Book List (You’ll Need to Buy These)

Here are my favorite book buying sites besides amazon.com, which has good used books, but charges $3.99 for shipping for each purchase – too much, in my opinion. If you can find them all with one seller then you can save money with shipping.

• betterworldbooks.com (free shipping on all books)
• thriftbooks.com (free shipping on $10+, but you get points, too, for free books)
• abebooks.com (represents multiple stores, often has free or cheap shipping)
• bookfinder.com (more of an aggregator for finding books all over)

PLEASE NOTE: It can take up to 7-10 days for these to come in. The links such as “On Amazon” etc should be clickable.

Note: The Sayers versions are very important to obtain because of the translation and pagination; the other editions are usually recommended because of the introduction or included essays discussed in class

1. Invitation to the Classics – Os Guinness and Louise Cowan
   1. On Amazon
   2. On Bookfinder
2. The Odyssey – Richard Lattimore Translation
   1. On Amazon
   2. On Better World Books
   3. On Bookfinder
3. Augustine’s Confessions – Translated by Thomas Williams (2019)
   1. On Amazon
   2. On Bookfinder
4. The Divine Comedy – 3 Vols – Dorothy Sayers (Penguin) (it’s possible these are on other sites, but I just couldn’t easily find them)
   1. Hell, Vol 1
      1. On Amazon
      2. On Bookfinder
   2. Purgatory, Vol 2
      1. On Amazon
      2. On Bookfinder
   3. Paradise, Vol 3
      1. On Amazon
      2. On Bookfinder
5. Gawain and the Green Knight – Marie Borroff translation
   1. On Amazon
   2. On Better World Books
   3. On Bookfinder
6. Hamlet – Shakespeare, Folger Library (any edition)
   1. On Better World Books
   2. On Amazon
7. Paradise Lost – John Milton (Norton Critical Edition by Scott Elledge)
   1. On Better World Books
   2. On BookFinder
8. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (any Norton Critical Edition)
   1. On BookFinder
   2. On Better World Books
9. Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (any edition)
   1. On Better World Books
   2. On Bookfinder
10. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (any Norton Critical Edition)
    1. On Amazon
    2. On Bookfinder
    3. On Better World Books
11. Six Centuries of Great Poetry – Warren and Erskine
    1. On Amazon
    2. On Better World Books
    3. On Bookfinder
12. On Writing Well – William Zinsser (any edition will work). Referenced from time to time in class, but meant for students to read on their own.
13. The Elements of Style – Strunk and White (any edition will work). Referenced from time to time in class, but meant for students to read on their own.