American - 19th century
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Roughing It
$17.00 Add to cartA marvelously vivid, many-sided portrait of America’s frontier days.
Mark Twain’s rambling took him all over the American West during teh 1860’s. He prospected for gold and silver, speculated on timb- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 17 1981
- ISBN10: 0140390103
- Language: English
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Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life
$35.00 Read moreNow in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists.
By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almos- Author: Moland, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 07 2022
- ISBN10: 022671571X
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 12
$56.25 Add to cartThe surprising final chapter of a great American life.
When the first volume of Mark Twain’s uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his- Series: Mark Twain Papers #12
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0520279948
- Language: English
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Rip Van Winkle’s Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory
$34.95 Add to cartTwo centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe with the publication of his breakout collection of stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
- Author: Burstein, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177598
- Language: English
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The Maine Woods
$17.00 Add to cart“What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!…Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature.” -Henry David Thoreau
Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three t- Series: Classic, Nature, Penguin
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0140170138
- Language: English
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Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James
$29.95 Read moreA compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William James
William James–psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker–is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfull- Author: James, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0691240159
- Language: English
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Walt Whitman: A Life
$18.99 Add to cart“Whitman emerges from this biography alive and kicking–hugely human, enormously attractive.” —Newsweek
A moving, penetrating, sharply focused portrait of America’s greatest poet–his genius, his pas
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Kaplan, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0060535113
- Language: English
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
$13.00 Add to cartHenry David Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts–part social experiment, part spiritual quest–is an enduringly influential American classic.
I- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 26 2014
- ISBN10: 804171564
- Language: English
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Life on the Mississippi
$6.95 Add to cartAt once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twain’s early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0451531205
- Language: English
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Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition
$12.00 Add to cartThe ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars
“Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American- Series: Yale Nota Bene
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: May 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0300110081
- Language: English
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The Illustrated Emily Dickinson: 25 Essential Poems
$18.99 Add to cartIn this gorgeous collection, twenty-five of Emily Dickinson’s most beloved poems are illustrated with stunning, full-color collage artwork.
Poems include “Hope is the Thing with Feathers,” “I’m Nobod
- Series: The Illustrated Poets Collection #1
- Author: Van Cleave, Ryang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1638191077
- Language: English
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The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
$23.00 Add to cartThe Portable Edgar Allan Poe compiles Poe’s greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “T… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 1, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039911
- Language: English
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
$14.00 Add to cartA transcendentalist classic on social responsibility and a manifesto that inspired modern protest movements
Critical of 19th-century America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thor- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 25, 1983
- ISBN10: 0140390448
- Language: English
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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
$28.99 Read moreA Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes.
It is a moment shrou- Author: Dawidziak, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1250792495
- Language: English
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Emily Dickinson Face to Face
$18.00 Add to cart“Emily Dickinson springs to life in this remarkable, long-out-of-print biography written by her niece . . . Though millions of pages have been written about Dickinson . . . few have provided such a th… [more below]
- Author: Bianchi, Martha Dickinson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1946022586
- Language: English
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Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
$44.95 Add to cartOver 170 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains a figure of enduring fascination and speculation for readers, scholars, and devotees of the weird and macabre. In Fallen Angel, acclaimed noveli
- Author: Morgan, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180459
- Language: English
