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What are two sisters of uncertain fortunes to do when the death of their father exiles their family to live in the countryside of southwestern England? Why, fall in love, of course! Through her deft unraveling of the dramatically different romantic fates of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, Jane Austen displays her singular mastery of the English language and her equally masterful invention of colorful and realistic characters. The author’s appreciation of what it is to be human, grounded in her deeply convicted Christianity, illuminates the tale with special wisdom. In this, her first published novel, we see the sense and sensibility of Miss Austen herself, which combine to form the brilliance that shines forth in all of her works—a brilliance enlivened by her remarkable sense of humor and the affectionate kindness that could only be born of a gracious Christian spirit.Sku: 9781586178383
Sense and Sensibility
By: Jane Austen Edited by: Eleanor Bourg Nicholson$17.50 -
Saint Francis Xavier's life is, in itself, a dramatic story. With humility and deep religious conviction, the famous Catholic novelist Louis de Wohl takes us into the mind and heart of this great missionary and saint who went by order of St. Ignatius of Loyola to "set all afire" in the Orient.Sku: 9780898703511
Set All Afire: A Novel of St. Francis Xavier
By: Louis De Wohl$24.50 -
NewEnger's novel, So Brave, Young, and Handsome, is a stunning successor—a touching, nimble, and rugged story of an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him.Sku: 9780802144171
So Brave, Young, and Handsome
By: Leif Enger$27.95 -
Night after night Shahrazad tells her wonderful stories until the King starts to realize that he won’t be able to live without them…Sku: 9780241382714
Tales from 1,001 Nights: Aladdin, Ali Baba and Other Favourites (Clothbound)
By: Anonymous, Translated by Malcolm C. Lyons, Ursula Lyons$34.00 -
This memorable collection gathers the plays of the great social satirist and playwright Molière, representing the many facets of his genius and offering a superb introduction to the comic inventiveness, richness of prose, and insight that make up Molière’s enduring legacy to theater, literature, and the world.Sku: 9780451474315
Tartuffe and Other Plays
By: Jean-Baptiste Moliere, Translated by Donald M. Frame$13.50 -
Originally published in 2005, That Distant Land brings together twenty–three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book is not an anthology so much as it is a coherent temporal mapping of this landscape over time, revealing Berry’s mastery of decades of the life lived alongside this clutch of interrelated characters bound by affection and followed over generations. This volume combines the stories found in The Wild Birds (1985), Fidelity (1992), and Watch with Me (1994), together with a map and a charting of the complex and interlocking genealogies.Sku: 9781593760540
That Distant Land
By: Wendell Berry$25.95 -
Written during the dark hours immediately before and during World War II, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which That Hideous Strength is the third and final volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of its moral concerns.Sku: 9780743234924
That Hideous Strength
By: C. S. Lewis$24.95 -
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions.Sku: 9780375719004
The Adolescent
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky$25.99By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky$25.99 Add to cart Quick View -
Dostoevsky masterfully depicts adolescence as a state of uncertainty, ignorance, and incompleteness, but also of richness and exuberance, in which everything is still possible. His tale of a youth finding his way in the disorder of Russian society in the 1870s is a high and serious comedy that borders on both farce and tragedy.Sku: 9781400041183
The Adolescent (Hardcover)
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky$37.99 -
Mark Twain's great American masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Sku: 9780141199573
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Clothbound)
By: Mark Twain$30.00 -
A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, now in a beautiful hardcover edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.Sku: 9780241347782
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle$36.00 -
After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote The Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas – Augustus’ legendary ancestor. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, The Aeneid also provided Rome with a literature equal to the Greek.Sku: 9780140449327
The Aeneid
By: Virgil, Edited and Translated by David West$23.00 -
Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love affair, and lure him into the world of the dead itself--all the way tormented by the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods. Ultimately, he reaches the promised land of Italy where, after bloody battles and with high hopes, he founds what will become the Roman empire.Sku: 9780141996332
The Aeneid
By: Virgil$32.00 -
Karen Wynn Fonstad's The Atlas of Middle Earth is an essential volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans.Sku: 9780618126996
The Atlas of Middle Earth
By: Karen Wynn Fonstad$31.00 -
The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesus completes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics.Sku: 9780140440447
The Bacchae and Other Plays
By: Euripides, Translated by Philip Vellacott$17.50 -
Like much of G. K. Chesterton's fiction, The Ball and the Cross is both witty and profound, cloaking serious religious and philosophical inquiry in sparkling humor and whimsy. Serialized in the British publication The Commonwealth in 1905-06, Chesterton's second novel first appeared in book form in America in 1909, delighting and challenging readers with its heady mixture of fantasy, farce, and theology. The plot of The Ball and the Cross chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, one a devout but naive Roman Catholic, the other a zealous but naive atheist. Their fanatically held opinions—leading to a duel that is proposed but never fought—inspire a host of comic adventures whose allegorical levels vigorously explore the debate between theism and atheism. Martin Gardner's superb introduction to The Ball and the Cross reveals the real-life debate between Chesterton and a famous atheist that provided inspiration for the story, and it explores some of the novel's possible allegorical meanings. Appraising the book's many intriguing philosophical qualities, Mr. Gardner alerts readers as well to the pleasures of its "colorful style . . . amusing puns and clever paradoxes . . . and the humor and melodrama of its crazy plot."Reprint of the 1909–1910 edition.Sku: 9780486288055
The Ball and the Cross
By: G. K. Chesterton$13.50