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Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its pages is summed up a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings should respond to it. A profound mystical insight into the nature of things forms the basis for a humane morality and vision of political utopia. The ideas in this work constitute one of the main shaping forces behind Chinese spirituality, art and science, so much so that no understanding of Chinese civilisation is possible without a grasp of Taoism. This edition presents the authoritative translation by Arthur Waley, with a new Introduction reflecting recent developments in the interpretation of the work.
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The classic survey of English literature in a vibrant new edition, with Stephen Greenblatt as general editor.

A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, The Norton Anthology of English Literature is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With more than ninety authors, the Major Authors Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night to the greats of the nineteenth century—Blake and Wordsworth, Tennyson and Barrett Browning—to twentieth-century classics of a truly global English literature—Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Woolf's A Room of One's Own, poetry by Derek Walcott, and prose by Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie, to name but a few. Color plates—over seventy-five in all—bring to life the cultural concerns of each period. Concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines, and selected bibliographies help readers understand and enjoy the rich diversity of English literature.
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This illustrated and fully updated third edition is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available. Covering everything from Old English to contemporary writing from all over the English-speaking world, the new edition has been brought completely up to date with more than 280 new author entries, most of which are for living authors. The general reader will find the volume a fascinating reference to browse through and to discover many new writers and works, while students will find it an invaluable resource for daily use. Previous Edition (1994) 0-521-44086-6
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With adoptions at over 1,300 colleges and universities in its first semester; the Seventh Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Seventh Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format. More selections by women and twentieth-century writers, a richer offering of contextual writings and apparatus fully revised to reflect today's scholarship make the Seventh Edition the choice for breadth, depth, and quality.

For the first time ever, the acclaimed Norton Anthology of English Literature is available in six separate volumes, each of which cover a specific period of English lit and focus on the wide range of writers and literature, with full annotation and commentary. Adapted unabridged from the full Norton Anthology, this volume is ideal for focused study or specific coursework in the period.
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In old Japan, sexual love among the samurai was permissible, and often matured into lifelong companionships. Comrade Loves of the Samurai touches the subject of both normal and abnormal love with honesty and tenderness.

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1893. Based originally on Bulfinch's Age of Fable (1855). Classroom text from Gayley, Professor of the English Language and Literature in the University of California. From the Preface: In the Commentary four things have been attempted: first, an explanation, under each section, of ordinary textual difficulties; second, an unpretentious exposition of the myth or a brief statement of the more evident interpretations advanced by philologists or ethnologists; third, an indication of certain additional poems or verses that illustrate the myth; fourth, special mention of such masterpieces of ancient and modern sculpture and painting as may serve to introduce the student or the general reader to a field of aesthetic profit neglected by the great mass of our people. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Using the example of The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter to explore the impact of new media and technologies on how children learn about stories and reading, this book investigates nearly 100 re-tellings in a variety of media, some authorized by Potter's publisher Frederick Warne, some unauthorized. It looks at the implications of converging developments in children's literature: new media and technologies now readily available to children leading to new conventions and protocols of storytelling; changing commercial pressures on publishers and an emphasis on producing commodities associated with books and videos; saturation marketing which targets children and adults in different ways; and a cultural emphasis on the fragmentation, adaptation, and re-working of texts.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit is now available as picture book, chapter book, board and bath book, pop-up, video (in versions that adhere to the original story and versions that deviate radically to include "new adventures" or Christian messages), ballet, CD-ROM, computer disc, audio tape, and filmstrip. The character of Peter Rabbit may be purchased as toy, clothing, dish, ornament, wallpaper, food, paper doll, and much else. His story and that of his author, Beatrix Potter, reappear in fragmented form in other books for children, in a murder mystery for adults, and in a graphic novel for teenagers. This book raises questions about the impact of these developments on young readers. Index. Appendix. Bibliography.
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The American literary tradition is so rich and varied that the Penguin Classics editors have grouped the collection into two volumes, with Volume I focused on the novels, short stories, and poetry through the 19th century, and Volume II focused on the political writings, memoirs, and narratives that chronicle the birth and growth of the nation.

