American Classics

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Henry James
The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction (Bantam Classics)
To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans popula...
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W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk (Bantam Classics)
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk , one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one has before ...
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Upton Sinclair
The Jungle (Clydesdale Classics)
“The Uncle Tom’s Cabin of wage slavery.” —Jack London. Sinclair’s masterpiece is an honest, sometimes brutal, tour de force that opened America’s eyes to the struggles and horrors many immigrants endured. Welcome to Chicago during the early 1900s. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle port...
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Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
The masterpiece that established Sarah Orne Jewett among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fiction Composed in a series of beautiful web-like sketches, the novel is narrated by a young woman writer who leaves the city to work one summer in the Maine seaport of Dunnet Landing, a...
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Dmitriy Loza
Attack of the Airacobras: Soviet Aces, American P-39s, and the Air War Against Germany (Modern War Studies)
During its titanic military struggle with Germany, the Soviet Union received a major boost with the arrival and deployment of nearly 5,000 Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter planes-courtesy of America's Lend-Lease program. The impact was dramatic, as the Soviets quickly adapted the planes into a devastatin...
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Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson Classics Collection, 1919-1923: Winesburg, Ohio, Poor White, The Triumph of the Egg, Horses and Men
Four books in one! In one volume, four of Sherwood Anderson's most influential and popular novels and short-story collections, published from 1919 to 1923. Included in this volume: Winesburg, Ohio - Poor White - The Triumph of the Egg - Horses and Men Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was an American...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland: The 2-Book Feminist Classics Collection (Annotated)
Unique Elements Historical context - Detailed 20th century analysis About The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland A collection of two unmissable literary classics by American feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper relates the deterioration of a woman's mental health while on a ...
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Jens Jensen
Siftings (American Land Classics)
One of Americas greatest landscape designers and conservationists, Jensen used native plants to introduce the influential Prairie style of landscape architecture. In Siftings, Jensen shares his memories of "wandering in many lands" and his life in the heart of Middle America. His recollections―l...
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Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience—3 Key Texts: Thoreau, Gandhi, King (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Civil Disobedience—3 Key Texts: Thoreau, Gandhi, King (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) brings together three of the most influential documents on moral resistance and political conscience: Henry David Thoreau’s “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” Mahatma Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj or Indi...
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Jim Kitses
Gun Crazy (BFI Film Classics)
Joseph H. Lewis's Gun Crazy is the story of two young lovers who embark on a crime spree. For this book, Kitses researched widely into the film production's history and explored its connection to the crime film tradition and the dark underside of American society. Gun Crazy is the very essence of ...
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Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics)
A Scribner Classics Edition The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the most enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with ...
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Cliff Zukin
A New Engagement?: Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen
In searching for answers as to why young people differ vastly from their parents and grandparents when it comes to turning out the vote, A New Engagement challenges the conventional wisdom that today's youth is plagued by a severe case of political apathy. In order to understand the current nature...
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Richard Henry Dana Jr
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Penguin Classics)
In 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class.  Dana’s account of his passage around Cape Horn to California, and back, is a remarkable portrait of the seagoing life: the day-to-day routines and...
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Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
“[Hammett] did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before.” —Raymond Chandler “Dashiell Hammett’s crime thriller and its hard-boiled hero Sam Spade influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carré.” —T...
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Erle Stanley Gardner
The Bigger They Come: A Cool and Lam Mystery (American Mystery Classics)
Bertha Cool is the gruff, tough-talking, corpulent head of her private detective agency, opened after the death of her husband; Donald Lam is her meek, slight, and nervy new hire, who makes up for a lack of boldness with brilliant deductive work. The duo couldn't be any more dissimilar but, with the...
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James Welch
Fools Crow (Penguin Classics)
The 25th-anniversary edition of "a novel that in the sweep and inevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native American literature." (Wallace Stegner) In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackfeet Indians, are living their immemorial life. The...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby: The Original 1925 Edition (F. Scott Fitzgerald Classics): Paperback – April 10, 2022
“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway...
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Avner Landes
Meiselman: The Lean Years (New Chicago Classics, 7)
Meiselman has had enough. After a life spent playing by the rules, this lonely thirty-six-year-old man―"number two" at a suburban Chicago public library, in charge of events and programs, and in no control whatsoever over his fantasies about his domineering boss―is looking to come out on top, a...
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Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Large Print Edition): A Timeless Gothic Tale of Mystery, Romance, and Haunting Legends That Shaped American Literature
Step into the eerie charm of early American folklore with this spellbinding story set in a secluded riverside village steeped in mystery and superstition. Rich with gothic elements, this tale explores the clash between reason and the supernatural, weaving a haunting narrative that captivates readers...
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Hal Borland
This Hill, This Valley: A Memoir (American Land Classics)
An Inspiring Year on a New England Hill Farm Hal Borland, whose nature essays graced the Sunday New York Times for almost 4 decades, transported readers to a simpler time and place by his intimate perspective on weather, flowers, birds, and the changing seasons. After being hospitalized with a dan...
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