F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Texas

The Great Gatsby

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Washington. Irving

Perry Miller

A compilation of Washington Irving's stories, essays, and travelogues includes "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

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Why The North Won The Civil War

Short History of the Civil War

Voltaire

Donald M. Frame

Voltaire, France’s most distinguished man of letters, derided the bureaucracies of his day with savage contempt and entertained readers, creating exotic panoramas in his satirical stories, sixteen of which are presented in this volume. This indispensable collection features the author’s masterpiece, Candide.Candide parodies the classic, romantic coming-of-age story, with the naÏve, ever-optimistic title character confronting the evils of the real world. His forbidden love of a baron’s daughter causes Candide to be evicted from his home and sheltered life into a desolate 16th-century Europe--where the strong prey on the weak and misery abounds in the heart of humanity. With Candide and the other stories in this collection, the master of social commentary dissects science and spiritual faith, ethics and legal systems, love and human vanity.Candide * Zadig * Micromegas * The World as It Is * Memnon * Bababec and the Fakirs * History of Scarmentado’s Travels * Plato’s Dream * Account of the Sickness, Confession, Death, and Apparition of the Jesuit Berthier * Story of a Good Brahman * Jeannot and Colin * An Indian Adventure * Ingenuous * The One-Eyed Porter * Memory’s Adventure * Count Chesterfield’s Ears and Chaplain Goudman

Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories

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Herman. Melville

Denham Sutcliffe

For this Sesquicentennial Norton Critical Edition, the Northwestern-Newberry text of Moby-Dick has been generously footnoted to include dozens of biographical discoveries, mainly from Hershel Parker's work on his two-volume biography of Melville.

Moby Dick

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Leo Tolstoi

Maude Aylmer

J. D. Duff

David Magarshack

Family Happiness; the Kreutzer Sonata; Master and Man

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

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Jane Jacobs

Principles of Economic Life

In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported goods with locally-produced alternatives, spurring a cycle of vibrant economic growth. Intelligently argued and drawing on examples from around the world and across the ages, here Jacobs radically changes the way we view our cities—and our entire economy.

Cities and the Wealth of Nations

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J. D. Salinger

The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.

The Catcher in the Rye

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Henry D. Thoreau

Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Leo Marx

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Set in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Massachusetts, this tale of an adulterous entanglement resulting in an illegitimate birth engendered the first true heroine of American fiction.

The Scarlet Letter

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William Shakespeare

David L. Stevenson

Modern editions of a popular and trusted series.

Much Ado about Nothing

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Anton Chekov

Ronald Wilks

Used college textbook with markings and highlighting.

Ten classic short stories by the master Russian author explore the daily lives of peasants and the interrelationships of men and women.

The Kiss and Other Stories

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Charlotte Bronte

A Victorian governess's love for her mysterious employer is threatened by the tragic secret of his mansion

Jane Eyre

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Robert Langbaum

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts

The Tempest

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Joseph Bryant

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart)

The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged.

Each volume features:
* Authoritative, reliable texts
* High quality introductions and notes
* New, more readable trade trim size
* An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts

Romeo and Juliet

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Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction to this volume, "It is hard to think of a major novelist or storyteller who is not also a first-rate entertainer ... a master, according to choice, of high comedy, of one or another robust species of expressive humour, or of some special variety of the preposterous, the grotesque, the absurd. And Melville, certainly, is no exception. A kind of vigorous supervisory humour is his natural idiom as a writer, and one particular attraction of his shorter work is the fresh further display it offers of this prime element in his literary character."

Great Short Works of Herman Melville

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François Villon

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Little Testament and Ballads

Book of Francois Villon

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Mark Eccles

Richard III

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Julius Caesar

James Agee

Agee's portrayal of the sweetness of day-to-day familial relations are powerful and poignant. His masterfully drawn characters take on a haunting reality in this vivid recreation of life -- and sudden death.

A Death in the Family

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R. P. Blackmur

Tells the stories of witches, a lynching, a vision, an attempt to create the perfect woman, forbidden experiments, secrets, and dreams

The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories

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Anatoly Rybakov

The Arbat was the intellectual and artistic center of Moscow. It was there that they lived: a group of young friends who represented a generation, one that would live through the darkest period in Soviet history--when Stalin came into power and ruled his country through fear.

Children of the Arbat

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Ernest Hemingway

In Our Time

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