Harold Frederic

Paperback in good condition. Text lightly lined in pencil in some places. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

" A young pastor plunges into a moral decline after encounters with a priest, an atheist, and an aesthete. This classic of 19th century American realism offers a revelatory look at small-town life and an innocent's seduction by strange new ideas. Gripping storytelling and keen characterizations recapture the era's religious, scientific, philosophical, and sexual anxieties"--

The Damnation of Theron Ware

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Edith Wharton

Vintage paperback, in good condition. Clean, unmarked pages. Bantam Classics. 1986. 

An immensely popular bestseller upon its publication in 1905, The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton's first great novel. Set among the elegant brownstones of New York City and opulent country houses like gracious Bellomont on the Hudson, the novel creates a satiric portrayal of what Wharton herself called "a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers" with a precision comparable to that of Proust. And her brilliant and complex characterization of the doomed Lily Bart, whose stunning beauty and dependence on marriage for economic survival reduce her to a decorative object, becomes an incisive commentary on the nature and status of women in that society. From her tragic attraction to bachelor lawyer Lawrence Selden to her desperate relationship with social-climbing Rosedale, Lily is all too much a product of the world indicated by the title, a phrase taken from Ecclesiastes- "The heart of fools is in the house of mirth." For it is Lily's very specialness that threatens the elegance and fulfillment she seeks in life. Along with the author's other masterpiece, The Age of Innocence, this novel claims a place among the finest American novels of manners.

The House of Mirth

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Charles Dickens

Vintage paperback. Good condition. Clean unmarked pages. World’s Classics, Oxford, 1989.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Oliver Twist

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Charles. Dickens

Vintage paperback in very good condition. Clean, unmarked pages. Tight binding. World’s Classics, Oxford, 1988 edition.

Dickens' second historical novel, which he considered "the best story I have written," provides a highly-charged examination of human suffering and human sacrifice. Private experience and public history paralled one another as the political activities and personal responsibilities of these
fictional characters, during the French Revolution, draw them into the Paris of the Terror.

A Tale of Two Cities

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Paperback in good condition. Clean, unmarked pages. Some creases on cover. Oxford World’s Classics. 1988. 

In these five short novels, written for Christmases between 1845 and 1848 (with no book in 1847), Dickens is at his most characteristic. Included are A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CHIMES, THE HAUNTED MAN, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, and THE BATTLE OF LIFE. This edition is based on the 1868 Charles Dickens Edition, corrected by the author.

Christmas Books

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Vintage paperback in good condition. Clean, unmarked pages. Folger Library General Reader’s Shakespeare. Pocket Library edition, 1957. Edited by Louis B. Wright.

The Tragedy of King Lear

William Shakespeare

Paperback in good condition. Some pages lightly lined. 1975 edition; published. 1985.

"King Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and purblind Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear's failure as a father engulfs himself and his world in turmoil and tragedy." "Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary, pronunciation, and prosody and provides alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations give readers all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations. Raffel provides an introductory essay, and in a concluding essay Harold Bloom examines Lear, who, though possessed of Jobean dignity, is rather unlike Job, since Lear so determinedly brings about his own suffering."--BOOK JACKET.

King Lear

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Paperback in very good condition. Clean, unmarked pages. 1970 edition. Edited by R. C. Bald.

Folger Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Scene-by-scene plot summaries A key to famous lines and phrases An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language An essay by leading Shakespeare scholar, Christy Desmet, providing a modern perspective on the play Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs.

Measure for Measure

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Paperback in very good condition. Pages clean and unmarked. Spine tight. 1985 edition. Edited by Willard Farnham.

The core of the ground-breaking, three text edition, this self-contained, free-standing volume gives readers the Second Quarto text (1604-5) and includes in its Introduction, notes and Appendices all the reader might expect to find in any standard Arden edition. As well as a full, illustrated Introduction to the play's historical, cultural and performance contexts and a thorough survey of critical approaches to the play, an appendix contains the additional passages found only in the 1623 text. "The new Arden Hamlet is a pathbreaking edition, one that promises to change irrevocably our understanding of Shakespeare's greatest play." - Professor James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

Hamlet

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Stephen Orgel

Paperback in very good condition. Unmarked, clean pages. 

