William Shakespeare

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

Amid a backdrop of war, conspiracy, and murder, this historical play depicts the unpopular 13th-century monarch's struggles with the English nobility as well as foreign rivals for his throne.

King John

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Marilynne Robinson

This is one of the RNL books that comes with personalized comments and an invitation to a conversation. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Gilead

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Henry James

New Jersey

Strikingly modern in subject and narrative voice, this 1897 novel centers on a child's view of a bitter divorce. Rather than a gloomy parable of innocence corrupted, it abounds in dark humor.

What Maisie Knew

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Fathers and Children

James Joyce

James Joyce’s timeless collection of short stories. The last story The Dead is one of the best short stories maybe ever written. If when you finish this collection of stories and want to talk to someone who has read it, reach out and let’s chat.

Fifteen short stories evoke the character, atmosphere, and people of the Irish city of Dublin at the turn of the century

Dubliners

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Anna Sewell

Jane Smiley

Virginia

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

One of the best-loved animal adventures ever written

This Penguin Threads edition of Anna Sewell's moving novelBlack Beautyincludes a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe French flaps.

Commissioned by award-winning Penguin art director Paul Buckley, the Penguin Threads series debuts with cover art by Jillian Tamaki for three gift-worthy Penguin Classics. Sketched out in a traditional illustrative manner, then hand stitched using needle and thread, the final covers are sculpt embossed for a tactile, textured, and beautiful book design that will appeal to the Etsy(tm)-loving world of handmade crafts.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.

Black Beauty

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Eugene Stelzig

A Tragedy, Part I

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poetic drama Faust, A Tragedy is his best-known work and a classic of world literature. Stelzig's beautiful new translation shines new light on Faust's almost inexhaustible, mysterious, and enchanting poetic and cultural power.

Faust

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Charles Santore

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Tennessee

The Velveteen Rabbit (Kohl's Edition)

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Dante Alighieri

Peter Bondanella

Henry Longfellow

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

The first part of Dante's classic poem of faith follows the author with his guide Virgil through the circles of hell, describing the sinners and punishments witnessed there.

The Inferno

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Edith Wharton

Sophia Eck

Kentucky

Set among the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York, Edith Wharton’s most popular novel is a moving indictment of a society whose soul-crushing limitations destroy a woman too spirited to be contained by them. The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her drive and her spark of independent character prevent her from conforming sucessfully. Her desire for a comfortable life means that she will not marry for love without money, but her resistance to the rules of the social elite endangers her many marriage proposals and leads to a dramatic downward spiral into debt and dishonor. One of Edith Wharton’s most bracing and nuanced portraits of the life of women in a hostile, highly ordered world, The House of Mirth unfolds with the force of classical tragedy.

The House of Mirth

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John Gunther

Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of despair. This deeply moving book is a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy.

Death Be Not Proud

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Babbitt

Alexander Pushkin

Mikhaïl Lérmontov

Charles Johnston

Kyril FitzLyon

Narrative Poems

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H. G. Wells

North Carolina

Man can move easily enough in the three dimensions of space - why not the fourth: Time? An intriguing after-dinner conversation takes an unexpected turn when the host produces a small machine, which promptly disappears into thin air. It has been sent into the future, he says. Or maybe the past. As his skeptical guests try to fathom what they have seen, the host unveils a full-size machine, nearing completion. At a similar gathering one week later the host appears late, ghastly pale and badly disheveled. He has seen the future, witnessed the evolutionary path Man has taken. It is a world populated by the Eloi -- exquisite, frail, gentle creatures living in harmonious communes. They suggest to him a theory: that Nature has been tamed, violence eradicated -- even intelligence is redundant in this secure, comfortable future-world. It is a theory that soon needs revising. "Later," he tells his guests, "I was to appreciate how far it fell short of the reality." The dark vision of human destiny established H.G. Wells as the founding father of science fiction, long before that term became part of the literary lexicon. -- from publisher.

The Time Machine

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Tender is the Night 

A Portrait

Jonathan Swift

Mark Twain

Awesome Vintage classic paperback book. The fun turns to fright when Tom & his buddy Huck Finn witness a midnight murder. Great book with lot’s of pictorial illustrations. No dog ears and spine is tight. See all photos 

South Carolina

A Novel

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived.Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. Tom dirties his clothes in a fight and is made to whitewash the fence the next day as punishment. He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the privilege of doing his work. He then trades the treasures for Sunday School tickets which one normally receives for memorizing verses, redeeming them for a Bible, much to the surprise and bewilderment of the superintendent who thought "it was simply preposterous that this boy had warehoused two thousand sheaves of Scriptural wisdom on his premises—a dozen would strain his capacity, without a doubt."Tom falls in love with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get "engaged" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been "engaged" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Jules Vern

Londres, 2 octobre 1872. Comme tous les jours, Phileas Fogg se rend au Reform Club. En feuilletant le journal, il apprend qu'il est possible d'accomplir le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours. En effet, un article du Morning-Chronicle affirme qu’avec l’ouverture d’une nouvelle section de chemin de fer en Inde, il est désormais possible de faire le tour de la Terre en quatre-vingts jours

Around the World in 80 Days

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The Killer Angels

Wallace Stegner

Jackson J. Benson

Traces the lives and fortunes of four generations of one family as they attempt to build a life for themselves in the American West.

Angle of Repose

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Joseph. Conrad

HEART OF DARKNESS*AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS*KARAIN*YOUTHThe finest of all Conrad's tales, 'Heart of Darkness' is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his employer's agent, the renowned and formidable Mr Kurtz. What he sees on his journey, and his eventual encounter with Kurtz,horrify and perplex him, and call into question the very bases of civilization and human nature. Endlessly reinterpreted by critics and adapted for film, radio, and television, the story shows Conrad at his most intense and sophisticated.The other three tales in this volume depict corruption and obsession, and question racial assumptions. Set in the exotic surroundings of Africa, Malaysia. and the east, they variously appraise the glamour, folly, and rapacity of imperial adventure. This revised edition uses the English firstedition texts and has a new chronology and bibliography.

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