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ISBN 9780439099400 (0-439-09940-4, 0439099404)

by Mark Twain

ISBN 0439099404 (0-439-09940-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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Featuring a new introduction, the classic novel of boyhood in the summer fields of Missouri follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer, his friends Huck and Becky, and his Aunt Polly. Reissue. [via]

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0451526538 (0-451-52653-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0486400778 (0-486-40077-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0520235754 (0-520-23575-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0553211285 (0-553-21128-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0582419239 (0-582-41923-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0689842244 (0-689-84224-4)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0448405601 (0-448-40560-1)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0517205769 (0-517-20576-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0520045580 (0-520-04558-0)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 068807510X (0-688-07510-X)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0753454785 (0-7534-5478-5)
Hardcover, Kingfisher Books
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0425122417 (0-425-12241-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0440900301 (0-440-90030-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0448110024 (0-448-11002-4)
Softcover, Price Stern Sloan
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0451523555 (0-451-52355-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0520045599 (0-520-04559-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 058252816X (0-582-52816-X)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0590433520 (0-590-43352-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0670869856 (0-670-86985-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0679735011 (0-679-73501-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0743406354 (0-7434-0635-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0448032643 (0-448-03264-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 051722108X (0-517-22108-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0517399911 (0-517-39991-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0517688131 (0-517-68813-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0606002987 (0-606-00298-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0670869848 (0-670-86984-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0439099404 (0-439-09940-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

ISBN 9780531169780 (0-531-16978-2, 0531169782)

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Jean Craighead George, Mark Twain

ISBN 0531169782 (0-531-16978-2)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub

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Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love. [via]

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0531169782 (0-531-16978-2)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Ted Lewin, Mark Twain

ISBN 0671437917 (0-671-43791-7)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0671437917 (0-671-43791-7)
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ISBN 9780451528698 (0-451-52869-7, 0451528697)

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Bleak House

by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth McCracken

ISBN 0451528697 (0-451-52869-7)
Softcover, Signet

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Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet. The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield, whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text, brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama. However, to abridge Dickens is, well, a Dickensian task, the results of which make for a story in which the author's convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in what seems to be a fast-forward format. Listeners must pay close attention in order to keep up with the multiple narratives and cast of curious characters, including the memorable Inspector Bucket and Mr. Guppy. Fortunately, the publisher provides a partial list of characters on the inside jacket. (Running time: 3 hours; 2 cassettes) [via]

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Bleak House

by Peter Ackroyd

ISBN 074930765X (0-7493-0765-X)
Softcover, Heinemann

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ISBN 9780395051047 (0-395-05104-5, 0395051045)

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Bleak House: Riverside Edition

by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0395051045 (0-395-05104-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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Bleak House: Riverside Edition: ISBN 0395051045 (0-395-05104-5)
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ISBN 9780451527349 (0-451-52734-8, 0451527348)

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The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett, Manuel Komroff, John Bayley

ISBN 0451527348 (0-451-52734-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The Brothers Karamazov is considered a supreme achievement in literature. Published near the end of the 19th century, it is one of the great works of world-renowned author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Brothers Karamazov tackles some of the most existential and important themes known to humankind--the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith--just to name a few. Readers around the globe have found their lives transformed by this layered and complex book. A deeply spiritual work, The Brothers Karamazov is a work that every person should read. [via]

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ISBN 9780679410034 (0-679-41003-1, 0679410031)

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Brothers Karamazov

by Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Larissa Volokhonsky

ISBN 0679410031 (0-679-41003-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Dostoevskys towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtuesbrilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricalitythat made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. The Brothers Karamazov, his last and greatest novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between the outsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It is above all the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature.

This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonskythe definitive version in Englishmagnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevskys masterpiece. [via]

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Brothers Karamazov: ISBN 0679410031 (0-679-41003-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

ISBN 9780671870362 (0-671-87036-X, 067187036X)

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Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

ISBN 067187036X (0-671-87036-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."

Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.

Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman [via]

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ISBN 9780671239770 (0-671-23977-5, 0671239775)

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Fahrenheit Four Hundred Fifty One

by Ray Bradbury

ISBN 0671239775 (0-671-23977-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."

Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.

Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman [via]

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Fahrenheit Four Hundred Fifty One: ISBN 0671239775 (0-671-23977-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

ISBN 9780670347919 (0-670-34791-4, 0670347914)

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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

ISBN 0670347914 (0-670-34791-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA

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When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940.

The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency."

