Búsqueda de Editorial : CANTERBURY CLASSICS

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  • ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
    DARWIN, CHARLES
    First published in 1859, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species introduced the scientific theory of evolution by means of natural selection, a revolutionary idea at the time. Fiercely debated on its release, Darwin’s famous work was revised several times over the following decade, partly to refute the scientific and religious objections of the author’s contemporaries. In thi...
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    $ 94,900.00

  • FRIENDSHIP WORD CLOUD BOXED SET
    EDITORS OF CANTERBURY CLASSICS
    Find new friendships in literature with this exclusively selected boxed set! Four special-edition Word Cloud Classics are included: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, and The Secret Garden. Readers will be proud to display these works on their bookshelf when not following Alice down the rabbit hole, growing up wit...
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    $ 289,900.00

  • SELECTED WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
    POE, EDGAR ALLAN
    From the mysterious to the macabre, the works of Edgar Allan Poe have the power to evoke readers’ deepest emotions. Poe’s stories and poems explore the darker side of life and still offer lessons and insight into human behavior today. This handsome Word Cloud edition presents many of Poe’s best-known works, including “The Raven,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Tell-Tale ...
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    $ 89,900.00

  • CLASSIC TALES OF MYSTERY
    EDITORS OF CANTERBURY CLASSICS
    Classic Tales of Mystery contains eight famous stories from well-known authors, including Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and G. K. Chesterton. Each story presents the reader with a puzzle that can be solved only through logic and deduction, a hallmark of classic detective tales. Famous sleuths—including Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes—have unique personalities that end...
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    $ 95,000.00

  • CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION
    EDITORS OF CANTERBURY CLASSICS
    Classic Science Fiction includes nine stories from masters of early science fiction: H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Fitz James O’Brien, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Stanley G. Weinbaum. The exploration of new concepts and technologies has driven the genre since its earliest days, and these works demonstrate how science fiction evolved ...
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    $ 95,000.00

  • A NOVEL JOURNAL: THE WIZARD OF OZ (COMPACT)
    BAUM, L. FRANK
    Embark on a literary adventure alongside Dorothy and her friends.Like many famous and great movies, it all began as a book. Influenced by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum created this classic story using the dream adventure of young Dorothy Gale from Kansas to demonstrate the theme of good vs. evil. Throughout her journey, Dorothy encounters several...
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    $ 58,000.00

  • BULFINCH'S MYTHOLOGY: STORIES OF GODS AND HEROES
    THOMAS BULFINCH
    An easily understood reference guide to the deities of Greek and Roman mythology. Stories of Gods and Heroesu003c/iu003e, originally published in 1855, is the first of three works that make up Bulfinch's Mythology, by Thomas Bulfinch. A useful and concise guide to the gods and goddesses of Greek and Roman mythology, this text was used in history classrooms for over a century. B...
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    $ 79,900.00

  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Jane Austen wrote the original draft of Sense and Sensibility around 1795 at the age of nineteen, and published it in 1811. This classic tale takes place in southwest England and follows the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, who are reduced to meager means when their father passes and entrusts his fortune to their half brother, John. Now available as part of the Word Cloud...
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    $ 84,900.00

  • LITTLE WOMAN
    MAY ALCOTT, LOUISA
    Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. When it was first published in 1868, it became an instant bestseller. The book?s gentle lessons and charming story of four adventurous sisters coming of age in Civil War-era New England was original...
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    $ 79,900.00

  • DON QUIXOTE
    CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
    No home library is complete without the classics! Don Quixote is a keepsake to be read and treasured.Miguel de Cervantes began to write this literary classic after serving in the Spanish militia, surviving a gunshot wound, being captured by Barbary pirates, forced into slavery, and being ransomed by his parents. He knows intimately the joys and tragedies of life, love, and loss...
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    $ 95,000.00

  • EDGAR ALLAN POE: COLLECTED WORKS
    POE, EDGAR ALLAN
    No library's complete without the classics! This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects some of the most influential stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe was a master of tales of the mysterious and macabre. From the eerie incantations of "The Raven" to the persistent fright of "The Tell-Tale Heart," his stories and poems are unforgettable explorations of ...
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    $ 129,900.00

  • CLASSIC POP-UPS: SHERLOCK HOLMES THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
    DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN
    Dramatic 3-D pop-up scenes will draw you into this graphic adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous story of a sinister hound that stalks the English countryside. As Sherlock Holmes pieces together the clues surrounding the death of Sir Charles Baskerville, giant pop-ups on each spread add a new dimension to this classic mystery. Illustrator Anthony Williams’s full-color s...
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    $ 149,900.00

  • SUN ALSO RISES AND OTHER STORIES
    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
    The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway’s first novel, and has long been regarded as his finest work. Amid the café society of 1920s Paris, a group of American expatriates seek their identities and independence, traveling to Pamplona, Spain, for the running of the bulls and other life-affirming adventures, showing the Lost Generation as people who were full of exuberance. In ad...
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    $ 99,900.00

  • THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN
     
    This new, enhanced leather-bound edition includes all the completed novels of beloved author Jane Austen.Jane Austen’s stories of clever women, elusive love, and social mores have struck a chord with millions of fans who consider her work compelling, heartwarming, and essential. Adapted time and again for screen and stage, these enduring classics remain as enjoyable as ever, an...
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    $ 149,900.00