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is faced by a ghost bearing a grim message of murder and revenge, driving the prince to the edge of madness by his struggle to understand the situation and to do his duty.

Very good vintage paperback. Clean, unmarked pages. Anchor Books, 1962. 

The Liberal Papers

Very good vintage paperback. Clean, unmarked pages. Anchor Books, 1964. 

Introduction by Representative Melvin R. Laird

The Conservative Papers

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In very good condition. Clean, unmarked pages. Includes the novels This Side of Paradise and Flappers and Philosophers.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Selected Works

For the first time ever, this influential and important novelist's phenomenally successful bestseller and his intriguing collection of stories appear together in one volume. This Side of Paradise is the great novel of moral education and sexual awakening. Flappers and Philosophers is the acclaimed collection of eight stories that include "Bernice Bobs Her Hair."

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Some pages have handwritten notations. Published 1961. Prentice-Hall. English Masterpieces series.

Renaissance Poetry

Vintage Riverside edition B31. Some handwritten notes in margins. Appears to be a teacher’s copy.

Moll Flanders

Wallace Stevens

Frank Kermode

Very good hardback edition. Clean, unmarked pages. Tight spine.

Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose (LOA #96)

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Robert Frost

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged

This is the only comprehensive volume of Robert Frost's published verse; in it are the contents of all eleven of his individual books of poetry-from A Boy's Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962). The editor, Edward Connery Lathem, has scrupulously annotated the more than 350 poems in this book.

The Poetry of Robert Frost

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Has some writing/underlining on some pages. Otherwise, a nice copy with tight binding and cover. Bantam Classic, 1982

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

Purgatorio 

Dante

Good condition. Has some writing/underlining on a few pages. Otherwise, a good clean copy with tight binding and good cover. Bantam Classic, 1986

A dual language edition of the third and final part of Dante's "Divine Comedy," the fourteenth-century story of a man who endures the torment of hell and purgatory in his quest to reach paradise.

Paradiso

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Jane Austen

In very good used condition. Sticker covering barcode on back. Spine tight; appears to be unread copy.

Discover Jane Austen's most beloved classic.

When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so when Darcy's friend, the affable Mr Bingley, forms an attachment to Jane, Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid. Polite society will be turned upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry and love - Jane Austen's classic romance novel.

**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

Pride and Prejudice

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John Steinbeck

Very good condition. Penguin paperback edition. Clean, unmarked pages. Spine unbent and binding tight.

Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression

The Grapes of Wrath

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Ernest Hemingway

Excellent condition. Clean unmarked, pages. 1986 edition published by Collier Books, MacMillan Publishing Co.

Story of an old fisherman's struggle against natural obstacles that hinder the catch of a huge marlin.

The Old Man and the Sea

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Hardcover, with dust jacket, published by Random House Book-of-the-Month, First Printing, 1962. Dust jacket has some chipping and the back has a tear that is repaired with tape. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Binding and spine are tight. 
Card catalogue number: 62-10335

A Reminiscense

The Reivers

Mary W. Shelley

Bram Stoker

Robert Louis Stevenson

Stephen King

Three dark novels of the nineteenth century, presented together with an introduction by Stephen King. Signet classic edition. Frankenstein, Dracula, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Introduction by Stephen King

Three horror icons come together in one indispensable tome-with an introduction by Stephen King.

"Within the pages of this volume you will come upon three of the darkest creations of English nineteenth-century literature; three of the darkest in all of English and American literature, many would say...and not without justification...These three creatures, presented together for the first time, all have a great deal in common beyond their power to go on frightening generation after generation of readers...but that fact alone should be considered before all others."-From the Introduction by Stephen King

A diabolical, bloodthirsty Count draws an unsuspecting young man into a world of terrors. A scientist oversteps the bounds of conscience and brings to life a tortured creation. A man of medicine explores his darker side only to fall prey to it. These three legendary tales have held readers spellbound for more than a century.

The titles alone-Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-have become synonymous with horror. They are part of a universal language that serves to put a monster's face on the good-and-evil duality of our very human nature. Inventive and subversive, these classic tales of terror can shake even the modern reader with something far more profound than fear....

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