The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people--we go on." It's almost as if she's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book's final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "'You got to,'" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak [via]

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ISBN 9780679732761 (0-679-73276-4, 0679732764)

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Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison

ISBN 0679732764 (0-679-73276-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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A classic from the moment it first appeared in 1952, The Invisible Man chronicles the travels of its narrator, a young, nameless black man, as he moves through the hellish levels of American intolerance and cultural blindness. Searching for a context in which to know himself, he exists in a very peculiar state. "I am an invisible man," he says in his prologue, "When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination--indeed, everything and anything except me." But this is hard-won self-knowledge, earned over the course of many years.

As the book gets started, the narrator is expelled from his Southern Negro college for inadvertently showing a white trustee the reality of black life in the south, including an incestuous farmer and a rural whorehouse. The college director chastises him: "Why, the dumbest black bastard in the cotton patch knows that the only way to please a white man is to tell him a lie! What kind of an education are you getting around here?" Mystified, the narrator moves north to New York City, where the truth, at least as he perceives it, is dealt another blow when he learns that his former headmaster's recommendation letters are, in fact, letters of condemnation.

What ensues is a search for what truth actually is, which proves to be supremely elusive. The narrator becomes a spokesman for a mixed-race band of social activists called "The Brotherhood" and believes he is fighting for equality. Once again, he realises he's been duped into believing what hethought was the truth, when in fact it is only another variation. Of the Brothers, he eventually discerns: "They were blind, bat blind, moving only by the echoed sounds of their voices. And because they were blind they would destroy themselves.... Here I thought they accepted me because they felt that colour made no difference, when in reality it made no difference because they didn't see either colour or men".

Invisible Man is certainly a book about race in America, andsadly enough, few of the problems it chronicles have disappeared even now. But Ellison's first novel transcends such a narrow definition. It's also a book about the human race stumbling down the path to identity, challenged and successful to varying degrees. None of us can ever be sure of the truth beyond ourselves, and possibly not even there. The world isa tricky place, and no one knows this better than the invisible man, who leaves us with these chilling, provocative words: "And it is this which frightens me: Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" --Melanie Rehak, Amazon.com [via]

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ISBN 9780670817573 (0-670-81757-0, 0670817570)

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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

by Salman Rushdie

ISBN 0670817570 (0-670-81757-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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In this timeless, haunting portrait of the people and the politics of Nicaragua, Rushdie brings to life the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution. [via]

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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey: ISBN 0670817570 (0-670-81757-0)
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ISBN 9780671006921 (0-671-00692-4, 0671006924)

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John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

ISBN 0671006924 (0-671-00692-4)
Softcover, Monarch Notes

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John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath: ISBN 0671006924 (0-671-00692-4)
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ISBN 9780679405498 (0-679-40549-6, 0679405496)

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A Passage to India: Library Edition

by E. M. Forster

ISBN 0679405496 (0-679-40549-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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What really happened in the Marabar caves? This is the mystery at the heart of E.M. Forster's 1924 novel, A Passage to India, the puzzle that sets in motion events highlighting an even larger question: Can an Englishman and an Indian be friends?

"It is impossible here," an Indian character tells his friend, Dr. Aziz, early in the novel.

"They come out intending to be gentlemen, and are told it will not do.... Why, I remember when Turton came out first. It was in another part of the Province. You fellows will not believe me, but I have driven with Turton in his carriage--Turton! Oh yes, we were once quite intimate. He has shown me his stamp collection.
"He would expect you to steal it now. Turton! But red-nosed boy will be far worse than Turton!
"I do not think so. They all become exactly the same, not worse, not better. I give any Englishman two years, be he Turton or Burton. It is only the difference of a letter. And I give any Englishwoman six months. All are exactly alike."

Written while England was still firmly in control of India, Forster's novel follows the fortunes of three English newcomers to India--Miss Adela Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Cyril Fielding--and the Indian, Dr. Aziz, with whom they cross destinies. The idea of true friendship between the races was a radical one in Forster's time, and he makes it abundantly clear that it was not one that either side welcomed. If Aziz's friend, Hamidullah, believed it impossible, the British representatives of the Raj were equally discouraging.

"Why, the kindest thing one can do to a native is to let him die," said Mrs. Callendar.
"How if he went to heaven?" asked Mrs. Moore, with a gentle but crooked smile.
"He can go where he likes as long as he doesn't come near me. They give me the creeps."

Despite their countrymen's disapproval, Miss Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Mr. Fielding are all eager to meet Indians, and in Dr. Aziz they find a perfect companion: educated, westernized, and open-minded. Slowly, the friendships ripen, especially between Aziz and Fielding. Having created the possibility of esteem based on trust and mutual affection, Forster then subjects it to the crucible of racial hatred: during a visit to the famed Marabar caves, Miss Quested accuses Dr. Aziz of sexually assaulting her, then later recants during the frenzied trial that follows. Under such circumstances, affection proves to be a very fragile commodity indeed.