In Volume I: Foundations in Literature, you’ll find classic stories of the American dream in the works of Horatio Alger (Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward); the African American and Southern traditions represented in the acclaimed fiction of Charles Chesnutt (including The House Behind the Cedars and The Marrow of Tradition); novels of the great westward expansion including James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and Deerslayer featuring the iconic Natty Bumppo; Nathaniel Hawthorne's works on social and moral values (including The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables); the horror stories of Edgar Allen Poe; and of course the body of work from the irrepressible Mark Twain, from his first novel The Gilded Age to the darker Pudd’nhead Wilson to the exuberant Huckleberry Finn.

From the Age of Reason through Romanticism, Transcendentalism, the Civil War and the expansion of the 1800s to the dawn of the 20th century, the canvas of American history bursts forth in this collection representing the rich literary legacy of America. Included are 94 titles:

Esther by Henry Adams
The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott
Work by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward by Horatio Alger
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce
Edgar Huntly by Charles Brockden Brown
Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist by Charles Brockden Brown
The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette by William Hill Brown
Clotel by William Wells Brown
The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable
Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line by Charles W. Chesnutt
The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt
Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie by Kate Chopin
At Fault by Kate Chopin
A Vocation and a Voice by Kate Chopin
The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper
The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty by John W. De Forest
Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern
The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
Nights with Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings by Bret Harte
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Selected Tales and Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells
The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
The Emigrants by Gilbert Imlay
Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
The Awkward Age by Henry James
The Europeans by Henry James
Roderick Hudson by Henry James
Henry James by Henry James
The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories by Henry James
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
The Princess Casamassima by Henry James
The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James
The Bostonians by Henry James
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
The American by Henry James
Washington Square by Henry James
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers by Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Ambassadors by Henry James
Daisy Miller by Henry James
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett
Selected Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
Redburn by Herman Melville
Typee by Herman Melville
Pierre by Herman Melville
Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple by Susanna Rowson
Hope Leslie by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
A New-England Tale by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard
The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
Roughing It by Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
The Portable Mark Twain by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
Early American Drama
Four Stories by American Women
Complete Writings by Phillis Wheatley
The Complete Poems by Walt Whitman
The Portable Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass (Classics Deluxe Edition) by Walt Whitman
Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson
American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings by Zitkala-Sa

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William Wilberforce, the great British statesman, is best known as the driving force in Parliament that ended the slave trade in England. His tireless perseverance and deep-rooted trust in the gospel made him one of England s most effective political leaders. His book Real Christianity shows us the passion that fueled his life. Today, as the gap between real Christianity and cultural Christianity is as wide as it has ever been, it is important to look at Wilberforce as a guide to help us move beyond being a Christian in name only and towards being a dynamic, world-changing follower of Christ.
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Paul Lachlan Peck, M. Ed., the editor of Classic Children’s Literature for Your Home Library: 550 Years of Delightful Reading (1450–2000), is an inveterate bibliophile apart from being an ordained minister and family counselor. Here he has put together a wonderful list of books covering 550 years of children’s literature. More than 130 books are reviewed by more than sixty friends and family members, whose ages range from 7½ to 93 years. This is a terrific guide for building a children’s library in your home. Peck has a M. Ed in education and has served several universities as an administrator and volunteer chaplain. He has written many other books including an autobiography entitled Worth the Room. Net profits from this book go to Syracuse University to study child abuse alleviation.
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This remarkable book explores the history in literature and tradition of the wondrous fairies. Capricious and vengeful, or beautiful and generous, they've held us in thrall for generations.
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A collection of monologues taken from children's classical literature such as Little Women, Tom Sawyer, The Wind in the Willows, Hedi, Robinson Crusoe, Anne of Green Gables, etc. Each speech is preceded by an in-depth exposition placing the reader in the scene. With detailed introduction.
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Essential readings in the philosophy of literature are brought together for the first time in this anthology.


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A two-volume anthology that places the Western literary tradition and its canon within a world context. Selections are divided into 6 major literary periods, with each period subdivided into Representative Texts, Western Texts, The World Context, and Background Texts.

