Category: Classic Literature

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective to the readers of The Strand Magazine. The runaway success of this series prompted a second set of stories, The Memoirs.

In these twenty three tales, collected here in one volume, you have some of the best detective yarns ever penned. In his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, the master sleuth receives a stream of clients all presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries to unrave...
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Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer (Bantam Classics)

By: Conrad, Joseph

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Bantam Classics: April 1981

Seller ID: 26663

ISBN: 0553212141

Condition: Used - Good

Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far...
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Tales of the Sea: Lord Jim, Typhoon, Children of the Sea, Amy Foster and Youth

By: Conrad, Joseph

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Castle Books: November 1984

Seller ID: 44160

ISBN: 0890098018

Condition: Used - Good

Heart of Darkness & Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)

By: Conrad, Joseph

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd: January 1998

Seller ID: 46888

ISBN: 1853262404

Condition: Used - Good

Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies and the cataclysmic behaviour this induced in some individuals.

The other two stories ...
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Lord Jim

By: Conrad, Joseph

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Limited Gunnar Lie: January 2018

Seller ID: 49522

ISBN: 1788283333

Condition: Used - Good

A Conrad Argosy

By: Conrad, Joseph

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company: 1942

Seller ID: 53350

ISBN: 281BQL1002838

Condition: Used - Good

Heart of Darkness: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)

By: Conrad, Joseph,Kimbrough, Robert

Price: $7.50

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: October 1987

Seller ID: 55859

ISBN: 0393955524

Condition: Used - Good

The Prairie (Penguin Classics)

By: Cooper, James Fenimore

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Penguin Classics: November 1987

Seller ID: 14572

ISBN: 014039026X

Condition: Used - Good

The final novel in Cooper's epic, The Prairie depicts Natty Bumppo at the end of his life, still displaying his indomitable strength and dignity.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translat...
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The Last of the Mohicans

By: Cooper, James Fenimore

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Arcturus: January 2017

Seller ID: 52826

ISBN: 1788280598

Condition: Used - Good

A Pocket Full of Rye

By: Cronin, A. J.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: 1969

Seller ID: 46556

ISBN: 281BQL1000332

Condition: Used - Good

The Intruder: A Novel (Classic Reprint)

By: D'annunzio, Gabriele

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Forgotten Books: June 2015

Seller ID: 40007

ISBN: 1330362799

Condition: Used - Good

Excerpt from The Intruder: A Novel

But what had not happened in three years Between Juliana and myself the breach was henceforth definitive and irreparable. I had gone on wronging her repeatedly; I had insulted her in the most outrageous manner without regard for her feelings, without restraint, carried away by an appetite greedy for pleasure, by the vertigo of my pas sions, by the curiosity of my corrupted mind. I had had as mistresses two of her intimate friends I had spent sev eral weeks at Florence with Teresa Raffo, shamelessly; I had fought with the false Count Ratio a duel in which...
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All men are mortal

By: de BEAUVOIR, Simone

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Virago: January 1995

Seller ID: 47325

ISBN: 1860490026

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

All over the world, people are claiming their rights. Are these claims prompted by similar values and aspirations? And even if human rights are universal, what are the consequences of claiming them in different historical, cultural and material realities? The diversity of African countries considered in this book compels careful thought about these questions.
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All men are mortal

By: de BEAUVOIR, Simone

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Virago: January 1995

Seller ID: 59321

ISBN: 1860490026

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Robinson Crusoe

By: Defoe, Daniel

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Airmont Books: 1963

Seller ID: 11298

ISBN: 281BQL1000715

Condition: Used - Good

Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)

By: Defoe, Daniel

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: May 2003

Seller ID: 12202

ISBN: 0141439823

Condition: Used - Good

The original tale of a castaway struggling to survive on a remote desert island, and one of the first novels in English

The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily battle to stay alive, as he conquers isolation, fashions shelter and clothes, enlists the help of a native islander who he names 'Friday', and fights off cannibals and mutineers. Written in an age of exploration and enterprise, it has been variously interpreted as an embodiment of British imperialist values, as a portrayal of 'natural man', or ...
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Moll Flanders

By: DEFOE, DANIEL

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Konemann: June 1997

Seller ID: 32886

ISBN: 3895086878

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Moll Flanders

By: DEFOE, DANIEL

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Lb May & Assoc Inc: December 1999

Seller ID: 43674

ISBN: 1853260738

Condition: Used - Good

With an Introduction and Notes by R.T.Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York.

The novel follows the life of its eponymous heroine, Moll Flanders, through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity in the New World.

Moll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be published in English and draws heavily on Defoe's experience of the topography and social conditions pr...
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ROBINSON CRUSOE (PENGUIN POPULAR CLASSICS)

By: Defoe, Daniel

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Puffin Classics / Penguin Books: January 1994

Seller ID: 49094

ISBN: 014062015X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until, twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being. This novel was first published in 1719.
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Category: Classic Literature