Category: Classic Literature

Wieland, the story of religious delusions and horrific violence on the eve of the American Revolution, is the first gothic novel in America and a cornerstone of the Early American literary canon. A family living on an estate outside Philadelphia is visited first by a set of mysterious voices, seemingly coming out of thin air, followed soon after by an itinerant rustic named Carwin. Violence erupts when the family's young patriarch believes he hears God's voice demanding a human sacrifice as a sign of faith. Testing the limits of religious and literary authority in the new United State...
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Das Boot: The Boat

By: Buchheim, Lothar-G?nther

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Cassell: April 2007

Seller ID: 45660

ISBN: 0304352314

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

It is autumn, 1941, and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. Over the coming weeks they must brave the stormy waters of the Atlantic in their mission to seek out and destroy British supply ships. But the tide is beginning to turn against the Germans in the war for the North Atlantic. Their targets now travel in convoys, fiercely guarded by Royal Navy destroyers, and when contact is finally made the hunters rapidly become the hunted. As the U-boat is forced to hide beneath the surface of the sea a cat-and-mouse game begins...
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The Good Earth (The World's Best Reading)

By: Buck, Pearl S

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association: January 1992

Seller ID: 61597

ISBN: 0895774135

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, To That Which Is toCome (Penguin Classics)

By: Bunyan, John

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: June 1959

Seller ID: 14320

ISBN: 0140430040

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This reference is a practical guide to the care and treatment of cancer patients. It contains a comprehensive list of chemotherapeutic drugs, including biological response modifiers. Each drug profile follows a uniform format, discussing mechanisms of action, indications, metabolism, dose, administration, drug interactions, incompatibilities, and toxicity. Cancer treatment protocols are arranged by cancer type. Completely revised, and updated, the 6th Edition features 100 new chemotherapeutic drugs, as well as n information on medication errors and safety, and monoclonal antibodies.
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Earthly Powers

By: Burgess, Anthony

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: December 1980

Seller ID: 28559

ISBN: 0671414909

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Evelina (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Burney, Frances

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: July 2002

Seller ID: 59886

ISBN: 0192840312

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably, love, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image-conscious and often cruel world where social snobbery and sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas of pleasure-gardens, theatre visits, and balls. But Evelina's innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses and absurdities of manners an...
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The Duel (Hesperus Classics)

By: Casanova, Giacomo

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Hesperus Press: February 2003

Seller ID: 48727

ISBN: 1843910322

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One of the few works written in Casanova's native Italian, The Duel is an important example of the infamous lothario's vivid prose and inimitable style. Having escaped from the infamous Piombi Prison in Venice, Casanova became an exile, travelling through Western Europe and being given shelter on account of his fame. The story recounts the duel he fought with a Polish nobleman, Count Branicky, who had insulted Casanova over a ballerina. Describing the deadly encounter and the surprising events it precipitated with sardonic and even blase wit, Casanova proves his literary prowess.
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The Book of the Courtier

By: Castiglione, Baldesar

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Anchor: August 1959

Seller ID: 20856

ISBN: 0385094213

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Song of the Lark (Virago Modern Classics)

By: Cather, Willa

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Virago Press (UK): June 1993

Seller ID: 32881

ISBN: 0860682455

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Many medical authorities predict that average life expectancy could well exceed 100 years by mid 21st century and rise even higher soon thereafter. This prospect, brought on by the revolution in molecular biology and information technology, confronts policymakers and public health officials with a host of new questions: how will increased longevity affect demographic trends, government taxation and spending, the workplace and health care? What ethical and quality-of-life issues are raised by these new breakthroughs?
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The Troll Garden: Short Stories

By: Cather, Willa

Price: $12.95

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press: June 2000

Seller ID: 45189

ISBN: 0803264038

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This collection of Willa Cather stories-her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career-is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of the art world, artists, pseudo-artists, aficionados, and dilettantes-all are amply represented here in the midst of their foibles, grand affairs, and failures, drawn with great style and subtlety by a writer ...
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My Antonia

By: Cather, Willa

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Premier Classics: January 2009

Seller ID: 52084

ISBN: 0307291723

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

My Antonia

By: Cather, Willa

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Quality Paperback Book Club: 1995

Seller ID: 54118

ISBN: 281BQL1002898

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)

By: Cather, Willa

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Vintage: June 1990

Seller ID: 58857

ISBN: 0679728899

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these...
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The Canterbury Tales: A Selection

By: Chaucer, Geoffrey

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Broadview Press: April 2009

Seller ID: 25752

ISBN: 1551119757

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Canterbury Tales

By: Chaucer, Geoffrey

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: February 2003

Seller ID: 29622

ISBN: 0140424385

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Nevill Coghill's masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer's fourteenth-century Middle English

In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the ...
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Category: Classic Literature