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1	The Senator's Wife more books like this by Sue Miller add to wishlist 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 $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Madame Bovary more books like this by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist Flaubert's portrait of an adulteress who seeks freedom from a prosaic, disappointing life and ultimately is destroyed by her selfishness was considered scandalous when it was published. Flaubert chose his subject to illustrate his belief that any aspect of life, however trivial or vulgar, could be a subject for literature, and could be raised to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Rabbit Run more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist John Updike's highly acclaimed saga of desire and regret, first published in 1959, introduces Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a typical Middle American--small-town Protestant, former basketball star, married man intent on making a name for himself in the community--whose life begins to unravel when he falls in love and deserts his wife. Caught between ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Northern Clemency more books like this by Philip Hensher add to wishlist The award-winning author of "The Mulberry Empire" presents a sweeping chronicle of ordinary lives that are profoundly shaped by both the subtleties of everyday experience and the larger forces of history. see all copies from $4.79! new only from $12.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Top 10 Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class more books like this by Keith Cameron Smith add to wishlist The Top Ten Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class reveals the knowldge of some of the most successful people on the planet. It is a quick and easy read that will put you on the path to becoming both rich and happy -- and keep you there.Develop perseverance and overcome obstaclesDetermine where you are headed in lifeEmbrace change ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| SVS
6	The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society more books like this by Jurgen Habermas add to wishlist 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 $8.00! new only from $21.33! \| SVS
7	Rabbit is Rich more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist Updike's third novel (after RABBIT, RUN and RABBIT REDUX) about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom follows the Pennsylvania car salesman's passage into middle age in the turbulent 1970s. Rabbit has achieved success as a salesman at Springer Motors, but his life is not without problems, including the return of his recalcitrant son Nelson, the return of an old ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Rabbit Redux more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist 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 $3.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Diary of a Nobody more books like this by George Grossmith add to wishlist George Grossmith's hilariously low-key account of Charles Pooter, an incredibly boring and undistinguished London clerk, is one of the great comic masterpieces. Originally illustrated by Grossmith's brother Weedon, it was a great favorite of T. S. Eliot, and was called by Evelyn Waugh "the funniest book in the world." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Rabbit at Rest more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist Updike's fourth "Rabbit" novel presents the human condition as personified by Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. The fat, aging, ill Rabbit must also cope with his son's drug addiction, his wife's troubles, a former girlfriend who turns up suffering from lupus, and the world in general, with which Rabbit has always had a love-hate relationship. In this last ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Search for Order, 1877-1920 more books like this by Robert H Wiebe add to wishlist At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In "The Search for Order," Robert Wiebe shows how, in subsequent years, during theProgressive Era of Theodore ... see all copies from $2.20! new only from $11.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist When we first met him in "Rabbit, Run" (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with some boys in an alley in Pennsylvania during the tail end of the Eisenhower era, reliving for a moment his past as a star high school athlete. Athleticism of a different sort is on display ... see all copies from $13.89! new only from $13.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker more books like this by Steven Greenhouse add to wishlist "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 $1.99! new only from $3.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Black Bourgeoisie more books like this by Edward Franklin Frazier add to wishlist see all copies from $3.80! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class more books like this by Mary Pattillo-McCoy add to wishlist In this study of the black middle class, a sociologist asserts that despite high economic achievement, obstacles remain that imperil families, especially children. see all copies from $5.48! new only from $12.65! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	White Collar: The American Middle Classes more books like this by C Wright Mills add to wishlist 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
17 view cover	Where angels fear to tread more books like this by E M Forster add to wishlist The domineering Mrs. Herriton dispatches her son Philip and her daughter Harriet to Italy to bring back the baby born of her deceased son's wife Lilia and an Italian named Gino. Lilia's former chaperone, Caroline, goes with them, hoping to adopt the baby to atone for her laxness in letting Lilia get mixed up with Gino in the first place. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Good Soldier more books like this by Ford Madox Ford add to wishlist Americans John and Florence Dowell maintain a distanced but amiable friendship with Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, a British couple they met at a spa. Dowell finds Ashburnham to be quite admirable, but as the book progresses, more and more of Ashburnham's character is revealed, causing the reader--and eventually Dowell himself--to question Dowell ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.22! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Linden Hills more books like this by Gloria Naylor add to wishlist Using Dante's INERNO as a basis for constructing her plot, Naylor tells the story of Willie Mason, a poet, and his journey through Linden Hills, a town where he and fellow poet Lester Tilson go to find work during the holidays. Linden Hills is, essentially, run by Luther Nedeed, a fifth-generation mortician who admires traditional white affluence ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class and What We Can Do about It (Easyread Large Edition) more books like this by Thom Hartmann add to wishlist 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 $4.31! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class more books like this by Jan Whitaker add to wishlist Whitaker presents an entertaining and fully illustrated history of the department store--the center of American cultural and economic life. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $7.98! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Class more books like this by Jilly Cooper add to wishlist CLASS IS DEAD! Or so everyone claims. Who better to refute this than Jilly Cooper! Describing herself as 'upper middle class', Jilly claims that snobbery is very much alive and thriving! Meet her hilarious characters! People like Harry Stow-Crat, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, Samantha and Gideon Upward, and Jen Teale and her husband Brian. Roar ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.72! \| SVS
23 view cover	Not to People Like Us: Hidden Abuse in Upscale Marriages more books like this by Susan Weitzman, Ph.D. add to wishlist Thought too privileged and too educated to be victims of emotional and physical violence, the affluent women of Chicago--as sketched by psychotherapist Weitzman--form a portrait of abuse that challenges misconceptions of class and domestic violence. Her exposé discloses reasons for upper-class violence, as well as reasons for the comparable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914 more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist Au audacious work, "Schnitzler's Century" reassesses 19th-century history and traces the dramatic rise of the middle class. We have always believed that corseted Queen Victoria defined the mores of the 19th century. Yet Peter Gay suggests in this provocative, seminal work that it is the sexually emboldened Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream more books like this by Paul Adamson, Marty Arbunich, Ernie Braun (Photographer) add to wishlist Joseph Eichler was a pioneering developer who defied conventional wisdom by hiring progressive architects to design Modernist homes for the growing middle class of the 1950s. He was known for his innovations, including "built-ins" for streamlined kitchen work, for introducing a multipurpose room adjacent to the kitchen, and for the classic atrium ... see all copies from $18.51! new only from $31.03! \| first editions

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