Benjamin Franklin
This authoritative Bantam Classic edition presents readers with a wide-ranging selection of Benjamin Franklin's most important writings, illuminating the complex and appealing character of this quintessential American who rose to fame as a ... [... more]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Bantam Classics)
 Good and Evil Competing for a Human Soul.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a remarkable author from the Victorian Era. He has left us at least two masterpieces: "The Treasure Island" (1883) and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and [... more]
$3.95
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The Time Machine (Bantam Classics)
Excellent!!: As I stated in my other reviews, I normally don't enjoy science fiction novels; this book I had to read for school. As I read what I expected to be a boring and unentertaining novel, my opinion changed, and I became more open to enjoying the [... more]
$4.95
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LAST MAN, THE (Bantam Classic)
Death and disease level all men: This novel is a combination of a `roman à clefs' and science fiction, with gothic and autobiographic elements. In her vision of the end of the 21st century, Mary Shelley sees the Greek occupying Istanbul and [... more]
$5.50
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Life on the Mississippi (Bantam Classics)
One of Twainýs Greatest!: This book--at times disjointed, rambling, self-referential, and irreverent--is decades ahead of its time. It's an interdisciplinarian's dream as Twain takes on economics, geography, politics, ancient and contemporary [... more]
$4.95
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The Screw Tape Letters (Bantam Classics)
Amazon.com Review: Who among us has never wondered if there might not really be a tempter sitting on our shoulders or dogging our steps? C.S. Lewis dispels all doubts. In The Screwtape Letters, one of his bestselling works, we are made privy to the [... more]
$4.50
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Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)
Book Description: Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be [... more]
$4.95
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The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics)
Grotesque parody of Virgil: Every two or three years some semi-educated American Classics professor trots out another translation of Virgil or Homer - these being the last two Classical poets that anyone can be prevailed upon to read, even in translation. [... more]
$5.95
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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings (Bantam Classics)
Not An Annotated Version: This comment refers to the Bantam Classics Paperback version. And is just a small criticism. This very affordable little paperback is a jam packed with most of Swifts writings, but if you start to venture beyond Gulliver's [... more]
$4.95
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Candide (Bantam Classics)
Amazon.com Review: Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, [... more]
$4.95
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The Dialogues of Plato (Bantam Classic)
inadequate description, translation: The pleasure of Plato is as much from his literary as from his philosophical acumen. The choice of the public-domain Jowett translation is unhappy for bringing out the literary merit of the original. This Victorian [... more]
$6.99
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Complete Plays of Aristophanes (Bantam Classics)
Bowdlerized Aristophanes!: I can accept some stilted language; after all, some of these translations are about a century old. I can accept the lack of notes. But I can not accept translations of Aristophanes that cut some of his funniest scenes! For [... more]
$5.95
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