Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction
Penguin Putnam Inc The Phantom of the Opera
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Penguin Publishing Group The Song of Roland
Book SynopsisOne of the crowning achievements of medieval literature, The Song of Roland tells the story of the battle of Roncesvals in 778 and enters into the very soul of a gallant, brutal, and tumultuous age.At the center of this heroic epic is Roland, the supreme embodiment of the chivalric ideal who leads his men into combat and fights valiantly to the death. But Roland is just one of the superbly defined figures in the panoramic drama. The poem’s vivid portrayals of Ganelon’s treason, Roland’s last stand, Charlemagne’s campaign of vengeance, and the final act of retribution are justly famous. Equally fascinating is the sophisticated use of repetition and juxtaposition that gives this work its remarkable organic unity and time-defying dimension of vision. As Robert Harrison, the translator of this acclaimed edition, explains, “The carefully balanced structure of The Song of Roland is designed like a folding mirror to reflect the battle between Good and Evil at all levels of meaning.” Quite possibly the oldest and surely the greatest chanson de geste, The Song of Roland is a sophisticated and enduring work that remains a masterpiece to this day.Translated and with an Introduction by Robert HarrisonAnd an Afterword by Guy Gavriel Kay
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Penguin Putnam Inc Alices Adventures in Wonderland Through the
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Penguin Putnam Inc Andersens Fairy Tales Signet Classics
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Penguin Putnam Inc Little men
Book SynopsisAt Plumfield, an experimental school for boys, the little scholars can do very much as they please, even slide down banisters. For this is what writer Jo Bhaer, once Jo March of Little Women, always wanted: a house “swarming with boys…in all stages of…effervescence.” At the end of Little Women, Jo inherited the Plumfield estate from her diamond-in-the-rough Aunt March. Now she and her husband, Professor Bhaer, provide their irrepressible charges with a very different sort of education—and much love. In fact, Jo confesses, she hardly knows “which I like best, writing or boys.” Here is the story of the ragged orphan Nat, spoiled Stuffy, wild Dan, and all the other lively inhabitants of Plumfield, whose adventures have captivated generations of readers.Trade Review“A natural source of stories...she is, and is to be, the poet of children.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson “The novelist of children…the Thackeray, the Trollope, of the nursery and the schoolroom.”—Henry James“The best boys—in the literary sense—that we have ever come across.”—London Spectator
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University of Michigan Press Odyssey
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The University of Michigan Press The Fixed Period
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The University of Michigan Press The Adventures of Philip
Book SynopsisPhilip Firmin is a blustering but good-hearted young man. When his mother dies, Philip becomes heir to a fortune but is estranged from his father, who proceeds to waste his son's inheritance on fraudulent speculation. Next Philip's true love casts him aside for a richer man, and he proposes to Charlotte.
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University of California Press Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 125th Anniversary
Book Synopsis"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".Trade Review"Handsome, readable, and full of surprises . . . . the American classics that come to us from the Mark Twain Library are simply superb." * Los Angeles Times *"The Mark Twain Project and the University of California Press are reuniting Samuel Clemens's texts with the essential illustrations he commissioned for them, and the results are splendid: may the Twain never again be sundered!" * Vanity Fair *Table of ContentsILLUSTRATIONS FOREWORD MARK TWAIN ON TOUR ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN Notice Explanatory 1. Civilizing Huck.-Miss Watson.-Tom Sawyer Waits 2. The Boys Escape Jim.- Tom Sawyer's Gang.-Deep-laid Plans 3. A Good Going-over.-Grace Triumphant.-"One of Tom Sawyer's Lies" 4. Huck and the Judge.-Superstition 5. Huck's Father.-The Fond Parent.-Reform 6. He Went for Judge Thatcher.