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The Marble Faun
Murder and romance, innocence and experience dominate this sinister novel set in mid-19th-century Rome. Three young American artists and their friend, an Italian count, find their lives irrevocably linked when …
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels (LOA #10)
Written in a richly suggestive style, Hawthorne’s five world-famous novels are permeated by his own history as well as America’s In The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne alludes …
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Tales and Sketches
An authoritative edition of all the tales and sketches in a single comprehensive volume.
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The Norton Shakespeare
Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works.
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Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale
A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.
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Bartleby the Scrivener, And, Benito Cereno
Melville's enigmatic 'Bartleby the Scrivener', perhaps America's best-know short story, is presented here along with 'Benito Cereno', a Gothic tale of slavery and rebellion at sea.
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Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (LOA #1)
This first volume of The Library of America's three-volume edition of the complete prose works of Herman Melville includes three romances of the South Seas. Typee and Omoo, based on …
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Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (LOA #9)
Well over a century after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a …
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Moby-Dick, Billy Budd, and Other Writings
Herman Melville's brilliant works remain vital and provocative for their dark ebullience and visionary power. The sweep of his writings- encompassing ferocious social satire, agonized reflection, and formal experimentation-is represented …
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Pierre, or, the Ambiguities
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The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh
This exquisite, deluxe edition contains the complete illustrated texts of both Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. In full-color and featuring a satin ribbon marker, it is the perfect …
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Invisible Cities
In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, …
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
A novel about writing a novel is the subject of this complex classic which has been described as the greatest shaggy dog story in the English language. This edition uses …
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Tobias Smollett's last published novel and most celebrated work, appeared in June 1771, three months before the author's death. A classic in the history of …
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The Betrothed
“The great plague novel.” —The New Yorker Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, …
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At Swim-Two-Birds
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, "At Swim-Two-Birds" is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle …
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An Imaginary Life
In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. …
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The Decameron
Set against the backdrop of the fourteenth-century Black Death, an anthology of one hundred interlinked tales presents a variety of works recounted by the citizens of Florence--nobles, knights, abbots, nuns, …
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The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers
A literary historian develops a scheme to gain possession of love letters written by an American poet, and a governess tries to protect the two young children in her care …
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The Complete Stories of Noël Coward
"This one-volume edition contains the complete collection of Coward's short stories, twenty in all, spanning fifty years of his life. Originally published as To Step Aside, Star Quality, Pretty Polly …
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The Home Girls
A collection of short stories examines the lives of the people of the Depression-era Australian outback, probing notions of broken bonds of love and family heartache
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I'm Not Scared
In the summer of 1978 in a small Italian village, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano loses his innocence of childhood when he accidentally uncovers a dark secret being kept by the adults …
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written …
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Tales from the Drones Club
The Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets of the Drones Club tell all, in 21 stories as lively as a Boat Race Night party.
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
Affected by radiation, the main character, a family man in suburbia begins to shrink so that the safe and comforting aspects of home become ever more menacing. An undoubted classic …
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Dawn Attack
A British commando raid on a Nazi outpost spotlights the universal motives and fears of soldiers.
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The Soloist
As a child, Renne showed promise of becoming one of the world's greatest cellists. Now, years later, his life suddenly is altered by two events: he becomes a juror in …
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Catch-22
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary. …
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