Category: Classics&Literature

Hemingway's Classic Novel About Smuggling, Intrigue, and Love
To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.
Harshly realistic, yet with one of the most subtle and moving relationships in the Hemingway oeuvre, To Have and Have Not is literary high adv...
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Three Plays Of Eugene O'Neill

By: Eugene O'Neill

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Vintage Books: 1973

Seller ID: 0091921

ISBN: 0394701658

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Fair

Bacchae

By: Euripides

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Dover: 1997

Seller ID: 0144491

ISBN: 048629580X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

The youngest of the three great Greek tragedians, following Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides (ca. 484-406 B.C.) is reputed to have written ninety-two plays, nineteen of which survive. The Bacchae, a late play staged posthumously, concerns the cult of Dionysus, god of wine, whose worship hinged largely on orgiastic and frenzied nature rites.
When Dionysus (in disguise) attempts to spread his cult among the people (especially the women) of Thebes, their king, Pentheus, imprisons Dionysus and tries to suppress his cult. The king's misguided attempt to thwart the will of a god leads...
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Brideshead Revisited

By: Evelyn Waugh

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Penguin: 2008

Seller ID: 0144408

ISBN: 0141036869

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous plea?sures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, "Brideshead Revisited" transcends Waugh's familiar sa...
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Babylon Revisted And Other Stories

By: F Scott Fitzgerald

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Scribners: 1960

Seller ID: 0141884

ISBN: 0684717573

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

The Great Gatsby

By: F Scott Fitzgerald

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Penguin: 2006

Seller ID: 0147317

ISBN: 0141023430

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Very good

Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.
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The Curse Of The Viking Grave

By: Farley Mowat

Price: $4.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: 1987

Seller ID: 0020303

ISBN: 0771066805

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

The popular sequel to his award-winning Lost in the Barrens, this is Farley Mowat's suspense-filled story of how Awasin, Jamie and Peetryuk, three adventure-prone boys, stumble upon a cache of Viking relics in an ancient tomb somewhere in the north of Canada. Packed with excitement and with little-known information about the customs of Viking explorers, this story of survival portrays the bond of youthful friendship and the wonders of a virtually unexplored land.
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The Boat Who Wouldn't Float

By: Farley Mowat

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Seal: 1981

Seller ID: 0042242

ISBN: 0770416519

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Fair

Lost In The Barrens

By: Farley Mowat

Price: $4.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: 1987

Seller ID: 0044284

ISBN: 0771066813

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

Awasin, a Cree Indian boy, and Jamie, a Canadian orphan living with his uncle, the trapper Angus Macnair, are enchanted by the magic of the great Arctic wastes. They set out on an adventure that proves longer and more dangerous than they could have imagined. Drawing on his knowledge of the ways of the wilderness and the implacable northern elements, Farley Mowat has created a memorable tale of daring and adventure.

When first published in 1956, Lost in the Barrens won the Governor-General's Award for Juvenile Literature, the Book-of-the-Year Medal of the Canadian Association of Chil...
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Grey Seas Under

By: Farley Mowat

Price: $9.48

Publisher: The Lyons Press: 2001

Seller ID: 0055026

ISBN: 1585742406

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

In "Grey Seas Under", Farley Mowat writes passionately of the courage of men and of a small, ocean-going salvage tug, Foundation Franklin. From 1930 until her final voyage in 1948, the stalwart tug's dangerous mission was to rescue sinking ships, first searching for them in perilous waters and then bringing them back to shore. Battered by towering waves, dwarfed by the great ships she towed, blasted by gale-force winds and frozen by squalls of snow and rain, Foundation Franklin and her brave crew saved hundreds of vessels and thousands of lives as they patrolled the North Atlantic, including w...
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The Regiment

By: Farley Mowat

Price: $4.00

Publisher: M&S: 1989

Seller ID: 0077187

ISBN: 0771066945

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

A true-life saga of human drama, violence and tragedy, "The Regiment" is bestselling author Farley Mowat's first-hand account of his experiences during World War II in the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment. All the heroism - and the horror - of the "Hasty P's" are relived in these pages: the gruelling months of training in Britain; the baptism by fire in Sicily, 1943; the determined struggle through rugged mountain terrain to the battlefields of northwest Europe.
As a platoon commander, and later as an intelligence officer, Mowat was an integral part of the Regiment's action. He vividly ...
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The Farfarers: Before The Norse

By: Farley Mowat

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Seal: 1998

Seller ID: 0091919

ISBN: 0770428436

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Fair

In this provocative bestseller, Farley Mowat challenges the conventional notion that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach northern Canada. Mowat offers instead an unforgettable portrait of the Albans, a race originating from the island now known as Britain. Battered by repeated invasions from their aggressive neighbours -- Celt, Roman and Norse -- the Albans boarded seaworthy, skin-covered boats and fled west. Their search for safety, and for the massive walrus herds on which their survival depended, took them first to Iceland, then to Greenland, and, finally, to the land now known as...
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People of the Deer

By: Farley Mowat

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Seal: 1980

Seller ID: 0130045

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

The Serpent's Coil

By: Farley Mowat

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Ballantine: 1965

Seller ID: 0133981

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

A Whale For The Killing

By: Farley Mowat

Price: $4.00

Publisher: McClelland-Bantam: 1981

Seller ID: 0137298

ISBN: 0770420281

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

A PLEA TO STOP THE SLAUGHTER NOW...
When an 80-ton Fin Whale became trapped in a Newfoundland lagoon, conservationist Farley Mowat rejoiced: here was the first chance to study at close range one of the most magnificent animals in creation. Some local villagers thought otherwise. They blasted the whale with rifle fire and hacked open her back with a motorboat propeller. Mowat appealed desperately to the police, to marine biologists, finally to the Canadian press. But it was too late. Ravaged by an infection resulting from her massive wounds, the whale died.
World-renowned for his passion...
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