  • THE PRINCE AND OTHER WRITINGS
    MAQUIAVELO, NICOLÁS
    One of the foremost examples of modern philosophy, Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince is notorious for the morality it expounds, often summarized by the phrase, “The end justifies the means.” With The Prince, Machiavelli’s intent was to provide practical advice for rulers and politicians, especially in regard to the unification of Italy. The Prince and Other Writings is an import...
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    $ 79,900.00

  • THE JUNGLE BOOK
    KIPLING, RUDYARD
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    $ 89,900.00

  • CLASSIC POP-UPS: FRANKENSTEIN
    SHELLEY, MARY
    This unique format features a graphic adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, with giant pop-ups on every spread.Readers will be mesmerized by the giant 3-D pop-ups in this graphic adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. When the scientist Victor Frankenstein attempts to create a new being from dead corpses, he has little knowledge of the horrors that await—or of the an...
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    $ 149,900.00

  • CLASSIC HORROR TALES
    EDITORS OF CANTERBURY CLASSICS
    Curl up with this collection of classic scary stories from the masters of the genre.With dozens of stories of the macabre, fantastic, and supernatural, Classic Horror Tales is sure to keep readers on the edges of their seats. This collection of works by classic writers spans more than a century—from 19th-century trailblazers such as John William Polidori, Nathaniel Hawthorne, a...
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    $ 95,000.00

  • TARZAN OF THE APES & THE RETURN OF TARZAN
    BURROUGHS, EDGAR R
    ohn Clayton, Viscount Greystoke, is marooned on the west coast of Africa as an infant, and is adopted by a tribe of apes. A feral child, he matures into Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, with the ability to climb, jump, and swing from vines, while maintaining flawless ethics and judgment whenever he is thrust back into the bonds of society. Edgar Rice Burrough’s stories of this prete...
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    $ 65,000.00

  • THE POETRY OF EMILY DICKINSON
    DICKINSON, EMILY
    “This is my letter to the world . . .” — Emily DickinsonThe Poetry of Emily Dickinson is a collection of pieces by 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, who insisted that her life of isolation gave her an introspective and deep connection with the world. As a result, her work parallels her life—misunderstood in its time, but full of depth and imagination, and covering suc...
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    $ 99,900.00

  • MARVEL. THE AVENGERS VAULT
    DAVID, PETER A.
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    $ 130,000.00

  • TREASURE ISLAND
    STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
    Perhaps the most iconic pirate story of all time, Treasure Island was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1881. The book follows young Jim Hawkins who finds himself in possession of a treasure map and embarks on a journey to unearth the pirate booty. His adventure takes him through the turbulent waters of morality, and his subsequent coming of age has captivated generations of...
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    $ 99,900.00

  • THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
    No library is complete without the classics! This leather-bound edition includes the complete works of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare, considered by many to be the English language’s greatest writer.Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth—the works of William Shakespeare still resonate in our imaginations four centuries after the...
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    $ 159,900.00

  • FRANKENSTEIN
    SHELLEY, MARY
    The idea for the story came to the author, Mary Shelley, in a dream she had about a scientist who had created life and was horrified by what he had made. This Gothic-style romance is among the first of true science fiction novels, if not the first. A young scientist named Victor Frankenstein, after going through his own near-death experience, decides to play God and create life...
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    $ 84,900.00

  • MOBY - DICK
    MELVILLE, HERMAN
    "...for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."--Herman Melville, Moby-Dick "Call me Ishmael" is the iconic opening line of Herman Melville's classic American novel, Moby-Dick. Ishmael is a seaman aboard the whaling vessel, Pequod, under the vengeful captain, Ahab. Maniacally seeking retribution from the great white sp...
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    $ 79,900.00

  • THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
    WILDE, OSCAR
    he Picture of Dorian Gray is a familiar story of greed, sin, and arrogance. A young man, infatuated with his own handsomeness and youth as depicted in a perfect portrait, makes a bargain he will come to regret. No one can save him from his appetite for pleasure and his awful fate--not the man who idolizes him, not the woman who loves him, and not even himself! ...
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    $ 89,900.00

  • CHARLES DICKENS: FOUR NOVELS
    DICKENS, CHARLES
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    $ 79,900.00

  • H. G. WELLS (LEATHER-BOUND CLASSICS)
    WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE
    No home library is complete without the classics! H. G. Wells is a keepsake collection of the author's greatest work to be read and treasured.He was the first to popularize the concept of time travel. He disturbed--and fascinated--us with a frightening doctor’s island. He wrote of an invisible man, of men on the moon, and of a war of the worlds. He has influenced countless othe...
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    $ 129,900.00

  • DRACULA
    STOKER, BRAM
    Irish author Bram Stoker introduced the character of Count Dracula and provided the basis of modern vampire fiction in his 1897 novel entitled Dracula. Written as a series of letters, newspaper clippings, diary entries, and ships’ logs, the story begins with lawyer Jonathan Harker journeying to meet Dracula at his remote castle to complete a real estate transaction. Harker soon...
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    $ 79,900.00

  • JANE EYRE
    BRONTË, CHARLOTTE
    When `Jane Eyre` was first published in 1847, it became an instant bestseller, so popular that the publisher commissioned a second printing in just three months. Fiery passion, shocking secrets, and a compelling, vulnerable heroine in peril have made `Jane Eyre` an enduring favorite. When Jane becomes governess at gloomy Thornfield Hall, she falls deeply in love with the broodi...
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    $ 79,900.00


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