"O mother, mother What have you done?"--Coriolanus Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of t...

Reducere. An extraordinary new verse translation of Dante's masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen Of the great poets, Dante is ...

Reducere. Prince Henry of Wales, also known as Prince Harry, is the second son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Princess Diana. After enduring the death of h...

Reducere. El Príncipe Enrique de Gales, también conocido como Príncipe Harry, es el segundo hijo de Carlos, Príncipe de Gales, y la Princesa Diana. Tras sufr...

Reducere. Introduction by Arthur C. ClarkeCommentary by Jules Verne and an anonymous reviewer from The Critic"No one would have believed in the last years of...

Reducere. Generally believed to be the last play written solely by Shakespeare, The Tempest centers on a banished noble who uses sorcery to confront his foes...

Reducere. Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul f...

Reducere. With his family s claim to the throne uncertain, Henry seeks to secure his position by turning the country s attention abroad. But when his outnumb...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William ShakespeareEditor: Jonathan BateEditor: Eric RasmussenSet in a courtly world of masked revels and dances, this play...

Reducere. G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselv...

Reducere. Written in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the earliest scientific romances. An instant sensation, it was meant as a commentary on Darwin'...

Reducere. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, ...

Reducere. Introduction by A. S. ByattIllustrations by John TennielIncludes commissioned endnotes Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to ente...

Reducere. Introduction by A. Walton Litz "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of t...

Reducere. This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter s...

Reducere. Introduction by Kaye Gibbons Edited and with notes by Nina Baym Commentary by Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Charlotte Perkins Gi...

Reducere. Introduction by George Bernard Shaw Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations--until h...

Reducere. Includes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of Reason (part one); Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, pu...

Reducere. Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern Englan...

Reducere. With his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the...

Reducere. The Sorrows of Young Werther, Paperback

Reducere. Introduction by Laurie R. King The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas HardyOne of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, ...

Racism is a problem deeply rooted in American society. Slavery and segregation may no longer be legal, but their legacies still influence the way B...

Reducere. Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. FallonJohn Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen an...

Contributor(s): Author: F. Scott FitzgeraldEdited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana Robinson Benediction - Head and Shoul...

DescriptionOne of Hardy's most powerful novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henc...

Collected fiction and essays by a pillar of the American feminist canon--with an introduction by Halle Butler, a National Book Award Foundation "5 ...

Reducere. Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's 'bestseller, ' and Tess Durbeyfield remains hi...

In The Lost World, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger--a character many critics consider one of the most finel...

Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and A...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both -monumental- (The Boston Globe) and -utterl...

Reducere. This harrowing tale of a young girl in the slums is a searing portrayal of turn-of-the-century New York, and Stephen Crane's most innovative work. ...

The unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women--with an introduction by Ti...

Reducere. Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller This Modern Library edition combines two of the most impor...

Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world"--the 1, 775 poems left unpublis...

Reducere. "The Moonstone is a page-turner, " writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several...

Reducere. Translated by Anthony EsolenIllustrations by Gustave Dore A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a substantive Int...

The classic novel that continues to haunt our understanding of ambition, love, entitlement, and the American Dream--with an exclusive discussion gu...

A historical romance with an activist heart, and an impassioned critique of U.S. expansionism--with an introduction by Ana Castillo, author of So F...

Reducere. DescriptionSet during World War I on an isolated country estate just outside London, Rebecca West's haunting novel The Return of the Soldier follow...

Reducere. Franklin's Autobiography is one of the most famous works in American literature. He started it as a private collection of anecdotes for his son, bu...

Reducere. In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct ...

Reducere. Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history,...

The story of an endearing, unlikely friendship set against the backdrop of a remote and beautiful Maine coastal town, The Country of the Pointed Fi...

"In The Confidence-Man, " writes John Bryant in his Introduction, "Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the ...

Reducere. DescriptionOft quoted but seldom credited, Charles Dudley Warner's My Summer in a Garden is a classic of American garden writing and was a seminal ...

In this extraordinary book, the controversial and profoundly influential Hans K ng chronicles the Roman Catholic Church's role as a world power thr...

Reducere. Introduction by Edward J. Larson Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific inquiry, The Origin of Species sold out...

Reducere. Alan Watts introduced millions of Western readers to Zen and other Eastern philosophies, but he s also recognized as a brilliant commentator on Jud...

Reducere. In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom...

In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of Inferno and thus introduced Dante's literary genius to the New Worl...

Written by one of the world's foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires--the Roman, th...

Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts's groundbreaking third book (originally publi...

Reducere. "The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea." --Henry VI Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmu...

Reducere. When philosophy rescued him from an emotional crisis, Jules Evans became fascinated by how ideas invented over two thousand years ago can help us t...

Reducere. A new translation by Adam Thorpe Gustave Flaubert once said of his heroine, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." In this acclaimed new translation, Adam Thorp...

Reducere. ``Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage, `` observed Ja...

Reducere. From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surprising and thought-provoking treatise on everythin...

Reducere. The influential masterpiece of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant--and neglected--science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King ...

Reducere. Winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation - The electrifying collected works of "one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets...

Reducere. Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection un...