Didactic fiction
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Ishmael
$21.00 Add to cartOne of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword a… [more below]
- Series: Ishmael #1
- Author: Quinn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0553375407
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
$9.00 Add to cartAn astounding novel of decadence, debauchery, and secrecy from one of Ireland’s greatest writers. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Enthralled by his own- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0141439572
- Language: English
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The Choice
$9.99 Add to cartChoice The key is Choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But, hold on If this is true then why have so many amo… [more below]
- Author: Mandino, Og
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0553245767
- Language: English
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The Fountainhead
$25.00 Add to cartThe revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand’s groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim.
This modern classic is the story of intransige- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0452273331
- Language: English
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North and South
$9.99 Read moreWith an Introduction and Notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman, University of Hull.
Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author’s first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the hero
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 05 1993
- ISBN10: 1853260932
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
$55.00 Add to cartThe Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had–in the words of
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0674057929
- Language: English
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
$11.95 Read moreElfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of hi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538492
- Language: English
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Sister Carrie
$13.95 Add to cartWhen a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dreiser, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539081
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
$7.99 Read moreEnriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students an… [more below]
- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1416500278
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
$55.00 Add to cartThe Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had–in the words of
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0674057929
- Language: English
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The Cot in the Living Room
$18.99 Read moreA young Dominican American girl in New York City moves from jealousy to empathy as her parents babysit children whose families work overnight shifts in this honest and warm picture book debut.
Night a- Author: Burgos, Hilda Eunice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0593110471
- Language: English
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Turtle Moon
$22.00 Add to cartA “captivating…truly original novel” (Cosmopolitan) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic.
“Ms. Hoffman writes quite wonderfully about the magic in our lives and in the ba- Author: Hoffman, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0425161285
- Language: English
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Effi Briest
$15.95 Add to cart‘I loathe what I did, but what I loathe even more is your virtue.’
Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest is steered by her parents into marriage with an ambitious bureaucrat, twenty years her senior. He take- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Fontane, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199675643
- Language: English
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The Harder They Fall
$34.35 Add to cartThe celebrated novel of the prize ring that has lost none of its power since its first publication almost fifty years ago. “The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption.”-USA Today.
- Author: Schulberg, Budd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 357
- Publish Date: February 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1566631076
- Language: English
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Arabian Nights and Days
$15.95 Add to cartThe Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets,… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0385469012
- Language: English
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My Bindi
$17.99 Read moreIn this universal story about embracing who we are and where we come from, a young girl finds the magic and power of wearing a bindi for the first time, in this moving and lyrical picture book debut f… [more below]
- Author: Varadarajan, Gita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1338598813
- Language: English
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Daniel Deronda
$13.00 Add to cartAs Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: February 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140434275
- Language: English
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Jude the Obscure
$11.00 Add to cart“I’m an outsider to the end of my days!”
Jude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Chri- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140435387
- Language: English
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Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded
$9.94 Add to cartOne of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of o… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Richardson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 019953649X
- Language: English
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Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
$10.99 Add to cartThe author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance examines life’s essential issues as he recounts the journey down the Hudson River in a sailboat of his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus.
- Author: Pirsig, Robert
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0553299611
- Language: English