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The all-time bestselling authors of the South

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In this wonderful collection, haiku poet Yuzuru Miura has selected and translated poems by past masters such as Basho and Buson, as well as contemporary poets. Fireflies, pheasants, a summer shower, winter snow, camellias, and other beautiful subjects are included among the one hundred poems in this impressive anthology. A revered collection, Classic Haiku evokes the peace and serenity of the Japanese way of life.
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This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane's popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential texts that have made the original volume such a valuable resource. The book introduces English-speaking readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon, kibyoshi (satiric picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon, kokkeibon (books of humor), gokan (bound books), and ninjobon (books of romance and sentiment). It also features poetic genres such as waka, haiku, senryu, and kyoka, and plays ranging from Chikamatsu's puppet plays to nineteenth-century kabuki. Readers will continue to benefit from the anthology's selection of significant essays, treatises, literary criticism, folk stories, and other noncanonical works, as well as the numerous prints that accompanied these works. They will also find Shirane's introductions and critical commentary, which guide the reader through the allusive and often elliptical nature of these incredible selections.


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'Something greater than the Iliad is being brought to birth', wrote Virgil's contemporary Propertius, in Western literature's most famous flourish of advance publicity. The Aeneid was published after Virgil's death, and at once established itself as Rome's national poem. The hero Aeneas flees from the sack of Troy, and after much suffering carves out a foothold for the future Romans in Italy. While defining and celebrating what it means to be Roman, the Aeneid confronts, with a bleak pathos, the tragedy involved in Rome's destiny.
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Literature and the Environment is a thematic, multi-genre anthology that explores our relationship to nature and the role literature can play in shaping a culture responsive to environmental realities. The book includes early writers such as John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, and Mary Austin, alongside contemporary voices such as Gary and Terry Tempest Williams.
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Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One thing is certain: the boy is destined to conquer the known world. He grows up to fulfil this prophecy, building a mighty empire that spans from Greece and Italy to Africa and Asia. Begun soon after the real Alexander's death and expanded in the centuries that followed, "The Greek Alexander Myth" depicts the life and adventures of one of history's greatest heroes - taming the horse Bucephalus, meeting the Amazons and his quest to defeat the King of Persia. Including such elements of fantasy as Alexander's ascent to heaven borne by eagles, this literary masterpiece brilliantly evokes a lost age of heroism.
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With more than a million copies in print, Don Daily’s lavishly illustrated books have been delighting children for years. Now his greatest hits are available at a value price in this special storybook collection. From beloved animal characters such as Brer Rabbit, Mr. Toad, and the Tortoise and the Hare, to courageous children like Mowgli, Hansel, and Gretel, this compilation has something for everyone. The added bonus of ten stunning, never-before-published Mother Goose illustrations makes this special treasury of well-known classics a volume to be cherished.

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Represented here are examples of various categories of Chinese literary composition-verses, songs, stories, essays, drama, and excerpts from novels from the Y’an and Ching Dynasties, as well as the Republican Period. Highlights include Songs from the Y’an Dynasty, The Temptation of Saint Pigsy by Wu Ch’eng-en, a selection from Peony Pavilion, early Ch’ing lyrics, and “Six Chapters” from A Floating Life by Shen Fu.

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Sweeping readers from the New England colonies to the banks of the Mississipppi, to the battle fields of the Civil War to the storm tossed waters of the Atlantic, this extraordinary collection is ideal-and most economical-for classrooms, libraries, and homes.
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Introductory volume in the series of Reading-Literature readers, whose purpose is to train children in reading and appreciating literature through the reading of literature. Contains nine of the best folk tales, true to the original, and yet written in such a simple style that children can quickly begin reading the real story. Includes The Little Red Hen, The Gingerbread Boy, The Old Woman and Her Pig, The Boy and the Goat, The Pancake, Chicken Little, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Little Tuppens, and Little Spider's First Web. Attractive black and white illustrations are appealing to children.
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Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness. While previous versions have softened the robust, and sometimes shocking, quality of Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. This award-winning team's authoritative edition also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this Anna Karenina will be the definitive text for generations to come.
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An essential collection of William Faulkner’s mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material.

