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Full-Color Art Nouveau Stained Glass Designs CD-ROM and Book
Over 100 gorgeous designs, most by noted German artist Arnold Lyongrόn, display beautiful creatures of land, sea, and air, graceful female figures, lovely seascapes, and more. Dover Original....
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Decorative Ironwork Designs CD-ROM and Book
Multitude of designs selected from rare nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century periodicals depict motifs for gates, railings, finials, window grilles, signs, bedsteads, marquees, knockers, tables, an...
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Miss Julie
One of the greatest classics of modern theater—the fateful drama of a willful young aristocrat’s seduction of her father’s valet during a Midsummer’s Eve celebration. Inspired by the new ideas of natu...
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Easy-to-Make Stained Glass Mirror Frames: 16 Designs with Full-Size Templates
Create dazzling oval, circular, rectangular-shaped stained glass mirrors in popular floral, bird, butterfly, geometric motifs. Choose from swirling Art Nouveau, bold Art Deco styles....
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Full-Color Old-Time Animals CD-ROM and Book
389 charming images, selected from rare Victorian-era sources, portray dogs, cats (domesticated and wild), farm animals, race horses, seals, and scores of other creatures, including whimsically render...
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Decorative Letters CD-ROM and Book
Lavish treasury of over 800 copyright-free letters of the alphabet presented in styles ranging from medieval, Victorian and Renaissance to Art Nouveau, Art Deco and modern. Inexpensive archive of read...
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Full-Color Animal Illustrations CD-ROM and Book
Incredible collection of realistically rendered animals depicts all manner of creatures inhabiting land, sea and air--from the tiny red ant to the gigantic humpback whale. Images of snakes, insects, f...
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500 Master Games of Chess
Vast collection of great chess games from 1798–1938, with much material nowhere else readily available. Fully annotated, arranged by opening for easier study. 150 years of master play!...
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Measure for Measure
One of the author’s dark comedies, esteemed for its fascinating political and social implications. Its compelling characters include a duke masquerading as a monk, a would-be nun ordered to sacrific...
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Decorative Christmas Illustrations CD-ROM and Book
Hundreds of winsome, full-color illustrations-all from rare vintage publications-include images of jolly old St. Nicholas, evergreen wreaths and garlands, exuberant children playing with holiday gifts...
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The Art Deco Style
468 examples from L’Art International d’Aujourd’hui capture geometric, prismatic Art Deco of 20’s and 30’s. Gardens, dwellings, interiors, furniture, fabrics, stained glass, sculpture, jewelry, graphi...
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Stained Glass Craft Made Simple: Step-by-Step Instructions Using the Modern Copper-Foil Method
Expert manual shows how anyone—even beginners—can make beautiful stained glass pieces using the easy-to-learn copper-foil method. Step-by-step instructions and 45 photos, drawings and diagrams explain...
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World Celebrities in 90 Photos
Great portraitist’s arresting images of Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sandburg, Khrushchev, Brecht, Frank Lloyd Wright, Georgia O’Keeffe, more....
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The Beginner’s Handbook of Woodcarving
Detailed instructions, illustrations for carving animals, flowers, figures, more. Tips on tools, techniques, painting, finishing, exhibiting....
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Decorative Silhouettes CD-ROM and Book
Hundreds of charming images, adapted from rare sources, depict a wide array of subjects-from animals in assorted poses and children playing, to couples embracing and people working. The high-quality, ...
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
Twenty-four important works, focusing on Wilde’s poetic legacy, offer important clues to themes and subjects that preoccupied this gifted writer in other works. Includes The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a ...
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Batik and Tie Dye Techniques
This comprehensive, generously illustrated handbook leads readers step by step through the techniques required in creating imaginative and beautiful batiks and tie dyed textiles. Exploring the history...
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: First and Fifth Editions
One of the best-known, most often quoted English classics. Edward FitzGerald’s free translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048—1122), Persian mathematician, astronomer...
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The Jewelry Engravers Manual
Comprehensive manual teaches every step: initials and inscriptions, monograms, decoration and embellishment, more. 89 illus....