-Huck Decides to Leave.-Political Economy.-Thrashing Around 7. Laying for Him.-Locked in the Cabin.-Sinking the Body.-Resting 8. Sleeping in the Woods.-Raising the Dead.-Exploring the Island.-Finding J im.-J im's Escape.-Signs.-"Balum" 9. The Cave.-The Floating House 10. The Find.-Old Hank Bunker.-In Disguise 11. Huck and the Woman.-The Search.-Prevarication.-Going to Goshen 12. Slow Navigation.-Borrowing Things.-Boarding the Wreck.- The Plotters.-Hunting for the Boat 13. Escaping from the Wreck.-The Watchman.-Sinking 14. A General Good Time.- The Harem.-French 15. Huck Loses the Raft.-ln the Fog.-Huck Finds the Raft.-Trash 16. "Give Us a Rest."-The Corpse-Maker Crows.-"The Child of Calamity."-They Both Weaken.-Little Davy Steps ln.-After the Battle.-Ed's Adventures.-Something Queer.-A Haunted BarreL-It Brings a Storm.- The Barrel Pursues.-Killed by Lightning.-Allbright Atones.-Ed Gets Mad.-Snake or Boy ?-"Snake Him Out."-Some Lively Lying.-Off and Overboard.-Expectations.-A White Lie.-Floating Currency.-Running by Cairo.-Swimming Ashore 17. An Evening Call.-The Farm in Arkansaw.-lnterior Decorations.-Stephen Dowling Bots.-Poetical Effusions 18. Col. Grangerford.-Aristocracy.-Feuds.-The Testament.- Recovering the Raft.-The Wood-pile.-Pork and Cabbage 19. Tying Up Daytimes.-An Astronomical Theory.-Running a Temperance Revival.-The Duke of Bridgewater.-The Troubles of Royalty 20. Huck Explains.-Laying Out a Campaign.-Working the Camp-meeting.-A Pirate at the Camp-meeting.-The Duke as a Printer 21. Sword Exercise.-Hamlet's Soliloquy.-They Loafed Around Town.-A Lazy Town.-Old Boggs.-Dead 22. Sherbum.-Attending the Circus.-lntoxication in the Ring.-The Thrilling Tragedy 23. "Sold! "-Royal Comparisons.-)im Gets Homesick 24. Jim in Royal Robes.-They Take a Passenger.-Getting lnformation.-Family Grief 25. "Is It Them?"-Singing the "Doxolojer."-Awful Square.-Funeral Orgies.-A Bad Investment 26. A Pious King.-The King's Clergy.-She Asked His Pardon.- Hiding in the Room.-Huck Takes the Money 27. The FuneraL-Satisfying Curiosity.-Suspicious of Huck.-Quick Sales and Small Profits 28. The Trip to England.-"The Brute!"-Mary Jane Decides to Leave.-Huck Parting with Mary Jane.-Mumps.-The Opposition Line 29. Contested Relationship.-The King Explains the Loss.A Question of Handwriting.-Digging up the Corpse.-Huck Escapes 30. The King Went for Him.-A Royal Row.-Powerful Mellow 31. Ominous Plans.-News of J im.-Old Recollections.-A Sheep Story.-Valuable Information 32. Still and Sunday-like.-Mistaken ldentity.-Up a Stump.-ln a Dilemma 33. A Nigger Stealer.-Southem Hospitality.-A Pretty Long Blessing.-Tar and Feathers 34. The Hut by the Ash-hopper.-Outrageous.-Climbing the Lightning Rod.-Troubled with Witches 35. Escaping Properly.-Dark Schemes.-Discrimination in Stealing.-A Deep Hole 36. The Lightning Rod.-His Level Best.-A Bequest to Posterity.- A High Figure 37. The Lost Shirt.-Mooning Around.-Sailing Orders.- The Witch Pie 38. The Coat of Arms.-A Skilled Superintendent.-Unpleasant Glory.-A Tearful Subject 39. Rats.-Lively Bed-fellows.-The Straw Dummy 40. Fishing.-The Vigilance Committee.-A Lively Run.-Jim Advises a Doctor 41. The Doctor.-Uncle Silas.-Sister Hotchkiss.-Aunt Sally in Trouble 42. Tom Sawyer Wounded.-The Doctor's Story.-Tom Confesses.-Aunt Polly Arrives.-"Hand Out Them Letters" Chapter the Last: Out of Bondage.-Paying the Captive.- Yours Truly Huck Finn MAPS EXPLANATORY NOTES GLOSSARY THREE PASSAGES FROM THE MANUSCRIPT MANUSCRIPT FACSIMILES REFERENCES NOTE ON THE TEXT
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University of California Press A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court
Book SynopsisThe Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to boss the whole country inside of three weeks. And so he does. Emerging as The Boss, he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot - with unexpected results.Table of ContentsILLUSTRATIONS FOREWORD A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT Preface A Word of Explanation 1. Camelot 2. King Arthur's Court 3. Knights of the Table Round 4. Sir Dinadan the Humorist 5. An Inspiration 6. The Eclipse 7. Merlin's Tower 8. The Boss 9. The Tournament 10. Beginnings of Civilization 11. The Yankee in Search of Adventures 12. Slow Torture 13. Freemen! 14. "Defend Thee, Lord!" 15. Sandy's Tale 16. Morgan le Fay 17. A Royal Banquet 18. In the Queen's Dungeons 19. Knight-Errantry as a Trade 20. The Ogre's Castle 21. The Pilgrims 22. The Holy Fountain 23. Restoration of the Fountain 24. A Rival Magician 25. A Competitive Examination 26. The First Newspaper 27. The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito 28. Drilling the King 29. The Small-Pox Hut 30. The Tragedy of the Manor House 31. Marco 32. Dawley's Humiliation 33. Sixth-Century Political Economy 34. The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves 35. A Pitiful Incident 36. An Encounter in the Dark 37. An Awful Predicament 38. Sir Launcelot and Knights to the Rescue 39. The Yankee's Fight with the Knights 40. Three Years Later 41. The Interdict 42. War! 43. The Battle of the Sand-Belt 44. A Postscript by Clarence REFERENCES EXPLANATORY NOTES NOTE ON THE TEXT
