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Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Category: Classic | Series: Barnes & Noble Signature Editions
Handsomely produced in hardcover at a very affordable price, Barnes & Noble Signature Editions have been carefully edited and reset in a modern design for greater readability. Each volume includes an introduction, informative notes and a chronology of the writer's life and times to enable the reader ...Show more
Till We Have Faces - A Myth Retold - C. S. Lewis Signature Classic by C. S. Lewis
Category: Fiction | Series: C. S. Lewis Signature Classics Ser.
Fascinated by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C. S. Lewis reimagines their story from the perspective of Psyche's sister, Orual. 'I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer . . . Why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
2023 Reprint of the 1927 edition. The subject of this brilliant novel is the daily life of an English family in the Hebrides. "There are dozens of passages in which the secret relations of men and women, especially women, to the trifling events of life are rendered with convincing and elaborate subtlety ...Show more
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances at the Admiral Benbow inn, young Jim Hawkins stumbles across a treasure map among the dead man's possessions. But Jim soon becomes only too aware that ...Show more
Treasure Island (Signature Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Children's Signature Classics Ser.
The most popular pirate story ever written in English, featuring one of literature's most beloved villains, Treasure Island has been happily devoured by several generations of boys--and girls--and grownups.
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup; Eric Ashley Hairston (Introduction by)
Category: Romance | Series: Signature Editions Ser.
The slave narrative is a literary sub-genre that emerged from the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Great Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada, and Caribbean nations. 'Twelve Years a Slave' by Solomon Northup is perhaps the most famous example of the genre and was t ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Signature Editions Ser.
`So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!' These words, said to have been uttered by Abraham Lincoln, signal the celebrity of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The first American novel to become an international best-seller, Stowe's novel charts the progress from slavery to freedom of ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Barnes and Noble Signature Editions Ser.
Presented in hardcover, this title has been carefully edited and reset in a modern design for greater readability. It includes an introduction, informative notes and a chronology of the writer's life and times to enable the reader to gain a deeper understanding of these enduring works.
Up from Slavery - An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
Category: Biography | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Booker T. Washington believed that every man and woman deserved a chance, regardless of their skin color. This classic work of literature relays the story of a man born into slavery who, once freed, pursued education and racial equality. Originally published in 1901, the new edition of Booker T. Washing ...Show more
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Classic | Series: Barnes & Noble Signature Editions
Handsomely produced in hardcover at a very affordable price, Barnes & Noble Signature Editions have been carefully edited and reset in a modern design for greater readability. Each volume includes an introduction, informative notes and a chronology of the writer's life and times to enable the reader ...Show more
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Fiction | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Henry David Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts-part social experiment, part spiritual quest-is an enduringly influential American classic.In 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The inspiring and lyrica ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
When Mr. Earnshaw, master of Wuthering Heights, returns from a trip with an unkempt orphan in tow, he announces that the child, Heathcliff, is now a member of the family. While young Catherine Earnshaw becomes close with Heathcliff, her older brother Hindley sinks into bitter resentment. As Catherine an ...Show more