This unique volume includes Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the acerbic essay “On Criticism” and the beguiling “Note on A Fable.” It also contains eloquently opinionated public letters on everything from race relations and the nature of fiction to wild-squirrel hunting on his property. This is the most comprehensive collection of Faulkner’s brilliant non-fiction work, and a rare look into the life of an American master.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of a tradition that produced some of the most influential novels of the Western world. In newly-commissioned essays by prominent scholars, the work of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and many others is described and discussed. There is a chronology and guide to further reading, and all quotations are in English. The volume will be invaluable for students, scholars and anyone interested in the Russian novel.
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Reading the classics isn't easy. Students often balk at the difficult syntax, unfamiliar settings, and descriptive passages. Length alone keeps some books out of the curriculum. For a teacher to persist - sometimes coaxing, sometimes driving - requires an act of will. In Classics in the Classroom Carol Jago provides practical ideas for making these challenging texts come alive for contemporary students.

Continuing in the tradition of her popular book With Rigor for All, Jago argues that all students, not just those enrolled in honors classes, deserve to read great literature. To make this happen requires artfully crafted lessons that address specific textual challenges. In Classics in the Classroom Jago shares her lesson plans and materials for teaching:

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Dostoyevsky's penetrating study of a man for whom the distinction between right and wrong disappears, and a riveting portrait of guilt and retribution.

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Classics and the Bible looks at story-patterns and themes which Greek and Latin literature shares with the Hebrew scriptures and the New Testament. Direct influence or a common source can explain some similarities, but uncannily parallel plots and forms of expression seem more often to occur independently. Classical and biblical texts constantly illuminate each other. Hospitality and recognition are central themes in both traditions, and also metaphors about the relation between them. Classical and biblical authors alike tell stories which need to be read in the light of other stories. The relation between the present and the heroic past is crucial to both traditions, and both raise fundamental questions about the relation of text and reader. The first three chapters consider the subject from the classical side: Homer, the Greek tragedians and Plato, and Virgil; the fourth turns to the New Testament; and the fifth to aspects of later reception. Readers should ideally be equipped with a Bible, English translations of a few major classical authors, and an open mind.
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Elizabeth Bennet is at first determined to dislike Mr. Darcy, who is handsome and eligible. This misjudgment only matched in folly by Darcy's arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to truer feelings in a comedy concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved.
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War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy's philosophy.
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The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family: it is emblematic of changes in consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. This new translation of the eleventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of Zola's greatest works.
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A world-famous classic novel is the basis for this brand-new, dramatically illustrated book. Transformed from Herman Melville’s original text into a graphic novel, this and other Graphic Classics editions make good introductions for young readers to the imaginative riches of literature. These books contain many extra features, including brief biographies of their authors, a list of each author’s important works, a glossary, and an index. Suitable for classroom use as introductions to literature for junior and senior high school students, these graphic novels entertain young readers while introducing them to the works of renowned literary artists. Full-color illustrations throughout. This classic sea adventure tells the story of Captain Ahab, commander of the whaling ship Pequod, and his hunt for the mighty and ferocious white whale.
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Traditional Japanese Literature features a rich array of works dating from the very beginnings of the Japanese written language through the evolution of Japan's noted aristocratic court and warrior cultures. It contains stunning new translations of such canonical texts as The Tales of the Heike as well as works and genres previously ignored by scholars and unknown to general readers.

This volume includes generous selections from Man'yÿsh, The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book, Kokinsh, and other classics of Japanese literature, as well as a stunning range of folk literature, epic tales of war, poetry, and no drama. The anthology offers an impressive representation of dramatic, poetic, and fictional works from both high and low culture, along with religious and secular anecdotes, literary criticism, and works written in Chinese by Japanese writers. The wealth of classical poetry, linked verse, and popular poetry is accompanied by extensive commentary.

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The epics of Homer; the great dramas of Aristophanes and Aeschylus; the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates; Thucydides' magnificent account of the Peloponnesian War; the fables of Aesop; and many other works of the ancient Greeks and Romans are represented in this extraordinary collection. From art and literature to mythology, science, history, and politics, all of the great works that are the foundation of Western civilization are included in this complete collection of award-winning translations from the editors of the Penguin Classics Library.

