Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Three of the finest of the author's numerous short stories include the romantic title tale, the comic "The Distracted Preacher," and "The Three Strangers," a tribute to community life.
The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Three of the finest of the author's numerous short stories include the romantic title tale, the comic "The Distracted Preacher," and "The Three Strangers," a tribute to community life.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Three of the finest of the author's numerous short stories include the romantic title tale, the comic "The Distracted Preacher," and "The Three Strangers," a tribute to community life.
Babbitt
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486115208
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A personal crisis jars a middle-aged real estate agent from his complacency in this satire of middle-class American life. Sinclair Lewis' great novel offers a scathing portrait of the consequences of clinging to conventional values.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486115208
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A personal crisis jars a middle-aged real estate agent from his complacency in this satire of middle-class American life. Sinclair Lewis' great novel offers a scathing portrait of the consequences of clinging to conventional values.
David Copperfield
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114449
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Based on the author's own life, this epic traces David's progress from his mother's sheltering arms to boarding-school and sweatshop to the rewards of friendship, romance, and self-discovery in his vocation as a writer.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114449
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Based on the author's own life, this epic traces David's progress from his mother's sheltering arms to boarding-school and sweatshop to the rewards of friendship, romance, and self-discovery in his vocation as a writer.
Jude the Obscure
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Hardy's novel about the trials of a poor stonemason excoriates convention — particularly the institutions of marriage, religion, and education — in a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Hardy's novel about the trials of a poor stonemason excoriates convention — particularly the institutions of marriage, religion, and education — in a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought.
Under Western Eyes
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486110931
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
DIVPolitical turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as an assassination, government intrigue, and betrayal force a young student to come to terms with accountability and human integrity. /div
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486110931
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
DIVPolitical turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as an assassination, government intrigue, and betrayal force a young student to come to terms with accountability and human integrity. /div
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Author: Jacob Grimm
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113728
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Compact and affordable, this collection of 43 deliciously dark fairy and folk tales features "Rapunzel," "Hänsel and Grethel," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Cinderella," "Little Snow-White," "The Golden Goose," "The Frog-King, or Iron Henry," and "The Twelve Brothers."
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113728
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Compact and affordable, this collection of 43 deliciously dark fairy and folk tales features "Rapunzel," "Hänsel and Grethel," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Cinderella," "Little Snow-White," "The Golden Goose," "The Frog-King, or Iron Henry," and "The Twelve Brothers."
The Moonstone
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Suspense, humor, and romance abound in this 1868 mystery, in which a gem stolen from a Hindu shrine resurfaces in an English country home — with a trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Suspense, humor, and romance abound in this 1868 mystery, in which a gem stolen from a Hindu shrine resurfaces in an English country home — with a trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail.
The Vicar of Wakefield
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048611080X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
DIVAn unworldly and generous vicar lives contentedly with his large family until disaster strikes. The ensuing havoc culminates with justice for all in this delightful lampoon of 18th-century literary conventions. /div
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048611080X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
DIVAn unworldly and generous vicar lives contentedly with his large family until disaster strikes. The ensuing havoc culminates with justice for all in this delightful lampoon of 18th-century literary conventions. /div
Elizabethan Poetry
Author: Bob Blaisdell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113639
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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 Shepherd to His Love"); more.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113639
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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 Shepherd to His Love"); more.
Utopia
Author: Thomas More
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486110702
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
DIV16th-century classic by English ecclesiastic and scholar envisioned a tolerant, patriarchal island kingdom free of private property, violence, bloodshed and vice. Forerunner of many later attempts. /div
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486110702
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
DIV16th-century classic by English ecclesiastic and scholar envisioned a tolerant, patriarchal island kingdom free of private property, violence, bloodshed and vice. Forerunner of many later attempts. /div