Ed McBain
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After just three years, The Best American Mystery Stories has made its name as the foremost mystery anthology, earning raves from such diverse sources as Joyce Carol Oates and Entertainment Weekly. Now grand maste ... more.

Kate Wiggin
Penguin Classics
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At age 10, Rebecca is sent to the village of Riverboro to live with her two aunts, strict Aunt Miranda, and soft-hearted Aunt Jane, in order to learn to be responsible and a lady. In her long carriage trip from Sunnybrook Farm ... more.

Herman Melville
Random House, Inc
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'Command the murderous chalices!...Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow - Death to Moby Dick!'. So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession - the destruction of the great white wh ... more.

Henry James
Random House, Inc
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The Portrait of a Lady is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of ... more.

Henry James, Bernard Richards
Random House, Inc
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When Henry James chose to, as he did in The Princess Casamassima, he could write about the political turbulence of his era with astonishing excitement and directness. The London underworld of terrorist conspir ... more.

Oscar Wilde
Dover Publications
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Renowned for his poetry, plays, essays and witty conversational skills, Oscar Wilde also wrote extraordinarily entertaining works of short fiction. Featuring the comic 'The Canterville Ghost', a ghost must figure ou ... more.

Dover Publications
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Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale 'Young Goodman Brown' and ranges across the entire century, conc ... more.

Herman Melville
Dover Publications
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A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling maritime adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and vengeful sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him and came to dominate his life. But more t ... more.

Mark Twain, Tom Quirk
Penguin Classics
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Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skillfully adapted, extended, or satirized literary conventions, guided only by his unruly imagination. Fr ... more.

Thomas Wenworth Higginson
Penguin Classics
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A stirring account of wartime experiences from the leader of the first regiment of emancipated slaves. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of New Englan ... more.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Random House, Inc
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The author has been long of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has ... more.

Louise May Alcott
Penguin Classics
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Her first novel, The Inheritance was unpublished until found by Professors Myerson and Shealy. Greatly influenced by the gothic and sentimental novels of the time, Alcott's enchanting novel follows Edith Adelon, an Italian o ... more.

Edited by John Updike & Katrina Kenison
Houghton-mifflin
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Since the series' incept in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and ... more.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Penguin Classics
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First published in 1859, Harriet Beecher Stowe's third novel is set in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, a community known for its engagement in both religious piety and the slave trade. Mary Scudder lives in a mo ... more.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Penguin Classics
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A dramatic, moving depiction of social defiance and social deference, of passion and human frailty. Set in the harsh Puritan community of the 17th century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an il ... more.

Linda Wagner-Martin
Penguin Classics
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Best known for her novels depicting the stifling conformity and ceremoniousness of the upper-class New York society into which she was born, Edith Wharton also wrote brilliantly in many genres: essays, travel pieces, m ... more.

Jack London
Penguin Classics
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Inspired by the examples of his heroes Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Joshua Slocum, Jack London determined to sail around the world. In April 1907 he sailed from San Francisco in the forty-five-foot ketch Snark, with his ... more.

Mark Twain
Penguin Classics
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The essential works of the great American humorist. Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain's favorite and most mem ... more.

Harriet E. Wilson
Penguin Classics
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While most people like to imagine that the 'free' North in pre-Civil War times was a better place for African-Americans than the South, Our Nig will disabuse you of that notion. Written by Harriet E. Wilson to include some of her o ... more.

Penguin Classics
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In this memoir Adams examines his own life as it reflects the progress of the United States from the Civil War period to the nation's ascendancy as a world power. A remarkable synthesis of history, art, politics, and philosophy, thi ... more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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Emerson's enduring power is apparent everywhere in American literature: there is scarcely a writer or philosopher who has not been touched by his vision. The first volume of his writing in the Library ... more.

Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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Among the most popular travel books ever written, here in one volume are the works that transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. A hilarious blend of vaudevillian comedy, trav ... more.

William Faulkner, Noel Polk, Joseph Blotner
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into possession of the genius and creativity that made him America's greatest writer of the 20th century. As I Lay Dying is a dark comedy, full ... more.

Herman Melville
Penguin Classics
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Part satire, part allegory, part hoax, The Confidence-Man is a slippery metaphysical comedy set on April Fool's Day aboard the Mississippi steamer Fidele. Through the conversations of his confidence men Melville explo ... more.

J. Patrick Lewis
The Creative Company
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Celebration in poetry by J. Patrick Lewis reveals the experience courage and human sturggle in the lives of thirteen inspiring Black Americans. Steadfast Rosa Parks, who refused to give her seat to a white man on an Alabama ... more.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world famous novels. Written in a richly suggestive style that seems remarkably contemporary, they are permeated by America's and Hawthorne's ow ... more.

James Fenimore Cooper, Blake Nevius
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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Epic of the American frontier follows the exploits of the scout Natty Bumppo, 'Leatherstocking'. -The Pioneers-as an aged hunter caught up in the struggle to determine what kind of civiliz ... more.

James Fenimore Cooper, Blake Navius
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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The Pathfinder, (or The Inland Sea) where, on the Great Lakes during the Seven Years War, the French and their Indian allies are plotting a treacherous ambush. The Deerslayer brings the ... more.

Penguin Putnam Inc.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's brilliance as a prose writer has too long overshadowed his remarkable gifts as a poet. This collection gathers both published and unpublished work--poems left in manuscript at his death and hitherto availa ... more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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This volume presents the essential works by Emerson, including History, Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet; Emerson's first book in entirety; twenty-two poems; complete English Traits; and biog ... more.