American Classics

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Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence (Signet Classics)
Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded to a book written by a woman, The Age of Innocence is a suspenseful, deeply moving, and brilliantly accomplished novel of the struggle between desire and destiny. In the polished works of Edith Wharton, Old New York is a society at once infinitely ...
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Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie (The Signet Classics)
This epic of urban life tells of small- town heroine Carrie Meeber, adrift in an indifferent Chicago. Setting out, she has nothing but a few dollars and an unspoiled beauty. Hers is a story of struggle? from sweatshop to stage success?and of the love she inspires in an older, married man whose obses...
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Michael Herr
Dispatches: Introduction by Robert Stone (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the s...
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Lizzie Johnson
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping true story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again. The inspiration for the Apple Original Film The Lost Bus, starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera “A tour de force st...
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Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt (Modern Library Classics)
In the fall of 1920, Sinclair Lewis began a novel set in a fast-growing city with the heart and mind of a small town. For the center of his cutting satire of American business he created the bustling, shallow, and myopic George F. Babbitt, the epitome of middle-class mediocrity. The novel cemented L...
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Peter Quartermain
Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 59)
Disjunctive Poetics examines some of the most interesting and experimental contemporary writers whose work forms a counterpoint to the mainstream writing of our time. Peter Quartermain suggests that the explosion of noncanonical modern writing is linked to the severe political, social, and economic ...
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Tom Zimmerman
The Queen of Technicolor: Maria Montez in Hollywood (Screen Classics)
Best known for her appearances in the six Technicolor "Neverland" movies, Maria Montez is a film icon. Growing up as one of ten children in the Dominican Republic, her rise as a film star in the United States seemed unlikely. In 1939, Montez set off on her own to New York City to fulfill her aspirat...
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Sameen Rushdie
Sameen Rushdie's Indian Cookery (Picador Cookstr Classics)
Drawing together the traditional recipes from different Indian cuisines, Sameen Rushdie’s invitation to share in the pleasures of Indian cookery is irresistible. In Hindustani a good cook is one that ‘has special taste in their hands’, and the author demonstrates her skill, knowledge and love...
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John Isaac Jones
A Quiet Madness: A Biographical Novel of Edgar Allan Poe (Great American Authors Series)
John Isaac Jones’s new biographical novel on Edgar Allan Poe brings the turbulent life of America’s most famous poet to life in vivid, captivating detail. His time - 1810-40s America; Lewis and Clark have returned from their great adventure; the Monroe doctrine takes effect, the War of 1812; And...
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Mark Twain
Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings (Perennial Classics)
“The most impressive contribution to books by Mark Twain since The Mysterious Stranger of 1916 ...The attitude is that of Swift, the intellectual contempt is that of Voltaire, and the imagination is that of one of the great masters of American writing.”—New York Times Book Review Virtually no...
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Philip B. Yampolsky
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (Translations from the Asian Classics)
Dating back to the eighth century C.E., the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a foundational text of Chan/Zen Buddhism that reveals much about the early evolution of Chinese Chan and the ideological origins of Japanese Zen and Korean Son. Purported to be the recorded words of the famed Huin...
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Cook's Illustrated
Best Cover and Bake (Best Recipe Classics Paperback)
What's more American than a casserole? A hallmark of American practicality, casseroles can be assembled in advance and, since most are portable, they're perfect for a potluck dinner or church supper. They are also ideal for busy cooks who want to plan ahead. But lately, casseroles seem to have falle...
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Donna Thorland
Mistress Firebrand (Renegades of the American Revolution)
British Occupied Manhattan, 1777 .  With her witty comedies, American actress Jennifer Leighton has been packing the John Street Theater, but she longs to escape the provincial circuit for the glamour of the London stage. When the playwright General John Burgoyne visits the city, fresh from a recen...
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Robert Crane
Jack Nicholson: The Early Years (Screen Classics)
Originally published as Jack Nicholson: Face to Face in 1975, Jack Nicholson: The Early Years is the first book written about the enigmatic star and the only one to have Nicholson's participation. In 1975 Nicholson was just becoming a household name in spite of having already starred in, written o...
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O. Timothy O'Meara
Introduction to Quadratic Forms (Classics in Mathematics)
From the reviews: "O'Meara treats his subject from this point of view (of the interaction with algebraic groups). He does not attempt an encyclopedic coverage ...nor does he strive to take the reader to the frontiers of knowledge... . Instead he has given a clear account from first principles and hi...
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Ebony Davis
Inspirational Black Culture Word Search: 120 Relaxing Puzzles To Celebrate African American Heritage, Learn Black History, Honor Civil Rights, and
Discover 120 Inspirational & Relaxing Puzzles To Celebrate African American Heritage, Learn Black History, Honor Civil Rights, And Strengthen Identity - While Boosting Your Brain Power NEW!! 2026 Edition Just Released + 3 Exclusive Bonuses To Celebrate Black Culture & Heritage Keep Your Mind Active...
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Chris Yogerst
The Warner Brothers (Screen Classics)
One of the oldest and most recognizable studios in Hollywood, Warner Bros. is considered a juggernaut of the entertainment industry. Since its formation in the early twentieth century, the studio has been a constant presence in cinema history, responsible for the creation of acclaimed films, blockbu...
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Elaine Dundy
The Dud Avocado (New York Review Books Classics)
A smart, funny classic about a young and beautiful American woman who moves to Paris determined to live life to the fullest. The Dud Avocado  follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wro...
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Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
“Sometimes at night I can feel them, the pictures, likeants, crawling on my skin. Then I know they’re doing what they have to do . . . ”   Fantasy master Ray Bradbury weaves a narrative spanning fromthe depths of humankind’s fears to the summit of their achievements in eighteeninterc...
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Ovid
Metamorphoses: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Winner of the 2023 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in...
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