Perennial Classics
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Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
$17.99 Add to cartThe groundbreaking classic detailing Margaret Mead’s first field work at age 23, establishing Mead’s core insights into childhood and culture that challenged and changed our view of life.
Rarely do sc
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Mead, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 20 2001
- ISBN10: 0688050336
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
$19.99 Add to cart“A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way.” —New York Times
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century
Simone de Be
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: De Beauvoir, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0060825197
- Language: English
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Old Yeller
$13.99 Add to cartAwarded the Newbery Honor
When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, … [more below]
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Gipson, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0060935472
- Language: English
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Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie
$18.99 Add to cart“The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America.”–The Nation
O. E. Rolvaag’s classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great Plains–a vi
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Rolvaag, OLE Edvart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0060931930
- Language: English
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Beowulf: An Updated Verse Translation
$11.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed verse translation of the timeless epic tale of bravery and battle–the enduring saga of the hero Beowulf and the monster Grendel–the first true masterpiece of English literature.
“There
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Rebsamen, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0060573783
- Language: English
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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
$24.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, this biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. covers the entire life of the leader of the Civil Rights Movement
Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Garrow, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0060566922
- Language: English
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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
$21.99 Read moreThe brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including The Death of Ivan Ilych and Family Happiness, collected and reissued with a beautiful updated design.
Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 685
- Publish Date: March 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0060586974
- 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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Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
$17.99 Add to cart“The most impressive contribution to books by Mark Twain since The Mysterious Stranger of 1916…The attitude is that of Swift, the intellectual contempt is that of Voltaire, and the imagination is th
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0060518650
- Language: English
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V.
$19.99 Add to cart“This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century.” —Atlantic Review
Acclaimed writer Thomas Pynchon’s wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men–one looking for
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Pynchon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 05, 2005
- ISBN10: 0060930217
- Language: English
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Cheaper by the Dozen
$17.99 Add to cart“A touching family portrait that also happens to be very, very funny. . . its appeal is timeless.” –Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
One of the best-loved American memoirs of an oversized family and
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Gilbreth, Frank B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 27, 2019
- ISBN10: 006008460X
- Language: English
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Immortality
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Inspired. . . . Kundera’s most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer
Milan Kunder
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 20, 1999
- ISBN10: 0060932384
- Language: English
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Alas, Babylon
$18.99 Add to cart“An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being alive.” —The New Yorker
The classic apocal
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Frank, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0060741872
- Language: English
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
$18.99 Add to cart“An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level–political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous.” —Newsweek
“The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, al
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: 7-Apr-99
- ISBN10: 0060932147
- Language: English
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Tao Te Ching: A New English Version
$16.99 Add to cartThe bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell
“Mitchell’s rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. It embodies the virtu
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Mitchell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 05, 2006
- ISBN10: 0061142662
- Language: English
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
$18.99 Add to cartInternational Bestseller – Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
“Far more than a conventional novel. It is a meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 05, 2005
- ISBN10: 0060932139
- Language: English
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Demian
$15.99 Add to cart“Hesse is a writer whose peculiar vision is worth inspecting. His world is shadowy and close to areas of the heart that will probably never see light. But his vision is a rare one, as commendable for
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 08, 2009
- ISBN10: 0060931914
- Language: English
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A Suitable Boy
$26.99 Read more“Surrender to this strange, beguiling world and be swept away on the wings of story. . . . It is difficult to imagine that many contemporary writers could give us a novel that provides so much deep sa
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Seth, Vikram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1488
- Publish Date: October 04, 2005
- ISBN10: 0060786523
- Language: English
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
$16.99 Add to cart“Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly.” —New Yorker
The famous bestseller with “concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Hoffer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 19, 2010
- ISBN10: 0060505915
- Language: English
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Native Son
$18.00 Add to cartOne of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels
“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the public
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Wright, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 006083756X
- Language: English
