Jane. Austen

Ros Ballaster

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love. This edition also includes explanatory notes and textual variants between first and second edition. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Sense and Sensibility

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Pet and smoke free home. :)
No dust jacket.
Has illustrations. :)

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Nevada

The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.

Scott created these drawings in scratchboard ­ an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.

Sneaky pirates, sailing ships, buried treasure, exotic lands, and murderous mutiny: what could be better to win over even the most reluctant boy reader? Robert Louis Stevenson serves up thrills, chills, and plenty of action in this timeless, and much-admired adventure novel.


Treasure Island

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Mark. Twain

Indiana

Original Illustrations

The classic story of a mischievous nineteenth-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Don Daily

Name taped out on the front page, other than that the book is in excellent condition 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

Celebrate the holidays with this bestselling Christmas classic.

Adults as well as children look forward to attending an annual performance of The Nutcracker. To sweeten the anticipation and prolong the joy -- or just to establish a lovely tradition -- settle in with this charming retelling of a young girl's dreamy visit to the Land of the Sugarplum Fairy. The story is enhanced with magnificent color illustrations created especially for this edition by the late award-winning artist Don Daily. This high-quality, handsomely produced volume is destined to be a holiday favorite for years to come.


The Nutcracker

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SparkNotes

Florida

Reading & Language Arts

Much Ado about Nothing (No Fear Shakespeare)

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Mark Twain

Arkansas

A mischievous youth encounters a runaway slave and together they travel down the Mississippi in search of adventure

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Jane Austen

The book is in new condition. Little to no shelf wear. Never read it and has been sitting on my shelf. Please see pictures for more details. 

Jane Austen wrote the original draft of "Sense and Sensibility" around 1795 at the age of nineteen, and published it in 1811. This classic tale takes place in southwest England and follows the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, who are reduced to meager means when their father passes and entrusts his fortune to their half brother, John. Now available as part of the Word Cloud Classics series, "Sense and Sensibility," a story of love, romance, and heartache, is a must-have addition to the libraries of all classic literature lovers.

Sense and Sensibility (Barnes and Noble Signature Edition)

William Shakespeare

Ohio

Critical and historical notes accompany this comedy of fairies, star-crossed lovers, and workmen trying to put on a wedding celebration play

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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George MacDonald

Texas

The Princess and Curdie

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

South Carolina

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 

Carson McCullers

Maryland

A quiet, sensitive girl searches for beauty in a small, but damned Southern town.

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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Giovanni Boccaccio

Bawdy tales of pimps, cuckolds, lovers and clever women from the fourteenth-century Florentine masterpiece The Decameron.

Mrs Rosie and the Priest

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Jack. London

Oliver Ho

Arthur Pober

Abridged version retold from the Jack London original.

A dog named Buck gets kidnapped and made a sled dog. Will he be able to trust men again or fall back on his ancient canine instincts.


Montana

Retold from the Jack London original

Presents an abridged version of the tale of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.

Classic Starts®: the Call of the Wild

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Susan C. W. Abbotson

Student Companions to Classic Writers Series - Ex-library copy with typical internal stamps/markings

New Jersey

Guides the reader through the life and work, as well as eight major plays of one of America's foremost playwrights, Arthur Miller.

Student Companion to Arthur Miller

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Jane Austen and Her Times, 1775 - 1817

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Corner of spine on top is frayed, ripped up a bit. Binding loosening.

The World of Fairy Tales

Charles. Dickens

This engrossing tale relates Ebenezer Scrooge's ghostly journeys through Christmases past, present, and future and his ultimate transformation from a harsh and grasping old miser to a charitable and compassionate human being. A perennial classic that has become as much a part of the holiday season as holly, mistletoe, and evergreen wreaths.

A Christmas Carol

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#paperback #fiction #classics #rudyardkipling #india #asia #historicalfiction #historical

Arizona

Kim (1901) is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work, Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Our text is the 1901 first English edition, fully annotated for undergraduate readers and accompanied by maps of India and the Grand Trunk Road.