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How Karpov Wins: Second, Enlarged Edition
Newly revised, enlarged edition of first book on great Russian chess master focuses on the tactics, strategy and even psychological approaches employed by Karpov in winning against Bronstein, Smyslov,...
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Floral, Folk and Paisley Designs CD-ROM and Book
Convenient, visually appealing collection-adapted from such images as floral clusters, Slavic and Far Eastern motifs, and other designs-has a multitude of uses. Suitable wherever decorative illustrati...
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Photo Archive of Famous Places of the World
Dramatic full-page photos of over 100 sites: Grand Canyon, Stonehenge, the Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China, many more....
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
The lovable old rogue of Shakespeare’s Henriad trilogy, Sir John Falstaff, returns to take center stage in this lively farce. A good-natured satire of the vices of hypocrisy and lechery, the play de...
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Engraving Glass: A Beginner’s Guide
Step-by-step instructions for diamond burr engraving, from making the first cut to displaying finished work. Includes four complete projects, plus expert advice on choosing glass, fashioning glass chu...
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Twelve Great Chess Players and Their Best Games
Noted authority selects 12 greatest players—Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker, Fischer, Botvinnik, Petrosian, Tal, Smyslov, Spassky, Bronstein, Rubinstein and Nimzowitsch—and presents 115 memorable games t...
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Shakespeare: A Book of Quotations
With over 500 offerings from the most quoted writer in the English language, this modestly priced volume provides a luxurious assortment of memorable and profound thoughts. Conveniently arranged by to...
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Dr. Faustus
Tragedy of learned German doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power....
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Ghosts
Powerful psychological drama (1881) exposes hypocrisy of social conventions and society’s moral codes. Mrs. Helen Alving is haunted by her husband’s infidelities and the disease he has passed to their...
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An Enemy of the People
When Dr. Thomas Stockmann learns that the famous and financially successful Baths in his home town are contaminated, he insists they be shut down for expensive repairs. Ridiculed and persecuted by the...
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La Vita Nuova
This celebration of the poet's passionate love for his immortal Beatrice weaves together rapturous sonnets and canzoni with prose commentaries and an autobiographical narrative. A predecessor to The D...
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Hunting Weapons from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
Detailed, comprehensive account of swords, knives and bayonets, staff weapons, bows, crossbows, guns and other miscellaneous arms—dating from the Middle Ages to modern times. Over 280 contemporary ill...
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The Jewelry Repair Manual
Clear, step-by-step instructions for cleaning and repairing jewelry and setting stones, with complete descriptions of tools and equipment, their use and care. Also, ultrasonics, steaming, electroplati...
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Hard Times
Classic 1845 novel offers a powerful indictment of the dehumanizing effects of mid-19th-century industrialization. Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a sterile atmosphere of stri...
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
Enormously inventive tale about a mad surgeon-turned-vivisectionist on a remote island who performs ghoulish experiments that transform animals into men. It is one of Wells’s earliest and most siniste...
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Floral Stained Glass Lampshades
46 full-size patterns for beautiful lampshade designs that range from traditional and Art Nouveau to contemporary styles. Many different sizes suitable to a wide variety of lamps....
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Tom Sawyer
Specially abridged version of the beloved classic about a mischievous but well-meaning young lad who barely avoids calamity as he bounds along from one adventure to anothe...
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Modern Mexican Painters
Definitive introduction to the art and artists of Mexico during great artistic movements of the twenties and thirties. In-depth discussion of major figures—Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David...
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Antony and Cleopatra
The legendary romance between an irresistible siren and great general comes to dramatic life in one of Shakespeare’s most powerful tragedies. Fascinating characterizations of a pair of history’s most ...
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Modern Chess Strategy
Modern classic offers thorough, systematic analysis of the use of the queen, active king, exchanges, seven different uses of pawns, minority attackk, dynamic elements, muc...
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Complete Sonnets
Over 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty’s evanescence, death and other themes in language unsurpassed in passion, precision, originality and beauty. This inexp...
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Right You Are, If You Think You Are
This famous play, an expressionistic parable by the Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright, explores such themes as the relativity of truth, the vanity and necessity of illusion and the instability of...
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Coriolanus
A highly political play, Coriolanus concerns a military hero of ancient Rome who attempts to shift from his career as a general to become a candidate for public office--a disastrous move that leads to...
