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Signet Classics, 1959. Paperback. Very Good. Binding tight. Pages clean. Some creasing to covers. Novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. It is considered a masterpiece of American literature and a classic moral study. The novel is set in a village in Puritan New England. The main character is Hester Prynne, a young woman who has borne an illegitimate child. Hester believes herself a widow, but her husband, Roger Chillingworth, returns to New England very much alive and conceals his identity. He... more information

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The Institute of Children's Literature, 1986. Paperback. Very Good. Because of their close friendship, a middle class white boy and a black boy from the slums have a hard time sorting out their feelings when a race war breaks out in their city.Light edge wear--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Penguin, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. Clean copy, tight spine. Not rice-cliped or remaindered. Product Description Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to speak English well until he was in his 20s. He is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more i... more information

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Penguin, 1958. Paperback. Very Good. --- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Penguin, 1955. Paperback. Very Good. --- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Scholastic, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. Clean copy, not rice-clipped or remaindered, tight spine. Product Description How could one simple school play turn Degrassi Junior High upside down and inside out? Stephanie Kaye, president of the student body, is sure she is going to be the star. Joey Jeremiah, class clown, thinks that if he gets a part in the play, Stephanie will finally notice him. LD has more important things on her mind than the play. No one is prepared for what happens next...and Degrassi J... more information

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Ballantine Books, 1980. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Clean copy, tight spine, some shelwear. Inscribed to previous owner. From the Publisher In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. He had not intended to stay longer, but, as he later wrote, "I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me that I could not go." Beston stayed for a year, meditating on humanity ... more information

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Macmillan General Reference, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. Synopsis Identifies more than five thousand people, including entries from mythology, legend, folklore, the Bible, and literature.--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Arrow, 1986. Paperback. Used - Good. From the start of her illustrious career, Ruth Rendell's novels have blurred the distinction between literature and commercial fiction. Although Rendell is classified as a writer of mysteries and crime thrillers, her elegant prose and superb literary skills elevate her far above the conventions of those genres.--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Faber and Faber, 1980. Paperback. Acceptable. Clean copy excep so prev. owner's name inscribed. Tight spine. Tear on back cover -- looks like someone tore off a price tag withoutdue care. Tear rates it as "Acceptable" but copy is in otherwise quite good shape. Review Play in three acts by John Osborne, performed in 1956 and published in 1957. A published description of Osborne as an "angry young man" was extended to apply to an entire generation of disaffected young British writer... more information

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Dell, 1982. Mass Market Paperback. Good. There appears to be no dearth of reference material on literature, grammar, and baseball statistics. But for sex options, there's usually giggly whispers or girlie magazines. Alexandra Penney, however, talks turkey without wallowing in smut, and even better--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Random House Publishing Group, 1979. Mass Market Paperback. Used - Good. Biography The great voice of the Yiddish-language tradition in modern Jewish literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer is best known for short stories (think "Yentl") with deeply Jewish roots yet universal appeal.--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Research & Education Association, 1995. Paperback. Used - Good. Book Description - Subjects covered include reading skills, the active reading process, basic composition, narration in the first or third person, writing about literature, images, metaphors and symbols, themes in literature, research assignments, and creative writing.--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Coles Pub Group Ltd, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. Synopsis In Jonathan Swift's bitter, witty, and utterly brilliant satire of the state of England in the early 18th century, his hero, Lemuel Gulliver (the epitome of the average man), becomes, as he travels, increasingly frustrated by the corruption and irrationality of the human race. His sea voyage takes him first to Lilliput, where he is first exploited by its tiny citizens and then condemned as a traitor. Then he lands in Brobdingnag, to whom he is ... more information

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Magic Carpet Books, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. Tight spine, clean copy, not price-clipped some shelfwear. The fifth title in Diane Duane's Young Wizards series delves deeper into an emotional landscape than any of her previous books (So You Want to Be a Wizard, Deep Wizardry, High Wizardry, and A Wizard Abroad). For the first time ever, friends and wizard partners Nita and Kit seem to be having trouble communicating. They argue over a spell to clean up the pollution in New York's Jones Inle... more information

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Penguin, 1959. Paperback. Very Good. --- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Unwin Paperbacks, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. Card catalog description Nature of erotic love in literature; a study of some famous love stories.--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Penguin Classics, 1956. Paperback. Used - Good. Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years.--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Signet Classics, 1961. Paperback. Used - Good. Clean copy, tight spine, some yellowing of the pages with som shelfwear. Signed by prev. owener. Biography Charles Dickens is probably the greatest novelist England ever produced. His innate comic genius and shrewd depictions of Victorian life -- along with his memorable characters -- have made him beloved by readers the world over. In Dickens' books live some of the most repugnant villains in literature, as well as some of the most likeable (and unlikel... more information

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Red Fox, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. Book Description The first and second books in the critically acclaimed Dance Sequence by Carnegie Medal-winning author, Aidan Chambers Synopsis: Ditto sets out to prove to a cynical friend that literature can be related to real life. During half-term he writes an account of what happens to him: his father has a heart attack and Ditto befriends a couple of burglars, gets involved in a drunken brawl, and has his first sexual experience.--- Toronto Store Pick-up Avail... more information

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