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The Complete Fables by Aesop
Lives of the Later Caesars by Anonymous
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Poetics by Aristotle
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The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
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Murder Trials by Cicero
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Homeric Hymns by Homer
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The Odyssey by Homer
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Fasti by Ovid
Heroides by Ovid
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Theatetus by Plato
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Makers of Rome by Plutarch
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Four Tragedies and Octavia by Seneca
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Vincent Sherry combines a detailed study of Ulysses with new critical arguments. He provides a useful guide to the episodic sequence of Joyce's novel and presents an inquisitive interpretation of this master work, re-addressing major issues in Ulysses criticism. Demonstrating how Joyce's modernist epic redefines Homer's Odyssey, he examines Joyce's extraordinary verbal experiments. First Edition Hb (1994): 0-521-42075-X First Edition Pb (1994): 0-521-42136-5
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Internationally renowned Chinese literature scholar Cyril Birch was the first to assemble the finest translations of these seminal pieces in his now classic and still definitive introductory anthologies. The selections in this first volume span a two-thousand-year period: from the Chou Dynasty (1122–221 B.C.) to the Y’an Dynasty (A.D. 1280–1367), from the ancient Songs to the dramas of the fourteenth century, every major genre of Chinese literature is represented by a crucial work. Highlights include, in addition to the great poems of the T’ang, outstanding examples of Han poetry, Six Dynasties satire, T’ang-sung prose essays and fiction, and the form of lyric known as “tz’u.”

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Thornton Burgess thrilled two generations of children with his delightful nature tales, publishing over 150 books, most of them illustrated by the great Harrison Cady, that featured an array of woodland creatures—some saintly, some personable, others cranky and haughty, some even naughty, but all fun (and not a single one dull)—in simple, well-written tales that always entertained and always taught a lesson about human nature. With an eye toward bringing wonderful stories to children in the earlier grades, National Review has here collected the first ten of Burgess's "bedtime story" books.Inside The National Review Treasury of Classic Bedtime Stories—brightened by some sixty of Cady’s drawings (reproduced just as they appeared in the original old books)—are ten terrific "adventure" tales of Reddy Fox, Johnny Chuck, Peter Cottontail, Unc' Billy Possum, Mistah Mocker, Jerry Muskrat, Danny Meadow Mouse, Grandfather Frog, Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Sammy Jay, and the other colorful and lovable denizens of the "Green Meadows" and the "Briar Patch."
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This impressive volume contains an all-star collection of American authors and their greatest works, unabridged: The Call of the Wild by Jack London; The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane; Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton; My Antonia by Willa Cather; Walden by Henry David Thoreau; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; and Collected Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Published by Teachers & Writers Collaborative in association with The Library of America, The T&W Guide to Classic American Literature is an anthology of essays that provides rich and diverse approaches and insights to writers and teachers of writing at all levels. These include introducing third graders to Gertrude Stein, teaching Emily Dickinson’s poetry to prisoners, and using the model of Henry David Thoreau’s journals in the college classroom.

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Four unabridged classics of nineteenth century literature by women, full of romance, adventure, drama, and suspense, are collected in one attractive and terrifically well-priced volume: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte; and Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson.
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This volume of essays brings together some of the best work by Americanists concerned with the problem of ideology and its bearing upon American literature and culture. It projects neither a particular ideological view nor a particular view of ideology. On the contrary: these essays highlight the many uses of ideology as a critical term, and, in doing so, they open new avenues of inquiry, new forums for discussion. They also demonstrate that, far from being parochial or reductive, ideological analysis is integral to considerations of formal structure and crucial to an understanding of the relations between literature and culture. The authors are leading Americanists of the past three or four generations. Their essays deal variously with theoretical issues, with questions of theme, genre, and perspective, and with interpretations of particular authors and texts. The editors of the volume provide a general introduction to the nature and development of ideological critique, and an afterword that discusses the coherence of the volume as a whole and its implications for further study.
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This impressive volume includes five masterpieces of children's literature. A must-have for any enthusiastic reader of the classics, this incredibly priced collection includes A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
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Invites readers to learn more about the great authors and books of Western culture, and inspires them to read these masterworks. Illustrated, printed in color.
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The Odyssey, by Homer, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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Long before The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Harry Potter, the ancient Greek poet Homer established the standard for tales of epic quests and heroic journeys with The Odyssey. Crowded with characters, both human and non-human, and bursting with action, The Odyssey details the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and hero of the Trojan War, as he struggles to return to his home and his waiting, ever-faithful wife, Penelope.

