Amid the nightmarish chaos of a Civil War battle, a young soldier discovers courage, humility, and, perhaps, wisdom. Uncanny re-creation of actual combat. Enduring landmark of American fiction. 112pp. 
× 8¼.
0-486-26465-3
RELATIVITY SIMPLY EXPLAINED, Martin Gardner. One of the subject’s clearest, most entertaining introductions offers lucid explanations of special and general theories of relativity, gravity, and spacetime, models of the universe, and more. 100 illustrations. 224pp. 5
× 8½.
0-486-29315-7
REMBRANDT DRAWINGS: 116 Masterpieces in Original Color, Rembrandt van Rijn. This deluxe hardcover edition features drawings from throughout the Dutch master’s prolific career. Informative captions accompany these beautifully reproduced landscapes, biblical vignettes, figure studies, animal sketches, and portraits. 128pp. 8 × 11.
0-4864-6149-1
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN AND OTHER POEMS, Robert Frost. A treasury of Frost’s most expressive verse. In addition to the title poem: “An Old Man’s Winter Night,” “In the Home Stretch,” “Meeting and Passing,” “Putting in the Seed,” many more. All complete and unabridged. 64pp. 
× 8¼.
0-486-27550-7
ROMEO AND JULIET, William Shakespeare. Tragic tale of star-crossed lovers, feuding families and timeless passion contains some of Shakespeare’s most beautiful and lyrical love poetry. Complete, unabridged text with explanatory footnotes. 96pp. 
× 8¼.
0-486-27557-4
SANDITON AND THE WATSONS: Austen’s Unfinished Novels, Jane Austen. Two tantalizing incomplete stories revisit Austen’s customary milieu of courtship and venture into new territory, amid guests at a seaside resort. Both are worth reading for pleasure and study. 112pp. 5 × 8½.
0-486-45793-1
THE SCARLET LETTER, Nathaniel Hawthorne. With stark power and emotional depth, Hawthorne’s masterpiece explores sin, guilt, and redemption in a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony. 192pp. 
× 8¼.
0-486-28048-9
THE SEASONS OF AMERICA PAST, Eric Sloane. Seventy-five illustrations depict cider mills and presses, sleds, pumps, stump-pulling equipment, plows, and other elements of America’s rural heritage.
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