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1	Madame Bovary more books like this by Gustave Flaubert This book comes with an introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class and What We Can Do about It more books like this by Thom Hartmann, Prof. Mark Crispin Miller (Foreword by) The American middle class is on its deathbed. People who put in a solid day's work can no longer afford to buy a house, send their kids to college, or even get sick. If you're not a CEO, you're probably screwed. As Air America Radio Host, Thom Hartmann shows, this death is no accident. Like the Founding Fathers, patriots such as Roosevelt, Truman, ... see all copies from $2.65! new only from $2.65! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Rabbit Run more books like this by John Updike It is 1959 and, stuck with an alcoholic wife, a child and a futile job, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom's powers of indecision are unlimited. And so he bounces like a ping-pong ball between a despairing wife and a demanding mistress, and everyone - except him - can see where it will end. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Northern Clemency more books like this by Philip Hensher The award-winning author of "The Mulberry Empire" brings us a sweeping chronicle of ordinary lives profoundly shaped by both the subtleties of everyday experience and the larger forces of history. In 1974, the Sellers family is transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in, the Glover household across the ... see all copies from $12.15! new only from $17.17! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Senator's Wife more books like this by Sue Miller The author of the iconic "The Good Mother" and the bestselling "While I Was Gone" takes readers deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages, exposed in all their shame and imperfection and in their obdurate, unyielding love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.23! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Rabbit at Rest more books like this by John Updike "Rabbit at Rest", the delightful last novel in the rabbit sequence, is both comic and moving. Rabbit, now in his middle fifties, is living in a condo in Florida. Nelson and his wife and children come to stay and disaster ensues; Rabbit has a serious heart attack after a boating attack with his granddaughter and Nelson is discovered to have been ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Where angels fear to tread more books like this by E M Forster When attractive, impulsive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior. Her prim, snobbish in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval, and when Lidia's decision eventually brings disaster, her English relatives embark on an expedition ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Rabbit is Rich more books like this by John Updike It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's ok, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in place: he's Chief Sales Representative and co-owner of Springer motors; his wife, at home or in the club, is keeping trim; and, he wears good suits, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Linden Hills more books like this by Gloria Naylor Linden Hills is an exclusive private residential estate in America. Intended as a symbol of black equality, it is in fact an infernal place, and the layers of hypocrisy and self-destruction which are its foundation become exposed. The author's other novels include "The Women of Brewster Place". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Rabbit Redux more books like this by John Updike In RABBIT REDUX (1971), John Updike's poignant sequel to RABBIT, RUN, he explores the tumultuous transformations of the late '60s as they affect the traditional American values on which Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom--like so many other Americans--believes his life is based. Rabbit trusts the government, supports the Vietnam War, finds blacks ("Negroes") ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Treasure Hunt: Inside the Mind of the New Global Consumer more books like this by Michael Silverstein, John Butman The essential follow-up to the "BusinessWeek" bestseller "Trading Up" looks at an important countertrend: how middle-income consumers have gotten better than ever at finding bargains in some areas to trade up in other categories. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Diary of a Nobody more books like this by George Grossmith 'Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see - because I do not happen to be a 'Somebody' - why my diary should not be interesting.' The Diary of a Nobody (1892) created a cultural icon, an English archetype. Anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish, Charles ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Goldengrove more books like this by Francine Prose Nico and Margaret have grown up with their ex-hippie parents in an isolated New England town on the shores of placid Mirror Lake. Nico, thirteen, is still an adolescent, small and pudgy, trying her best to grow up to be like her sister. Margaret, four years older, is vibrant and beautiful, a blossoming jazz singer with cookie-scented skin-born, as ... see all copies from $7.79! new only from $12.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Road to Whatever: Middle-Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence more books like this by Elliott Currie From the Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a sharp and compassionate investigation of the root causes of the epidemic of drug abuse, violence, and despair among "mainstream" American teenagers. see all copies from $2.36! new only from $5.90! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Boiling Point: Democrats, Republicans, and the Decline of Middle-Class Prosperity more books like this by Kevin P Phillips From the author of The Politics of Rich and Poor, a new book that documents the economic frustration of the American middle class--and analyzes the looming political consequences. Phillips pinpoints the economic mismanagement, special-interest pandering, and divide-and-conquer politics that have impoverished the American middle class, and he shows ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker more books like this by Steven Greenhouse "The Big Squeeze" takes a probing, sometimes shocking look at the stresses faced by an alarming number of American workers--white- and blue-collar, middle- and low-income--as wages have stagnated, health and pension benefits have grown stingier, and job security has shriveled. see all copies from $14.95! new only from $14.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	White Collar: The American Middle Classes more books like this by C Wright Mills This volume, a second edition of what has become a major work of American sociological thought, demonstrates how the conditions and styles of middle class life - originating from elements of both the newer lower and upper classes - represent modern society as a whole. In his thesis, by examining white-collar life, Mills aimed to learn something ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.56! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Labrador Pact more books like this by Matt Haig Prince, the Hunter family's black Labrador, believes it is his sacred duty to protect his family and guard its integrity. But what is he to do when the family's worst enemies are themselves? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Madame Bovary: 150th Anniversary more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Mildred Marmur (Translator), Robin Morgan (Introduction by) Set amidst the stifling atmosphere of 19th-century bourgeois France, Flaubert's classic is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman's gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human stupidity. This repackaged edition features a new Introduction by leading feminist Robin Morgan. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.44! \| SVS
20 view cover	Bouvard and Pécuchet more books like this by Gustave Flaubert Unfinished at his death, Flaubert's final work is a vastly funny satire of the intellectual and moral pretensions of 19th-century French bourgeois society. It features two Chaplinesque clerks who, with the help of a surprise legacy, attempt to scale the heights of knowledge--only to discover an abyss of stupidity. see all copies from $3.25! new only from $10.28! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Aloft more books like this by Chang-Rae Lee Jerry Battle's family is large, multicultural, and riddled with problems. His Korean wife drowned in the swimming pool 20 years ago. He has broken up with his longtime Puerto Rican girlfriend, whom he misses. His daughter, pregnant by her Asian-American boyfriend, has a life-threatening illness. His son is a bit of a wastrel. And his elderly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22	Bread Upon the Waters more books like this by Irwin Shaw see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society more books like this by Jurgen Habermas This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general interest. In analysing the historical transformations of this sphere, Habermas recovers a concept which is of crucial significance for current debates in ... see all copies from $20.73! new only from $20.73! \| SVS
24 view cover	Arlington Park more books like this by Rachel Cusk Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb very much like its American counterparts, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the dubious accomplishments of civilization: material prosperity, personal freedom, and moral indifference. In Arlington Park, men ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Not to People Like Us: Hidden Abuse in Upscale Marriages more books like this by Susan Weitzman, Ph.D. A startling expos of domestic violence against well-educated, well-to-do women, and a powerful indictment of the social-service system that fails to protect them. . How is it possible for a highly educated woman with a career and resources of her own to stay in a marriage with an abusive husband? How can a man be considered a pillar of his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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