Authors:Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Clinton
Publisher: Signet Classics
Keywords: classics, signet, papers, federalist
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0451528816
ISBN-13: 9780451528810

The documents thatshaped a nation. Three of the founding fathers brilliantly defend their revolutionary charter: the Constitution of the United States, a milestone in political science and a classic of American history.

Author: Ralph Ketcham
Publisher: Signet Classics
Keywords: debates, signet, classics, convention, constitutional, federalist, papers, anti
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-05-06
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0451528840
ISBN-13: 9780451528841

The dissenting opinions of Patrick Henry and others who saw the Constitution as a threat to our hard-won rights and liberties. Edited and introduced by Ralph Ketcham.

Author: Mary Shelley
Publisher: Signet Classics
Keywords: classics, signet, frankenstein
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0451527712
ISBN-13: 9780451527714

Here is the classic novel of supreme horror that has held readers spellbound since its publication in 1816. This new edition will also feature an examination of the films inspired by Shelley’s groundbreaking work, plus a fascinating look into genetic engineering and the modern implications of this immortal tale.Here is the classic novel of supreme horror that has held readers spellbound since its publication in 1816. This new edition will also feature an examination of the films inspired by Shelley’s groundbreaking work, plus a fascinating look into genetic engineering and the mo

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: Signet Classics
Keywords: classics, signet, punishment, crime
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2006-03-07
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0451530063
ISBN-13: 9780451530066

The poverty-stricken Raskolnikov, believing he is exempt from moral law, murders a man only to face the consequences not only from society but from his conscience, in this seminal story of justice, morality, and redemption from one of Russia’s greatest novelists.

Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Signet Classics
Keywords: classics, signet, pauper, prince
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $3.95
ISBN-10: 0451528352
ISBN-13: 9780451528353

A pauper caught up in the pomp of the royal court. A prince wandering horror-stricken through the lower depths of English society. Out of the theme of switched identities, Mark Twain fashioned both a scathing attack upon social hypocrisy and injustice, and an irresistible comedy imbued with the sense of high-spirited play that belongs to his happiest creative period.

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Signet Classics
Keywords: shakespeare, classic, signet, hamlet
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1998-06-01
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0451526929
ISBN-13: 9780451526922

Newly revised, this edition of "Hamlet" features an extensive overview of Shakespeare’s life and world; an editor’s introduction; a note on the sources; dramatic criticism from the past and present; a comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors and productions; and more.

Author: Honore de Balzac
Publisher: Signet Classics
Keywords: classics, signet, goriot, pere
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1962-08-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0451521900
ISBN-13: 9780451521903

This fine example of the French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his personal and financial ruin.