PRE-OWNED & LIKE NEW Books--Literature Classics (Adult/Young Adult)

Description: GOOD condition with a name written on the page edge of bookThis listing is for the following PRE-OWNED books, sold as a INDIVIDUALLY (though when you order multiples, you can save on shipping). Condition is given for each book along with the publisher's synopsis. Treat yourself or your student to three marvelous experiences in classic American literature! Get these before they're gone! A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry (ISBN: 0-679-75533-0)--Drama/African-American Studies Condition: GOOD condition with some markings in the book When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and hailed as a watershed in American drama. Not only was it a pioneering work by an African-American playwright--Lorraine Hansberry's play was also a radically new representation of black life, one that was resolutely authentic, fiercely unsentimental, and unflinching in its vision of what happens to people whose dreams are constantly deferred. In her portrait of an embattled Chicago family, Hansberry anticipated issues that range from generational clashes to the civil rights and women's movements. She also posed the essential questions--about identity, justice, and moral responsibility--at the heart of these great struggles. The result is a work that captivated audiences from every walk of life and has become a classic of American letters. Poe: Selected Prose and Poetry, by Edgar Allan Poe--Poetry/Prose Condition: GOOD condition with some wear and markings in the book. This collection was edited, with an introduction, by W.H. Auden. It contains a brief chronology of Poe's life and the following works:StoriesThe Fall of the House of UsherLigeiaWilliam WilsonThe Pit and the PendulumThe Man of the CrowdThe Imp of the PerverseThe Purloined LetterThe Cask of AmontilladoThe Masque of the Red DeathA Descent into the MaelstromNarrative of A. Gordon PymThe Gold BugBereniceMatters of TastePhilosophy of FurnitureThe Domain of ArnheimBoston and the BostoniansProspectus of the Penn Magazine CriticismThe Poetic PrincipleThe Philosophy of CompositionMarginaliaReview of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales PoetryTo HelenLenoreSonnet--To ScienceTo One in ParadiseIsrafelDream-LandThe BellsThe RavenThe Valley of UnrestThe City in the SeaUlalume--A BalladAnnabel LeeAloneThe SleeperA Dream within a Dream A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway--Historical Fiction Condition: ACCEPTABLE shows wear on cover and some markings in book A magnificent and tender tale of love and war on the Italian Front in World War I, this novel is among the most enduring works of fiction produced in the 20th Century. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, by Ernest Hemingway (ISBN: 978-0-684-80444-6)--Historical Fiction Condition: GOOD condition, but was a former library copy, so some markings in/on book and stickers on cover from that The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical "Fathers and Sons," which alludes, for the first time in Hemingway's career, to his father's suicide; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," a "brilliant fusion of personal observation, hearsay, and invention," wrote Hemingway's biographer, Carlos Baker; and the title story itself, of which Hemingway said: "I put all the true stuff in," with enough material, he boasted, to fill four novels. Beautiful in their simplicity, startling in their originality, and unsurpassed in their craftsmanship, the stories in this volume highlight one of America's master storytellers at the top of his form. The Agony and the Ecstacy, by Irving Stone (ISBN: 0-451-17135-7) Condition: GOOD condition with very light wear on cover The passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo His time--the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring Popes, the all-powerful de'Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola... His loves--the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de'Medici; the ardent mistress of Marco Aldovrandi; and his last love, his greatest love--the beautiful, unhappy Vittoria Colonna... His genius--a God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest art the world has ever known... Michelangelo Buonarroti creator of David, painter of the Sistine ceiling, architect of the dome of St. Peter's, lives once more in the tempestuous, powerful pages of Irving Stone's great new book. Tom Jones, by Henry Fieldding Condition: ACCEPTABLE shows wear on cover Tom Jones is the warmly human tale of one man's search for happiness. In a delightful series of tragi-comic episodes, Tom, a founding--and often something of a rogue--sets out to seek his true identity. He meets a host of unusual, sometimes entertaining, sometimes ludicrous people and learns some startling truths about life, as well as about himself. Tom Jones has amused generations of readers and remains one of the most credible fictional heroes in all literature. This novel is the mellowest, most mature work of England's celebrated satirist and first real novelist, Henry Fielding. With a fierce sympathy for honest human weaknesses, but with contempt for hypocrisy and meanness, Fielding devoted his entire life to pointing up the follies of his fellow men. In brilliant flashes of inspiration, Fielding created a body of comic literature that permanently set the standards for the modern English novel. Bleak House, by Charles Dickens (ISBN 0-553-21223-0) Condition: GOOD condition with some wear Bleak House may well be the finest literary work to come out of nineteenth-century England. In no other Victorian novel is the narrative more artful, the cast of characters more engaging, the satire more biting, the range of life more wonderfully vast. A miracle of authorical creation, the book is constructed around three great themes: the High Court of Chancery, whose endless litigation of Jarndyce and Jarndyce symbolizes the murky institutional fog surrounding all England; the theme of misplaced children, setting whimsical, carefree Harold Skimpole in poignant contrast with the sad, young, nameless Jo; and the mystery theme, a romantic tangle of trails followed by three unforgettable sleuths, Guppy, Tulkinghorn, and Bucket, leading to the astonishing revelation of a certain lady's long-held secret. In prose that is unexcelled in its vivid evocation and intensely sensual imagery, Bleak House displays Dickens at the height of his creative powers.The Prince and the Pauper (ISBN: 0-553-21090-4) Condition: GOOD, but old condition (e.g., pages are beginning to yellow) Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, The Prince and the Pauper is a delightful satire of England's romantic past and a joyful boyhood romp filled with the same tongue-in-cheek irony that sparked the best of Mark Twain's tall tales. Two boys, one an urchin from London's filthy lanes, the other a prince born in a lavish palace, unwittingly trade identities. Thus a bedraggled "Prince of Poverty" discovers that his private dreams have all come true--while a pampered Prince of Wales finds himself tossed into a rough-and-tumble world of squalid beggars and villainous thieves. Originally written as a story for children, The Prince and the Pauper is a classic novel for adults as well--through its stinging attack on the ageless human folly of attempting to measure true worth by outer appearances. Life on the Mississippi Condition: GOOD, but old condition (e.g., pages are beginning to yellow) Life on the Mississippi is at once a romantic history of a mighty river; an autobiographical account of Twain's early steamboat days; a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches. It is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel--Huckleberry Finn. It is an epochal record of America's growth, a stirring remembrance of her vanished past. And it earned for its author his first recognition as a serious writer. The Mysterious Stranger and other Stories Condition: The Mysterious Stranger is that rarity in the work of Mark Twain--a novelette in which the author turns his sardonic, free-wheeling wit to the problem of Eternal Evil in a distant time and place. In the other eight stories presented here Twain debunks his Gilded Age; he ransacks the back yards of daily life and fable to find his notorious, sometimes preposterous, metaphors. He is as apt to deal with the great minds of the law hunting a wayward elephant as with a man who has a bank-note no one can cash. "Mark Twain transcends all other American humorists....There is always...the companionship of a spirit which is at once delightfully open and deliciously shrewd."--William Dean Howells **All of our products come from a pet-free, smoke-free, illness-free environment.

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