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  1. 1984
  2. 1984
  3. 4 Plays by Eugene O'Neill: Beyond the Horizon/Anna Christie/The Emperor Jones/The Hairy Ape
  4. 41 Stories
  5. 41 Stories
  6. A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories
  7. A Christmas Carol: And Other Christmas Stories
  8. A Little Princess
  9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  10. A Room with a View and Howards End
  11. A Tale of Two Cities
  12. Adam Bede
  13. Adam Bede
  14. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  15. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  16. Adventures of Tom Sawyer (97 Edition)
  17. Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (79 Edition)
  18. Aesop's Fables
  19. Aesop's Fables
  20. All's Well That Ends Well
  21. An American Tragedy
  22. Animal Farm
  23. Animal Farm
  24. Anna Karenina
  25. Anna Karenina
  26. Anton Chekhov: The Major Plays: Ivanov/The Sea Gull/Uncle Vanya/The Three Sisters/The Cherry Orchard
  27. Arabian Nights Volume 1
  28. Around the World in Eighty Days
  29. Around the World in Eighty Days
  30. Arrowsmith
  31. As You Like It
  32. Babbitt
  33. Babbitt
  34. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
  35. Beowulf
  36. Beowulf
  37. Bible's Greatest Stories (01 Edition)
  38. Billy Budd and Other Tales
  39. Black Beauty
  40. Black Voices
  41. Bleak House
  42. Bread and Wine
  43. Captains Courageous
  44. Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady
  45. Common Sense, Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine
  46. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  47. Crime and Punishment
  48. Crime and Punishment
  49. David Copperfield
  50. David Copperfield
  51. Death in Venice and Other Stories
  52. Dracula
  53. Dubliners
  54. Elmer Gantry
  55. Emma
  56. Emma
  57. Ethan Frome
  58. Flatland a Romance of Many Dimensions
  59. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimesions
  60. Four Great Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Twelfth
  61. Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth
  62. Four Major Plays Volume 1
  63. Four Major Plays: Volume I: A Doll House/The Wild Duck/Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder
  64. Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus
  65. Great Dialogues of Plato
  66. Great Expectations
  67. Great Expectations
  68. Growing Up in the South
  69. Gulliver's Travels
  70. Gulliver's Travels
  71. Hard Times
  72. Hard Times: For These Times
  73. Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer
  74. Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer
  75. Henry IV, Part 1
  76. Henry IV, Part Two
  77. Henry VI (Parts I, II and III)
  78. Howards End
  79. Hungry Hearts
  80. Ibsen Four Major Plays Volume 2
  81. Immigrant Voices: Twenty-Four Voices on Becoming an American
  82. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  83. It Can't Happen Here
  84. Ivanhoe
  85. Jacob's Room
  86. Jacobs Room
  87. Jane Eyre
  88. Jude the Obscure
  89. Just So Stories (100th Anniversary)
  90. Kidnapped (00 Edition)
  91. King Lear
  92. Last of the Mohicans
  93. Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
  94. Leaves of Grass
  95. Life on the Mississippi
  96. Little Women
  97. Looking Backward: 2000-1887
  98. Lord Jim (61 Edition)
  99. Lord Jim
  100. Love's Labor's Lost: 5
  101. Lysistrata
  102. Lysistrata
  103. Macbeth (Rev. Signet Ed.)
  104. Macbeth
  105. Madame Bovary
  106. Maggie
  107. Main Street
  108. Main Street
  109. Mansfield Park
  110. Mansfield Park
  111. Mayor of Casterbridge, With New Introduction (99 Edition)
  112. Merchant of Venice (05 Edition)
  113. Merchant of Venice
  114. Merry Wives of Windsor
  115. Middlemarch
  116. Moby-Dick, Or, the Whale
  117. Moll Flanders
  118. Mr Midshipman Easy
  119. My Antonia
  120. My Antonia
  121. My Secret Life
  122. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  123. Nectar in a Sieve
  124. Northanger Abbey
  125. O Pioneers!
  126. Oliver Twist
  127. Oliver Twist
  128. Oliver Twist
  129. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  130. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  131. Othello
  132. Pere Goriot
  133. Pericles/Cymbeline/The Two Noble Kinsmen
  134. Persuasion
  135. Plays from the Contemporary American Theater
  136. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics
  137. Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of Boston
  138. Portrait of a Lady -Lib
  139. Pride and Prejudice
  140. Pudd'nhead Wilson
  141. Pygmalion and My Fair Lady (50th Anniversary Edition)
  142. Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
  143. Ramona
  144. Richard II
  145. Rob Roy
  146. Robinson Crusoe
  147. Roughing It
  148. Roughing It
  149. Selected Stories
  150. Sense and Sensibility
  151. Silas Marner
  152. Silas Marner
  153. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  154. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  155. Sister Carrie
  156. Six Characters in Search of an Author
  157. Sons & Lovers
  158. Sons and Lovers
  159. Sophocles: The Complete Plays
  160. Spoon River Anthology
  161. Spoon River Anthology
  162. Tao Te Ching
  163. Tarzan of the Apes
  164. Tess of D'urbervilles (64 Edition)
  165. Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
  166. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  167. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  168. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  169. The Aeneid
  170. The Age of Innocence
  171. The Awakening: And Selected Stories of Kate Chopin
  172. The Beautiful and Damned
  173. The Beautiful and Damned
  174. The Black Arrow
  175. The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics (Paperback))
  176. The Brothers Karamazov
  177. The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories
  178. The Call of the Wild: And Selected Stories
  179. The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories
  180. The Classic Slave Narratives
  181. The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
  182. The Confessions of Saint Augustine
  183. The Confessions of St. Augustine
  184. The Count of Monte Cristo
  185. The Country of Pointed Firs and Other Stories
  186. The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
  187. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America
  188. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
  189. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
  190. The Federalist Papers
  191. The Glimpses of the Moon
  192. The Haves and Have Nots
  193. The Hound of the Baskervilles
  194. The House of Mirth
  195. The House of the Seven Gables
  196. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  197. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
  198. The Iliad
  199. The Iliad: The Story of Achilles
  200. The Inferno
  201. The Invisible Man
  202. The Island of Dr. Moreau
  203. The Journals of Lewis and Clark
  204. The Jungle Books
  205. The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757
  206. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories from the Sketch Book
  207. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
  208. The Major Plays: Ivanov, the Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, the Three Sisters, the Cherry Orchard
  209. The Man in the Iron Mask
  210. The Merchant of Venice
  211. The Metamorphoses
  212. The Mill on the Floss
  213. The Misanthrope and Other Plays
  214. The Moonstone
  215. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
  216. The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus
  217. The Paradiso
  218. The Pathfinder
  219. The Perfumed Garden of Cheikh Nefzaoui: A Manual of Arabian Erotology
  220. The Phantom of the Opera
  221. The Philosophy of Aristotle
  222. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
  223. The Pilgrim's Progress
  224. The Pilgrim's Progress
  225. The Pioneers: Or, the Sources of the Susquehanna: A Descriptive Tale
  226. The Playboy of the Western World: And Other Plays
  227. The Portrait of a Lady
  228. The Prince
  229. The Prince
  230. The Prince and the Pauper
  231. The Purgatorio
  232. The Purgatorio
  233. The Red and the Black
  234. The Red Badge of Courage: And Four Stories
  235. The Return of the Native
  236. The Return of the Native
  237. The Scarlet Letter
  238. The Scarlet Letter
  239. The Scarlet Letter
  240. The Scarlet Pimpernel
  241. The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
  242. The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries with DVD
  243. The Signet Book of American Essays
  244. The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories
  245. The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories
  246. The Song of Roland
  247. The Song of the Lark
  248. The Sonnets and Narrative Poems: The Complete Nondramatic Poetry
  249. The Sorrows of Young Werther: and Selected Writings
  250. The Souls of Black Folks
  251. The Sport of the Gods
  252. The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
  253. The Story of My Life
  254. The Swiss Family Robinson
  255. The Taming of the Shrew
  256. The Tempest
  257. The Three Musketeers
  258. The Time Machine/The Invisible Man
  259. The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark
  260. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet with DVD
  261. The Travels of Marco Polo
  262. The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels
  263. The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution
  264. The Virginian
  265. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
  266. The War of the Worlds
  267. The War of the Worlds
  268. The Wind in the Willows
  269. The Winter's Tale
  270. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  271. Three By Flannery O'connor
  272. Three Lives & Tender Buttons
  273. Treasure Island
  274. Troilus and Cressida
  275. Twelfth Night (Rev. Signet Ed.)
  276. Twelfth Night
  277. Twenty Years at Hull-House
  278. Two Years Before the Mast
  279. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly
  280. Uncle Toms Cabin 150TH Edition Anniversary
  281. Up from Slavery
  282. Vanity Fair
  283. Walden and Civil Disobedience: Or, Life in the Woods
  284. War and Peace
  285. War and Peace
  286. What to Listen for in Music
  287. White Fang & Call of the Wild 100 Ann Edition
  288. Why We Can't Wait
  289. Why We Can't Wait
  290. Wind in the Willows
  291. Winesburg, Ohio
  292. Wings of the Dove
  293. Women and Fiction: Stories by and about Women
  294. Women in Love
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative (Signet Classics)

