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This unabridged translation features an Introduction by influential medievalist author and professor John Miles Foley that explores Chaucer's life and times. In this major new translation, Burton Raffel has done a masterful job of carrying Chaucer into modern, highly readable English while retaining the rhythm and formal charm that so distinguish "The Canterbury Tales."--Billy Collins

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Since its first publication in 1653, this classic celebration of the joys of fishing is for anglers and nature lovers. This is the 1676 fifth edition and is reproduced with nineteenth-century woodcuts and engravings and an introduction by Howell Raines.

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In this book the author puts the reader in the game to play its parts and to contemplate its knaves and fools. Set on a Mississippi steamer on April Fools Day and populated by a series of shape-shifting con men, this book is a challenging metaphysical and ethical exploration of antebellum American society.

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James Madison kept the most extensive notes of any attendee of the Constitutional Convention. Now his notes are presented with modern punctuation and spelling and helpful notes, fascinating background information on every delegate, and an overview of the tumultuous times. High school & older.

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Presents a story where purpose is found in the atmosphere of war. This goes for the jaded Olenin, an heir to a fortune that he had half squandered until he abandons his jaded life as a Moscow socialite for the adventures as a soldier in the Caucasus where he finds his purpose and true love.

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A wandering writer, who boards at an herbalist's house in Maine, finds herself becoming more and more involved in the lives of the villagers.

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This abridgment of the diary captures the essential writings of Samuel Pepys, a remarkable man who witnessed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague and the Great Fire. Pepys's quotidian journal of life in Restoration London provides a frank account of political intrigues, naval, church and cultural affairs and more.

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First published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into a violent contest. This is a tale of human weakness, the possibility of forgiveness and a man's ability to change his ways.

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The definitive anthology of feminist writing, this collection presents the true history of feminism within both global and historical frameworks, and provides a vital addition to the field.

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"Originally published as part of 'The complete poetry and essential prose of John Milton' in hardcover in the United States by Modern Library, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, ... in 2007"--T.p. verso.

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The most comprehensive collection in print of the words and writings of the great American lawyer, writer, and social critic Clarence Darrow is edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Larson and ethicist Marshall.

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This unique one-volume collection contains writings by one of the 20th century's most gifted and effective African-American intellectual-activists. It includes two short never-before-published plays along with Johnson's complete novel "Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man" and much more.

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Contains six essays that appear in English, and additional selections.

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Originally published in trade paperback in 1997 and in mass market paperback in 2000 by Bantam Books.

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A small group of scientists come up with a plan to reach the Moon, only to discover that Earth's supposedly barren satellite is inhabited by a thriving community of insects.

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Translated by Constance Garnet, this work features Introduction and notes by Gary Saul Morson, and also includes a reading group guide.

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John Walden, a young black man, decides to pass for white in post-Civil War North Carolina in order to achieve the American dream.