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The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
Invaluable ready reference, brimming with amusing and insightful quotes, includes hundreds of Twain’s most memorable quips and comments on life, love, history, culture, travel and diverse other topics...
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As You Like It
Unjustly deposed by his younger brother, the rightful duke retreats to the Forest of Arden and forms a utopia with his loyal followers while his daughter remains at court as a companion to her cousin....
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Love's Labour's Lost
In this charming comedy of manners, a well-intentioned king vows to forego all fleshly delights, setting the stage for romantic hijinks. The customary Shakespearean comic elements--lovers in disguise,...
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101 Puzzles in Thought and Logic
Solve murder problems, robberies, see which fishermen are liars, how a blind man can identify color—purely by reasoning!...
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Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will
Delightfully comic tale of mistaken identities revolves around the physical likeness between Sebastian and his twin sister Viola, each of whom, when separated after a shipwreck, believes the other to ...
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The Wild Duck
The idealistic son of a corrupt merchant exposes his father’s duplicity, but in the process destroys the very people he wishes to save. Gregers Werle forces his friends, the Ekdals, to confront the tr...
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Hamlet
As attested to by countless stage and screen productions, Hamlet forever retains its fascination for audiences. Repeated viewings and readings provide new insights into th...
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The Father
Many experiences in the personal life of dramatist August Strindberg involved duels between the sexes, with ruthless, aggressive women usurping the supposedly male prerogatives of decision-making and ...
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
This 1921 intellectual comedy contrasts illusion with reality by introducing six individuals to a bare stage occupied by actors in rehearsal. Proclaiming themselves the incomplete creations of an auth...
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Phedra
Based on Euripides' Hippolytus, this play by one of France's greatest playwrights is a magnificent example of character exposition. When the title character, Hippolytus' stepmother, receives false inf...
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Dead Souls
A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their dead souls, the serfs who have died in their service and for whom they must co...
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The Kreutzer Sonata
Title story plus How Much Land Does a Man Need? and The Death of Ivan Ilych. Explanatory footnotes...
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Tarzan
(Abridged.) Imaginative and exciting tale recounts the remarkable exploits of young Lord Greystoke, who is raised by a family of apes in the African jungle and becomes the...
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The Turn of the Screw
One of literature’s most gripping ghost stories depicts the sinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. Elegantly told tale of unspoken horror and psychologica...
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Eight Great Sherlock Holmes Stories
These richly atmospheric tales from Victorian London trace the continuing adventures of an ever-popular sleuth: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-headed League, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, ...
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Best Science Fiction Stories of H. G. Wells
The full novel The Invisible Man, plus Wells’s finest science fiction short stories: The Crystal Egg, Aepyornis Island, The Strange Orchid, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, The Star, The Apple, The Ne...
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The Adventure of the Dancing Men and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories
Four superb stories featuring the peerless sleuth and his faithful sidekick, Dr. Watson: The Adventure of the Dancing Men, The Adventure of the Dying Detective, The Musgrave Ritual and The Adve...
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Five Great Short Stories
Incisive, masterfully written tales—set in Tsarist Russian milieux—reveal noted author’s skills in character, nuance and setting development. Includes The Black Monk (1894), The House with the Mezz...
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Moby-Dick
A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling maritime adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and vengeful sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him and ...
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Precious Stones, Vol. 1
Volume 1 of a classic, thorough study of precious and semi-precious stones: diamond, topaz, opal, turquoise, ruby, emerald, garnet, more. Fullest, most exhaustive survey ever prepared gives detailed i...
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The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
Six masterpieces of the genre include title story plus An Amateur Peasant Girl, The Shot, The Snowstorm, The Postmaster, and The Coffin-Maker—all fascinating portraits of life in Tsarist Russ...
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Pride and Prejudice
A headstrong young woman and her aristocratic suitor must overcome their respective impediments to a happy ending--his pride must be humbled and her prejudice dissolved. T...
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Mansfield Park
Dependent on the benevolence of her aristocratic relatives, young Fanny Price develops into the moral center of a family gone astray and restores the tranquility of her adoptive home. Written in the f...
