The Scarlet Letter (Signet Classics) by Brenda Wineapple $3.95
A passionate young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging, vengeful husband are the central characters in this stark drama of the conflict between passion and convention in the harsh world of seventeenth-century Boston. Tremendously moving and rich in psychological insight, this tragic novel of sin and redemption addresses our Puritan past. Depicting the struggle between mind and heart,...

Little Women (Penguin Classics) by Siobhan Kilfeather $20.00
Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have become a part of this remarkable family and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the circle of...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Classic Collection (Brilliance Audio)) by Dick Hill $19.99
Generations of readers have enjoyed the ingenuous triumphs and feckless mishaps of boyhood days on the Mississippi. This classic of American wit and storytelling introduced Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, Aunt Polly, the Widow Douglas, and many other characters to the world; including, of course, the boy who "was cordially hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town, because he was idle and...

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Norton Critical Editions) by Elizabeth Ammons $7.93
In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any other book in the world except the Bible.It was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. The book had a far-reaching impact and deeply affected the national conscience of antebellum America. The Norton Critical Edition text is that of the 1852 book edition, published in two volumes by John...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (The Classic Collection) by Dick Hill $19.99
When we first met "the pariah of the village . . .the son of the drunkard" in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Tom was "under strict orders not to play with him", so he played with him every time he got the chance. Twain took his most outrageous and outcast character (and perhaps the one he loved the most), Huckleberry Finn, from the book and wrote his own Adventures. This giant work, in addition...

Life on the Mississippi (Oxford World's Classics) by John Seelye $8.95
The spirit of the Mississippi flows through all Mark Twain's best work and here the romantic heyday of the steamboat is recalled in a characteristically nostalgic mixture of journalism and autobiography. He describes people and places with affection and humour, but of the Mississippi itself, on which he was once a cub pilot travelling between New Orleans and St Louis, he writes with repect and...

Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Andrew Delbanco $11.95
Herman Melville's sea classic comes to life on the small screen in a 4-hour miniseries directed by Academy Award-winner Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather series) and starring the highly acclaimed Patrick Stewart.

Leaves of Grass (Classic Books on CD Collection) [UNABRIDGED] by Audio Book Contractors, Inc. $19.95
Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his...

The Last of the Mohicans (Scribner's Illustrated Classics) by N.C. Wyeth $28.00
During the French and Indian War, adventure and tragedy befall two sisters as they travel through the wilderness near Lake Champlain trying to join their father, the British commander of Fort William Henry. Full-color illustrations.

The Gift of the Magi by Carol Heyer $14.95
the classic story of giving is beautifully retold with breathtaking illustrations by an award-winning artist.