Dover Thrift Editions
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The Jungle
$8.00 Add to cartAn ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for The Jungle — his devastating expos? of the meat-packing industry
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Sinclair, Upton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0486419231
- Language: English
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The War of the Worlds
$10.00 Add to cartOne of the most famous science-fiction stories ever written, The War of the Worlds helped launch the entire genre by exploiting the concept of interplanetary travel.
First published in 1898, the novel… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 145
- Publish Date: January 10 1997
- ISBN10: 0486295060
- Language: English
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Ethan Frome
$5.00 Add to cartPerhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton’s novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. Set against a bleak New England background, the novel tells of Frome, his ailing wi… [more below]
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- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0486266907
- Language: English
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Dark Night of the Soul
$6.00 Add to cartThe great Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross became a Carmelite monk in 1563 and helped St. Teresa of Avila to reform the Carmelite order — enduring persecution and imprisonment for his efforts. Bo
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- Author: St John of the Cross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0486426939
- Language: English
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Cyrano de Bergerac
$6.00 Add to cartWidely considered the most popular modern French play, Cyrano de Bergerac has dazzled audiences with its wit and eloquence since it premiered in 1897.
Cyrano, a quarrelsome, hot-tempered swordsman, as- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Rostand, Edmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 24 2000
- ISBN10: 0486411192
- Language: English
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The Gold-Bug and Other Tales
$6.00 Add to cartRecognized today as the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) revealed his genius in tales of death, terror, evil, and perversity. Highly skilled in achiev
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- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0486268756
- Language: English
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Great Expectations
$8.00 Add to cartIn this unflaggingly suspenseful story of aspirations and moral redemption, humble, orphaned Pip, a ward of his short-tempered older sister and her husband, Joe, is apprenticed to the dirty work of th
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- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0486415864
- Language: English
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The Trial
$8.00 Read more“Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.” From its gripping first sentence onward, this novel exemplifies the term “”Ka… [more below]
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- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 048647061X
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers
$8.00 Add to cartAn excellent reference for anyone who wants a better understanding of the Constitution, this compilation of eighty-five articles explains and defends the ideals behind the highest form of law in the U… [more below]
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- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 20, 2014
- ISBN10: 0486496368
- Language: English
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Walden, Or, Life in the Woods
$8.00 Add to cartNature was a form of religion for naturalist, essayist, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-62). In communing with the natural world, he wished to “live deliberately, to front only th
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- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 1995
- ISBN10: 0486284956
- Language: English
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Jane Eyre
$8.00 Add to cartDetermined to make her heroine “as poor and plain as myself,” Charlotte Brontë made a daring choice for her 1847 novel. Jane Eyre possesses neither the great beauty nor entrancing charm that her fict
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- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 16, 2003
- ISBN10: 0486424499
- Language: English
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Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic
$17.00 Read moreAs chief advisor to the emperor Nero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was most influential in ancient Rome as a power behind the throne. His lasting fame derives from his writings on Stoic ideology, in which ph… [more below]
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- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0486811247
- Language: English
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The Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration
$7.00 Read moreA highly influential figure in the Age of Enlightenment in England and France, whose works helped inspire the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, John Locke was one of the most impo… [more below]
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- Author: Locke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0486424642
- Language: English
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Siddhartha
$6.00 Add to cartThis classic novel of self-discovery has inspired generations of seekers. With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse’s Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin’s quest for the ultimate… [more below]
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- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0486406539
- Language: English
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Medea
$5.00 Add to cartOne of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the
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- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 19, 1993
- ISBN10: 0486275485
- Language: English
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Great American Short Stories: Hawthorne, Poe, Cather, Melville, London, James, Crane, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Bierce, Twain & More
$8.00 Add to cartFeaturing 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1835 tale “Young Goodman Brown” and r… [more below]
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- Author: Negri, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: 23-Jul-02
- ISBN10: 0486421198
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice
$7.00 Add to cartOne of the most universally loved and admired English novels, Pride and Prejudice was penned as a popular entertainment. But the consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775-1817) transformed this efferve… [more below]
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- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: 12-Apr-95
- ISBN10: 0486284735
- Language: English
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The World’s Greatest Short Stories: Selections from Hemingway, Tolstoy, Woolf, Chekhov, Joyce, Updike and More
$8.00 Add to cartWonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe.
Included… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Daley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: 28-Apr-06
- ISBN10: 0486447162
- Language: English
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$6.00 Add to cartReferring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was “the most stupendous event of my whole life”; Ernest Hemingway declared that “al
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- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 26, 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280616
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment
$9.00 Add to cartThe two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load
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- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 22, 2001
- ISBN10: 0486415872
- Language: English
