The House on the Borderland This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to [...]
Archive for January, 2012
January 31st, 2012
Oliver Twist Reviews for kindle
Oliver Twist This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare’s finesse to Oscar Wilde’s wit, this [...]
January 30th, 2012
Mr. Vertigo Reviews for kindle
Mr. Vertigo The author of Leviathan returns with a dazzling, picaresque, new novel in which Walter Claireborne Rawley, now an octogenarian, recounts his extraordinary vaudevillian adventures as “Walt the Wonder Boy” in 1924. “One hears every page of this novel, and sees it as well.”–Washington Post. List Price: $ 16.00 Price: $ 6.94
January 30th, 2012
Sexing the Cherry (Winterson, Jeanette) Reviews for kindle
Sexing the Cherry (Winterson, Jeanette) In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woman and grows up to travel the world like Gulliver, though he finds that the world’s most curious oddities come from his own mind. [...]
January 29th, 2012
The Drowned World for kindle
The Drowned World This fast-paced narrative by the author of CRASH and EMPIRE OF THE SUN is a stunning evocation of a flooded, tropical London of the near future and a foray into the workings of the unconscious mind. Set in the future, Ballard imagines a world in which global warming has melted the ice-caps [...]
January 29th, 2012
Gone with the Wind, 75th Anniversary Edition for kindle
Gone with the Wind, 75th Anniversary Edition An anniversary edition of Margaret Mitchell’s timeless classic. List Price: $ 18.00 Price: $ 5.28 Gone With the Wind: The Definitive Illustrated History of the Book, the Movie and the Legend Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of an American Classic. Published in the spring of 1936, Margaret Mitchell’s Gone [...]
January 29th, 2012
Bel Ami Reviews for kindle
Bel Ami French author Guy de Maupassant’s second novel “Bel Ami,” charts the incredible rise to power of journalist Georges Duroy. It’s widely considered Maupassant’s greatest achievement as a novelist. By manipulating a series of wealthy mistresses Duroy rises from a poor peasant family in Normandy to become one of the most successful men in [...]
January 28th, 2012
The Hemingway Classics Collection (The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / The Snows of Kilimanjaro / Under My Skin / Adventures of a Young Man) for kindle
The Hemingway Classics Collection (The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / The Snows of Kilimanjaro / Under My Skin / Adventures of a Young Man) An English nurse and an American soldier have an affair on the Italian front during World War I; Hemingway’s semi-autobiographical Nick Adams stories are dramatized; a writer [...]
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January 28th, 2012
The History of Caliph Vathek (Webster’s English Thesaurus Edition) Reviews for kindle
The History of Caliph Vathek (Webster’s English Thesaurus Edition) Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The History [...]
January 27th, 2012
Neale Donald Walsch’s Little Book of Life: A User’s Manual Reviews for kindle
Neale Donald Walsch’s Little Book of Life: A User’s Manual In 1999, Neale Donald Walsch wrote three little books, each focusing on different areas of life: Neale Donald Walsch on Relationships, Neale Donald Walsch on Holistic Living, and Neale Donald Walsch on Abundance and Right Livelihood. Now, 10 years later, Walsch has revised these three [...]
