Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

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• The first of his major novels of the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street satirizes the manners of the American Midwest. Here is the story of Carol Ken... Lees meer

Stories of Men

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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• Many of Chekhov's short stories, translated into English during the early years of the 20th century, do not retain the slavic flavor of the originals.... Lees meer

The Mysterious Stranger

Mark Twain

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• The Mysterious Stranger, published posthumously in 1916 and belonging to Twain's "dark" period, belies the popular image of the affable American humor... Lees meer

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Herman Melville

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• This reprint of an 1866 volume of poems by the author of Moby Dick and Billy Budd includes four essays showing why Melville's verse with its unconvent... Lees meer

The Metropolis

Upton Sinclair

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• In this 1907 novel about the extravagant life of New York City's high society, the author of The Jungle, presents a richly detailed portrait of the we... Lees meer

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems

Lewis Carroll

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• Mathematician and author Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) has delighted millions with his most widely regarded book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Known ... Lees meer

Bayou Folk

Kate Chopin

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• The author who today is probably best known for her novel The Awakening initially established her literary reputation with short stories about life in... Lees meer

The Fruit of the Tree

Edith Wharton

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• Originally published in 1907, this little known novel by the author of The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome was considered controversial for its frank... Lees meer

Lourdes

Emile Zola

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• In this moving depiction of a pilgrimage to Lourdes, the master French realist has created a novel of vivid characters and subtle commentary on suffer... Lees meer

The Love Songs of Sappho

Sappho

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• Called the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her life on the famed i... Lees meer

The Turn of the Screw and the Lesson of the Master

Henry James

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• Henry James (1843-1916) is one of America's premier writers of fiction. His famous novella The Turn of the Screw (1898), concerning the governess of t... Lees meer

Stories of Women

Anton Chekhov

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• Anton Chekhov drew inspiration for these powerful vignettes from the teeming world of nineteenth-century Russia, a time in which women were considered... Lees meer

The Star Rover

Jack London

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• Novelist and short story writer Jack London (1876-1916) contemplated the strange theory of astral travel, penning The Star Rover in 1914. The last of ... Lees meer

Esther

Henry Adams

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• Esther (1884), the second of two novels by noted American historian Henry Adams (1838-1918), deals with a woman's inability to accept religious faith ... Lees meer

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

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• In his quest for a truly native idiom, Walt Whitman (1819-1892) incarnated the American geography and its people in a new and transcendent poetic form... Lees meer

Seasons of Life

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• This remarkable anthology of poems and prose on the human condition brings together a wide range of romantic and humanist thought from around the worl... Lees meer

When God Laughs

Jack London

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• Jack London (1876-1916), the critically acclaimed and widely read author of The Call of the Wild (1903), White Fang (1906), and The Sea Wolf (1904), p... Lees meer

Wieland, or the Transformation

Charles Brockden Brown

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• Theodore Wieland hears mysterious voices. Are these the result of delusions, ventriloquism, or divine forces? In this Gothic thriller, novelist Charle... Lees meer

Scenes of Clerical Life

George Eliot

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• The debut novel of George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) consists of three loosely connected tales, all focusing on country parsons in nineteenth-century Engl... Lees meer

Flatland

Edwin A Abbott

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• This highly original and entertaining short novel (which has been in print continually since its original publication in 1884) tells the story of A. S... Lees meer

My Life and Loves

Frank Harris

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• A punch in the face of the puritanism and conservatism he raged against, My Life and Loves is the highly-charged, erotic autobiography of Frank Harris... Lees meer

Rachel Dyer

John Neal

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• The Salem witch trials, a shameful episode in early New England history, provided a salient theme for several nineteenth-century American writers, inc... Lees meer

Maggie

Stephen Crane

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• The first social expose in fiction to render "how the other half lives," Stephen Crane's Maggie is one of the most powerful depictions of the urban po... Lees meer

The Confidence Man

Herman Melville

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• Poorly received when first published in 1857, The Confidence Man is now considered Herman Melville's "most nearly perfect work," and one that occupies... Lees meer