£18.00
University of California Press Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer Detective
Book SynopsisFollows Tom, Huck, and Jim as they travel across the Atlantic in a balloon, then down the Mississippi to help solve a mysterious crime.Table of ContentsILLUSTRATIONS FOREWORD TOM SAWYER ABROAD 1. Tom Seeks New Adventures 2. The Balloon Ascension 3. Tom Explains 4. Storm 5. Land 6. It's a Caravan 7. Tom Respects the Flea 8. The Disappearing Lake 9. The Discourses on The Desert 10. The Treasure-Hill 11. The Sand-Storm 12. Jim Standing Siege 13. Going for Tom's Pipe TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE EXPLANATORY NOTES Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer, Detective NOTE ON THE TEXTS
£999.99
Cambridge University Press The Years
Book SynopsisThis first scholarly edition of The Years provides a fully collated and annotated text. It includes a substantial introduction, explanatory notes and detailed textual apparatus tracking Woolf's extensive revisions.Trade Review'An astonishing editorial achievement.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; Notes on the edition; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; Chronology of composition; The Years; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Textual notes; Appendix; Bibliography.
£122.55
Random House USA Inc All Passion Spent
Book SynopsisIrreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late.After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane—a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India—everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade away in her grief, remaining as proper, decorative, and dutiful as she has been her entire married life. But the deceptively gentle Lady Slane has other ideas. First she defies the patronizing meddling of her children and escapes to a rented house in Hampstead. There, to her offspring’s utter amazement, she revels in her new freedom, recalls her youthful ambitions, and gathers some very unsuitable companions—who reveal to her just how much she had sacrificed under the pressure of others’ expectations.
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Random House USA Inc The Sorrow of War
Book SynopsisThe daring and controversial novel that took the world by storm--a story of politics, selfhood, survival, and war.Heart-wrenching, fragmented, raw, former North Vietnamese solder Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War provides a strikingly honest look at how the Vietnam War forever changed his life, his country, and the people who live there. Kien, a lone survivor from the Glorious 27th Youth brigade of the Vietcong, revisits the haunting sites of battles and relives a parade of horrors, as he grapples with his ghosts, his alcoholism and attempts to arrange his life in writing. Originally published against government wishes in Vietnam because of its nonheroic, non-ideological tone, Ninh's now classic work has won worldwide acclaim and become an international bestseller.
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Random House USA Inc The Invisible Man
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Random House USA Inc The War Of The Worlds
Book SynopsisThe seminal masterpiece of alien invasion, The War of the Worlds (1898) conjures a terrifying, tentacled race of Martians who devastate the Earth and feed on their human victims while their voracious vegetation, the red weed, spreads over the ruined planet. After the novel’s hero finds himself trapped in what is left of London, despairing at the destruction of human civilization, he discovers that life on Earth is more resilient than he had imagined. Adapted by Orson Welles for his notorious 1938 radio drama and subsequently by many filmmakers, H. G. Wells’s timeless story shows no sign of losing its grip on readers’ imaginations.