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
A ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy's 1891 novel defied convention to focus on the rural lower class for a frank t...
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Dore’s Illustrations for Rabelais
Generous sampling of Dorι's magnificent illustrations for Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, including all 60 original full-page illustrations and 192 smaller works-all meticulously reproduced from r...
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Gulliver’s Travels
From the preeminent prose satirist in the English language, a great classic recounting the four remarkable journeys of ship’s surgeon Lemuel Gulliver. For children it remains an enchanting fantasy; fo...
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The Lower Depths
This compelling 1902 play, considered Gorky’s masterpiece, centers on a group of wretched souls who congregate to play cards, tell stories, and debate whether it is better to live without illusions or...
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Richard III
Final play in Shakespeare’s masterly dramatization of the struggle for power between the Houses of York and Lancaster. Richard is a stunning archvillain who schemes, seduces, betrays and murders his w...
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Henry IV, Part I
Memorable historical drama concerns rebellion against King Henry led by Harry Percy ( Hotspur ) and other nobles, complicated by the king’s difficulties with his wayward son Prince Hal. Superb blend o...
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Dore's Illustrations for the Fables of La Fontaine
By the age of 16--and without ever having had an art lesson in his life--Gustave Dorι had become the highest paid illustrator in France. Twenty years later, in 1868, when he was at the height of his p...
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The Metamorphoses: Selected Stories in Verse
For over two thousand years, readers have delighted in Ovid's playful eloquence; his influence on other writers has ranged from Dante and Chaucer to Shakespeare and Milton. This selection of 30 storie...
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Five Comic One-Act Plays
Humorous gems by one of the masters of modern drama, including The Anniversary, a frenetic, behind-the-scenes look at the goings-on in a bank; An Unwilling Martyr, a humorous recital of an overburdene...
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The Ambassadors
This complex tale of self-discovery--considered by the author to be his best work--traces the path of an aging idealist, Lambert Strether. Arriving in Paris with the intention of persuading his young ...
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Bartleby and Benito Cereno
Two memorable and stirring works—first written as magazine pieces and later published in The Piazza Tales. Bartleby, (also called Bartleby the Scrivener ) is a haunting moral allegory set in the bu...
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Robinson Crusoe
A shipwreck’s sole escapee, Robinson Crusoe endures 28 years of solitude on a Caribbean island and manages not only to survive but also to prevail. A warm humanity, evocative details of his struggle t...
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Henry V
This popular, much-studied drama focuses on the young warrior king--from Henry's decision to continue the military exploits of his royal ancestors and press England's claim to the French throne, to hi...
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Notes from the Underground
Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values. Seminal work introduced moral, religious, political and social themes...
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"The
Three of the finest of the author’s numerous short stories include the title piece, a critically acclaimed tale of a romantic triangle; a comedy, The Distracted Preacher ; and The Three Strangers, ...
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Black Beauty
Suspenseful, deeply moving tale, narrated from the horse’s point of view, follows Black Beauty from his carefree days as a colt through a variety of experiences at the hands of many owners—some sensit...
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The Return of the Native
Passionate Eustacia Vye detests her life amid the dreary environs of Egdon Heath and spies her escape when Clym Yeobright returns from Paris. Hardy's timeless tale of a romantic misalliance embodies h...
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Faust, Part One
Enduring legend of the old philosopher who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power....
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Alice’s Abenteuer im Wunderland
German translation of Alice in Wonderland, by Antonie Zimmermann. Approved by Carroll, still considered best. (No English text.) 42 Tenniel illus....
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The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
Four works by great 19th-century Russian author: The Nose, a savage satire of Russia’s incompetent bureaucrats and its snobbish and complacent upper classes; Old-Fashioned Farmers, a pleasant depi...
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Jacob’s Room
The tale of Jacob Flanders, a lonely young man unable to reconcile his love of classical culture with the chaotic reality of World War I society, unfolds in a series of brief impressions and conversat...
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Chelkash and Other Stories
Three superb short stories from the first great Russian writer to emerge from the ranks of the proletariat, including the title story, in which a thieving vagrant takes on a young, unwilling apprentic...
