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Heart of the West

By: Henry, O.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Reader's Digest:

Seller ID: 60851

ISBN: 281BQL1003373

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition

By: Hoban, Russell

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Indiana University Press: September 1998

Seller ID: 51378

ISBN: 0253212340

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy.... Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and--this matters most--intensely ponderable." --Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review

This is what literature is meant to be." --Anthony Burgess

Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and style.... The conviction and consistency are total. Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece." --Anthony Thwaite, Observer

Extraordinary... Suffused with melancholy and wonder, beau...
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Chips

By: Hocking, Silas K.

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Memories: February 1995

Seller ID: 870

ISBN: 1899181040

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Her Benny A Tale of Victorian Liverpool

By: Hocking, Silas K.

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Gallery Press: 1982

Seller ID: 876

ISBN: 281BQL1000021

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Broadview Literary Texts)

By: Hogg, James

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Broadview Press: May 2001

Seller ID: 49893

ISBN: 1551112264

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Hogg, James, Duncan, Ian

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: June 2010

Seller ID: 34846

ISBN: 0199217955

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One of the supreme masterpieces of Romantic fiction and Scottish literature, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a terrifying tale of murder and amorality, and of one man's descent into madness and despair. James Hogg's sardonic novel follows a young man who, falling under the spell of a mysterious stranger who bears an uncanny likeness to himself, embarks on a career as a serial murderer. The memoirs are presented by a narrator whose attempts to explain the story only succeed in intensifying its more baffling and bizarre aspects. Is the young man the victim o...
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The Prisoner of Zenda

By: Hope-Hawkins, Anthony

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd: January 1994

Seller ID: 47656

ISBN: 1853261130

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Rise of Silas Lapham (Penguin Classics)

By: Howells, William Dean

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: April 1983

Seller ID: 5624

ISBN: 0140390308

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

William Dean Howells' richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society provides a paradigm of American culture in the Gilded Age. After establishing a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston, where they awkwardly attempt to break into Brahmin society. Silas, greedy for wealth as well as prestige, brings his company to the brink of bankruptcy, and the family is forced to return to Vermont, financially ruined but morally renewed. As Kermit Vanderbilt points out in his introduction, the novel focuses o...
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The Rise of Silas Lapham

By: Howells, William Dean

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Signet Classics: March 2002

Seller ID: 28777

ISBN: 0451528220

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Let fiction cease to lie about life; let it portray men and women as they are, actuated by the motives and the passions in the measure we all know. William Dean Howells

The Rise of Silas Lapham, first published in book form in 1885, was the first important novel to center on the American businessman and the first to treat its theme with a realism that was to foreshadow the work of modern writers. In his story of Silas Lapham one of the millionaires who flourished with the expanding industrialization of the post-Civil War years William Dean Howells probed the moral and social conflicts that c...
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Tom Brown's Schooldays (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Hughes, Thomas

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: August 1999

Seller ID: 18625

ISBN: 0192835351

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One of the classics of English children's literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, this novel's steady popularity has given it an influence well beyond the upper middle-class world that it describes. It tells a story central to an understanding of Victorian life, but its freshness helps to distinguish it from the narrow schoolboy adventures that it later inspired. The book includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders.
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Les Miserables (Penguin Classics)

By: Hugo, Victor

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Penguin Classics: April 1982

Seller ID: 15188

ISBN: 0140444300

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"He was no longer Jean Valjean, but No. 24601"

Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter o...
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Wretched: A New Translation of Les Miserables

By: Hugo, Victor

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Penguin Classic: December 2013

Seller ID: 40303

ISBN: 0141393599

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A brilliant new translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs. The Wretched (Les Mis rables) is the basis for both the longest running musical on the West End and the highly-acclaimed recent film starring Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway. Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, and by the relentless i...
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Les Mis?rables (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)