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Mariner Books A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself
Book Synopsis Wise, bracingly honest...A reassuring reality check...Exhilirating. ''New York Times Book Review ''there are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies''s achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story...The world needs more stories like this one, more of this kind of courage, more of this kind of love.'' ''sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend There is nothing superfluous in these pages...A novel that...earns its place on the shelf alongside the frank and sometimes acerbic memoirs of Rachel Cusk and Anne Enright. ''Claire Messud, Harper''s A heartbreaking, soul-baring novel about the repercussions of choice that ''will strike a resonant chord with parents everywhere, (starred Kirkus) from the award-winning author ofThe Welsh GirlandThe FortunesA Lie Someone Told You About Yourselftraces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate yet political experiences a family can have: to have a child, and conversely, the decision not to have a child. A first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once catastrophic and uncertain. A second pregnancy ends in a fraught birth, a beloved child, the purgatory of further tests''and questions that reverberate down the years. When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labor? When does chance become choice? When does a diagnosis become destiny? And when does fact become fiction? This spare, graceful narrative chronicles the flux of parenthood, marriage, and the day-to-day practice of loving someone. As challenging as it is vulnerable, as furious as it is tender, as touching as it is darkly comic, Peter Ho Davies''s new novel is an unprecedented depiction of fatherhood.
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Red Badge of Courage
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Mayor Of Casterbridge
Book SynopsisFrom its spectacular opening-the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair-to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels.Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling in early nineteenth-century England, the story build into an awesome Sophoclean drama of guilt and revenge, in which the strong, willful Henchard rises to a position of wealth and power-only to suffer a most bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to his own destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard has said, “Hardy’s Lord Jim…his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroes in all fiction.
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Deerslayer
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Oliver Twist
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Random House USA Inc The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Book SynopsisNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThis irresistible tale of the adventures of two friends growing up in frontier America is one of Mark Twain’s most popular novels. The farcical, colorful, and poignant escapades of Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn brilliantly depict the humor and pathos of growing up on the geographic and cultural rim of nineteenth-century America. Originally intended for children, the book transcends genre in its magical depiction of innocence and possibility, and is now regarded as one of Twain’s masterpieces.
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Random House USA Inc Persuasion Bantam Classics
Book SynopsisJane Austen’s last completed novel, a brilliantly insightful story of regret, second chances, and the courage to follow our hearts Anne Elliot is twenty-seven and unmarried—by all accounts a spinster in her time—seemingly doomed to spend the rest of her life waiting on her image-obsessed father and extravagant older sister; attempting to maintain their once lavish, now dwindling family estate; and occasionally babysitting the children of her married younger sister. It wasn’t always this way, though. When Anne was nineteen, she was in love with and engaged to Frederick Wentworth, a man with no money and few prospects. Anne’s well-meaning family and friends convinced her that a young heiress like herself could do better, so she broke off the engagement. But when chance brings Wentworth and Anne together again eight years later, he is now an accomplished naval captain with an impressive fortune, and Anne must face her feelings for him that remain and consider how different her life could have been if only she hadn’t been so easily persuaded by others.
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Random House USA Inc A Tale of Two Cities
Book SynopsisWith his sublime parting words, 'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done...' Sidney Carton joins that exhalted group of Dickensian characters who have earned a permanent place in the popular literary imagination. His dramatic story, set against the volcanic fury of the French Revolution and pervaded by the ominous rumble of the death carts trundling toward the guillotine, is the heart-stirring tale of a heroic soul in an age gone mad. A masterful pageant of idealism, love, and adventure -- in a Paris bursting with revolutionary frenzy, and a London alive with anxious anticipation -- A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens''s most energetic and exciting works.
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
Book SynopsisFor deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years.Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” to the bitter vision of humankind in “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” to the delightful hilarity of “Is He Living or Is He Dead?” Surging with Twain’s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of-in the words of H. L. Mencken-“the father of our national literature.”
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Random House USA Inc Heart of Darkness Bantam Classics
Book SynopsisHeart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing 'night journey' into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer.