Arguably Forster's greatest novel, A Passage to India limns a troubling portrait of colonialism at its worst, and is remarkable for the complexity of its characters. Here the personal becomes the political and in the breach between Aziz and his English "friends," Forster foreshadows the eventual end of the Raj. --Alix Wilber [via]

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ISBN 9780679735908 (0-679-73590-9, 0679735909)

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Possession

by A. S. Byatt

ISBN 0679735909 (0-679-73590-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being" and "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights," A. S. Byatt writes some of the most engaging and skillful novels of our time. Time magazine calls her "a novelist of dazzling inventiveness."

Possession, for which Byatt won England's prestigious Booker Prize, was praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic when it was first published in 1990. "On academic rivalry and obsession, Byatt is delicious. On the nature of possessionthe lover by the beloved, the biographer by his subjectshe is profound," said The Sunday Times (London). The New Yorker dubbed it "more fun to read than The Name of the Rose . . . Its prankish verve [and] monstrous richness of detail [make for] a one-woman variety show of literary styles and types." The novel traces a pair of young academicsRoland Michell and Maud Baileyas they uncover a clandestine love affair between two long-dead Victorian poets. Interwoven in a mesmerizing pastiche are love letters and fairytales, extracts from biographies and scholarly accounts, creating a sensuous and utterly delightful novel of ideas and passions.

With an Introduction by the author that describes the novel's origins and its twenty-year gestation, this Modern Library edition is a handsome keepsake for fans of Possessionnew and old alike. [via]

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Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

by P. Ellison

ISBN 067100901X (0-671-00901-X)
Softcover, Monarch Notes

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ISBN 9780670825370 (0-670-82537-9, 0670825379)

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The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie

ISBN 0670825379 (0-670-82537-9)
Hardcover, Viking Pr

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No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie's powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner. [via]

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Hardcover, Viking Pr

ISBN 9780451526083 (0-451-52608-2, 0451526082)

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN 0451526082 (0-451-52608-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...scholar-like renown still lived in Oxford, was considered by his more fervent admirers as little less than a heavenly-ordained apostle, destined, should he live and labor for the ordinary term of life, to do as great deeds for the now feeble New England Church, as the early Fathers had achieved for the infancy of the Christian faith. About this period, however, the health of Mr. Dimmesdale had evidently' begun to fail. By those best acquainted with his habits, the paleness of the young minister's cheek was accounted for by his too earnest devotion to study, his scrupulous fulfilment of parochial duty, and, more than all, by the fasts and vigils of which he made a frequent practice, in order to keep the grossness of this earthly state from clogging and obscuring his spiritual lamp. Some declared, that, if Mr. Dimmesdale were really going to die, it was cause enough, that the world was not worthy to be any onger trodden by his feet. He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief, that, if Providence should see fit to remove him, it would be because of his own unworthiness to perform its humblest mission here on earth. With all this difference of opinion as to the cause of his decline, there could be no question of the fact. His form grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it; he was often observed, on any slight alarm or other sudden accident, to put his hand over his heart, with first a flush and then a paleness, indicative of pain. Such was the young clergyman's condition, and so imminent the prospect that his dawning light would be extinguished, all untimely, when Koger Chillingworth made his advent to the town. His first entry on the scene, few people... [via]

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ISBN 9780395051535 (0-395-05153-3, 0395051533)

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Scarlet Letter and Other Tales of the Puritans

by Hawthorne Levin

ISBN 0395051533 (0-395-05153-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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ISBN 9780486291567 (0-486-29156-1, 0486291561)

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Tom Sawyer: Library Edition

by Mark Twain, Robert Blaisdell, John Green

ISBN 0486291561 (0-486-29156-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Specially abridged version of the beloved classic about a mischievous but well-meaning young lad who barely avoids calamity as he bounds along from one adventure to another. Memorable cast of characters includes Aunt Polly, Becky Thatcher, Huck Finn, Injun Joe, and others. 31 black-and-white illustrations. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

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Tom Sawyer: Library Edition: ISBN 0486291561 (0-486-29156-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

ISBN 9780571132096 (0-571-13209-X, 057113209X)

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

ISBN 057113209X (0-571-13209-X)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber

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A novel of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, which embraces all aspects of human existence, and addresses the nature of twentieth-century 'Being'. [via]

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ISBN 9780717200016 (0-7172-0001-9, 0717200019)

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The World's Great Classics

ISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books

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Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]

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