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  • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and philosophy, the Native American and Puritian histories of New England, the Bhagavad Gita, the imperfections of Christianity, and many other subjects. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Oxford World's Classics: The Deerslayer

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Deerslayer (1841) is the last-written of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, but the first in the development of the hero, Natty Bumppo. Here, Cooper returns Leatherstocking to his youth and to a pristine wilderness that D. H. Lawrence said was perhaps `lovelier than any place created in language'. This novel, and the contemporaneous The Pathfinder, mark Cooper's return to historical romance after ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea

    The Pathfinder shows Natty at his old trick of guiding tender damsels through the dangerous woods, and the siege at the blockhouse and the storm on Lake Ontario are considerably like other of Cooper's sieges and storms. Natty, in this novel commonly called the Pathfinder, keeps in a hardy middle age his simple and honest nature, which is severely tested by his love for a young girl. She is a ... Read more

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  • The Pioneers

    The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features an elderly Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo), Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton (whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper), and Elizabeth Temple (based on the author's sister, Hannah Cooper), daughter of the fictional Templeton. The story begins with an argument between the judge and ... Read more

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  • The Prairie A Tale

    The Prairie extols the vanishing American wilderness, disappearing because of the westward expansion of the American frontier. It concerns Natty Bumppo's travels with a party of settlers across the unsettled prairie of the Great Plains. ... Read more

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  • The Last of the Mohicans

    A Narrative of 1757

    The Last of the Mohicans is a classic of American literature set during the French and Indian wars of the Eighteenth Century. The action centers on the the scout Hawkeye and his companion Chingachgook as they strive to save the Munro sisters from Magua, a Huron renegade. The novel was one of the most popular in English in its time and remains widely read in American literature courses. ... Read more

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  • The Whole Five Feet

    What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everthing Else

    This unique memoir of reading the classics to find strength and wisdom "makes an elegant case for literature as an everyday companion" ( The New York Times Book Review).While undergoing a series of personal and family crises, Christopher R. Beha discovered that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics—the renowned "five foot shelf" of great world literature compiled in the early twentieth ... Read more

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  • The Art of the Short Story

    100 Classic Masterpieces

    This is an anthology for people who love story-telling. Our one hundred classic masterpieces were selected purely for their capacity to delight, instruct and charm. In this collection, readers will encounter some of the finest writing in world literature.We have chosen to arrange the stories thematically, dividing the anthology into ten parts as follows:CharactersAnimalsEpiphaniesMystery and ... Read more

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  • Stealing History

    by Gerald Stern ...
    In what could be boldly called a new genre, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness, on 85 years of life. In 70 short, intermingling pieces that constitute a kind of diary of a mind, Stern moves nimbly between the past and the present, the personal and the philosophical. Creating the immediacy of dailiness, he writes with entertaining engagement about what he’s reading, be it ... Read more

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  • Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of Veronika Decides to Die with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho, which tells the emotional story of a suicidal woman who is determined to end her life and follows her journey to discovering her true self and the meaning of life. The novel has inspired various ... Read more

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  • Wyoming: A Novel

    by Barry Gifford ...
    A subtle, impeccably rendered new novel from one of America's most distinctive writers.A woman and her young son are traveling together by car through the southern and midwestern United States in the mid-to-late 1950s. As the mother drives, she and the boy, Roy, talk about their lives, their disappointments, and their dreams. "Wyoming" exists as a state of mind rather than an actual place, a place ... Read more

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  • African American Literature Beyond Race

    An Alternative Reader

    Fiction by Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Octavia E. Butler, and others that isn't focused on race—with original introductions by leading scholars.It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core: African American protagonists, social settings, cultural symbols, and racial-political discourse. As a result, writings that are not preoccupied with race ... Read more

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