Wuthering Heights (New Riverside Editions) by Wadsworth Publishing $17.95
In addition to the complete, authoritative edition of the novel, this volume contains, among other material: excerpts from The Gondol Saga, the juvenalia that Emily wrote with sister Anne and the basis for the later Wuthering Heights; newspaper accounts of the Liverpool slave trade, believed to be influential in the creation of Heathcliff's background; Irish folktales told by the Reverend Bronte...
Moby Dick by Wadsworth Publishing $27.95
Moby Dick is a vast and dangerous white whale. An enemy for many years after the whale bit off his leg, the crazed Captain Ahab is obsessed with his quarry. Together with his extraordinary crew, Ahab braves the oceans of the world to hunt the fearsome Moby Dick. Geraldine McCaughrean is one of the most distinguished living children's authors. She has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread...
College Admissions: What Matters Most by Testing Is Easy LLC $0.99
College Admissions: What Matters Most is NOT a normal college admissions book.It doesn't tell you how to craft your personal statements or ask your teachers for letters of recommendation.It doesn't tell you how to choose a major, or how to fill out the common application.Instead, it covers the things you should think about before you dive headlong into an admissions campaign, before you put...
Up from Slavery (Oxford World's Classics) by William L. Andrews $9.95
For the 50 years that followed its publication in 1901, Up from Slavery was the most widely known book written by an African American. The life of Booker T. Washington embodied the legendary rise of an American self-made man, and his autobiography gave voice for the first time to a vast group that had to pull itself up from nothing. In the well-documented ordeals and observations of this humble...
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson (Random House Large Print) by Random House Large Print $20.00
It’s been ten years since Mitch Albom first shared the wisdom of Morrie Schwartz with the world. Now–twelve million copies later–in a new afterword, Mitch Albom reflects again on the meaning of Morrie’s life lessons and the gentle, irrevocable impact of their Tuesday sessions all those years ago. . . _____Maybe it was...
Sense and Sensibility (New Riverside Editions) by Wadsworth Publishing $31.95
Accompanying the complete text of Sense and Sensibility are a variety of supporting materials, including selected literary works in the sentimental tradition; the text of Love and Freindship (sic), Austen's youthful burlesque of the sentimental literature of the time; and an excerpt from Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. In addition, a selection of Romantic poems demonstrates...
The First Men in the Moon (Oxford World's Classics) by David Lake $6.95
The most dazzling of Wells' "scientific romances" and the last of the series that began with The Time Machine, this edition offers the only annotated version of The First Men in the Moon. Wells combines subtle comedy and thrilling adventure in this engaging satire of imperialism and human frailty in which the heroes invade the moon, only to be captured by the ant-like Selenites. Wells...
The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Kentucky and the 2.1 Seconds That Changed Basketball by Blue Rider Press $26.95
The definitive book on the greatest game in the history of college basketball, and the dramatic road both teams took to get there. March 28, 1992. The final of the NCAA East Regional, Duke vs. Kentucky. The 17,848 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia and the millions watching on TV could say they saw the greatest game and the greatest shot in the history of college basketball. But it wasn't just...
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Grover Gardner $20.00
In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing...
Hamlet:The Harcourt Brace Casebook Series in Literature by Laurie G. Kirszner $19.95
Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a student needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location.