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Julius Caesar
Great tragedy based on Plutarch’s account of the lives of Brutus, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Evil plotting, ringing oratory, high tragedy with Shakespeare’s incomparable insight, dramatic power. R...
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Robin Hood
The legendary outlaw and his merry men spring to life again, thrilling young readers with feats of daring and tests of strength. Join Robin, Little John, Friar Tuck, Maid ...
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Fathers and Sons
Against the background of the liberation of Russia’s serfs during the 1860s, a generational conflict flares between older aristocrats and radical youths. Quarrels, romance, and misunderstandings ensue...
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Building and Flying Model Aircraft
Richly illustrated manual introduces beginners to basic aerodynamic principles and all aspects of model-building—from paint and tissue covering to the secrets of selecting the best engine, fuel and ra...
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The Oil Jar and Other Stories
Little Hut, Mrs. Frola and Mr. Ponza, Her Son-in-Law, Citrons from Sicily, With Other Eyes, and seven other tales....
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Smoke Bellew
A sweeping adventure saga in the tradition of White Fang and The Call of the Wild, bringing to vivid life the cold, bleak, unforgiving Alaskan wilderness and the colorful, desperately uncertain lives ...
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The Emperor Jones
Powerful drama, rapidly shifting scenes describe fall of Brutus Jones, the self-proclaimed, plundering monarch of a West Indian island, whose flight into the jungle from rebellious subjects is plagued...
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
A young mining engineer must elude both foreign agents and British authorities to save his own life and expose a plot with catastrophic implications for Britain....
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The Gift of the Magi
Sixteen captivating stories by one of America’s most popular storytellers. Included are such classics as The Gift of the Magi, The Last Leaf, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Voice of the City and...
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The Tempest
The bard’s final play, containing his mature reflections on life, concerns Prospero, a philosophical old magician, and Miranda, his lovely daughter, who dwell in peaceful isolation on an enchanted isl...
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Children’s Fashions of the Past in Photographs
165 studio photos of American and European children 1860s–1920s....
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The Decameron: Selected Tales
A group of 14th-century Florentines recount stories of romance and adventure in this landmark of medieval literature. Twenty-five tales, selected from the original 100, highlight the very best of The ...
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Five Great Short Stories
Five stories that epitomize Jack London’s mastery of the adventure story. The White Silence, In a Far Country, and An Odyssey of the North bring the harshness of the frozen North powerfully to l...
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Selected Fables of Jean De La Fontaine
All the imagination, whimsy and invention that have made Alexander Calder’s mobiles and stabiles so popular. In this reprint, 36 fables (in rhymed translation by Eunice Clark) with a Calder drawing fo...
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Lady Windermere’s Fan
This Victorian comedy of manners sparkles with Wilde’s trademark repartee, epigrams, and witty dialogue. Arch-moralist Lady Windermere, shattered by the suspicion of her husband’s infidelity, contempl...
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The Necklace and Other Short Stories
Nine memorable classics, characterized by ironic twists of plot, include Ball of Fat, regarded by many as technically one of the finest short stories ever written, The Necklace, A Piece of String...
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The Modern Architect: A Classic Victorian Stylebook and Carpenter’s Manual
Rare book by influential 19th-century American architect includes general survey of architecture, specific characteristics of Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Gothic, other styles. Also, arrangement and constru...
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White Fang
A classic adventure novel detailing the savagery of life in the northern wilds. Its central character is a ferocious and magnificent creature, half dog, half wolf, through whose experiences we feel th...
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Daisy Miller
Famous novella chronicles a young American girl’s willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences. Throughout, James contrasts American customs and values with E...
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The Country of the Blind
Six entertaining short stories from the foremost science fiction writer of his time. Includes The Star, a gripping tale about a massive celestial object hurtling towards the Earth, as well as The N...
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The Sea Gull
In this tragic masterpiece portraying the inner anguish of a tormented artist who burns with unrequited love, the Russian playwright uses the death of a sea gull to symbolize the ruined hopes and drea...
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The First Men in the Moon
In this 1901 classic, Wells’s first men in the moon practice lunar locomotion, get lost in a moon jungle, and confront intelligent life in lunar caverns. Through the adventures of these two earthlin...
