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Cover design by Harlem renaissance artist Lois Mailou Jones When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother ... More

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Bigger Thomas, a black boy, has to die in the electric chair before he can feel alive. He has to kill before he finds a reason to live - kill the ... More

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The authorized text which restores all the language of Fitzgerald's 1920's classic story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the ... More

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The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practicing ... More

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He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian, a hero who ... More

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Muriel Spark's classic "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged "Penguin ... More

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Inspired by Hemingway's adventures as a newspaper correspondent in Spain in the 1930s, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War ... More

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The classic bestselling book--the subject of a play, movie, and a song--that tells the darkly fascinating story of a young, unorthodox teacher and ... More

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The searing account of Bigger Thomas, a black youth whose tragic life is drawn from Wright's own memories of the Chicago ghetto.

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A teacher at a private girls' school, Miss Jean Brodie commands total devotion from her six charges--but one of the girls betrays her. A classic work ... More

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Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the ... More

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This highly original novel charting the rise of the intelligence services in pre-war Eastern Europe first established Alan Furst's remarkable ... More

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Set in 1940's Palestine, Bernhard concerns a German-Jewish widower.

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Destitution, hunger, cruelty, rootlessness--all the odds stand against Jacky, the young boy at the center of this powerful, popular American classic, ... More

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William S.Burroughs, author of "Naked Lunch", "Junkie" and other underground classics, is an odd and central literary figure. He has been in every ... More

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This is the first in a two volume set of the collected letters of William S. Burroughs. The letters are entertaining and revealing, placing Burroughs ... More

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The lives of countless millions are evoked in Ralph Ellison's superb portrait of a generation of black Americans, "Invisible Man". This "Penguin ... More

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A Raisin in the Sun is a classic American play: a groundbreaking 1950s civil rights drama and has a strong claim to be the greatest play of the black ... More

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This text features a collection of Ralph Ellison's short fiction, written between 1937 and 1954. The 13 pieces, six of which were never published ... More

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Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California ... More

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The first volume of The Alexandria Quartet, four interlinked novels set in the sensuous, hot environment of Alexandria just before World War II. ... More

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Diana Collecott proposes that Sappho's presence in H. D.'s work is as significant as that of Homer in Pound's and of Dante in Eliot's.

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