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books by Rh Value Publishing

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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Greenwich House Classics Library)

506 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Random House Value Publishing, 1988

Ole Huck
You'll notice pretty quickly when you pick this up that Huck doesn't spell too good and his grammar isn't so hot either. But if you look a little more closely, you find that he sure knows how to use the semi-colon, and his sentence structure is picture perfect. Mr. Twain may have decided that he was going to have some fun with his charming narrator, but he sure wasn't going to sacrifice good ...

Gramercy Classics Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works

28 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Gramercy, 1994

item not available
I ordered this item in September 2005, and after multiple extensions, Amazon let me know last week (Feb 2006) that this item was no longer available. They should be taking this item off their listing -- it is a great book to have, but regrettably unavailable.

Canterbury Tales: Oxford World Classics (Oxford World's Classics)

81 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Crescent, 1986

a classic with good reason
Had wanted to read this for about 15 years, but it's funny how more books are published and then you have to read them? How 'bout that? This book has been out six centuries, so I guessed another 15 years would not hurt me. Chaucer's facility with language, his ability to rhyme, his familiarity with the human condition, and his ability to link the human conditions to elements of people's trades ...

Walden Thoreau

93 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Random House Value Publishing, 1988

The Hobo Philosopher
My first copy of this book was indubitably from some other publisher. So I'm not commenting on this particular volume but the content of the work itself. I have always loved this book but it wasn't until recent years that I realized what a controversial book this was. Thoreau published this book at his own expense and he sold very few copies. Later on he stored most of his unsold copies in an ...

Anything Book, Classic Exec Series: Black

23 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Anything Books, 1991

Useful and attractive
The book arrived in perfect shape in a very short period of time. It is a very useful and attractive blank book with lined pages that can serve as a journal or for any other purpose ( hence the title). By the way, it has a nice leather-like cover and seems very durable.

Moby Dick: Oxford World Classics (Oxford World's Classics)

319 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Crescent, 1986

"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts"
Having reached the mid-life point, I didn't "get around to" reading MOBY-DICK until just recently. I'm certainly glad that I finally stopped putting it off. Herman Melville's work is truly one of the most amazing books I have read. As others have pointed out here, it's not always an easy read, but it is well worth devoting time to. Indeed, I approached it as if it were an artisan cheese or a ...

Madame Bovary (Oxford Pocket Classics)

195 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Crescent, 1986

Humanity Captured in Prose
Like so many of the classics, Madame Bovary does an incredible job of recording humanity. All of the characters are whole, full-fleshed and individual. Emma's discontent with life, her yearning for something more, has probably been experienced by all of us. Her yearning destroys her, and her husband, but teaches us about ourselves along the way. The reason I love this book, and many of the other ...

Wuthering Heights (Chatham River Press Classics)

497 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Random House Value Publishing, 1984

very intense
The outdated writing style takes a little getting used to, but once you do, it's good. It's incredible to me how the author, with her unusually limited experience of the outside world, who probably never had a boyfriend or lover in her life and lived a secluded life in a remote part of Yorkshire with her sisters and died a virgin, could have created such an incredibly realistic and well-drawn ...

Lolita

450 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Random House Value Publishing, 1988

A road movie of the mind
Praise be to Graham Greene, who was not only an interesting novelist (e.g. The Quiet American), but he also has the merit of saving Nabokov's Lolita from obscurity. When the book found no publisher in the US, it was first brought out by a shady Parisian company that specialized in erotic books in the English language. That was a tourist attraction in Paris. For reasons unknown to me (why would ...

Giant Alices Adventures In Wonderland (Giant 3-D Fairy Tale Books)

339 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Crescent, 1984

Alice
We loved this movie when it first came out. Our children never got tired of watching it. We recently decided to add the DVD version to our collection.