Along the way he encounters the seductive Circe, who changes men into swine; the gorgeous water-nymph, Calypso, who keeps him a “prisoner of love” for seven years; the terrible, one-eyed, man-eating giant Cyclops; and a host of other ogres, wizards, sirens, and gods. But when he finally reaches Ithaca after ten years of travel, his trials have only begun. There he must battle the scheming noblemen who, thinking him dead, have demanded that Penelope choose one of them to be her new husband—and Ithaca’s new king.



Often called the “second work of Western literature” (The Iliad, also by Homer, being the first), The Odyssey is not only a rousing adventure drama, but also a profound meditation on courage, loyalty, family, fate, and undying love. More than three thousand years old, it was the first story to delineate carefully and exhaustively a single character arc — a narrative structure that serves as the foundation and heart of the modern novel. Robert Squillace’s revision of George Herbert Palmer’s classic prose translation captures the drama and vitality of adventure, while remaining true to the original Homeric language.



Robert Squillace teaches in the Cultural Foundations division of New York University’s General Studies Program. He has published numerous essays on literature and the book Modernism, Modernity and Arnold Bennett.


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Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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Great Expectations, described by G. K. Chesterton as a “study in human weakness and the slow human surrender,” may be called Charles Dickens’s finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career.

In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan named Pip. The convict terrifies the young boy and threatens to kill him unless Pip helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in the ruined garden where he meets the bitter and crazy Miss Havisham and her foster child Estella, with whom he immediately falls in love. After a secret benefactor gives him a fortune, Pip moves to London, where he cultivates great expectations for a life which would allow him to discard his impoverished beginnings and socialize with the idle upper class. As Pip struggles to become a gentleman and is tormented endlessly by the beautiful Estella, he slowly learns the truth about himself and his illusions.

Written in the last decade of his life, Great Expectations reveals Dickens’s dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure, and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickens’s most popular. Richly comic and immensely readable, Great Expectations overspills with vividly drawn characters, moral maelstroms, and the sorrow and pity of love.



Radhika Jones is a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the managing editor of Grand Street magazine.


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A retrospective of the Bloom County comic strip from 1986 until its conclusion in 1989. One of the most beloved and avidly read comic strips of all time, Bloom County not only became a part of, but helped define, the popular culture of a decade. This collection is destined to become a classic.
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Here, translated into modern idiom, are many works of the authors whose ideas have consitituted the mainstream of classical thought. This volume of new translations was born of necessity, to answer the needs of a course in Greek and Roman culture offered by the Department of Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Since its original publication in 1952, Classics in Translation has been adopted by many different academic insititutions to fill similar needs of their undergraduate students. This new printing is further evidence of this collection's general acceptance by teachers, students, and the reviewing critics.


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Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha--are all involved at some level. Brilliantly bound up with this psychological drama is Dostoevsky's intense and disturbing exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, freedom of will, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism. Filled with eloquent voices, this new translation fully realizes the power and dramatic virtuosity of Dostoevsky's most brilliant work.
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The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of letters and small-scale theological treatises from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, several of whom were probably disciples of the Apostles, they provide a first-hand account of the early Church and outline a form of early Christianity still drawing on the theology and traditions of its parent religion, Judaism. Included here are the first Epistle of Bishop Clement of Rome, an impassioned plea for harmony; The Epistle of Polycarp; The Epistle of Barnabas; The Didache; and the Seven Epistles written by Ignatius of Antioch among them his moving appeal to the Romans that they grant him a martyr's death.
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The epic tale of Odysseus' extraordinary ten-year voyage home after the Trojan War.

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Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.

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A perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to read aloud to their children aged five to twelve. Line drawings.
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This anthology provides¿in a convenient, readable and economical format¿the most celebrated and enduring children's literary works. Unlike other surveys of children's literature that present a large number of samples, excerpts and synopses of many kinds and genres in the field, Classic of Children's Literature provides novels, stories, and fairy tales in their entirety. Featured selections include: E. B. White's modern masterpiece, Charlotte's Web; Margery William Bianco's classic fantasy, The Velveteen Rabbit; the Mowgli stories from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books; and an array of children's verses: John Newbery's Mother Goose's Melody, Heinrich Hoffman's Struwwelpeter, nonsense verse by Edward Lear, and sixteen poems from Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. For literature enthusiasts.


