classic literature series
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
M&M Literature Series – Part 7 & The End
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Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (Paperback) $6.64 Catcher in the Rye has become a favorite classic as it follows Holden Caulfield’s journey through life. It has even been criticized and censored because of its controversial content. |
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A Moveable Feast $10.44 Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the twenties with moving, and sometimes caustic, portraits of friends like Fitzgerald and |
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Theatre $11.27 InTheatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novelsOf Human Bondage andUp at the Villa |
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee $11.1 Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Timescalled Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking…Impossible to put downBury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee B… |
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The Count of Monte Cristo $11.31 The classic novel of Edmond Dantes and his revenge against the men who caused him to be imprisoned unjustly. |
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Everything That Rises Must Converge $10.77 O’Connor’s posthumous book of short stories has become a classic of American literature. |
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Frederick and His Friends $16.31 Four of Leo Lionni’s classic stories bound into one volume. Selections (all illustrated with their original color artwork) include FREDERICK, SWIMMY, ALEXANDER AND THE WIND-UP MOUSE, and FISH IS FISH. Each book comes packaged with a CD of the stor… |
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The City of God $16.13 Saint Augustine, who spent 14 years composing this Christian and literary classic, wrote City of God as a defense of Christianity in the wake of the fall of the Roman Empire. City of God functions as a history of early Christianity, a critique of … |
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Kidnapped $7.6 In Stevenson’s classic adventure tale, David Balfour is kidnapped by his grasping uncle who has usurped his inheritance. The ship on which David is to be transported is wrecked, and he escapes with the Jacobite rebel Alan Breck. The two flee acros… |
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Louisa May Alcott $5.69 The author of the American classic Little Women is the subject of a new title in the beloved, ongoing series Childhood of Famous |
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Hop on Pop $9.45 This classic beginning reader features lots of simple rhymes, silly situations, and whimsical drawings. |
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Born Storytellers $16 Description not available. |
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Scarecrow Pete $11.37 A friendly scarecrow with a suitcase encourages a young child to read, and together they explore such classics as"Moby Dick" and"Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland." Told in rhyming verse. |
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The Life of Samuel Johnson $19.6 The classic biography of Dr. Johnson, by his disciple, James Boswell. The already great reputation of Johnson was sealed with the publication of this book in 1791, and it is largely due to this book that Dr. Johnson is still so well-remembered tod… |
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A&E Literary Classics – The Romance Collection Megaset (DVD) $130.78 The cable channel A& E is widely known for its acclaimed adaptations of romantic literary classics. 8 of these films are include |
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The Raven and the Monkey’s Paw $14.25 The third in the Modern Library’s series of original compilations, The Raven and the Monkey’s Paw is a collection of classic tales and poems to engage our fear-seeking senses. The beauty of these stories and poems lies in their readability: ideal … |
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The Last of the Mohicans $3.99 The classic frontier adventure story: Deep in the forests of New York State, the woodsman Hawkeye (a.k.a. Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends become involved in the bloody French and Indian War. |
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David Copperfield $17.66 Dickens’s heavily autobiographical novel describing a young man’s rise in the world is a classic coming-of-age story. David Copperfield, the narrator, is orphaned at a tender age and raised first by his brutal stepfather (who halts his schooling a… |
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The Last of the Mohicans $4.95 The classic frontier adventure story: Deep in the forests of New York State, the woodsman Hawkeye (a.k.a. Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends become involved in the bloody French and Indian War. |
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The World According to Garp $16.16 Something of a modern classic, this is the story of T. S. Garp, who is raised by his eccentric feminist mother and spends most of his life surrounded and preoccupied by woman. Irving depicts Garp’s pursuit of a writing career against the backdrop … |
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Democracy in America $22.87 Alexis de Tocqueville wrote this classic in French after traveling across America. It is divided into two sections: the first, on government; the second, on the American character. It is considered one of the most perceptive and enduring descriptions… |
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The Jungle $7.55 Upton Sinclair’s classic work of muckraking fiction tells the unsavory truth about Chicago’s stockyards at the turn of the 20th century. |
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Young Lonigan $7.55 This classic novel, the first in a trilogy set in the 1930s, follows the adolescence and sexual awakening of Studs Lonigan as he grow up on the mean streets of Chicago. Reprint. |
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David Copperfield $7.55 Dickens`s heavily autobiographical novel describing a young man`s rise in the world is a classic coming-of-age story. David Copperfield, the narrator, is orphaned at a tender age and raised first by his brutal stepfather (who halts his schooling and |
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Hans Christian Andersen $19.45 A biography of the Danish author best known for creating such classic stories as “The Ugly Duckling” and “The Emperor`s New Clothes.” Using Andersen`s own diaries and letters, the author reveals Andersen`s frustration over the fact that his stories |
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The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson $17.69 Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a writer of power and originality, who penned such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Weir of Hermiston. The editor has collected in convenient form Stevenson`s… |
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Kidnapped $3.95 In Stevenson`s classic adventure tale, David Balfour is kidnapped by his grasping uncle who has usurped his inheritance. The ship on which David is to be transported is wrecked, and he escapes with the Jacobite rebel Alan Breck. The two flee across |
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Great American Stories 2 $22.52 Introduce your students to the works of famous American authors, while helping them build their reading, vocabulary, writing, and discussion skills. The Great American Stories series features adaptations of classic stories that |
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Motoring With Mohammed $10.07 At once a modern classic of travel literature and a gripping adventure story. STRANGER IN THE FOREST provides a rare and intimat |
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The Historian’s Wizard of Oz $25.89 The Historian’s Wizard of Oz synthesizes four decades of scholarly interpretations of L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s novel a |
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Gordon MacQuarrie Treasury: Thirty-Eight Classic Sporting Stories $19.28 Each book in this special series showcases the uniqueness and versatility of specific North American fish, wildfowl, or game while examining both traditional and modern culinary techniques. Expert cooks bring a thoughtful balance of both simple and g |
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The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyana $10 A work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry, and sexology, the Kama Sutra has been a classic of world literature for more than 1700 years. |
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Before Green Gables (Hardcover) $12.98 A specially authorized prequel to L.M. Montgomery`s classic series about the irrepressible red-haired orphan, published to commemorate the original work`s one hundredth anniversary, follows Anne`s early years before her adoption by the Cuthberts. 100,0… |
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Skylark (Paperback) $9.98 “Central European Classics” is a new series edited by Timothy Garton Ash. The result of extensive discussion among writers, scholars, and critics, the rich tradition of Central European fiction has been culled to offer previously unavailable works … |
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The Diary of Lady Murasaki $11.06 In The Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki created one of the supreme classics of Japanese literature; her diary offers an intimate and equally compelling picture of her life as tutor and companion to the Empress Shoshi. Although it opens with a lyrical … |