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Bob Blaisdell
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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A revelatory portrait of Chekhov during the most extraordinary artistic surge of his life.
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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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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.
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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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy.
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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…
Edited by Bob Blaisdell
"The selections in this anthology reflect the experience of dreams from within by the characters or the authors, and all come from material published up until Sigmund Freud presented his…
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…
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…
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…
Oscar Wilde
This paperback gift edition of the renowned poet and playwright’s epigrams and witticisms features hundreds of quips from Wilde’s personal letters and conversations as well as his fiction, essays, lectures…
W.E.B. Du Bois
Lesser-known writings include Strivings of the Negro People, A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South, The Talented Tenth, Address to the Nation: The Niagara Movement Speech, Evolution of the Race…
Kenneth Grahame
The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a new world. As well as the river and…
This handsome hardcover volume features 36 striking woodcut images of scenes from Lincoln’s life by a noted artist of the 1930s. An appendix includes some of the president’s speeches, letters…
Bob Burns,Paul Blaisdell
Horror guaranteed to shock you dead or your life refunded!
Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Gra
In the years before he wrote War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy founded and ran a school on his estate at Yasanya Polyana. Brimming with progressive and sometimes radical ideas on…
Walt Whitman
While serving as a volunteer at military hospitals, the poet recorded soldiers’ anecdotes of army life, their last words and final messages, and his own reflections on the Civil War.