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Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
Choice collection of short fiction by one of the masters of the genre. In addition to the title story, this volume includes The Birthmark, Rappaccini’s Daughter, Roger Malvin’s Burial, The Arti...
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Lord Jim
Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of our time, this book has become a staple of high school and college literature courses. The story is about a young ship’s officer who abandons his imper...
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The Gambler
Psychologically probing novel concerns the gambling eqisodes, tangled love affairs and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler; Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves; a pair of Frenc...
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Washington Square
The shy and sweet daughter of a well-to-do physician, Catherine Sloper seems destined for lifelong spinsterhood until the sudden appearance of a dashing suitor who proposes marriage. Her adored father...
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The story of King Arthur
Stirring tales of King Arthur's boyhood, his sword Excalibur, the round table, adventures of Sir Launcelot, other daring deeds. 6 illus....
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Beauty and the Beast and Other Fairy Tales
Brimming with humor, drama, and fantasy, this collection of six stories takes its title from the enchanting fable about a beautiful girl’s love for a gentle but ugly creature. Includes Blue Beard, Pus...
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Heidi
Heartwarming tale of a cheerful orphan sent to live with her hermit-like grandfather high in the Swiss Alps. There, she transforms the lives of Peter, a goatherd; Peter’s blind grandmother; Clara, a w...
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The Long Voyage Home and Other Plays
From one of America’s greatest playwrights, four of his finest short plays. Written between 1913 and 1917 and filled with moody, intense and fascinating characters entrapped by larger forces, they inc...
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The Scarlet Letter
For nearly a century and a half, Hawthorne’s masterpiece has mesmerized readers and critics alike. One of the greatest American novels, its themes of sin, guilt and redemption, woven through a story o...
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Moll Flanders
Brilliant masterpiece of 18th-century realism, written in the form of an autobiographical memoir, recounts the dreadful facts of Moll’s adventurous life—her years in prison, as a prostitute and thief,...
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Omoo
A failed mutiny lands the narrator in a Tahitian jail where he and his companion, Doctor Long Ghost, are treated with curiosity and kindness. After their eventual release, the two embark on a series o...
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Precious Stones, Vol. 2
Volume 2 of a classic, thorough study of precious and semi-precious stones: diamond, topaz, opal, turquoise, ruby, emerald, garnet, more. Fullest, most exhaustive survey ever prepared gives detailed i...
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Selected Fables
With their unique blend of wit and poetic mastery, the verse interpretations of Aesop’s Fables by 17th-century author Jean de La Fontaine have enchanted readers of all ages for over three centuries. 7...
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Mythological and Fantastic Creatures CD-ROM and Book
Monsters, demons, mythical creatures, and other supernatural beings abound in this unique and useful CD-ROM and book collection. Over 400 illustrations range from prehistoric pictographs and medieval ...
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Frankenstein
The world's most famous monster comes to life in this 1818 novel, a compelling narrative that combines Gothic romance and science fiction to tell of an ambitious young doctor's attempts to breathe lif...
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The Club of Queer Trades
Six whimsical short stories by brilliant, witty, English author, poet and critic. Improbable plots, marvelously funny episodes, evocative descriptions of late Victorian London distinguish delightful t...
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Tales of Terror
The great Victorian author ventures further into the unknown with these 12 masterful tales of crime and the supernatural. The Dream Woman, A Terribly Strange Bed, The...
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The Secret Sharer and Other Stories
Three of Conrad’s most powerful stories of the sea— Youth: A Narrative, Typhoon and The Secret Sharer. ...
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The Cricket on the Hearth
Title story plus The Holly-Tree and The Haunted House. Stories offer delightful evocations of Victorian Christmases of long ago....
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The Analects
Rich distillation of the timeless precepts of extremely influential Chinese philosopher and social theorist. Footnotes....
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The Days of Henry Thoreau
In this widely acclaimed biography, an outstanding Thoreau scholar presents the culmination of a lifetime of research. This eminently readable work reveals Thoreau’s manysidedness; famous and little-k...
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Bhagavadgita
Part of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata, the Bhagavadgita probes Hindu concepts of the nature of God and what man should do to reach him. Explanatory footnotes....
