Malcolm Cowley
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The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed 'The Lost Generation' are brought to life here by one of the group's most notable members. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemin ... more.

Frederick Douglass
Simon & Schuster Trade Sales
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Fredrick Douglass' account of his life as a slave, and finally as a freedman, is one of the most dramatic talesin American history. First published when the author was only 28, after just achieving his fr ... more.

Mark Twain
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Mark Twain's darkly comic short classic set in the antebellum South stands as a literary condemnation of slaver and racial inequality.

This Enriched Classic Edition includes a concise introduction that ... more.

Theodore Dreiser
Penguin Classics
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Dreiser's unsparing story of a country girl's rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man marked the beginning of the naturalist movement in America. Both its subject matter and Dreiser's objective, nonmoralizing approach ma ... more.

Stella Gibbons
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When the sukebird was in bud, the orphaned Flora Poste, expensively, athletically and lengthily educated, descended on her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. There were plenty of them - Judith, alone in her grief; Amos, called by Go ... more.

Sinclair Lewis
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Sinclair Lewis's barbed portrait of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, shattered the myth of the American Middle West as God's Country and became a symbol of the cultural narrow-mindedness and smug complacency of small towns everywhere. A ... more.

William Dean Howells
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After establishing a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston, where they awkwardly attempt to break into Brahmin society. Silas, greedy for wealth as ... more.

Owen Wister
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Set in the vast Wyoming Territory, The Virginian depicts the loneliness and challenge of an unknown land where the whistle of a freight train sounds across great miles of silence, where easy camaraderie - and sudden violence - are fou ... more.

Mark Twain
Dover Publications
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Mark Twain's inimitable blend of humor, satire and masterly storytelling earned him a secure place in the front rank of American writers. This collection of eight stories and sketches, among them the celebrated classic 'The Notorious Jum ... more.

John Grisham
Random House, Inc
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Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die. His heirs, to no one's surprise-especially Troy's-are circlin ... more.

David Starkey, Daivd Starkey, Richard Guzman
Loyola Press
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The spirit of a place is most aptly captured by its artists. Writers in particular have long been fascinated with the city of Chicago. 'Smokestacks & ... more.