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You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you'd rather rent the videos than head to your local library. Don't tear up your library card yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature teaches you all about the rich tradition of American prose and poetry, so you can fully appreciate its magnificent diversity. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:


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This book is a rich selection of writing that has influenced the twentieth century and beyond. With one hundred of the best titles fully reviewed and a further five hundred recommended, you'll quickly set out on a journey of discovery. The book also allows you to browse by theme and includes "a reader's fast-guide to the classics," past award-winners, and book club recommendations.


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These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day.

The Scarlet Letter vividly records America’s moral and historical roots in Puritan New England and masterfully re-creates a society’s preoccupation with sin, guilt, and pride.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn carries readers along on Huck’s unforgettable journey down the Mississippi in America’s foremost comic epic—the first great novel in a truly American voice.

The Red Badge of Courage re-creates the brutal reality of war and its psychological impact on a young Civil War soldier in one of the most moving and widely read American novels.

Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories joins the world’s great tragic literature as a doomed seaman becomes the innocent victim of a clash between social authority and individual freedom.
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This novel's unsentimental evocation of childhood in the English countryside stands as an enduring triumph; but equally memorable are its portrayal of a narrow, tradition-bound society, its striking, superbly drawn heroine, Maggie Tulliver, and its dramatic unfolding of tragic human destiny.
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First published in 1923, this anthology provides a cross-section of Lawrence's writing on American literature. It includes landmark essays on Benjamin Franklin, Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. The volume offers the final 1923 version of the text in a newly corrected and uncensored form, and earlier (often very different) versions of many of the essays, and other materials (including four versions of Lawrence's pioneering essay on Whitman).
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Last season we published The National Review Treasury of Classic Children’s Literature—a lavishly illustrated book that featured forty-two delightful and wholesome children's stories from some of America’s best writers from a century past. We are now pleased to introduce The National Review Treasury of Classic Children’s Literature, Volume Two, with stories again personally selected by William F. Buckley Jr. Like the first volume, this collection contains dozens of stories from literary giants, many first published in St. Nicholas Magazine, the famous journal that established a golden age of children’s literature.In The National Review Treasury of Classic Children’s Literature, Volume Two, you will find: Mark Twain’s entertaining (but too-forgotten) Tom Sawyer, Detective; Jack London’s exciting sea tale, "The Cruise of the Dazzler"; Louisa May Alcott’s "The Blind Lark" and the delightful "Daisy’s Jewel-Box and How She Filled It"; Frances Hodgsen Burnett’s exquisite "The Troubles of Queen Silver-Bell" and "The Cozy Lion"; Frank Baum’s "Aunt 'Phroney’s Boy"; two of Rudyard Kipling's famous Jungle Book stories, "The King's Ankus" and "Toomai of the Elephants"; and much more.
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Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its pages is summed up a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings should respond to it. A profound mystical insight into the nature of things forms the basis for a humane morality and vision of political utopia. The ideas in this work constitute one of the main shaping forces behind Chinese spirituality, art and science, so much so that no understanding of Chinese civilisation is possible without a grasp of Taoism. This edition presents the authoritative translation by Arthur Waley, with a new Introduction reflecting recent developments in the interpretation of the work.
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The classic survey of English literature in a vibrant new edition, with Stephen Greenblatt as general editor.

A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, The Norton Anthology of English Literature is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With more than ninety authors, the Major Authors Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night to the greats of the nineteenth century—Blake and Wordsworth, Tennyson and Barrett Browning—to twentieth-century classics of a truly global English literature—Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Woolf's A Room of One's Own, poetry by Derek Walcott, and prose by Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie, to name but a few. Color plates—over seventy-five in all—bring to life the cultural concerns of each period. Concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines, and selected bibliographies help readers understand and enjoy the rich diversity of English literature.
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This illustrated and fully updated third edition is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available. Covering everything from Old English to contemporary writing from all over the English-speaking world, the new edition has been brought completely up to date with more than 280 new author entries, most of which are for living authors. The general reader will find the volume a fascinating reference to browse through and to discover many new writers and works, while students will find it an invaluable resource for daily use. Previous Edition (1994) 0-521-44086-6
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With adoptions at over 1,300 colleges and universities in its first semester; the Seventh Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Seventh Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format. More selections by women and twentieth-century writers, a richer offering of contextual writings and apparatus fully revised to reflect today's scholarship make the Seventh Edition the choice for breadth, depth, and quality.

