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Republic
By Plato, G.M.A. Grube (Translator), C.D.C. Reeve (Editor)
Since its publication in 1974, scholars throughout the humanities have adopted G M A Grube's masterful translation of the Republic as the edition of...
Suite Française
By Irène Némirovsky, Sandra Smith (Translator)
The first two stories of a masterwork once thought lost, written by a pre-WWII bestselling author who was deported to Auschwitz and died before her...
The Pearl
By John Steinbeck
A retelling of an old Mexican folk tale involving the discovery of a great pearl and the ensuing misfortune of the fisherman who found it.Today,...
The Mill on the Floss
By George Eliot, A.S. Byatt (Editor/Introduction)
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?'Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to...
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By Bill Martin Jr., John Archambault, Lois Ehlert (Illustrator)
The 26 characters in this rhythmic, rhyming baby book are a lowercase alphabet with attitude. "A told b, and b told c, 'I'll meet you at the top of...
Invisible Man
By Ralph Ellison
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American...
Out of the Silent Planet
By C.S. Lewis
The first book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins...
Of Human Bondage
By W. Somerset Maugham, Benjamin DeMott (Introduction), Maeve Binchy (Afterword)
The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a...
The Origin of Species
By Charles Darwin, Julian Huxley (Introduction)
The classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world.Few other...
Bridge to Terabithia
By Katherine Paterson, Donna Diamond (Illustrator)
Jess Aarons' greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates'...