#dover thrift

[brooklynreads]

yesterday’s sidewalk find: The Awakening by Kate Chopin

[alexesguerra]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( Dover Thrift Editions ) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( Dover Thrift Editions ) New Book ISBN: 0486280616 EAN: 9780486280615 Publisher: Dover Publications Binding: Paperback Pub Date: May 26, 1994 Copyright Date: 1994 (Stock images provided by Publishers maybe different from current issue) Join Huck and Jim as their boyhood adventures along the Mississippi River lead them into a world of excitement, danger, and self-discovery. Humorous narrative, lyrical descriptions of the Mississippi valley, and memorable characters. Referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event of my whole life"; Ernest Hemingway declared that "all modern American literature stems from this one book," while T. S. Eliot called Huck "one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction, not unworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet." The novel's preeminence derives from its wonderfully imaginative re-creation of boyhood adventures along the Mississippi River, its inspired characterization, the author's remarkable ear for dialogue, and the book's understated development of serious underlying themes: "natural" man versus "civilized" society, the evils of slavery, the innate value and dignity of human beings, and other topics. Most of all, Huckleberry Finn is a wonderful story, filled with high adventure and unforgettable characters.

[abandonedtennisball]

Finally found a more permanent place on my bar cart for my little collection of Dover thrift editions :)

[hhhealy111]

Are you bilingual? Trilingual? Come to Logos and get our Dover Dual Language short story anthologies! We have French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian editions. Midtown Logos Inc. 1575 York Ave New York NY, 10028

[thoughts-on-books-blog]

How I Buy Cheap Books

So I’m a student and I’m broke. Anything I make needs to go to my education, not books, and yet a lack of monetary funds doesn’t lessen my insatiable desire to own literature. Therefore, here’s how I buy books for very little money.

1. Paperback Swap. At paperbackswap.com, you can post books you no longer want to own. When a user requests one of your books, you ship it out. The user will mark your book ‘received’ when they get it, and you’ll be given 1 credit. You can use that credit to request a book someone else has posted.

I’ve gotten really great deals on Paperbackswap.com. I received a beautiful hardback copy of the gorgeous tome, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. I love Chinese history, and have been mailed several college-level textbooks for the price of shipping, when they sell on Amazon.com for over $60 each. You never know what people will post!

2. Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. Have a kindle? Subscribe to Amazon’s Daily Deals, where e-books are sold super cheap for one day only. I check my Daily Deal email every morning and sometimes find great books. They sell a lot of Kurt Vonnegut for  $2 or less. The other day I got The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey for $2. I’ve wanted to read that for a while. Today I bought Watchmen by Alan Moore for $3. Pretty cool.

And, of course, there is a ton of free or cheap e-books on Amazon in general. I once got all of Charles Dickens’ literature for 99 cents. This includes his novels, plays, letters, and even a biography.

3. Swagbucks. Okay, this is tacky and not normally something I’d admit to doing. But at swagbucks.com, you can take surveys online. For each completed survey, you’re awarded points that can eventually be redeemed for gift cards to various places. I’ve been doing this for about a month and have gotten $10 for Amazon, which I use to buy stuff from the Kindle Daily Deal.

Swagbucks.com is not free money. The surveys are pretty mind-numbing and time-consuming, honestly. But if you have no life and you’re dead broke, it’s a cool way to get free books.

4. Dover Thrift Books. Dover Thrift editions are classic works that are sold for dead cheap. I love that in this world, terrible commercial fiction - the 'potato chip books' - is expensive, sold between hardcovers with sleek jackets, but the best words ever written can be bought for next to nothing. Buy all of Shakespeare for $20 bucks or less. It’s pretty cool.

Where do you find free/cheap literature? Respond if you’d like!

(And I doubt I need to mention this, but obviously no one's paying me to endorse this stuff. Psshhh like I matter that much.)

[briannarose]

Dover Thrift, you are my dream girl