By: Hugo, Victor

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: February 2007

Seller ID: 46674

ISBN: 0486457893

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A monumental classic and one of the most widely read novels in history, Les Miserables portrays the epic struggle between good and evil in the soul of one man: Jean Valjean. In a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, the ex-convict struggles to renew his life and reaffirm his humanity. But he is haunted, both by his seemingly inescapable past and the malignant shadow of the infamous police detective Javert.
Rich in detail, packed with adventure, and filled with the sweep of human passions, Les Miserables is more than a literary masterpiece -- it remains a powerful social ...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Signet Classics)

By: Hugo, Victor

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Chamberlain Bros.: September 2005

Seller ID: 62321

ISBN: 1596091711

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

When this species of cyclops appeared on the threshold of the chapel, motionless, squat, and almost as broad as he was tall; squared on the base, as a great man says; with his doublet half red, half violet, sown with silver bells, and, above all, in the perfection of his ugliness, the populace recognized him on the instant, and shouted with one voice.
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Les Miserables

By: Hugo, Victor

Price: $13.50

Publisher: W Pub Group: September 2001

Seller ID: 62381

ISBN: 0849916879

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Close your eyes and let this powerful music transport you to another time and place. Les Miserables has captivated generations, but with this critically acclaimed Broadway soundtrack, a beautiful story becomes an unforgettable experience. Against the backdrop of the French Revolution, the story of escaped convict Jean Valjean and his search for grace and redemption will leave any listener moved by the parallel of God's grace towards us. This dramatic reading of the entire novel along with the dynamic new recordings of five of the most popular songs from the original score will bring this ma...
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The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction (Studies in Canadian literature)

By: Hutcheon, Linda

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: April 1989

Seller ID: 61813

ISBN: 0195406680

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

This book studies the work of some of Canada's most prominent fiction writers in the context of postmodernism. Hutcheon shows that in Canada, this cultural phenomenon has not only found particularly fertile ground on which to develop but has also taken a distinctive form. She examines contemporary cultural theory and the writings of Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, George Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Robert Kroetsch, Michael Ondaatje, Chris Scott, Susan Swan, Audrey Thomas, Aritha van Herk, and others.
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Brave New World

By: Huxley, Aldous

Price: $39.98

Publisher: Arcturus:

Seller ID: 63121

ISBN: 1788282388

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Setting Free the Bears: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

By: Irving, John

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Ballantine Books: June 1997

Seller ID: 48572

ISBN: 0345417984

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Truly remarkable . . . encompasses the longings and agonies of youth . . . a complex and moving novel."--Time

"Astonishing . . . a writer of uncommon imaginative power. Whatever John Irving] writes, it will be worth reading."--Saturday Review

It is 1967. Two Viennese university students, Siggy and Hannes, roam the Austrian countryside on their motorcycles--on a quest: to liberate the bears of the Vienna Zoo. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences in this first novel from John Irving, already a master storyteller at...
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Adventures of a Simpleton

By: Jacob, Von Hans Grimmelshausen

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Continuum: October 2002

Seller ID: 31326

ISBN: 0826414826

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The harrowing and hilarious Adventures of a Simpleton is unanimously acclaimed today as the greatest German novel of the 17th century. Set against the gristly background of the Thirty Years' War, it is a vivid and realistic re-creation of an age, evoked by an artless and earthy language new to German literature at the time.Walter Wallich, in this translation, aptly captures the zest, the pageantry and the humor of the original. He has also written a special postscript, with revealing sidelights on Grimmelshausen, whose life corresponded in many ways to that of his hero.

The Turn of the Screw (Bedford Series in History & Culture)

By: James, Henry

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's: November 2003

Seller ID: 20424

ISBN: 0312406916

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This volume presents the text of the New York Edition of James’s classic 1898 short novel along with critical essays that read "The Turn of the Screw" from contemporary reader-response, psychoanalytic, gender, and Marxist perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined. As in the first edition, the text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. Two of the six essays are new to the second edition, as is a selection of cultural documents and illus...
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Category: Classic Literature