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Legends of Ancient Egypt
Eleven carefully chosen, highly readable stories—among the earliest literature known to Western man—provide a revealing glimpse into the lives and culture of the ancient Egyptians Includes The Scorpi...
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Metalwork for Craftsmen
Illustrations and detailed instructions for 55 projects: coasters, candlesticks, water pitchers, platters, silent butler, reading lamp, many more. Work with pewter, copper, silver, brass and aluminum....
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Great Adventure Novels for Children
Seven literary classics: Tarzan, Tom Sawyer, Robinson Crusoe, Kidnapped, The Three Musketeers, The Story of King Arthur, and Robin Hood....
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Forerunner
The wisdom, poetic outlook, and deep humanity for which Gibran’s best-known work, The Prophet, is famous are also amply present in The Forerunner, published just 3 years earlier. Heartfelt and compass...
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The Double
Most significant of the Russian novelist’s early stories (1846) offers a straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme. Golyadkin senior is a powerless target of persecution by Golyadkin junior, h...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Hank Morgan finds himself transported to Dark Ages England—where he is immediately captured and sentenced to death at Camelot. Fortunately, he’s quick-witted, and in the process of saving his life he ...
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O Pioneers!
This powerful early Cather novel, a landmark of American fiction, tells the story of the young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the Nebraska lands they h...
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Full-Color Angels CD-ROM and Book
Heavenly images, selected from rare, vintage publications and abounding in old-fashioned charm, depict angels and cherubs tending sheep, playing musical instruments, in attitudes of prayer, and in oth...
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Under Western Eyes
Political turmoil convulses nineteenth-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public off...
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Islamic Patterns
Fascinating collection of authentic Islamic designs, all copyright-free, for artists, designers and craft enthusiasts. Visually rich, yet inexpensive source of ideas for designing textiles, wallpaper,...
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Life on the Mississippi
The popular 19th-century humorist offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice steamboat pilot on one of the world’s greatest rivers to views from the passenger deck in the twil...
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The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific
Cook’s three great voyages into the uncharted Pacific, told in his own words. Travel classic recounts exploration of the eastern coastline of Australia, mapping of New Zealand, discovery of Hawaiian I...
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Winesburg, Ohio
Moving collection of interrelated stories illuminates the loneliness and frustrations—spiritual, emotional and artistic—of life in a small town....
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The Lost World
An exciting account of a jungle expedition’s encounter with living dinosaurs, written with the same panache exhibited in the author’s Sherlock Holmes mysteries. This 1912 novel, the first installment ...
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The Prince and the Pauper
Treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socio-economic worlds of 16th-century England, focuses on two young look-alikes—Edward, the Prince of Wales, and Tom Canty, a street begga...
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The Man Who Would Be King
Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Kipling drew upon his experiences in Anglo-Indian society for much of his fiction. This volume includes five of the author’s best early stories: The Phantom ...
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Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
Four of the famed English writer's finest works, among them The Sphinx Without a Secret, The Model Millionaire, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, and the title story, a delightfully comical tale of a ...
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Resurrection
A rich, visual record of the vices of petty officialdom, Tolstoy's novel of spiritual regeneration recounts the sins of a young Russian nobleman and his attempts in later life to redress those transgr...
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Treasure Island
Heady tale of a treasure map, a perilous sea journey across the Spanish Main, a mutiny led by the infamous Long John Silver and a lethal scramble for buried treasure as seen through the eyes of cabin ...
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Pudd’nhead Wilson
Switched at birth by a female slave who fears for her infant son’s life, a light-skinned child changes places with the master’s white son. This simple premise underlies Twain’s engrossing 19th-century...
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Great Tales of Terror
Chilling tales of the returning dead, haunted places, weird creatures, and the supernatural in The Return of the Soul, by Robert Hichens, The Mummy's Foot, by Theophile Gautier, Lafcadio Hearn's ...
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The Jungle Book
Subtle lessons in justice, loyalty, and tribal law pervade these 14 imaginative tales, recounted by a master storyteller with a special talent for entertaining audiences of all ages....
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments
Beautiful princesses, genies who emerge from bottles, and talking birds in 26 magical tales: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Sindbad the Sailor, Noureddin and the Fair Persian, Merchant of Bagd...
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