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Stefan R. Dziemianowicz

Robert H. Weinberg

Martin H. Greenberg

Missing dust jacket. Pages are intact and spine is good. Shelf wear on cover. 

Tennessee

Be afraid, be very afraid: really scary things can come in small packages, and these 100 frightening little tales offer big chills and thrills. They represent more than 150 year's worth of writing, and include the greats: H.P. Lovecraft ("The Terrible Old Man"), Ambrose Bierce ("The Stranger"), Lafcadio Hearn ("A Dead Secret"), Oscar Wilde ("The Sphinx Without a Secret"), and J. Sheridan Le Fanu ("The Ghost and the Bone-Setter"). Best of all, a variety of human emotions and behavior come to the fore, from avarice (August Derleth's "Pacific 421") to revenge (Thorp McCluskey's "Black Gold"), from jealousy (Steve Rasnic Tem's "Daddy") to honor (Edith Nesbit's "John Charrington's Wedding") to love (Darrell Schwietzer's "Clocks"). Using a minimum of elements, each ghost story in this collection will entertain, captivate, and evoke a powerful response in readers.
So be warned: you might not want to read these while you're all alone in the house...


100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories

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#paperback #fiction #poems #poetry #emilydickinson #americanpoetry #classic #classics #dickenson 

West Virginia

Poems

Though generally overlooked during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson's poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments in prosody, her tragic vision and the range of her emotional and intellectual explorations.

Final Harvest

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Chinua Achebe

New York

A Novel

The contemporary African writer's classic novel depicting the destruction of traditional tribal life by the white man

Things Fall Apart

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#hardcover #fiction #harperlee #classics #historicalfiction #homecoming #general #deckle 

An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her. Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee’s enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right.

Go Set a Watchman

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Classic adventure novel, set in the year 1751, centers around David Balfour, a young Scotsman orphaned by the death of his father. Betrayed by his uncle, the young hero is shanghaied and headed for bondage in the New World, until a swashbuckling highlander comes to his rescue. Stirring, suspenseful; considered by Stevenson his best fiction.

Kidnapped

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Edgar Poe

Pennsylvania

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic? includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader contend with Poe's allusions and complicated vocabulary.Edgar Allan Poe'his name conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, of love that extends beyond the grave, and of black ravens who utter only one word. The richness of Poe's writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death.Alive with hypnotic sounds and mesmerizing rhythms, his poetry captures both the splendor and devastation of love, life, and death. His stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and surprise endings. Living by their own rules and charged with passion, Poe's characters are instantly recognizable'even though we may be appalled by their actions, we understand their motivations.The thirty-three selections in The Best of Poe highlight his unique qualities. Discover for yourself the mysterious allure and genius of Edgar Allan Poe, who remains one of America's most popular and important authors, even more than 150 years after his death.

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Jane. Austen; Ros Ballaster

Sense and Sensibility

Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island

Mark. Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Don Daily

The Nutcracker

SparkNotes

Much Ado about Nothing (No Fear Shakespeare)

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility (Barnes and Noble Signature Edition)

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream

George MacDonald

The Princess and Curdie

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Carson McCullers

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Giovanni Boccaccio

Mrs Rosie and the Priest

Jack. London; Oliver Ho; Arthur Pober

Classic Starts®: the Call of the Wild

Susan C. W. Abbotson

Student Companion to Arthur Miller

G. E. Mitton

Jane Austen and Her Times, 1775 - 1817

Vladimir Kovarik

The World of Fairy Tales

Charles. Dickens

A Christmas Carol

Rudyard Kipling; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Cedric Watts (Editor, Introduction by)

Kim

Stefan R. Dziemianowicz; Robert H. Weinberg; Martin H. Greenberg

100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories

Thomas H. Johnson (Other); Emily Dickinson

Final Harvest

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

Harper Lee

Go Set a Watchman

Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped

Edgar Poe

The Best of Poe