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1893. Based originally on Bulfinch's Age of Fable (1855). Classroom text from Gayley, Professor of the English Language and Literature in the University of California. From the Preface: In the Commentary four things have been attempted: first, an explanation, under each section, of ordinary textual difficulties; second, an unpretentious exposition of the myth or a brief statement of the more evident interpretations advanced by philologists or ethnologists; third, an indication of certain additional poems or verses that illustrate the myth; fourth, special mention of such masterpieces of ancient and modern sculpture and painting as may serve to introduce the student or the general reader to a field of aesthetic profit neglected by the great mass of our people. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Using the example of The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter to explore the impact of new media and technologies on how children learn about stories and reading, this book investigates nearly 100 re-tellings in a variety of media, some authorized by Potter's publisher Frederick Warne, some unauthorized. It looks at the implications of converging developments in children's literature: new media and technologies now readily available to children leading to new conventions and protocols of storytelling; changing commercial pressures on publishers and an emphasis on producing commodities associated with books and videos; saturation marketing which targets children and adults in different ways; and a cultural emphasis on the fragmentation, adaptation, and re-working of texts.
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The American literary tradition is so rich and varied that the Penguin Classics editors have grouped the collection into two volumes, with Volume I focused on the novels, short stories, and poetry through the 19th century, and Volume II focused on the political writings, memoirs, and narratives that chronicle the birth and growth of the nation.

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Esther by Henry Adams
The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott
Work by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward by Horatio Alger
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce
Edgar Huntly by Charles Brockden Brown
Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist by Charles Brockden Brown
The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette by William Hill Brown
Clotel by William Wells Brown
The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable
Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line by Charles W. Chesnutt
The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt
Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie by Kate Chopin
At Fault by Kate Chopin
A Vocation and a Voice by Kate Chopin
The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper
The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty by John W. De Forest
Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern
The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
Nights with Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings by Bret Harte
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Selected Tales and Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells
The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
The Emigrants by Gilbert Imlay
Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
The Awkward Age by Henry James
The Europeans by Henry James
Roderick Hudson by Henry James
Henry James by Henry James
The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories by Henry James
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
The Princess Casamassima by Henry James
The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James
The Bostonians by Henry James
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
The American by Henry James
Washington Square by Henry James
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers by Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Ambassadors by Henry James
Daisy Miller by Henry James
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett
Selected Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
Redburn by Herman Melville
Typee by Herman Melville
Pierre by Herman Melville
Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple by Susanna Rowson
Hope Leslie by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
A New-England Tale by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard
The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
Roughing It by Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
The Portable Mark Twain by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
Early American Drama
Four Stories by American Women
Complete Writings by Phillis Wheatley
The Complete Poems by Walt Whitman
The Portable Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass (Classics Deluxe Edition) by Walt Whitman
Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson
American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings by Zitkala-Sa

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William Wilberforce, the great British statesman, is best known as the driving force in Parliament that ended the slave trade in England. His tireless perseverance and deep-rooted trust in the gospel made him one of England s most effective political leaders. His book Real Christianity shows us the passion that fueled his life. Today, as the gap between real Christianity and cultural Christianity is as wide as it has ever been, it is important to look at Wilberforce as a guide to help us move beyond being a Christian in name only and towards being a dynamic, world-changing follower of Christ.
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Paul Lachlan Peck, M. Ed., the editor of Classic Children’s Literature for Your Home Library: 550 Years of Delightful Reading (1450–2000), is an inveterate bibliophile apart from being an ordained minister and family counselor. Here he has put together a wonderful list of books covering 550 years of children’s literature. More than 130 books are reviewed by more than sixty friends and family members, whose ages range from 7½ to 93 years. This is a terrific guide for building a children’s library in your home. Peck has a M. Ed in education and has served several universities as an administrator and volunteer chaplain. He has written many other books including an autobiography entitled Worth the Room. Net profits from this book go to Syracuse University to study child abuse alleviation.
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This remarkable book explores the history in literature and tradition of the wondrous fairies. Capricious and vengeful, or beautiful and generous, they've held us in thrall for generations.
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