American Classics

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Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom. "Truly an American odyssey. . . . It ne...
$15.19
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James Villas
Crazy for Casseroles: 275 All-American Hot-Dish Classics
Filled with advice on preparing authentic, regional American dishes, this collection of casserole recipes from the American heartland features advice on preparing one-dish meals using meat, poultry, seafood, and vegetables. Villas, who was food and wine editor of Town & Country for almost 30 years, ...
$27.71
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Robert Kellogg
The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures--as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives an...
$16.83
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Theodore Dreiser
The Financier (Penguin Classics)
A master of gritty naturalism, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the American dream in The Financier . Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and ...
$17.55
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Don McGregor
Black Panther (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection)
The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.   A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition   Collects Fantastic Four #52-...
$26.10
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Lucretius
The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics)
The acclaimed translation of the classic poem at the heart of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve “A plague . . . tests us in unique ways. . . . Only if you can face the invisible bullets all around us, and still keep calm, remain rational, and somehow find it possible to take pleasure in life, ...
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Sinclair Lewis
DODSWORTH Sinclair Lewis: A Satirical Exploration of An American Couple's European Journey in 1920s - Collectible Classic
Sinclair Lewis delivers a masterful critique of the American Dream, blending humor, sharp social commentary, and poignant introspection into this timeless novel “Dodsworth”. "He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; an...
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Art Institute of Chicago
Color the Classics: The Art Institute of Chicago: (Adult Coloring Book)
Color Your Own Masterpiece! Color the Classics lets you put your own creative spin on 30 masterpieces—including Grant Wood's American Gothic and Claude Monet's Water Lilies—from the Art Institute of Chicago's vast collection. Replicate the classics or add your own creative flair to masterpieces...
$12.40
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Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book (Signet Classics)
“Exceptional talent….I am one of his most ardent admirers. I admired Mr. Irving’s work so much, in fact, that I gave it the ultimate praise; I ‘borrowed it.’”—Edgar Allan Poe Sage, storyteller, and wit, Washington Irving created such staples of American fiction as the stories “Rip ...
$6.50
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Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: (Dual-Language Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Brilliant English translation of  beloved poems by Pablo Neruda, who is the subject of the film Neruda starring Gael García Bernal and directed by Pablo Larraín  A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with French flaps First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada r...
$13.98
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John Muir
Our National Parks (Legacy Edition): Historic Explorations Of Priceless American Treasures (The Doublebit John Muir Collection)
John Muir's Journal of Explorations of America's Greatest Natural Treasures This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of John Muir's 1901 Our National Parks is a celebration of American outdoors heritage and the legacy that the American national parks system seeks to preserve. In this journa...
$32.99
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Aaron Sanchez
La Comida del Barrio: Latin-American Cooking in the U.S.A.
In this groundbreaking cookbook, chef Aarón Sanchez explores the delicious food and exciting culture of the barrios—the vibrant Latin-American neighborhoods from Miami’s Little Havana and New York’s Spanish Harlem to San Francisco’s Mission, and the entire United States in between. These ri...
$30.50
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David Wong Louie
Pangs of Love and Other Writings (Classics of Asian American Literature)
An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an imperial game of baseball. A young woman tries to imagine a future unsullied by her family’s history ...
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Neville Morley
Thucydides and the Idea of History (New Directions in Classics)
From the eighteenth century onwards, the ancient Greek writer Thucydides (c 460 - c 395 BCE) was viewed as the most important classical historian. He was acclaimed not only as a vital source for reconstructing antiquity but as a purveyor of timeless political wisdom. His name is almost inescapable i...
$120.00
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Victor Hugo
Les Miserables: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
The first new Penguin Classics translation in forty years of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, the subject of The Novel of the Century by David Bellos—published in a stunning Deluxe edition. Winner of the French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation’s 29th Annual Translation Prize in Fic...
$25.00
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Apuleius
The Golden Ass: Or, A Book of Changes (Hackett Classics)
Relihan uses alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, to create a sparkling, luxurious, and readable translation that reproduces something of the linguistic and comic effects of the original Latin. The gener...
$14.00
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Lindsay Gibb
National Treasure: Nicolas Cage (5) (Pop Classics)
A celebration of Nicolas Cage — the man and the meme Nicolas Cage: leading man or character actor? Action hero or goofball comedian? Internet joke or one of the greatest actors of his generation? Beyond the gif bait and easy punchline, Nicolas Cage continually frustrates easy categorization or ...
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Mark Twain
Great Short Works of Mark Twain: Classic 19th Century American Literature – Essential Humor, Essays, and Stories (Perennial Classics)
Selected short works of humor and criticism by a revered American master Beloved by millions, Mark Twain is the quintessential American writer. More than anyone else, his blend of skepticism, caustic wit and sharp prose defines a certain American mythos. While his novel The Adventures of Huckleberr...
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Eileen Chang
Naked Earth (NYRB Classics)
An NYRB Classics Original Set in the early years of Mao’s China, Naked Earth is the story of two earnest young people confronting the grim realities of revolutionary change. Liu Ch’üan and Su Nan meet in the countryside after volunteering to assist in the new land reform program. Eager to bu...
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Daniel J. Tortora
Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763
In this engaging history, Daniel J. Tortora explores how the Anglo-Cherokee War reshaped the political and cultural landscape of the colonial South. Tortora chronicles the series of clashes that erupted from 1758 to 1761 between Cherokees, settlers, and British troops. The conflict, no insignificant...
$37.49
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