Classics
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Small Fry and Other Stories
Universally acclaimed as the master of the short-story form, Anton Chekhov began his literary career as the author of brief tales and vignettes of Russian life when he was still a young medical student. Later rejected by the writer in the same self-effacing way...- $ 400.00
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Snow Country
Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante...- $ 350.00
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Song of Solomon
The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author. Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest...- $ 350.00
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Sons and Lovers
As the sensitive and delicate Gertrude begins to shrink from her drunken and violent husband, their marriage becomes a battleground. Gertrude turns increasingly towards her two eldest sons, William and Paul, and determines that they will not grow up to be coal miners living...- $ 250.00
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Speedboat
A brilliant, genre-defying novel that captures the disorienting speed and fragmentation of modern life. First published in 1976 and hailed as a cult classic, the book follows Jen Fain, a sharp, perceptive journalist living in New York City, as she navigates the shifting landscapes...- $ 300.00
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Spring Snow
The Sea of Fertility #1. It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders—rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political...- $ 400.00
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
One of Stevenson’s most famous and enduringly popular works, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde describes the mysterious relationship between a respectable and affable doctor and his brutal associate. Set in the grimy streets of Victorian London, this tale of murder, split...- $ 300.00
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Sula
Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom, a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma's girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond...- $ 350.00
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Tales of Horror
A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved...- $ 260.00
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Tales of Terror and Mystery
A fully annotated collection of spooky tales from the master writer behind Sherlock Holmes. While he is now mostly associated with his Sherlock Holmes stories, the prolific Arthur Conan Doyle was also celebrated for the many masterful tales he wrote outside of that cycle....- $ 300.00
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Tales of Twilight and the Unseen
A master of many literary genres, Arthur Conan Doyle excelled particularly in the short-story form, and was acclaimed in his day as much for his detective stories as for his thrilling tales of mystery and the supernatural. While the adventures of Sherlock Holmes have...- $ 400.00
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Tales of Unrest
These five stories were collected and published as Tales of Unrest in 1898, shortly before Heart of Darkness, the first of Conrad's major novels. Ranging from the faraway and unfamiliar, where the acquisitiveness of colonial adventure is damningly exposed, to an ostensibly ordinary London...- $ 200.00
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Tar Baby
A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner. Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black...- $ 350.00
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d'Urbervilles, as she believes that she is also descended from their ancient Norman lineage and that they can rescue her family from indigence. Unfortunately she is taken under...- $ 300.00
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The Adventures of Augie March
As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this novel by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Augie, the exuberant narrator-hero, is a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Deptression. A “born recruit,” Augie makes himself available for...- $ 400.00
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Tom Sawyer, Detective
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer charts the escapades of a thirteen-year-old boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi. Testing the patience of his aunt Polly, the bold and sharp-witted Tom Sawyer frequently skips school in search of excitement, and the scrapes he...- $ 280.00
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The Age of Innocence
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society.Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when...- $ 300.00
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The Age of Innocence
The intelligent and charming Newland Archer – a member of one of New York's most prominent families – is living the life that has always been expected of him: he is engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland and understands the rarefied world...- $ 300.00
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The Annotated Great Gatsby
100th Anniversary Celebration: A richly illustrated deluxe edition of the American classic, with illuminating commentary by a preeminent Fitzgerald scholar. Drawn from the authoritative Library of America edition of Fitzgerald’s writings, this deluxe edition features: - A new introduction by Amor Towles, bestselling author...- $ 700.00
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The Assistant
Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when...- $ 400.00
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The Awakening
Over one long, languid summer Edna Pontellier, fettered by marriage and motherhood, becomes acquainted with Robert Lebrun. As the days shorten and the temperature drops Edna succumbs to Robert's devotion. But as her desire grows so too does her discontentment - with the role...- $ 450.00
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The Awakening (Alma)
Over one long, languid summer Edna Pontellier, fettered by marriage and motherhood, becomes acquainted with Robert Lebrun. As the days shorten and the temperature drops Edna succumbs to Robert’s devotion. But as her desire grows so too does her discontentment - with the role...- $ 200.00
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The Beautiful and Damned
The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and...- $ 250.00
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The Bell
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community,...- $ 400.00
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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar traces the slow, shattering unravelling of Esther Greenwood—young, brilliant, beautiful, and achingly ambitious—as the weight of her own mind begins to pull her under. With piercing clarity, Sylvia Plath draws us so deeply into Esther’s descent that her fears and obsessions...- $ 350.00
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The Best Of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales Of Horror And The Macabre
This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction must have- sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft's most horrifying visions, including: The Call of Cthulu: The first story in the infamous Cthulhu mythos, a creature spawned in the stars brings a menace of unimaginable evil...- $ 400.00
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The Big Sleep
The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with...- $ 350.00
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The Black Prince
Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by...- $ 350.00
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The Bluest Eye
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow...- $ 300.00
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The Book of Evidence
Freddie Montgomery is a cultured yet morally adrift man in his late 30s, living as a self-exiled intellectual on a Mediterranean island. Facing mounting debts that threaten his wife and child, Freddie returns to Ireland to reclaim a Dutch master painting he believes belongs...- $ 350.00
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The Broom of the System
Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is...- $ 370.00
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The Brothers Karamazov
When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha,...- $ 350.00
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The Brothers Karamazov
When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha,...- $ 650.00
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The Canterbury Tales
Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, twenty-nine pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on their long road, their host suggests that they regale each other with stories, with the teller of the best tale set to earn a free...- $ 340.00
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The Canterville Ghost
Despite multiple warnings, Horace B. Otis and his family move to Canterville Chase, a sprawling English manor with a dark history and a lingering guest. From the brilliant mind of Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost is an irreverent mix of horror and humor. Canterville...- $ 250.00
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The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous occupant Lord Canterville warns them that the ghost of his ancestor still haunts the house. Their disbelief is soon shattered by the nightly sound of rattling chains...- $ 320.00
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The Castle
Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties. The Castle's...- $ 350.00
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The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind. It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been...- $ 200.00
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The Catcher in the Rye
The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is...- $ 400.00
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The Centaur
The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is...- $ 450.00
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The Color Purple
A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early-twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence. Through...- $ 300.00
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The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
The Complete Fairy Stories of Oscar Wilde gathers all nine of Oscar Wilde’s whimsical, poignant fabulations from The Happy Prince and Other Tales and The House of Pomegranates. Laced with Wilde’s legendary drollery, these fanciful tales touch on the themes of love, devotion, creativity,...- $ 300.00
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The Complete Stories
With an Introduction by Robert Giroux, The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud is "an essential American book," Richard Stern declared in the Chicago Tribune when the collection was published in hardcover. His praise was echoed by other reviewers and by readers, who embraced the...- $ 500.00
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The Complete Stories
The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A...- $ 450.00
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The Complete Stories
Evelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waugh's novel A Handful of...- $ 550.00
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The Complete Works
Jane Austen: The Complete Works 7-Book Boxed Set: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Love and Friendship.- $ 2,500.00
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The Crucible
One of the true masterpieces of twentieth-century American theater, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving, but that compels readers to...- $ 330.00
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The Custom of the Country: Deluxe Edition
Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton’s second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us...- $ 450.00
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
One of the most exquisitely constructed novellas by Tolstoy is presented alongside The Devil, a further work exploring the powerful and destructive nature of obsession. The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to...- $ 350.00
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
These seven powerful stories reflect Tolstoy’s profound meditation on mortality and the human condition, each examining the inevitability of death from unique perspectives. In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy delivers a heartrending exploration of a man confronting his approaching death and grappling with...- $ 350.00
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