American Classics

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Henry Adams
The Jeffersonian Transformation: Passages From The "History" (New York Review Books Classics)
A New York Review Books Original The ideal introduction and companion to Adams’s "massive and magisterial" history of the administrations of Jefferson and Madison, presenting an indelible picture of America’s startling rise to world power. Henry Adams’s nine-volume History of the United St...
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Stephen L. Dyson
Ancient Marbles to American Shores: Classical Archaeology in the United States (Anniversary Collection)
In Ancient Marbles to American Shores , Stephen L. Dyson uncovers the history of classical archaeology in the United States by exploring the people and programs that gave birth to archaeology as a discipline in this country. He puts aside the common formula of chronicling great digs, great discover...
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Herman Melville
Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Rockwell Kent (Top Five Classics)
“One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world.”  —D.H. Lawrence An enigmatic tale of the sea, whaling, and obsession,  Moby-Dick  echoes themes from the Bible and the works of Shakespeare in a uniquely American story that continues to fascinate and enthrall today. Spurned by ...
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Alejo Carpentier
Explosion in a Cathedral (Penguin Classics)
“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of Books One of Cuba’s—and Latin America’s—greatest histori...
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Jules Verne
Off on a Comet (Classics Illustrated)
Jules Verne's fantastic tale of a small group stranded in space on a comet! Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, providing an excellent introduction for younger readers. Also includes theme discussions and study questions. Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 – 1905) w...
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Aaron Shepard
The Magic Flyswatter: A Superhero Tale of Africa, Retold from the Mwindo Epic (Skyhook World Classics)
The storyteller stands beside the fire, swaying, dancing, miming, singing, reciting. With one hand he shakes a gourd rattle, with the other he swings a conga -- a flyswatter made with a buffalo tail on a wooden handle. Anklet bells tinkle as he moves. Three young men beat a wooden drum with sticks. ...
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Edgar Tristram Thompson
The Plantation (Southern Classics)
The first complete publication of an overlooked gem in American intellectual history A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, "The Plantation," broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system. Thompson refuted lon...
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John Bloxham
Ancient Greece and American Conservatism: Classical Influence on the Modern Right (Library of Classical Studies)
US conservatives have repeatedly turned to classical Greece for inspiration and rhetorical power. In the 1950s they used Plato to defend moral absolutism; in the 1960s it was Aristotle as a means to develop a uniquely conservative social science; and then Thucydides helped to justify a more assertiv...
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Edgar Allan Poe
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket: and Collected Writings (Smith & Taylor Classics, 8)
Engage with the timeless themes of Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel, beautifully captured in the Smith & Taylor Classics series. “My visions were of shipwreck and famine; of death or captivity among barbarian hordes; of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some gray and desolate rock, in...
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Louisa May Alcott
Little Women (Chartwell Classics)
A classic tale to share with the next generation, Little Women is a coming of age story of virtue and true love in nineteenth century America. A true classic, Little Women follows the lives of Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March, four spirited sisters living in Civil War era America . Join the Marc...
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Rosa Andújar
Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception)
The first comprehensive treatment in English of the rich and varied afterlife of classical drama across Latin America, this volume explores the myriad ways in which ancient Greek and Roman texts have been adapted, invoked and re-worked in notable modern theatrical works across North and South Americ...
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James T. Farrell
Studs Lonigan (Penguin Classics)
Collected here in one volume is James T. Farrell's renowned trilogy of the youth, early manhood, and death of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan , The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan , and Judgment Day . In this relentlessly naturalistic portrait, Studs starts out his life full of vigor and ambition, qu...
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ADLER
THE BATTLE OF THE CLASSICS
These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, what are these works really saying, and how persuasive do they prove? The Battle of the Classics demonstrates the crucial downsides of contemporary a...
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Ernest Hemingway
Men Without Women (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
“[Hemingway writes in a] language sheered to the bone, colloquial language expended with the utmost frugality; but it is continuous and the effect is one of continuously gathering power.” —New York Times Book Review Men Without Women (1927), Ernest Hemingway’s second collection of short st...
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Robert Baden-Powell
The Canadian Boy Scout (Legacy Edition): The First 1911 Handbook For Scouts In Canada (Library of American Outdoors Classics)
The Very First 1911 Version of the Canadian Boy Scout Handbook! This deluxe reprint Legacy Edition of Lord Robert Baden-Powell's The Canadian Boy Scout is the first 1911 version of the scout handbook for scouts in Canada. Full of knowledge and instruction on what it takes to be an effective scout ...
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Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
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Studs Terkel
My American Century
Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Studs Terkel's "greatest hits." Terkel's oral histories have been enjoyed by millions of Americans, and have earned him a Pulitzer Prize, induction into The American Academy of Arts and Letters, The National Humanities Medal, and The National Book Foundation Med...
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Kate Chopin
The Awakening (Legend Classics)
Part of the Legend Classics series, an American feminist classic “The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.” The Awakening follows Edna Pontellier, ...
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Dante Alighieri
Inferno (Word Cloud Classics)
On a divine journey through the depths of Hell, Dante--with his guide, the poet Virgil--witnesses the fate of Earth’s sinners. Inferno , a 14th century poem and the first part of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy , paints an allegorical underworld in which sinners are punished in accordance ...
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Henry David Thoreau
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Cactus Classics Large Print 16 Point Font): Resistance to Civil Government
ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE by Henry David Thoreau EDITION: Cactus Classics Large Print - 16 Point Font FONT: 16 point Garamond BOOK TRIM SIZE: 6" x 9" (15.2 cm x 22.9 cm) COVER: Glossy PAPER: Cream TABLE OF CONTENTS: Yes Cactus Classics has editions of this book in Stan...
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