John Steinbeck

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean, and read by thousands as the book that brought Oprah’s Book Club back, East of Eden has remained vitally present in American culture for over half a century. This Centennial edition, specially designed to commemorate one hundred years of Steinbeck, features french flaps and deckle-edged pages. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 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 translato

East of Eden

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Robert DeMott

Condition is good, but there is a LOT of highlighting, writing in margins, and sticky notes highlighting important passages 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read A Penguin Classic First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Robert Demott. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 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.

The Grapes of Wrath

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This book has all of the lessons of the Kama Sutra and beautiful pictures on sleek glossy pages. The cover is a red satin -like material and there’s a canvas cover that goes over the book. It’s brand new and hasn’t been read. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

KAMA SUTRA

all of Shakespeare's work in its entirety. 

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Maryland

The Complete Works of Shakespeare 

The Complete Pelican Shakespeare 

Vladimir Nabokov

New Mexico

A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him

Lolita

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

North Dakota

A Treasury of American  Literature/ A Treasury of The Familiar.

No highlighting or underlining found. #theory #literature

English

The Romantic Aesthetics of Individuation

As interest in aesthetic experience evolved in the eighteenth century, discussions of the sublime located two opposed accounts of its place and use. Ferguson traces these two positions - the Burkean empiricist account and the Kantian formalist one - to argue that they had significance of aesthetics, including recent deconstructive and New Historicist criticism.

Solitude and the Sublime

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Jo Ray McCuen-Metherell

Anthony C. Winkler

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

READINGS FOR WRITERS is the preeminent rhetorical reader for the freshman composition course. This bestseller continues its tradition of providing comprehensive coverage of the writing and research process, while also offering a wide variety of appealing readings. With more than 70 selections from a broad range of topics and genres, this text offers something to spark excitement in any writer. This edition has been updated to reflect guidelines from the 2016 MLA HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Readings for Writers, 2016 MLA Update

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569 pages. 9 illustrations, plus color charts. 5 1/2” x 8 1/4” x 1 3/4”
RARE. Antique. 
Published by Harper in Brothers, 1885.
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English literature history with n￼otes from 1745 through 1880s.

Brown fabric cover imprinted with gold lettering. Bottom and top of spine aged. Sewn binding still tight. Overall VG. ￼

Connecticut

Containing outlines of the literature of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, comedy, and the United States of America, with historical scientific and art notes

Popular manual of English Literature 

In like new condition barely used EXCEPT some writing on first 12 pages of Student manual

Oregon

Reading & Language Arts

Student Guide, Teacher Guide, Textbook

Poetry and Short Stories Memoria Press

Teachers Edition, book one and two with test packet and answer key.

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Arkansas

Teachers book one and two

British Literature Teacher Book Set Grd 12 2nd Edition (2 Books)

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Gilbert H. Muller

Approaching a liberal arts tradition in the classroom, across the curriculum, and beyond, The McGraw-Hill Reader offers rich and diverse readings in education, the social sciences, business and economics, the humanities, and the sciences. This new eleventh edition offers a new focus on reading and composing across various media; it includes over 100 selections from prominent thinkers and writers; each essay was chosen to provoke critical thought and encourage effective writing.

The Mcgraw-Hill Reader: Issues Across the Disciplines

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Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction

Ranging from the panoramic novels of Dickens to the horror of Dracula, Gail Turley Houston examines the ways in which the language and imagery of economics, commerce and banking are transformed in Victorian Gothic fiction, and traces literary and uncanny elements in economic writings of the period. Houston shows how banking crises were often linked with ghosts or inexplicable non-human forces and financial panic was figured through Gothic or supernatural means. In Little Dorrit and Villette characters are literally haunted by money, while the unnameable intimations of Dracula and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are represented alongside realist economic concerns. Houston pays particular attention to the term 'panic' as it moved between its double uses as a banking term and a defining emotion in sensational and Gothic fiction. This stimulating interdisciplinary book reveals that the worlds of Victorian economics and Gothic fiction, seemingly separate, actually complemented and enriched each other.

From Dickens to Dracula

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Joseph. Conrad

Virginia

A Tale

This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero.

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.

Lord Jim

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Book Four 
786 Pages 
Discoloration/Wear 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Texas

History

Book Four Greenlaw-Miles 

Literature And Life 

Mary Pat Brady

Jackson Bryer

Paul Lauter

Richard Yarborough

John Alberti

Louisiana

Contemporary Period (1945 to the Present), Volume E

Unrivaled diversity and ease of use have made THE HEATH ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: VOLUME E: CONTEMPORARY PERIOD (1945 TO THE PRESENT), 6th Edition a best-selling text since 1989, when the first edition was published. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature, THE HEATH ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: VOLUME E: CONTEMPORARY PERIOD (1945 TO THE PRESENT), 6th Edition continues to balance the traditional, leading names in American literature with lesser-known writers and to build upon the anthology's other strengths: its apparatus and its ancillaries. Available in five volumes for greater flexibility, the 6th Edition offers thematic clusters to stimulate classroom discussions and showcase the treatment of important topics across the genres.

The Heath Anthology of American Literature

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David Damrosch

Haruo Shirane

Pauline Yu

David Pike

April Alliston

Marshall Brown

Sabry Hafez

Djelal Kadir

Sheldon Pollock

Bruce Robbins

Jane Tylus

The Medieval Era

The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume B offers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the medieval era.

The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume B

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Basically a new book, only read a couple times. No markings

The Early Modern Period, Volume C

The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume C offers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the early modern period.

The Longman Anthology of World Literature

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Explore the world of knowledge with this vintage book from Grolier. Published in 1963, "The Book of Knowledge" is a hardcover encyclopedia filled with valuable information about history, science, literature and much more. The pages are written in English, making it accessible to a wide range of readers.


This book is a perfect addition to any collector's library or a great gift for those interested in expanding their knowledge. Its antiquarian and collectible nature makes it a unique find for anyone searching for a special piece to add to their collection.

Fantastic condition for its age. Can ship immediately

Pennsylvania

The Book Of Knowledge 1963

Gibreel Farishta, India's legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices, fall earthward from a bombed jet toward the sea, singing rival verses in an eternal wrestling match between good and evil

The Satanic Verses

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King-Kok Cheung

Jackson R. Bryer

Charles Molesworth

Iowa

Contemporary Periods - 1945 to the Present

Kelly J. Mays

Missouri

The Norton Introduction to Literature

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This book is in  excellent condition, has no pen markings or highlighting in the pages. The dust jacket has some wear due to the age of the book as you can see in the pictures.

Modern library 

Les Miserables

Dianne Donnelly

This book explores the effectiveness of the writing workshop in the Creative Writing classroom, searching beyond the question of whether or not the workshop works to consider alternative pedagogical models. The needs of a growing and diverse student population are central to the contributors' consideration of non-normative pedagogies. This book is a must-read for all teachers of Creative Writing.

Does the Writing Workshop Still Work?

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