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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
Format: Print book
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The American classic about a young girl's coming of age at the turn of the century. "A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. It cuts right to the heart of life...If you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn you will deny yourself a rich experience...It is a poignant and deeply... |
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Passing
Nella Larsen - Penguin Classics; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past. Clare’s childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African... |
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Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind - winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time - has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel.Widely considered The Great American Novel, and often remembered for its epic... |
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen - The Modern Library
Format: Print book
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's perfect comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring... |
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte BronteÌ - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Jane Eyre, a penniless orphan, is engaged as governess at Thornfield Hall by the mysterious Mr Rochester. Her integrity and independence are tested to the limit as their love for each other grows, and the secrets of Mr Rochester's past are revealed. Charlotte Bronte's novel about... |
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being." Wuthering Heights is the only novel of E |
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Two Years Before the Mast
Richard Henry Dana - Grapevine India
Format: Hardcover
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After a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a commerce ship beginning in 1834, American author Richard Henry Dana Jr.s memoir Two Years Before the Mast was published in 1840. Dana quit Harvard to serve as a common seaman on the ship Pilgrim on a voyage around Cape Horn. Two years... |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville - Bantam
Format: Print book
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No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest... |
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens - Arcturus
Format: Paperback
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What this cautionary tale of a young man raised high above his station by a mysterious benefactor lacks in length, it more than makes up for in its remarkable characters and compelling story. The novel begins with young orphaned Philip Pirrip--Pip--running afoul of an escaped convict in a cemetery.... |
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The Awakening and Selected Stories
Kate Chopin - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desireWhen The Awakening was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's... |
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Crime and Punishment: Pevear & Volokhonsky Translation
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadWith the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's... |
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The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions)
William Faulkner - W. W. Norton & Company; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback
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The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text. David Minter's annotations are designed to assist the reader with obscure words and allusions. "Backgrounds" begins with the appendix... |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, Orwell's cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state feels more relevant now than ever before. Winston Smith, a member of the outer Party, spends his days rewriting history to fit the narrative that... |
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The Grapes of Wrath 75th Anniversary Edition
John Steinbeck - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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April 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the first Viking hardcover publication of Steinbeck's crowning literary achievementFirst published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma... |
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman... |
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingways most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal, a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway... |
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Siddhartha (Modern Library)
Hermann Hesse - Modern Library; Modern Library edition
Format: Hardcover
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Hermann Hesse’s classic novel Siddhartha has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. Though set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the book’s debut, the novel is infused with the sensibilities of Hesse’s... |
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The Story of My Life: The Restored Classic, Complete and Unabridged, Centennial Edition
Roger Shattuck - W. W. Norton & Company; Cen Sub edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of the "hundred most important books of the twentieth century" (New York Public Library), finally published in complete form. The story of Helen Keller, the young girl who triumphed over deafness and blindness, has been indelibly marked into our cultural consciousness. That... |
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature:... |
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Les Misrables
Victor Hugo - Modern Library
Format: Paperback
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Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world... |
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas - Everyman's Library; Everyman's Library edition
Format: Book
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This beloved novel tells the story of Edmond Dants, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable sea fortress, the Chteau dIf. After a daring escape, and after unearthing a hidden treasure revealed to him by a fellow prisoner, he devotes the rest of his life to tracking... |
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The Stranger
Albert Camus - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Albert Camus’s spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century... |
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Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life (Everymans Library)
Gustave Flaubert - Everymans Library
Format: Hardcover
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Emma, a passionate dreamer raised in the French countryside, is ready for her life to take off when she marries the decent, dull Dr. Charles Bovary. Marriage, however, fails to live up to her expectations, which are fueled by sentimental novels, and she turns disastrously to love affairs.... |
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