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Edited by Bob Blaisdell
This anthology is a collection of fascinating dreams experienced by famous authors and their characters, drawn from various sources, including classical literature, novels, and poetry. Selections from the Bront? sisters…
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Well, Mr. Mudrick Said … A Memoir tells the story of an impressionable young man learning about books, literature and life in the classrooms and courses of one of America’s…
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The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy.
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Presents a collection of twenty-two interviews, each conducted during the ten-year span in which Karl Ove Knausgaard's literary prowess gained worldwide recognition. Knausgaard is both a daring writer and a…
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A revelatory portrait of Chekhov during the most extraordinary artistic surge of his life.
The legendary outlaw and his merry men spring to life again, thrilling readers with feats of daring and valor. Join Robin and other Sherwood Forest denizens in their pursuit of…
Adventures, calamities, and conquests abound in stirring tales about Pandora’s box, King Midas and his golden touch, the dreaded Cyclops, Narcissus and Echo, and many other familiar figures.
The legendary strongman recounts his road to immortality with tales of battles with fabulous monsters and other spectacular feats of heroism. Many illustrations, easy-to-read text.
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Remarkable for their eloquence and depth of feeling, these 82 speeches encompass five centuries of Indian encounters with non-indigenous peoples. Speakers include Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Seattle, Geronimo, Crazy…
Works by more than 60 Irish poets, from 18th century to modern times, include poems by Swift, Goldsmith, Moore; Allingham, Yeats, Joyce; plus verses by lesser-known poets.
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Concise anthology presents broad selection of writings: Declaration of Independence, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Communist Manifesto, plus works by Lenin, Trotsky, Marat, Danton, Rousseau, Gandhi, Mao, other leading…
This anthology includes sonnets from Shakespeare, Sidney, and Spenser; popular poems by Donne (Go, and catch a falling star), Jonson (Drink to me only with thine eyes), Marlowe (The Passionate…
Essays spanning 4 centuries reflect the wit, wisdom, and common sense of a number of distinguished English writers. Includes works by Addison, Swift, Johnson, Goldsmith, Lamb, Woolf, Shaw, and others.
These 29 outstanding stories include the works of Ralph Ellison, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, Jamaica Kinkaid, and others.
The basis of our nation’s law and government, the Constitution is America’s most important political and social document. This inexpensive reference contains the main text and amendments plus a wealth…
This stirring anthology features addresses by Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama, Cesar Chavez, and many others…
Historical survey of speeches invoking racism, genocide, anti-Semitism, terrorism, and other hateful, extremist views. Includes orations by Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, Andrew Jackson, Joseph R. McCarthy, Jefferson Davis, and others.
More than 1,000 quotes from Walt Whitman, Calvin Trillin, Helen Hayes, Lenny Bruce, and others comment on skyscrapers, subways, the boroughs, Lady Liberty, and why people love and hate New…
Compiled by an expert on Civil War literature, this anthology offers an outstanding selection of short works. Includes stories and poems by Whitman, Melville, Longfellow, Bierce, Alcott, Twain, Whittier, and…
Wartime letters include correspondence of Union and Confederate sympathizers and soldiers of all ranks. Authentic illustrations accompany insightful missives by Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Whitman, Davis, and many of their contemporaries.
The short stories in this original anthology were written mostly by former soldiers and others with firsthand experience of World War I’s devastation. Contibutors include Hemingway, Galsworthy, Kipling, and others.
Reflections on the teaching experience include selections from the works of Plato, Rousseau, Tolstoy, D. H. Lawrence, John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, A. S. Neill, and contemporary American authors.
This anthology surveys the immigration experience from a wide range of cultural and historical viewpoints. Contributors include John Muir, Anzia Yezierska, Mary Antin, Jacob Riis, Claude McKay, and many others.
Stories by a wide range of contemporary authors that includes Johnson, Eastman, and Oskison, as well as writers who came to prominence in the decades following World War II.
Inexpensive compilation of great speeches includes Pericles on the Peloponnesian War and Julius Caesar on the punishment of the Catiline conspirators, plus orations by Alcibiades, Demosthenes, Cicero, and many others.
Anthology of entertaining tales features works by Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Langston Hughes, James Thurber, and others.
Compact, inexpensive anthology features contributions from Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, and many others. Includes introductory notes and…
Concise anthology covers works by Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and many others. Includes introductory notes and suggestions for…
This wide-ranging collection of romantic tales features an international array of authors, including Chekhov’s Misfortune, Lawrence’s The White Stocking, and stories by Pushkin, Trollope, Verga, von Kleist, and many others.
The most important documents in American history: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Emancipation Proclamation, presidential speeches, Supreme Court decisions, Acts and Declarations of Congress, essays, letters, and much more.
This compilation of classic short fiction presents stories inspired by life in the great metropolis. Contributors include F. Scott Fitzgerald, O. Henry, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, and others.
The most eloquent of American presidents, Lincoln offered sagacious and frequently humorous comments on everything that mattered. This volume features his thoughts and opinions concerning politics, human nature, and many…
Key documents and memorable speeches include the Gettysburg Address; Lee’s Farewell to the Army of Northern Virginia ; Frederick Douglass’s The War and How to End It ; plus campaign…
More than 70 vital documents spanning the 19th to the 21st centuries include presidential speeches, Supreme Court decisions, Acts and Declarations of Congress, essays, letters, and much more.
In their 1858 battle for the Illinois senatorial seat, Douglas and Lincoln conducted seven debates that addressed slavery, states’ rights, and other issues. This volume features the complete texts for…
This original collection of essays, letters, poems, and speeches by 26 of the bold women who joined the abolitionist movement of the nineteenth century features the work of Phillis Wheatley…
A carefully curated selection of nearly 100 American and British poems offering a profound collection of verse for those who are steadfast in their faith or looking to renew it…
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This nuanced portrait of abolitionist politics in the decades leading up to the Civil War contains hundreds of historically valuable letters. This treasury recaptures the voices of prominent political and…
Leo Tolstoy
Divided into three parts, this volume includes tales and fables. Part 1 consists of stories about the author’s own childhood. Part 2 contains his free adaptations of fables from Aesop…
Victorian England comes vividly to life in 30 ready-to-colour scenes featuring such memorable characters as Oliver Twist, Ebenezer Scrooge, and David Copperfield. Also includes settings from Great Expectations, A Tale…
Abraham Lincoln
From the most eloquent of American presidents - nearly 400 astute observations on subjects ranging from women and warfare to slavery and storytelling.
Benjamin Franklin
A fascinating compilation of weather forecasts, recipes, jokes, and aphorisms, Poor Richard’s Almanack debuted in 1732. This edition presents hundreds of Franklin’s timeless maxims, plus selections from the Letters, Autobiography…
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Mark Twain
This paperback gift edition of the renowned American humorist’s epigrams and witticisms features hundreds of quips on life, love, history, culture, travel, and other topics from his fiction, essays, letters…
Tom Tierney
This tribute to the beloved pontiff features a full array of papal attire, from the ordination robe to the mitre and crozier. Includes biographical notes.
Inexpensive but substantial anthology begins with Thoreau’s 19th-century essay and concludes in the present day. Contributors include Tolstoy, Bertrand Russell, Gandhi, Emma Goldman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dalai Lama, Andrei…
George Reynolds
The first important fictional treatment of the werewolf theme in English literature, this Victorian thriller traces Wagner’s blood-soaked trail through 16th-century Italy in a gothic feast of murder and intrigue.