by Richard Henry Dana

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Synopses & Reviews

Synopsis:

In 1834, a Harvard student enlisted as a common seaman--the result was this adventure classic. Crackling with realism, it offers memorable views of a dangerous voyage, vividly describing storms, whales, an insane captain, excruciating hardships, and magical beauty, as well as fascinating historical detail, including a portrait of California before the gold rush.

Synopsis:

A Breathtaking adventure of the high seasaand a true story

In 1834, Richard Henry Dana went from Harvard student to common seaman, sailing from California to Cape Horn. This journal survives as one of the most vivid accounts of the relationship between man and seaaand still rings true as a portrayal of manas endurance.

Synopsis:

In 1834, Dana went from Harvard student to common seaman, sailing from California to Cape Horn. This journal survives as one of the most vivid accounts of the relationship between man and sea. Revised reissue.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780451531254
Subtitle:
A Personal Narrative
Author:
Dana, Richard Henry
Introduction:
Seelye, John
Author:
Dana
Afterword:
Davis, Wes
Publisher:
Signet Classics
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Sailing - Narratives
Subject:
Voyages and travels
Subject:
Seafaring life
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Signet Classics
Publication Date:
April 2009
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
407
Dimensions:
6.50x4.10x1.10 in. .45 lbs.
Age Level:
18-17

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