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  • ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
    DARWIN, CHARLES
    First published in 1859, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species introduced the scientific theory of evolution by means of natural selection, a revolutionary idea at the time. Fiercely debated on its release, Darwin’s famous work was revised several times over the following decade, partly to refute the scientific and religious objections of the author’s contemporaries. In thi...
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    $ 94,900.00

  • SELECTED WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
    POE, EDGAR ALLAN
    From the mysterious to the macabre, the works of Edgar Allan Poe have the power to evoke readers’ deepest emotions. Poe’s stories and poems explore the darker side of life and still offer lessons and insight into human behavior today. This handsome Word Cloud edition presents many of Poe’s best-known works, including “The Raven,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Tell-Tale ...
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    $ 89,900.00

  • CLASSIC TALES OF MYSTERY
    EDITORS OF CANTERBURY CLASSICS
    Classic Tales of Mystery contains eight famous stories from well-known authors, including Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and G. K. Chesterton. Each story presents the reader with a puzzle that can be solved only through logic and deduction, a hallmark of classic detective tales. Famous sleuths—including Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes—have unique personalities that end...
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    $ 95,000.00

  • CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION
    EDITORS OF CANTERBURY CLASSICS
    Classic Science Fiction includes nine stories from masters of early science fiction: H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Fitz James O’Brien, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Stanley G. Weinbaum. The exploration of new concepts and technologies has driven the genre since its earliest days, and these works demonstrate how science fiction evolved ...
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    $ 95,000.00

  • FRANKENSTEIN
    SHELLEY, MARY W.
    The idea for the story came to the author, Mary Shelley, in a dream she had about a scientist who had created life and was horrified by what he had made. This Gothic-style romance is among the first of true science fiction novels, if not the first. A young scientist named Victor Frankenstein, after going through his own near-death experience, decides to play God and create life...
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    $ 79,900.00

  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Jane Austen wrote the original draft of Sense and Sensibility around 1795 at the age of nineteen, and published it in 1811. This classic tale takes place in southwest England and follows the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, who are reduced to meager means when their father passes and entrusts his fortune to their half brother, John. Now available as part of the Word Cloud...
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    $ 79,900.00

  • LITTLE WOMAN
    MAY ALCOTT, LOUISA
    Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. When it was first published in 1868, it became an instant bestseller. The book?s gentle lessons and charming story of four adventurous sisters coming of age in Civil War-era New England was original...
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    $ 79,900.00

  • DON QUIXOTE
    CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
    No home library is complete without the classics! Don Quixote is a keepsake to be read and treasured.Miguel de Cervantes began to write this literary classic after serving in the Spanish militia, surviving a gunshot wound, being captured by Barbary pirates, forced into slavery, and being ransomed by his parents. He knows intimately the joys and tragedies of life, love, and loss...
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  • THE PRINCE AND OTHER WRITINGS
    MAQUIAVELO, NICOLÁS
    One of the foremost examples of modern philosophy, Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince is notorious for the morality it expounds, often summarized by the phrase, “The end justifies the means.” With The Prince, Machiavelli’s intent was to provide practical advice for rulers and politicians, especially in regard to the unification of Italy. The Prince and Other Writings is an import...
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    $ 79,900.00

  • MOBY - DICK
    MELVILLE, HERMAN
    "...for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."--Herman Melville, Moby-Dick "Call me Ishmael" is the iconic opening line of Herman Melville's classic American novel, Moby-Dick. Ishmael is a seaman aboard the whaling vessel, Pequod, under the vengeful captain, Ahab. Maniacally seeking retribution from the great white sp...
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  • JANE EYRE
    BRONTË, CHARLOTTE
    When `Jane Eyre` was first published in 1847, it became an instant bestseller, so popular that the publisher commissioned a second printing in just three months. Fiery passion, shocking secrets, and a compelling, vulnerable heroine in peril have made `Jane Eyre` an enduring favorite. When Jane becomes governess at gloomy Thornfield Hall, she falls deeply in love with the broodi...
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