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...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Courage Literary Classics) by Courage Books $5.98
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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 Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 by General Books LLC $24.21
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Authors, American; Short stories, American; American poetry; Fiction / Classics; Literary Collections / General; Fiction / Short Stories; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Horror; Fiction / Literary;...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: 125th Anniversary EditionThe only authoritative text based on the complete, original manuscript. (Mark Twain Library) by Victor Fischer $21.95
This 125th Anniversary edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is expanded with thoroughly updated notes and references, and a selection of original documents--letters, advertisements, playbills--some never before published, from Twain's first book tour.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2 by General Books LLC $25.04
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fantasy literature, American/ History and criticism; Authors, American/ 19th century/ Biography; Authors, American - 19th century - Biography; Poe, Edgar Allan; Fantasy literature, American - History...

Civil Disobedience by Applewood Books $9.95
Originally published in 1849 as "Resistance to Civil Government," Thoreau's classic essay on resistance to the laws and acts of government that he considered unjust was largely ignored until the Twentieth Century when Mohandas Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and anti-Vietnam War activists applied Thoreau's principles.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 3 by General Books LLC $25.14
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The Beautiful and Damned (Oxford World's Classics) by Alan Margolies $9.95
Fitzgerald's ironic epigraph to The Beautiful and the Damned exemplifies his attitude toward the young rootless post-World War I generation. Fitzgerald here once again displays a wariness of the upper classes--"an abiding distrust, and animosity toward the leisure class--not the conviction of a revolutionist but the smoldering hatred of a peasant."

The Souls of Black Folk (Oxford World's Classics) by Brent Hayes Edwards $12.95
Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, this book vaulted Du Bois to the forefront of American political commentary and civil rights activism. It is an impassioned, at times searing account of the situation of African Americans in the...