American Classics

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Jeffrey H. Richards
Early American Drama (Penguin Classics)
This unique volume includes eight early dramas that mirror American literary, social, and cultural history: Royall Tylers  The Contrast  (1789); William Dunlap's Andre  (1798); James Nelson Barker's  The Indian Princess  (1808); Robert Montgomery Bird's  The Gladiator  (1831); William Henry S...
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Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Introduction by Barbara Taylor (Everyman's Library Classics Series)
Presented here in a stunning hardcover edition with an introduction by Barbara Taylor, this first great manifesto of women’s rights, published in 1792 and an immediate best seller, made Mary Wollstonecraft the toast of radical circles and the target of reactionary ones. Writing just after the Fr...
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Ivan Turgenev
First Love & Spring Torrents (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
“No one writes better about unrequited love.” —The Paris Review “Turgenev to me is the greatest writer there ever was.” —Ernest Hemingway First Love tells the story of Vladimir Petrovich, a sixteen-year-old Russian student, who becomes captivated by the enchanting twenty-one-year-old P...
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William James
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study In Human Nature (Routledge Classics)
'Is life worth living? Yes, a thousand times yes when the world still holds such spirits as Professor James.' - Gertrude Stein A classic of American thought, William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience is an extraordinary study of human spirituality in all its forms and one of the mos...
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John Muir
My First Summer in the Sierra (Warbler Classics)
My First Summer in the Sierra is perhaps the most lyrical, joyous, and engaging of all John Muir’s many works. In the summer of 1869 Muir took work as a sheepherder in order to explore the headwaters of the Merced and Tuolomne Rivers. Keeping notes in the form of a diary, Muir describes his fello...
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Dorothy Parker
Enough Rope (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
On its publication in 1926, Enough Rope —Dorothy Parker’s debut collection of poems—was an instant bestseller and established her as the wittiest woman in America. Full of cynical humor, lighthearted wisecracks, and hilarious satire, her poems mercilessly skewer sentimentality and provide rap...
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Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady (Oxford World's Classics)
Henry James is one of the giants of American literary history. From the novella "Daisy Miller" and classic short stories such as "The Turn of the Screw" to the popular short novel Washington Square and intricately woven and highly complex later novels such as The Golden Bowl and The Ambassadors...
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Howard Pyle
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Word Cloud Classics)
Don your Lincoln green and prepare for merriment! What could be merrier than joining Robin Hood's band of Merry Men for adventures in the English countryside? Pirates of the trees rather than the seas, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, and many others ensure that Robin's clever schemes reliev...
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Robert D. San Souci
Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella Tale
Blessed Mary rewards Teresa's good deeds with a shining gold star. Later she punishes Teresa's unkind stepsisters, Isabel and Inez, with hideous horns and donkey's ears that they try to hide under heavy veils! But will Teresa outshine her stepsisters at the festival? Robert D. San Souci retells this...
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Henry James
The Ambassadors (Oxford World's Classics)
The second of James's three late masterpieces, was, in its author's opinion, "the best, all round, of my productions". Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferre...
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Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man (Oxford World's Classics)
Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the `masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidèle is `the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most `modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history. About the Series: For over ...
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Elisabeth Tooker
Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands: Sacred Myths, Dreams, Visions, Speeches, Healing Formulas, Rituals and Ceremonials (
"For sheer publishing courage and imagination, what can surpass...The Classics of Western Spirituality™." Publishers Weekly "...of fundamental importance to any student or scholar interested in the development and dimensions of the religious ideas and experiences of man." Mircea Eliade Native Nort...
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Joseph Conrad
Nostromo (Oxford World's Classics)
One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo reenacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. In the harbor town of Sulaco, a vivid cast of characters is caught up in a civil war to decide whether its fa...
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André Gide
The Counterfeiters (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
This Warbler Classics edition includes: an essay on Gide by literary scholar Germaine Brée and - a detailed biographical timeline. Andre Gide’s The Counterfeiters explores complex moral and philosophical questions about personal freedom, identity, authenticity, moral responsibility, and the pur...
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Kristin Nicholas
Knitting the New Classics: 60 Exquisite Sweaters from Classic Elite Yarns
Created by the author and 10 other top American knitwear designers from Classic Elite Yarns, these 60 fabulous sweaters are classics that will remain in style for years because they feature colors and textures that are fashionable but not faddish. There are projects for both experienced and novice k...
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Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
“There was no real literature of our Civil War ... until Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage. ” —Ernest Hemingway An instant international bestseller when first published in 1895, Stephen Crane’s fictional narrative recounts one soldier’s experiences during the American Civil W...
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Marianne Moore
Selected Letters (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Marianne Moore's correspondence makes up the largest and most broadly significant collection of any modern poet. It documents the first two-thirds of this century, reflecting shifts from Victorian to modernist culture, the experience of the two world wars, the Depression and postwar prosperity, and ...
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's Classics: Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence
Ethan Frome is a classic novella written by Edith Wharton. The book is set in a fictional town in New England and is told in the form of an extended flashback. The action centers around the title character, his wife Zeena, and her cousin Mattie who lives with them. What will happen when Ethan starts...
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Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence: A Edith Wharton Classics (The Original 1920 Edition)
• The Greatest Classics of All Time • “The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!” ― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially ser...
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Edward L. Bernays
Propaganda (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Propaganda, the seminal 1928 book by Edward L. Bernays, stands as a foundational text in understanding the mechanisms of public persuasion and manipulation. Bernays delves into the art and science of influencing public opinion, drawing from his extensive experience in the field of public relations....
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