Books from Signet Classics

  • Chronicles of Avonlea
    Chronicles of Avonlea
    By Lucy Maud Montgomery

    Lucy Maud Montgomery. have shaped their fiction into a vehicle for selfexpression . Rubio , Mary , and Elizabeth Waterston , eds . The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery , Volume 1 and Volume 2. Toronto : Oxford University Press ...

  • Anne of Avonlea
    Anne of Avonlea
    By Lucy Maud Montgomery

    Anne returns to Avonlea to teach in her former school and discovers the pleasures and puzzles of growing up.

  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre ; Cymbeline ; The Two Noble Kinsmen (with John Fletcher)
    Pericles, Prince of Tyre ; Cymbeline ; The Two Noble Kinsmen (with John Fletcher)
    By William Shakespeare

    ... Sylvan Barnet All rights reserved These books previously appeared as single volumes in Signet Classic editions published by New American Library . Library of Congress Catalog Card Number : 85-63518 C SIGNET CLASSIC TRADEMARK REG .

  • The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus ; The Life of Timon of Athens: With New Dramatic Criticism and an Updated Bibliography
    The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus ; The Life of Timon of Athens: With New Dramatic Criticism and an Updated Bibliography
    By William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet

    Biographical information and critical essays accompany Shakespeare's two plays concerning misguided actions and ingratitude.

  • King John and Henry VIII
    King John and Henry VIII
    By William Shakespeare

    King John : Copyright © 1966 , 1989 by William H. Matchett Copyright © 1963 , 1989 by Sylvan Barnet King Henry the Eighth : Copyright © 1967 ... AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES : C Shakespeare : Prefatory Remarks Between the record of his baptism.

  • King Lear
    King Lear
    By William Shakespeare

    ( 524098_ $ 3.95 ) MACBETH , Sylvan Barnet , ed . , Tufts University . ( 524446— $ 2.95 ) THE MERCHANT OF VENICE ... is subject to withdrawal without notice . POETRY THROUGH THE AGES O THE LOVE SONGS OF SAPPHO C SIGNET CLASSIC ( 0451 )

  • Selected Poetry and Prose of William Wordsworth
    By William Wordsworth

    Selected Poetry and Prose of William Wordsworth

  • The Prince and the Pauper ; And, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    The Prince and the Pauper ; And, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    By Mark Twain

    Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals . Berkeley : Univ . of California Press . vol . II ( 1877–1883 ) , 1975 ; vol . III ( 1883–1891 ) , 1979 . Andrews , Kenneth R. Nook Farm : Mark Twain's Hartford Circle . Cambridge : Harvard Univ .

  • Dead Souls
    Dead Souls
    By Nikolai Gogol

    Nikolai Gogol. 9 xii TRANSLATOR'S NOTE a transaction serving the mutual interests of both parties . Gogol wrote Dead Souls over a period of years , and , as the writing advanced , his mental balance became more and more precarious .

  • Victory
    Victory
    By Joseph Conrad

    Conrad's Politics : Community and Anarchy in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad ( 1967 ) . Guerard , Albert . Conrad the Novelist ( 1958 ) . Hay , Eloise Knapp . The Political Novels of Joseph Conrad ( 1963 ) . Leon Higdon ; ed . published at ...

  • The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Literary Criticism
    The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Literary Criticism
    By Oscar Wilde

    Pays tribute to Wilde's genius, his penchant for scandal, and his timeless wit by featuring five major plays, including "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "An Ideal Husband," two interviews, and selected criticism.

  • The Moonstone
    The Moonstone
    By Wilkie Collins

    Suspense, humor, and romance abound in this 1868 mystery, in which a gem stolen from a Hindu shrine resurfaces in an English country home -- with a trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail.

  • Looking Backward
    Looking Backward
    By Edward Bellamy

    10 V In discussing Bellamy's utopia the question arises : Was his goal socialism ? There can be little question that in all the most essential elements , his utopia is one of socialism and in many respects one of Marx's socialism .

  • Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
    Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
    By Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Baron

    ALFRED , LORD TENNYSON was born in 1809 at Somersby , Lincolnshire . Schooled at Louth and by his father , a rector , he began to write early , and at the age of twelve he composed “ an epic of 6,000 lines . ” In 1828 he matriculated at ...

  • The Frog King and Other Tales of the Brothers Grimm
    By Brothers Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm K. Grimm

    A new selection and translation with an afterward by Alfred David and Mary Elizabeth Meek ; illustrated by Sheila Greenwald.

  • Great Dialogues of Plato
    Great Dialogues of Plato
    By Plato

    A new translation of the complete texts of The Republic, The Apology, Crito, Phaido, Ion, Meno, and Symposium reveals the genius of Plato as he struggled with education, justice, the "philosopher king," and utopian visions of society.

  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    By Benjamin Franklin, L. J. Lemisch

    Selected and edited with an introd. by L. Jesse Lemisch.

  • Crime and Punishment
    Crime and Punishment
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    In a timeless story of justice, morality, and redemption, an impoverished Russian student murders a miserly landlady, a crime that has severe repercussions on his life and his family as he battles his conscience. Reissue.

  • Shaw, Plays by George Bernard
    By George Bernard Shaw

    He also began the practice of writing the challenging, mocking, eloquent prefaces to his plays, which were sometimes longer than the play itself. This volume contains the Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses; The Philanderer; and Mrs.

  • Three Eighteenth Century Novels
    Three Eighteenth Century Novels
    By Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith

    Daniel Defoe, Oliver Goldsmith, Henry Fielding. MOLL FLANDERS On the twisting path that leads Moll Flanders from her birth in Newgate prison to her final prosperous respectability , poverty is the ultimate sin ; love is regarded as ...