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English

Nine years ago, W. W. Norton changed the way world literature is taught by introducing The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition.

Norton Anthology of World Literature

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E. M. Forster

Pankaj Mishra

Texas

When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterly portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world.

Penguin Classics Passage to India

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H. Melville

Missing dust jacket. Cover has some spots and marks and tape residue on the spine, and on the inside of the back cover. Text block is on excellent shape so still perfectly readable. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Colorado

Moby Dick

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Charlotte Brontë

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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.

Jane Eyre

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William Shakespeare

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

In Richard III, Shakespeare invites us on a moral holiday. The play draws us to identify with Richard and his fantasy of total control of self and domination of others. Not yet king at the start of the play, Richard presents himself as an enterprising villain as he successfully plans to dispose of his brother Clarence. Richard achieves similar success in conquering the woman he chooses to marry. He carves a way to the throne through assassination and executions. The authoritative edition of Richard III from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is now available as an ebook. Features include: · The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference · Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation · 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 · Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books · An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

Richard III

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very minor notes made on pages! what’s shown in pictures is all there is. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Norton Anthology of World Literature

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John Steinbeck

“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.” Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security.... A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man's nature, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love.

The Pearl

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West Virginia

Good Taste

Has some mild cover wear and tear. Also has pencil underlining in the introduction, but the rest of the text is unmarked. 

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The novel, which is fully annotated, is followed by the two canceled chapters that comprise Persuasion's original ending.



"Backgrounds and Contexts" collects contemporary assessments of Jane Austen as well as materials relating to social issues of the period.



Included are an excerpt from William Hayley's 1785 "Essay on Old Maids"; Austen's letters to Fanny Knight, which reveal her skepticism about marriage as the key to happiness; Henry Austen's memorial tribute to his famous sister; assessments by nineteenth-century critics Julia Kavanagh and Goldwin Smith, who saw Austen as an unassuming, sheltered, "feminine," rural writer; and the perspective of Austen's biographer Geraldine Edith Mitten.



"Modern Critical Views" reflects a dramatic shift in the way that twentieth-century scholars view both Austen and Persuasion. Increasingly, the focus is on Austen's moral purposefulness and political acumen and on Persuasion's historical, social, and political implications.



A variety of perspectives are provided by A. Walton Litz, Marilyn Butler, Tony Tanner, Robert Hopkins, Ann W. Astell, Claudia L. Johnson, and Cheryl Ann Weissman.



A Selected Bibliography is also included.

Persuasion

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Readable but worn, has a dark stain on the back. 

Vintage Paperback 1961

The Jungle Books 

Louisa Alcott

Has no writings or markings on the book
Slight scratches on the front

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

North Dakota

This recently discovered novel was written by Alcott when she was only 17 & tells a rags-to-riches story of an orphan named Edith Adelon.

The Inheritance

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California

Hard Times

Nicole R. Rice

New York

Winner of the Medieval Academy of America's 2013 John Nicholas Brown Prize!

Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature

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Maryland

Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its title character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. In its internalisation of the action — the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry — Jane Eyre revolutionised the art of fiction. Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and Proust. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, but is nonetheless a novel many consider ahead of its time given the individualistic character of Jane and the novel's exploration of classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism.

Vintage 1963 edition. Modern english.  Readable vintage condition. Has lots of marks, scuffs, dings, and some writing on the pages, but isn't falling apart or fragile.  #paperback #chaucer #classics #canterburytales #vintagebook #1960s #vintagepaperback #academia #allegory #englishlit 

Vintage paperback

The Canterbury Tales

Massachusetts

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Beowulf Basic Readings

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1963 edition. Has a lot of cover wear, particularly on the back. Still sturdy and perfectly readable! 

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Vintage Paperback

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Of all Dickens's novels, David Copperfield most fervently embraces the comic delights, the tender warmth, the tragic horrors of childhood. It is our classic tale of growing up, an enchanting story of a gently orphan discovering life and love in an indifferent adult world. Persecuted by his wrathful stepfather, Mr. Murdstone; deceived by his boyhood idol, the callous, charming Steerforth; driven into mortal combat with the sniveling clerk Uriah Heep; and hurled, pell-mell, into a blizzard of infatuation with the adorably dim-witted Dora, he survives the worst--and the best--with inimitable style, his bafflement tuming to self-awareness and his unbridles young heart growing ever more disciplined and true.

Of this richly autobiographical novel Dickens himself wrote, "like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield."

David Copperfield

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Margaret Drabble

Very faint foxing on book ledge 

Oxford University Press, 2006, 1172 pages

The Oxford Companion to English Literature first published in 1932, edited by the retired diplomat Sir Paul Harvey (1869–1948), was the earliest of the Oxford Companions to appear. It is currently in its seventh edition (2009), edited by Dinah Birch. The work, which has been periodically updated, includes biographies of prominent historical and leading contemporary writers in the English language, entries on major works, "allusions which may be encountered", significant (serial) publications and literary clubs. Writers in other languages are included when they have affected the anglophone world. The Companion achieved "classic status" with the expanded fifth edition edited by novelist and scholar Margaret Drabble,[1] and the book was often referred to as "The Drabble".[2]

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Sixth Edition, Revised

"This text has now been revised again to incorporate the latest developments, for instance the current success of children's and crossover literature, such as that of J. K. Rowling and Philip Pullman. However, the Companion also remains faithful to Sir Paul Harvey's original vision of an authoritative work placing English literature in its widest context. No other volume offers such extensive exploration of the classical roots of English literature and the European authors and works that influenced its development." "The appendices have also been updated: the winners of the major literary awards, and the chronology - spanning a thousand years of English literature from Beowulf to Small Island. Informed by the latest scholarly thinking, and comprehensively cross-referenced to guide the reader to topics of related interest, the revised 6th edition reaffirms the pre-eminence of the Companion as the best available single-volume guide to English literature."--BOOK JACKET.

The Oxford Companion to English Literature

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Color fading on book jacket
Small tears in book jacket along folds 

Oxford University Press, 1967, 961 pages 

The Oxford Companion to English Literature first published in 1932, edited by the retired diplomat Sir Paul Harvey (1869–1948), was the earliest of the Oxford Companions to appear. It is currently in its seventh edition (2009), edited by Dinah Birch. The work, which has been periodically updated, includes biographies of prominent historical and leading contemporary writers in the English language, entries on major works, "allusions which may be encountered", significant (serial) publications and literary clubs. Writers in other languages are included when they have affected the anglophone world. The Companion achieved "classic status" with the expanded fifth edition edited by novelist and scholar Margaret Drabble,[1] and the book was often referred to as "The Drabble".[2]

Fourth Edition 

The Oxford Companion to English Dictionary 

Volume D, The Romantic Period. Norton Anthology Collection, good for school projects. #paperback #englishlit #classics #educational #romanticperiod 

Illinois

The Romantic Period

Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies--thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible--The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature

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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Ohio

The Oxford companion to English literature

Great condition overall, has some extra glue and a mark on the first page, and some marks on the bottom edge, but otherwise seems barely read. 

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Now in Penguin Classics Deluxe: a treasure trove of Jane Austen's novels Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Here in one volume are her seven great novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, Austen vividly portrays English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close and the nineteenth century began. Each of the novels is a love story and a story about marriage—marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. But they are not romances; ironic, comic, and wise, they are masterly evocations of the society Jane Austen observed. This beautiful volume covers the literary career of one of England’s finest prose stylists of any century. • A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with French flaps and luxurious packaging • Features the definitive Penguin Classics texts recommended by the Jane Austen Society • New introduction by bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club Karen Joy Fowler 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.

The Complete Novels

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Norton Anthology of World Literature

E. M. Forster; Pankaj Mishra

Penguin Classics Passage to India

H. Melville

Moby Dick

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre

William Shakespeare

Richard III

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The Norton Anthology of World Literature

John Steinbeck

The Pearl

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Good Taste

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Persuasion

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The Jungle Books

Louisa Alcott

The Inheritance

Charles Dickens

Hard Times

Nicole R. Rice

Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature

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Jane Eyre

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The Canterbury Tales

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Beowulf Basic Readings

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The Canterbury Tales

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