Atlas Shrugged (New Edition) by Scott Brick $59.95
Ayn Rand's magnum opus, an electrifying moral defense of capitalism and free enterprise which launched an ideology and a movement is tremendous in scope and breathtaking in its suspense. The publication of this work in 1957 gained Rand an instant following and became a phenomenon. One man sets out to show what would happen to the world if all the heroes of innovation and industry went on strike....
This Side of Paradise (Oxford World's Classics) by Jackson R. Bryer Bryer $12.95
F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, made him instantly famous, and prefigured the themes and characters in later works such as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. A thinly disguised account of Fitzgerald's own Princeton years, the novel's frank description of the main character's love affairs shocked and delighted its first readers, and the book was an immediate...
The World Set Free by Shelly Frasier $36.00
In this thought provoking masterpiece, H. G. Wells predicts the inventions that will inadvertently lead to mass destruction, forcing the world to "start over."You will see many similarities between H. G. Wells' new world and today's world due to the recent technological innovations. This stimulating novel will leave you wondering if and when the remaining predictions will come to pass!
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Perennial Modern Classics $13.99
Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the Deep South defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into...
My Ántonia (Oxford World's Classics) by Janet Sharistanian $10.95
My Antonia is a classic tale of pioneer life in the American Midwest. The novel details daily life in the newly settled plains of Nebraska through the eyes of Jim Burden, who recounts memories of a childhood shared with a girl named Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of a family who have emigrated from Bohemia. As adults, Jim leaves the prairie for college and a career in the east, while Antonia...
Ethan Frome (Oxford World's Classics) by Elaine Showalter $8.95
Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In her Introduction, the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter...
O Pioneers! (Tantor Unabridged Classics) by Kate Reading $22.99
"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman," writes Willa Cather in O Pioneers! The country is America; the woman is Alexandra Bergson, a fiercely independent young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father's farm in Nebraska. A model of emotional strength, courage, and resolve, Alexandra fights long and hard to transform her father's patch of raw, wind-blasted...
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Knopf $30.00
From a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, a brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood.Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961—from Hemingway’s pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide—Paul Hendrickson traces the writer’s exultations...
Winesburg, Ohio by George K. Wilson $66.99
Winesburg, Ohio is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century. In the perfectly imagined world of Winesburg, an archetypal small American town, Anderson reveals the hidden passions that turn ordinary lives into fonts of unforgettable emotions. Played out against a deceptively placid backdrop, Anderson's loosely...
A Farewell to Arms (Wheeler Softcover) by Wheeler Publishing $25.95
First published in 1929, this draws on Hemingway's experiences of World War I, when he was badly wounded while serving with the Italians. This is a portrait of men at war which explores their deeper responses to the cruelty and heroism of battle.