Chronological Period/17th Century
-
Girl with a Pearl Earring
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling novel by the author of A Single Thread and At the Edge of the Orchard
Translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Scarlett Johan
- Author: Chevalier, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0452282152
- Language: English
-
They Flew: A History of the Impossible
$35.00 Read moreAn award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance
“Historically rich and superbly written.”–David J. Davis, Wall Street Journa- Author: Eire, Carlos M. N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300259808
- Language: English
-
The Scarlet Letter
$5.95 Add to cartHailed by Henry James as “the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country,” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter reaches to our nation’s historical and moral roots for the mat… [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 247
- Publish Date: February 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0553210092
- Language: English
-
Seesaw Girl
$8.99 Add to cartThe powerful tale of a sheltered girl’s daring attempts to enlarge her world, from Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park.
Jade Blossom never ventures beyond the walls of her family’s Inner Court. In seventee
- Author: Park, Linda Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547248881
- Language: English
-
Squanto’s Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving
$9.99 Add to cartIn 1620 an English ship called the Mayflower landed on the shores inhabited by the Pokanoket, and it was Squanto who welcomed the newcomers and taught them how to survive. When a good harvest was gath
- Author: Bruchac, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0152060448
- Language: English
-
Blood on the River: James Town, 1607
$9.99 Add to cartTwelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he can’t believe
- Author: Carbone, Elisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0142409324
- Language: English
-
The Scarlet Letter
$8.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Kathryn Harrison
A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter
Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 19, 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783385
- Language: English
-
Year of Wonders
$18.00 Add to cart“Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion.” – The Washington Post
An unforgettable tale, set in 17th century England, o… [more below]- Author: Brooks, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0142001430
- Language: English
-
Paradise Lost
$10.95 Add to cartFrom almost the moment of its publication in 1667, Paradise Lost was considered a classic. It is difficult now to appreciate how audacious an undertaking the epic represents, and how astonishing its i… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Milton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535744
- Language: English
-
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
$32.50 Add to cartNamed a Top 100 Must-Read Book of the Year by Time and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker * Winner of the 2024 Writers’ Prize for Nonfiction * Shortlisted for the Inaugural Women’s Prize for No… [more below]
- Author: Cumming, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982181745
- Language: English
-
Thanksgiving on Thursday
$6.99 Add to cartMagic. Mystery. Time-travel. Take a trip back to the first Thankgiving with Jack and Annie and the Magic Tree House– the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time!
It’s a time for giving thanks… [more below]- Series: Magic Tree House (R) #27
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 24, 2002
- ISBN10: 0375806156
- Language: English
-
Paradise Lost
$12.00 Add to cartJohn Milton’s celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man’s existence
A Penguin Classic In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vas- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Milton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140424393
- Language: English
-
The Scarlet Letter
$9.00 Add to cartThe canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta
At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarl- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107666
- Language: English
-
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
$29.99 Add to cartNo library is complete without the classics! This leather-bound edition includes the complete works of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare, considered by many to be the English language’s grea… [more below]
- Series: Leather-Bound Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Leather
- Page Count: 1392
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 162686098X
- Language: English
-
Lord’s Supper
$0.00 Read moreTo Thomas Watson, the Lord’s Supper was a visible sermon, a mirror in which to gaze on the sufferings and death of Christ. ‘God, to help our faith, does not only give us an audible Word, but a visible… [more below]
- Series: Puritan Paperbacks
- Author: Watson, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0851518540
- Language: English
-
Macbeth
$12.99 Add to cartThis edition of Macbeth is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credential… [more below]
- Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0198324006
- Language: English
-
The Crucible
$14.00 Add to cartA haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community
The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants b- Series: Penguin Plays
- Author: Miller, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 28 1976
- ISBN10: 0140481389
- Language: English
-
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
$19.95 Read moreLiterary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanic… [more below]
- Author: Federici, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 285
- Publish Date: September 15 2004
- ISBN10: 1570270597
- Language: English
-
Macbeth
$6.99 Add to cartThe authoritative edition of Macbeth from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.
In 1603, James VI of Scotland ascended the En- Series: Folger Shakespeare Library
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01, 2003
- ISBN10: 0743477103
- Language: English
-
The Thirty Years War
$24.95 Add to cartEurope in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg–as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of th
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Wedgwood, C. V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: June 30, 2005
- ISBN10: 1590171462
- Language: English
