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Product DescriptionIt happened in the ‘seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas’s Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and had also to entertain his relatives and friends at home. But... 

ISBN13: 9780787982577 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Product DescriptionThe definitive reference for reading and literacy from kindergarten through college This comprehensive... 

Product DescriptionFirst published in 1957, A GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS contains succinct essays on the terms used in discussing literature, literary history, and literary criticism. This text is an indispensable reference for students. A Glossary of Literary Terms  Read More →

Product DescriptionIn the dusk of an October evening, a sensible looking woman of forty came out through an oaken door to a broad landing on the first floor of an old English country-house. A braid of her hair had fallen forward as if she had been stooping over book or pen; and she stood for a moment to smooth it, and to gaze... 

ISBN13: 9780679734031 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Product Description“John Gardner was famous for his generosity to young writers, and (this book) is his . . . gift... 

Product DescriptionTHE first three numbers in this collection are tales of the White Hills in New Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had visited the mountains in one of his occasional rambles from home, but there are no entries in his Note Books which give accounts of such a visit. There... 

Product DescriptionThe Edgar Award–winning novel A Conspiracy of Paper was one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659—a mysterious world of trade... 

Product DescriptionLong the classic anthology of poetry in English, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fifth Edition, adds to its wealth of known and loved poems a rich gathering of new poetry. Beginning with Beowulf, newly represented by selections from Seamus Heaney’s dazzling translation, and continuing to the present... 

Product DescriptionThe ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is only pretended that inasmuch as they existed in the English and... 

Product DescriptionTwo classic stories-one indispensable volume. Timeless tales of wolves, dogs, men, and the wild, The Call of the Wild and White Fang are two of the world’s greatest adventure stories. The Call of the Wild and White Fang  Read More →

Product DescriptionThe great farm hall was ablaze with the fire-light, and noisy with laughter and talk and many-sounding work. None could be idle but the very young and the very old: little Rol, who was hugging a puppy, and old Trella, whose palsied hand fumbled over her knitting. The early evening had closed in, and the farm-servants,... 

Product DescriptionThe text of Wharton’s richly allusive Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel of Old New York is accompanied by necessarily rigorous annotation. Contexts constructs the historical foundations of the novel, with documents on the “New York Four Hundred,” elite social gatherings, and archery (the... 

ISBN13: 9780764586019 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionA fascinating and tragic story of a man obsessed with the idea of success in America. Gatsby’s singularity of purpose makes him a caricature of many American ideologies, all told in a spectacular, artful narrative. Fitzgerald’s... 

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Product DescriptionA selection of Western literature containing only works written originally in the ancient and modern foreign languages. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces  Read More →

Product DescriptionThis best-selling anthology continues to combine a generous and vibrant selection of stories, poems, and plays with editorial features proven to help students read, think, and write effectively about literature. Now featuring unique visual portfolios and a CD-ROM packed with activities and contextual material,... 

Product DescriptionIt was well along in the forenoon of a bitter winter’s day The town of Eastport, in the state of Maine, lay buried under a deep snow that was newly fallen The customary bustle in the streets was wanting. One could look long distances down them and see nothing but a dead-white emptiness, with silence... 

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ISBN13: 9780679414445 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionAcclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century. As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed... 

ISBN13: 9780060915414 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionHere, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings. Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters  Read More →

Product DescriptionThe rich tradition of Kennedy and Gioia’s collective poetic voice brings personal warmth and a human perspective to the discussion of literature. “Writer’s “Perspectives” sections give commentary on the craft of writing and revising from authors, which provide insight and a... 

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Product DescriptionThe market leader in literacy education, Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach continues to evolve to meet the needs of a changing world. Crafted for the undergraduate K-8 literacy course, this comprehensive and thoroughly applied text continues to cover the information new and experienced teachers... 

Product DescriptionThis anthology of fiction, poetry, and drama is dedicated to the interlocking processes of reading and writing. In addition to literary selections, each chapter contains information on and sample essays for writing about literature. Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing  Read More →

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Product DescriptionThe streets of Stoneham, New Hampsire are lined with bookstores…and paved with murder. When she moved to Stoneham, city slicker Tricia Miles met nothing but friendly faces. And when she opened her mystery bookstore, she met friendly competition. But when she finds Doris Gleason dead in her own cookbook... 

Product DescriptionIn the days when New York’s traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy of Design, an inconspicuous shop with a single show-window was intimately... 

Product DescriptionThe ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it... 

Product DescriptionBased on the 1892 New England Magazine text, this teaching edition of The Yellow Wallpaper includes a generous selection of historical materials. The documents are organized into thematic units and features nineteenth-century advice manuals for young women and mothers; medical texts discussing the nature... 

Product DescriptionWELL, it was the next spring after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time he was chained up for a runaway slave down there on Tom’s uncle Silas’s farm in Arkansaw. The frost was working out of the ground, and out of the air, too, and it was getting closer and closer onto barefoot... 

ISBN13: 9780393050943 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionAn engaging, accessible guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition. Surrounded by more books than ever, readers today are frequently daunted by the classics they have left unread. The Well-Educated Mind,...