 | The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn by Diane Ravitch
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.55 Here is the book itself, a must-read for anyone who cares about the state of education and literature today.
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $3.94 A classic novel of manners and courtship.
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 | Miracle At Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May - September 1787 by Catherine Drinker Bowen
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.02 An account of the 1787 Constitutional convention in Philadelphia.
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 | Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.63 "A mixture of Gothic mystery and intense realism, Jane Eyre is one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century." It is the story of a tortured love affair.
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 | The Oxford Book of War Poetry: Second Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse)
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $6.30 Specifically, "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke. A most important American poet that is overlooked these days.
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 | My Antonia (Enriched Classics (Pocket)) by Willa Cather
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $1.49 "Published in 1918, Cather's novel is a tribute to the generous and wholesome strength of America's immigrant settlers."
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 | The Red Badge of Courage (Tor Classics) by Stephen Crane
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.01 A young naive soldier discovers his manhood fighting in the Civil War.
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 | Two Years Before the Mast (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Richard Henry Dana
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $3.90 "This is an engrossing, accurate, and authentic narrative of two years in the life of a common sailor."
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 | Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $0.18 A young man tinged by wanderlust sets out on an epic adventure. A book for the ages.
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 | A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.52 |
 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.75 "These two novels are among Dickens's finest achievements."
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 | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Signet Classics) by Frederick Douglass
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.81 Both a history and an autobiography, detailing Douglass's rise from slavery to becoming a successful leader in the fight for freedom.
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 | The Souls of Black Folk (Enriched Classics Series) by W.E.B. Dubois
Buy new: $5.50 / Used from: $2.34 "Du Bois believed in the power of logic and strove to appeal to the national conscience" in his arguments for black Americans.
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 | The Three Musketeers (Signet Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $2.89 A novel of magnificent adventure.
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 | Romola by George Eliot
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $11.93 A historical novel set in fifteenth-century Florence, France.
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 | Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $2.45 "For many years, this book was a standard part of sophomore reading but eventually was replaced by teen-focused literature. Too bad, because Silas Marner is one of the great stories of materialism, greed, personal loss, and suffering."
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 | Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.20 The odyssey of a black man searching for himself in America.
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.39 Essays to read and ponder. "Self-Reliance," "Comensation," and "The American Scholar."
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 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $4.49 The book of the 1920s, an immensely popular American classic.
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 | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $1.98 |
 | The House of the Seven Gables (Enriched Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $2.99 |
 | Mosses from an Old Manse (Modern Library Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Buy new: $11.18 / Used from: $4.18 Selected stories from this.
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 | Twice-Told Tales (Modern Library Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Buy new: $10.92 / Used from: $4.87 Selected stories.
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 | The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library) by O. Henry
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $11.98 "A master of his art, and known for his sentiment and gentle irony, [O. Henry] excels as a writer of short stories." His characters are ordinary people.
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 | Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (P.S.) by Zora Neale Hurston
Buy new: $9.88 / Used from: $4.15 Hurston's autobiography about growing up in the South.
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