Great Expectations (Oxford Pocket Classics)

325 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Crescent, 1986

Dourly illustrated, it accurately represents the situation in London in the mid ninteenth century
"Great Expectations" is one of the few works by Charles Dickens that I had neither read nor had any contact with. Other than knowing title and author, I had no knowledge of the work before reading this book. After reading it, I can say that the effect was what one would hope the Classics Illustrated works would have on people. The contact generated a desire in me to read the original work. The ...

A Tale of Two Cities

380 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Random House Value Publishing, 1985

Dickens made a believer out of me.
Dickens does a superb job in conveying how insensitivity of careless brute can meet pitiless vengence.

Gulliver's Travels (Fairy Tales & Fables)

93 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Gramercy, 1995

Great book, great price
I am quickly becoming a fan of the Dover Thrift editions of classic literature. They are well-made, sturdy, and a great bargain. All of them that I have bought and assigned to my students have been $2.50. What can you buy for $2.50 anymore? Now you can have an entire library of unabridged classics at a more than reasonable rate. Jonathan Swift's "Gullivers Travels" is no exception to the rule. ...

Name of the Rose

271 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Random House Value Publishing, 1985

murder mystery masterpiece
This story very much appealed to the role-playing game aficionado in me. The atmosphere felt both elaborate and decrepit with a tinge of ancient tradition. The period and location definitely played a major role in dressing the characters. As a consequence, they are left with no choice but to exhibit their true nature. Carefully planned but never felt contrived. Exquisite example of Eco handiwork.

A Christmas Carol

157 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Gramercy, 1984

Nice Story
Cute book to add to my table of Christmas Stories. Will make a cute addition this Christmas.

Oliver Twist (Oxford World Classics)

138 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Crescent, 1986

Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted ...
What is it about Oliver Twist that keeps people coming back to it so often and for so long? Oliver Twist is actually one of my favourite all-time reads. I try to read it once every few years, and every time I decide to re-read it, I go in search of a copy that I don't already own because it's fascinating the different publishers, typefaces, bindings etc, that this book has gone through. Maybe I'm ...

Little House Pop Up: Funtime Pop Up (Fun Time Pop Up)

59 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Crescent, 1985

Sweet remiscence of small-town America
This was one of my favorites as kid. Then, sadly, I forgot about it until stumbling across it in the school library. It is once again one of my favorites. Cynics might roll their eyes at this tribute to good ol' days gone by, but I personally appreciate the nostalgia and the house with its subtle face parts is adorable. You feel so bad for the cute little house! It is also an observation at the ...

Adventures Of Tom Sawyer (Greenwich House Classics Library)

290 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Random House Value Publishing, 1983

Yes, it's a classic for a reason.
I somehow tragically managed to make my way to adulthood with never reading anything but the kiddie version of this book. When I found this book for super-cheap in the teachers' lounge book sale and I figured "hey, why not?" And thus I picked it up and immediately fell in love with the sheer Old-South charm that only Twain can deliver. Really, people, it is no wonder that this book is such a ...

Treasure Island (Children's Classics)

251 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Children's Classics, 1998

Tense, Readable Adventure
This is a solid condensed version of the classic search for buried treasure in the late 1700's. Author Robert Louis Stevenson draws readers in early as the Captain arrives at the Benbow Inn in Britain, focused on incoming ships, and warning young Jim Hawkins of one-legged visitors. The story picks up as Billy Bones arrives, bringing danger and discovery of the treasure map, a discovery that ...

Red Badge Of Courage: Cha Riv *NR* (Chatham River Press Classics)

313 reviews
Rh Value Publishing

Random House Value Publishing, 1984

The Horrors of War engage the Innocence of Life
What can one truly say about an American Classic. It would be presumptuous on my part, at the very least, to analyze Mr. Crane's masterpiece after so many literary giants have already poked and prodded this novel of youth and war to ad nauseam. As a young boy in the early 1950s, I first read this novel and enjoyed the superficial battle narratives. Later as a college student in the 1960s, I ...