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Lady Chatterleys Lover Bantam Classics
Book SynopsisSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING THE CROWN’S EMMA CORRIN AND UNBROKEN’S JACK O’CONNELLLyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence’s last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, it explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her growing love for the robust gamekeeper of her husband’s estate. The most controversial of Lawrence’s books, Lady Chatterly’s Lover joyously affirms the author’s vision of individual regeneration through sexual love. The book’s power, complexity, and psychological intricacy make this a completely original work—a triumph of passion, and a celebration of life.
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Random House USA Inc Four Great Plays by Ibsen Bantam Classics
Book SynopsisHere, in a single volume, are four major plays by the first modern playwright, Henrick Ibsen. Ghosts—The startling portrayal of a family destroyed by disease and infidelity. The Wild Duck—A poignant drama of lost illusions. An Enemy Of The People—Ibsen’s vigorous attack on public opinion. And A Doll's House—The play that scandalized the Victorian world with its unsparing views of love and marriage, featuring one of the most controversial heroines—and one of the most famous exists—in the literature of the stage.
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Invisible Man Bantam Classics A Grotesque
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Random House USA Inc Four Great American Classics
Book SynopsisThese four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day.The Scarlet Letter vividly records America’s moral and historical roots in Puritan New England and masterfully re-creates a society’s preoccupation with sin, guilt, and pride.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn carries readers along on Huck’s unforgettable journey down the Mississippi in America’s foremost comic epic—the first great novel in a truly American voice.The Red Badge of Courage re-creates the brutal reality of war and its psychological impact on a young Civil War soldier in one of the most moving and widely read American novels.Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories joins the world’s great tragic literature as a doo
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Robinson Crusoe
Book SynopsisThis classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in a storm possessing only a knife, a box of tobacco, a pipe-and the will to survive. His is the saga of a man alone: a man who overcomes self-pity and despair to reconstruct his life; who painstakingly teaches himself how to fashion a pot, bake bread, build a canoe; and who, after twenty-four agonizing years of solitude, discovers a human footprint in the sand... Consistently popular since its first publication in 1719, Daniel Defoe''s story of human endurance in an exotic, faraway land exerts a timeless appeal. The first important English novel, Robinson Crusoe has taken its rightful place among the great myths of Western civilization.
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Classics
Book Synopsis“Stark . . . the story of how one falsely accused convict and his fellow prisoners survived or perished in an arctic slave labor camp after the war.”—TimeFrom the icy blast of reveille through the sweet release of sleep, Ivan Denisovich endures. A common carpenter, he is one of millions viciously imprisoned for countless years on baseless charges,sentenced to the waking nightmare of the Soviet work camps in Siberia. Even in the face of degrading hatred, where life is reduced to a bowl of gruel and a rare cigarette, hope and dignity prevail. This powerful novel of fact is a scathing indictment of Communist tyranny, and an eloquent affirmation of the human spirit.The prodigious works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, including his acclaimed The Gulag Archipelago, have secured his place in the great tradition of Russian literary giants. Ironically, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is the only one of his works permitted publ
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Royal Governess
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Land Beyond the Sea
Book SynopsisFrom the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sharon Kay Penman comes the story of the reign of King Baldwin IV and the Kingdom of Jerusalem''s defense against Saladin''s famous army.The Kingdom of Jerusalem, also known as Outremer, is the land far beyond the sea. Baptized in blood when the men of the First Crusade captured Jerusalem from the Saracens in the early twelfth century, the kingdom defined an utterly new world, a land of blazing heat and a medley of cultures, a place where enemies were neighbors and neighbors became enemies.At the helm of this growing kingdom sits young Baldwin IV, an intelligent and courageous boy committed to the welfare and protection of his people. But despite Baldwin''s dedication to his land, he is afflicted with leprosy at an early age and the threats against his power and his health nearly outweigh the risk of battle. As political deception scours the halls of the royal court, the Muslim army--led by th
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Penguin Putnam Inc Frank Herberts Dune Saga 3Book Boxed Set
Book SynopsisPerfect for longtime fans and new readers alike—a beautiful premium mass market boxed set of the first three novels in Frank Herbert''s Dune Saga.DUNE IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, David Dastmalchian, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem.In the far future, on a remote planet, an epic adventure awaits. Here are the first three novels of Frank Herbert’s magnificent Dune saga—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction series of all time.Includes Books 1 - 3: DUNE • DUNE MESSIAH • CHILDREN OF DUNE
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Random House USA Inc The Goodness of St. Rocque
