American Classics

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Robert J. Mayhew
Debating Malthus: A Documentary Reader on Population, Resources, and the Environment (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics)
Introducing students to the place of population in environmental thinking For centuries, thinking about the earth's increasing human population has been tied to environmental ideas and political action. This highly teachable collection of contextualized primary sources allows students to follow Eu...
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S. P. Meek
Troyana, Illustrated Edition (Lost World-Lost Race Classics)
Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. S. P. Meek's "Troyana, Illustrated Edition" is the 27th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Troyana was a fantastic, scientific super city that had been lost to the rest of ...
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Lu Xun
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (Penguin Classics)
The acclaimed translation of the complete fiction of the father of modern Chinese literature   Lu Xun is one of the founding figures of modern Chiense literature. In the early twentieth century, as China came up against the realities of the modern world, Lu Xun effected a shift in Chinese letters...
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary and Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft & Matilda by Mary Shelley (Penguin Classics)
These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein - are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary, t...
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Jen Silverman
The Moors (Modern Classics)
“ There is great imagination and intrigue here, and it is eminently entertaining. ” - The Guardian Backdropped by the bleak English moors, two sisters (and their dog) live a dreary existence, as they dream of forbidden love and power. So, when a hapless governess and a moor-hen arrive at their...
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S.S. Van Dine
The "Canary" Murder Case (Library of Congress Crime Classics)
At the height if his popularity, S.S. Vane Dine pens a locked-room mystery with a lethal dose of sex and sin where infamous actress, "The Canary," is murdered in her cage after a passionate night with her lover. Margaret Odell, the famous Broadway beauty and ex-Follies girl known as "The Canary", is...
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Edgar Allan Poe
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Penguin Classics)
Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, ...
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Jules Verne
Jules Verne (Leather-bound Classics)
Get cozy with the classics! Jules Verne collects some of the author’s best-known works in a beautiful keepsake volume. 2013 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Finalist in Gift Books Legendary science fiction and adventure author Jules Verne is remembered for his fascinating stories of trav...
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L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Flame Tree Collectable Classics)
Gorgeous collectable edition of L. Frank Baum’s enduring and magical classic. Also features The Scarecrow of Oz and The Tin Woodman of Oz. Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features de...
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Bernard
Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Bernard of Clairvaux (Vintage Spiritual Classics)
Bernard of Clairvaux, the twelfth-century monk who wrote that "Jesus is honey in the mouth, melody in the ear, a cry of joy in the heart," was both a mystic and a reformer. His writings reveal a mystical theology that Thomas Merton, a monastic heir to Bernard’s Cistercian reform, says "explains wh...
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Saul Bellow
Dangling Man (Penguin Classics)
An essential masterwork by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow—now with an introduction by J. M. Coetzee A Penguin Classic   Expecting to be inducted into the army to fight in World War II, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups ...
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Edith Wharton
Summer (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts Berkshires, Edith Wharton called Summer her 'hot Ethan.' In their rural settings and their poor, uneducated protagonists, Summer and Ethan Frome represent a sharp departure from W...
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Edgar Allan Poe
The Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘True! Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them.’This ultimate collection of the infamous aut...
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Jalal al-Din Rumi
The Masnavi, Book One (Oxford World's Classics)
Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called "the Koran in Persian." The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi composed his work for the benefit of his disciples in the Sufi order named after him, better known as the whirling dervishes. In order t...
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Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality (Paperback))
The interest in Mexican Hieronimite nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) is reaching extraordinary new levels. She has been the subject of plays, a feature film, scholarly conferences, books and articles. Nobel Laureate, poet Octavio Paz, has called her one of the great poets of the Spanish l...
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Johann David Wyss
The Swiss Family Robinson (Abridged edition): Abridged Edition (Puffin Classics)
Following a wild and raging storm, the Swiss family Robinson are stranded at sea. But the thundering waves have swept them off to a tropical island, where a new life awaits them. Their ship is laden with supplies and the island is packed with treasures, so they soon adapt and discover new dangers an...
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George K. Tanham
Communist Revolutionary Warfare: From the Vietminh to the Viet Cong (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)
This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era was among the first major published analyses by an American expert on the insurgency in Indochina. In addition to tracing the Chinese influence on the Vietminh cadres and the French military response...
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Philip A. Fisher
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings (Wiley Investment Classics)
Widely respected and admired, Philip Fisher is among the most influential investors of all time. His investment philosophies, introduced almost forty years ago, are not only studied and applied by today's financiers and investors, but are also regarded by many as gospel. This book is invaluable read...
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Andrew T Draper
Christian Mission and Poverty: Wisdom from 2,000 Years of Church Leaders (Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics)
Christianity is the faith of the poor. As Christians, we worship the Lord Jesus Christ, who “though he was rich, yet for your sake became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich” (2 Cor 8:9). This same Jesus taught his followers that the kingdom of heaven belongs to “you who are poo...
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Robert W Chambers
The Harbor-Master: Best Weird Stories of Robert W. Chambers (Classics of Gothic Horror)
This volume presents the best weird fiction of the American writer Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933). Chambers attained celebrity for the enigmatic volume The King in Yellow (1895), and this book reprints several of the most notable tales from that collection, as well as such later volumes as The Ma...
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