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The Death of King Arthur (Penguin Classics)

By: Anonymous,

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: January 1971

Seller ID: 318134

ISBN: 0140442553

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, written by an unknown author, is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with its integrity threatened by the weakness of Arthur's own knights. Whispers of Queen Guinevere's infidelity with his beloved comrade-at-arms Sir Lancelot profoundly distress the trusting King, leaving him no match for the machinations of the treacherous Sir Mordred. The human tragedy of The Death of King Arthur so impressed...
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Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney (Penguin Classics)

By: Anonymous,

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: July 1981

Seller ID: 353041

ISBN: 0140443835

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend and history. The only medieval chronicle to have Orkney as the central place of action, it tells of an era when the islands were still part of the Viking world, beginning with their conquest by the kings of Norway in the ninth century. The saga describes the subsequent history of the Earldom of Orkney and the adventures of great Norsemen such as Sigurd the Powerful, St Magnus the Martyr and Hrolf, the conqueror of Normandy. Savagely powerful and poetic, this is a fascinatin...
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THE GREAT IDEAS PROGRAM: A General Introduction to the Great Books and to a Liberal Education [10 Volume set]

By: Anthology

Price: $42.95

Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica: January 1959

Seller ID: 279701

ISBN: B000XY2OSY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

American Men of Letters Sherwood Anderson- Theodore Dreiser- Henry James-Herman

By: Anthology

Price: $24.95

Publisher: William Sloane Associates: January 1951

Seller ID: 316914

ISBN: B002J83350

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

American Short Stories of the 19th Century (Everyman Paperbacks)

By: Anthology

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Dutton Adult: February 1972

Seller ID: 317283

ISBN: 046001840X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Four Great American Classics

By: Anthology

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Bantam Classics: December 1992

Seller ID: 333171

ISBN: 0553213628

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day.

The Scarlet Letter vividly records America's moral and historical roots in Puritan New England and masterfully re-creates a society's preoccupation with sin, guilt, and pride.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn carries readers along on Huck's unforgettable journey down the Mississippi in America's for...
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Orlando Furioso, Part Two (Penguin Classics)

By: Ariosto, Ludovico

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: December 1977

Seller ID: 333651

ISBN: 014044310X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A dazzling kaleidoscope of adventures, ogres, monsters, barbaric splendor, and romance, this epic poem stands as one of the greatest works of the Italian Renaissance.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to...
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Mary

By: Asch, Sholem

Price: $9.95

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: January 1949

Seller ID: 364428

ISBN: B0018US83W

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Greyfriars Bobby (Penguin Popular Classics)

By: Atkinson, Eleanor

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: May 1996

Seller ID: 331578

ISBN: 0140622012

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Based on a a true story, Greyfriars Bobby is the tale of a little dog who keeps a vigil by his master's grave in Greyfriars Churchyard, despite the efforts of the church authorities to ban him.
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Cliffsnotes Emma

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $1.95

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc: July 1985

Seller ID: 269252

ISBN: 0822004348

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature.

CliffsNotes on Emma explores a satiric novel that stabs at manners and social classes, all the while delivering entertainment in a mild comic tone and sharing a lesson for the moralist.

Following the heroine's slow and bumpy growth from self-deception to self-knowledge, this study guide provides summaries and commentaries on each chapter within the three-volume plot structure.

Other features that help you figure out this important work include

Life and backgro...
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Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: November 1966

Seller ID: 362051

ISBN: 0140430164

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The private and social worlds of three families are revealed through the experiences of the heroine, Fanny Price.
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Persuasion (Barnes & Noble Classics)

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics: August 2005

Seller ID: 366131

ISBN: 1593081308

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Persuasion, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
Biographies of the authors
Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
Footnotes and endnotes
Selective discussions of imitations...
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The Essays (Penguin Classics)

By: Bacon, Francis

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: January 1986

Seller ID: 333514

ISBN: 0140432167

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The genius of Francis Bacon is nowhere better revealed than in his essays.

Bacon's education was grounded in the classical texts of ancient Greece and Rome, but he brought vividness and color to the arid scholasticism of medieval book-learning. Whatever their subject, whether it is something as personal as "Friendship" or as abstract as "Truth," the essays combine a mixture of rhetoric and philosophy; and are perhaps the most complete and rounded examples of Bacon's literary style.

Rather than merely summarizing popular philosophy or producing glib expositions of correct conduct, Bac...
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The Works of Walter Bagehot in Five Volumes [Volumes I, II, III, IV, and V]

By: Bagehot, Walter

Price: $99.95

Publisher: The Travelers Insurance Company: 1889

Seller ID: 215539

ISBN: B007BP2K64

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Wild Asss Skin

By: BALZAC, HONORE DE

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Penguin USA: February 1995

Seller ID: 241227

ISBN: 0140443304

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Balzac is concerned with the choice between ruthless self-gratification and asceticism, dissipation and restraint, in a novel that is powerful in its symbolism and realistic depiction of decadence.

PÃ¨re Goriot (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $1.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: September 2004

Seller ID: 278766

ISBN: 0486436985

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A kind-hearted and idealistic youth enters the grasping Parisian society of the 1820s, where his education in the realities and costs of city life begin among the residents of a shabby but respectable boardinghouse. Pere Goriot -- one of the outstanding novels in The Human Comedy, Balzac's panoramic study of Parisian life -- features richly detailed settings, a skillfully related plot, and a vibrant cast of characters. Acclaimed by critic Leslie Stephen as "the modern King Lear, " it offers a timeless view of the tragedies behind the prosaic details of everyday life. Trans...
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Pere Goriot (Signet classics)

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Signet Classics: August 1962

Seller ID: 281857

ISBN: 0451521900

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Old Goriot (Penguin Classics)

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: May 1951

Seller ID: 299814

ISBN: 0140440178

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Honor de Balzac's great theme was money, and in his best-loved novel, Old Goriot, he explored its uses and abuses with the particularity of a poet. A shabby Parisian boarding house in 1819 is the setting where his colorful characters collide. These include an elderly retired merchant called Old Goriot, who has bankrupted himself for the sake of his two rapacious, social-climbing daughters, Delphine and Anastasie; a mysterious and sinister conspirator named Vautrin; Victorine, a disinherited heiress; and a naive and impoverished law student from the country, Eug ne de Rastignac.

Ras...
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