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Paperback Classics

From Henry Adams to Edith Wharton: Quality paperbacks, printed on long-lasting acid-free paper, with introductions by leading critics and writers.

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Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The Crisis, and Other Writings from the American Revolution (Paperback Classic)
9.56 i
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Paperback Classic)
6.00 i
William Dean Howells: Indian Summer (Paperback Classic)
5.00 i
James Fenimore Cooper: The Pioneers (Paperback Classic)
5.00 i
James Weldon Johnson: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Paperback Classic)
6.36 i
John Muir: My First Summer in the Sierra and Selected Essays (Paperback Classic)
11.96 i
George Washington: Selected Writings (Paperback Classic)
10.95 i
American Speeches: Political Oratory from Patrick Henry to Barack Obama (Paperback Classic)
10.36 i
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-92 Editions (Paperback Classic)
11.95 i
Thomas Jefferson: Selected Writings (Paperback Classic)
9.50 i
Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography (Paperback Classic)
6.36 i
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback Classic)
4.00 i
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback Classic)
7.95 i
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series (Paperback Classic)
10.36 i
The Education of Henry Adams (Paperback Classic)
9.00 i
Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback Classic)
6.36 i
Henry David Thoreau: Walden (Paperback Classic)
6.00 i
Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi (Paperback Classic)
5.00 i
Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings (Paperback Classic)
13.56 i
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Tales, with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (Paperback Classic)
9.95 i
Jack London: The Call of the Wild (Paperback Classic)
4.95 i
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth (Paperback Classic)
8.76 i
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback Classic)
8.76 i
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