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Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

Full page color pastedown, illustrated boards and colored frontispiece with 7 other full page illustrations. Undated, circa 1940.

This revised volume follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Contains the original foreword by the author and the historic court ruling to remove the federal ban. It also contains page references to the first American edition of 1934.

The Bloody Chamber

by Angela Carter

A reissue of a collection of short stories first published ten years ago. They include "The Company of Wolves", on which the prize-winning film of the same name was based. Angela Carter is the author of "Nights at the Circus" and "The Magic Toyshop".

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world... (more)

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726 text—the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. "Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, as well as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift's correspondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels , and... (more)

Discipline & Punish

The Birth of the Prison

by Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan

In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

The Waste Land and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics)

The Waste Land and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics)

by T. S. Eliot

First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively... (more)

Culture and Imperialism (Vintage)

by Edward W. Said

A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. "Said is a brilliant . . . scholar, aesthete and political activist."--Washington Post Book World.

Milkweed

by Jerry Spinelli

Back Home

by Michelle Magorian

‘Rusty Dickinson was sent to the United States from England at the age of seven in 1940 to survive the war. When she returns in 1945, she finds a country and a family she neither understands nor likes, and vice versa.A marvelous look at the complexity of mother-daughter relationships." —ALAN Review. 1984 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) 1984 Children's Books (NY Public Library)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

by John Boyne

Berlin 1942 When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. ... (more)

As I Was Among Captives: Joseph Campbell's Prison Diary, 1922-23 (Irish Narrative Series) (Irish Narrative Series)

As I Was Among Captives: Joseph Campbell's Prison Diary, 1922-23 (Irish Narrative Series) (Irish Narrative Series)

by Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell (1879-1944) was a talented poet, reared in Catholic Belfast, who became a pioneer of Irish Studies in the United States. His reputation as a Irish Irelander was gained in London, but in 1912 he settled in Dublin and became active in radical nationalism. In the revolutionary years he became a republican justice, and local councilor in County Wicklow. Having opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty,... (more)

Good Night, Mr. Tom

by Michelle Magorian

Winner of the 1982 IRA Children's Book Award London is poised on the brink of World War 11. Timid, scrawny Willie Beech--the abused child of a single mother--is evacuated to the English countryside. At first, he is terrified of everything, of the country sounds and sights, even of Mr. Tom, the gruff, kindly old man who has taken him in. But gradually Willie forgets the hate and despair of his past. He learns to... (more)

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Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

Ulysses

by James Joyce

The Bloody Chamber

by Angela Carter

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

Discipline & Punish

The Birth of the Prison

by Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan

The Waste Land and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics)

by T. S. Eliot

Culture and Imperialism (Vintage)

by Edward W. Said

Milkweed

by Jerry Spinelli

Back Home

by Michelle Magorian

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

by John Boyne

As I Was Among Captives: Joseph Campbell's Prison Diary, 1922-23 (Irish Narrative Series) (Irish Narrative Series)

by Joseph Campbell

Good Night, Mr. Tom

by Michelle Magorian