American Classics

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Jack London
John Barleycorn (Modern Library Classics)
Jack London cut a mythic figure across the American landscape of the early twentieth century. But throughout his colorful life–from his teenage years as an oyster pirate to his various incarnations as a well-traveled seaman, Yukon gold prospector, waterfront brawler, unemployed vagrant, impassione...
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Margaret Wise Brown
Sleep Little Angel (Margaret Wise Brown Classics)
Rock your child gently to sleep with this soothing lullaby, passing through the seasons of a perfect year. This beautifully illustrated magical story from best-selling author Margaret Wise Brown—creator of the children's classics Goodnight Moon and The  Runaway Bunny —will enchant children...
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Charles W. Chesnutt
Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line (Penguin Classics)
Unlike the popular "Uncle Remus" stories of Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Chesnutt's tales probe psychological depths in black people unheard of before in Southern regional writing. They also expose the anguish of mixed-race men and women and the consequences of racial hatred, mob violence, and m...
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Robert Frost
The Poetry of Robert Frost (Pressed Rose Classics)
Pressed Rose Classics presents a collection of Robert Frost's poetry. "Do you know me in the gloaming, Gaunt and dusty grey with roaming?" Robert Frost writes for the American farmer, but he also writes for the human being. His themes are simple—“The Road Not Taken” is merely about making a d...
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Andrew T Draper
Christian Mission and Poverty: Wisdom from 2,000 Years of Church Leaders (Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics)
Christianity is the faith of the poor. As Christians, we worship the Lord Jesus Christ, who “though he was rich, yet for your sake became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich” (2 Cor 8:9). This same Jesus taught his followers that the kingdom of heaven belongs to “you who are poo...
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Joshua Slocum
Sailing Alone around the World (Penguin Classics)
The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.   Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable – and entertaining – travel narratives of all time. Setting off al...
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Marina Tsvetaeva
Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922 (New York Review Books Classics)
A moving collection of autobiographical essays from a Russian poet and refugee of the Bolshevik Revolution. Marina Tsvetaeva ranks with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Boris Pasternak as one of Russia’s greatest twentieth-century poets. Her suicide at the age of forty-eight was the tragic c...
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Camille Paglia
The Birds (BFI Film Classics)
Camille Paglia draws together in this text the aesthetic, technical and mythical qualities of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963), and analyzes its depiction of gender and familial relations. BFI Film Classics are a treasure, featuring some of the most imaginative recent writing on movies and the ...
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Charles Allan Smith
Bill Arp's Peace Papers: Columns on War and Reconstruction, 1861-1873 (Southern Classics)
A compendium of Southern witticisms by the Confederacy's most famous humorist First published in 1873, Bill Arp's Peace Papers, by Charles Henry Smith (1826–1903), is a collection of writings from the Civil War and Reconstruction by the Confederacy's most famous humorist. Smith, a lawyer in Ro...
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George Samuel Clason
The Richest Man in Babylon: The World's Favorite Inspirational Guide to Managing Wealth (Classic Edition) (Arcturus Classics for Financial Freedom)
A timeless inspirational classic, The Richest Man in Babylon has been deftly relating the tenets of financial wisdom to readers for more than 90 years. Set over 4000 years ago in ancient Babylon, George Samuel Clason's captivating parables cover tips on investment, savings and managing income. ...
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Dolores Hayden
Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790 - 1975 (MIT Press Classics)
From the time of its discovery, the new world was regarded by American settlers as a new Eden and a new Jerusalem. Although individual pioneers' visions of paradise were inevitably corrupted by reality, some determined ideatists carved out enclaves in order to develop collective models of what they ...
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Yoshiko Uchida
Picture Bride: A Novel (Classics of Asian American Literature)
The story of a Japanese American picture bride, from Angel Island to Topaz Seeking an escape from life in her small village in Japan, Hana Omiya arrives in California in 1917, one of thousands of Japanese “picture brides” whose arranged marriages brought them to the United States. When she fin...
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John Durham Peters
Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts, 1919-1968 (Critical Media Studies) (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and
This anthology of hardtofind primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies ...
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Hayden Carruth
The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century (Bantam Classics)
“What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry! In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done well and done ill, this much at least we have done superlatively.”—Hayden Carruth This famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major ...
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L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Meridian Classics Annotated Edition)
This annotated edition of " The Wonderful Wizard of Oz " includes: Explanations of historical context - Literary comments and analyses Embark on the original American fairy tale that has enchanted readers for over a century while establishing the template for modern fantasy adventure stories. Whe...
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Jonathan W. Jordan
Lone Star Navy: Texas, the Fight for the Gulf of Mexico, and the Shaping of the American West
**WINNER OF THE 2007 UNITED STATES MARITIME LITERATURE AWARD** In the 1830s, Mexico endured a tragic era of internal political instability. Meanwhile, bold American frontiersmen sought their fortunes beyond the borders of the United States, with many settling in the Mexican territory of Texas. In 18...
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Warren King Moorehead
Exploration of the Etowah Site in Georgia: The Etowah Papers (Southeastern Classics in Archaeology, Anthropology, and History)
Spectacular discoveries at the Etowah site in Georgia changed the American perspective of the artistic achievements of prehistoric Native Americans. These papers, originally published in 1932, offer an understanding of American archaeology and the cultural heritage of prehistoric Native America. Spe...
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Olivia Graham
6 Qt Dump Meals Crockpot Cookbook for Families: Meal Prep Batch Cooking Tips for Quick & Easy American Slow Cooker Recipes to Save Money and Enjoy
6 Qt Dump Meals Crockpot Cookbook for Families: Meal Prep Batch Cooking Tips for Quick & Easy American Slow Cooker Recipes to Save Money and Enjoy Great Food Struggling to find a family crock pot cookbook with recipes that actually fit your standard 6-quart slow cooker? - Frustrated by tiny 2- or 4...
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Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man (Modern Library Classics)
“In The Confidence-Man ,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader in the game to play its parts and to contemplate the inconsistencies of its knaves and...
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John Robert Allman
The Night Before the Nutcracker (American Ballet Theatre)
Get a front-row seat and experience the excitement of opening night as young dancers prepare for a performance of The Nutcracker . This festive holiday picture book, created in partnership with American Ballet Theatre, is a perfect gift for young readers and dance fans. ’Twas the night before...
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