Book SynopsisA stunning short story collection that takes the reader into the heart of the Creole community in late-nineteenth-century New Orleans, from a key poet and journalist of the Harlem Renaissance—featuring an introduction by Danielle Evans, the award-winning author of The Office of Historical Corrections“[Dunbar-Nelson]’s airy, easy eloquence is a pleasure.”—The New York Times This vivid collection transports readers to New Orleans, from the delights of Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street, to the quiet Bayou where lovers meet, and to fish fries on the shore of the Mississippi Sound. Alice Dunbar-Nelson focuses the struggles and joys of the Creole community in these intimate stories featuring unforgettable characters. In the title story, Manuela goes to the Wizened One for a charm when her lover strays; in “Little Miss Sophie,” a young woman goes to extreme lengths to get back a ring she pawn
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Penguin Young Readers El señor presidente Mr. President
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Penguin Random House LLC The Maltese Falcon Special Edition
Book SynopsisONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • A special edition of this coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. Featuring an introduction by James Ellroy.A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's iconic, influential, and beloved The Maltese Falcon.A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Special Edition
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Another Marvelous Thing
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed author of Happy All the Time charts the story of a whirlwind love affair of two people who are happily married (just not to each other)—from its fabulous inception to its inevitable end. • Virtually flawless.... A tour de force. —Los Angeles TimesBilly and Francis couldn’t be more different, at least when it comes to age and disposition, but that doesn’t prevent them from falling in love and settling into the easy rhythms of romance—phone calls every morning, rendezvous every weekday afternoon, the odd out-of-town escape—despite both still being very partial to their spouses. In interconnected stories, Laurie Colwin deftly reveals each character’s point of view and examines, in razor-sharp detail, the “marvelous” and messy glory of modern love and the curious desires of the heart. This whirlwind romance, perfectly captured in Colwinesque frank and funny style, is firm proof that oppositesreally do attract.
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Random House USA Inc The Last White Rose
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Not Stated The House on Biscayne Bay
Book SynopsisAs death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and present collide in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton’s atmospheric new novel.With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything.Years later following the tragic death of her parents in Havana, Carmen Acosta journeys to Marbrisa, the grand home of her estranged older sister, Carolina, and her husband, Asher Wyatt. On the surface, the gilded estate looks like paradise, but Carmen quickly learns that nothing at Marbrisa is as it seems. The house has
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Random House Publishing Group The Midwich Cuckoos
Book SynopsisA genre-defining tale of first contact by one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and neglected science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called ?the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.??In my opinion, [John] Wyndham's chef d'oeuvre . . . a graphic metaphor for the fear of unwanted pregnancies . . . I myself had a dream about a highly intelligent nonhuman baby after reading this book.? Margaret Atwood, Slate NOW STREAMING ON AMC AS THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS: VILLAGE OF THE DAMNEDWhat if the women of a sleepy English village all became simultaneously pregnant, and the children, once born, possessed supernatural and possibly alien powers? A mysterious silver object appears in quiet, picture-perfect Midwich. A day later, the object is gone and all the women in the village, they will come to learn, are now pregnant. The resultant children of Midwich are shockingly, frighteningly other. Faced with these unfathomable and potentially unstoppable children, the question arises: What will humanity do when faced with the threat of the unknown?
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Devils Playground
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Color Purple Movie TieIn
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Penguin Young Readers The Autobiography of an ExColored Man
Book SynopsisA Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of the groundbreaking classic novel of the Black experience in America that is still remarkably relevant more than a century later.First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standards—and double consciousness—experienced by Black people in modern America. Republished in 1927, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, with an introduction by Carl Van Vechten, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man became a pioneering document of African-American culture and an eloquent model for later novelists ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Narrated by a man whose light skin enables him to pass for white, the novel describes a journey through the strata of Black society at the turn of the century—from a cigar factory in Jacksonville to an elite gambling club in New York, from genteel arist
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Penguin Young Readers Never Let Me Go
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Penguin Publishing Group The Haunting of Moscow House
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Penguin Putnam Inc This Cursed House
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