Great Expectations (Clarendon Dickens) by Margaret Cardwell $275.00
The newest addition to the acclaimed Clarendon Dickens is based on the three-volume 1861 edition; variant readings, including those in manuscript and extant proofs, are recorded in the textual apparatus, providing an unusually rich source of information on Dickens's methods of composition. Appendices include the original ending, the author's notes, and two textual examinations, one of the five...
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter by Elmer Kennedy-Andrews $23.50
Introduces and sets in context the enormous range of critical arguments that have been generated by this enduring work. From the comments and reviews of Hawthorne's contemporaries through discussions of the novel by fellow artists such as Henry James and D.H. Lawrence, to radical re-readings of the postwar decades, the reader is given an invaluable guide to the critical progress of this key...
David Copperfield (Read Red) by Penguin Classics/Press $7.85
This is the novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experience from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, and the 'umble Uriah Heep, along with Mr Micawber, a...
Treasure Island, with eBook by Michael Prichard $19.99
Young Jim Hawkins lives a quiet life as the son of an innkeeper. This all changes when an ancient sailor takes up lodging at the inn. Jim is both horrified and fascinated by the captain's bloody stories. But when the old man dies without paying his bill, Jim must search the sailor's one possession, a large sea chest, for payment. In doing so, he unknowingly pockets an old map from the chest. But...
Jane Eyre (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Susan Ostrov Weisser $7.95
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, 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: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars...
Oliver Twist by Academic Industries
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Cliffs Notes) by Cliffs Notes $5.99
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.With help from CliffsNotes on Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, you explore the first book-length narrative by an...
Little Women (Broadview Literary Texts) by Broadview Press $16.95
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s masterpiece of Children’s literature, is the story of the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Living in a small Massachusetts town, the girls and Mrs. March must make do while Mr. March is away serving as an Army Chaplain during the Civil War. At the story’s center lies Jo who, as she approaches adulthood, must reconcile her duties to her family with her...
Les Miserables by Frederick Davidson $69.95
[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] [This unabridged version is translated from the French by Charles E. Wilbour]This is the great French novel that opened new horizons of literature in the nineteenth century. Les Miserables is a romantic novel packed with revealing incidents of slum life and poverty in the Parisian underworld of early nineteenth century France. The story follows the...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain Library) by Paul Baender $16.95
This is Mark Twain's first novel about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred," he tells us. This is a book one never forgets: Tom whitewashing...