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  • The American

    by Henry James, Leon Edel ...
    Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry Claire de Cintré, a scintillating and beautiful aristocrat, Christopher Newman comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family in a dramatic clash between the Old World and the New. A co-production with the BBC, starring Diana ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Twenties

    by Edmund Wilson ...
    Series Book 1 - Edmund Wilson's Notebooks and Diaries
    The preeminent award-winning literary critic of the era shares his dazzling observations of the American twenties.Here is the raw side of the U.S.A., the mad side of Hollywood, the literary infighting in New York, the gossip and anecdotes of an astonishing cast of characters, the jokes, the profundities, the inanities. Here is Edmund Wilson, the slim young man in Greenwich Village sallying forth ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Fifties

    From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period

    by Edmund Wilson ...
    Series Book 4 - Edmund Wilson's Notebooks and Diaries
    Edmund Wilson's The Fifties, edited by Leon Edel, is the highly acclaimed fourth volume in the series that began with The Twenties. It is complimented with photographs and journal excerpts of some of the most interesting characters of the decade, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, and Vladimir Nabokov."A giant's workroom we can wander through, marveling ..." - Richard Locke, The Wall ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    A Horror Novella from 1898

    by Henry James ...
    Originally appearing in serial format just before the turn of the twentieth century, The Turn of the Screw is considered a classic of Gothic fiction. Critically acclaimed for its ability to create a sense of confusion and an atmosphere of suspense in the reader, the story focuses on a governess caring for two children at a remote country estate who becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted. ... Read more

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  • Daisy Miller: A Study In Two Parts

    by Henry James ...
    The story is set in Switzerland and Italy and follows the young American woman Daisy Miller, who is traveling with her mother and younger brother in Europe. Daisy is viewed as unconventional by European standards, as she is outgoing, social, and often flouts the strict social customs of the time. Her behavior raises eyebrows among both Americans and Europeans, leading to discussions about her ... Read more

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  • Glasses

    by Henry James ...
    Henry James, son of theologian Henry James Sr. and brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. ... Read more

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  • The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    **The complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath—essential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet's life and work."A genuine literary event.... Plath's journals contain marvels of discovery." —The New York Times Book Review**Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by John Cheever ...
    Series series Vintage International
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.”From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries ... Read more

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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Works

    (Bauer Classics)

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bauer Books ...
    Series Book 18 - All Time Best Writers
    Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short story writer. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term which he popularized. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four collections of short stories, and 164 short stories. Although he temporarily achieved popular success and fortune in the 1920s, ... Read more

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  • Great Gatsby, The

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  • The Early Stories

    1953-1975

    by John Updike ...
    Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionA harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. “How rarely it can be said of any of our great American writers that they have been equally gifted in both long and short forms,” reads the citation composed for John Updike upon his winning the 2006 Rea Award for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD