American Classics

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M. Jerry Weiss
The Signet Book of American Essays (Signet Classics)
Featuring Essays by Benjamin Franklin • Ralph Waldo Emerson • W.E.B. Du Bois  • Albert Einstein • Gloria Steinem • Henry David Thoreau • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Mark Twain • Erma Bombeck • Abraham Lincoln • John F. Kennedy • and More... These are Americans who had something ...
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Brian Taves
Thomas Ince: Hollywood's Independent Pioneer (Screen Classics)
Thomas H. Ince (1880–1924) turned movie-making into a business enterprise. Progressing from actor to director and screenwriter, he revolutionized the motion picture industry through developing the role of the producer. In addition to building the first major Hollywood studio facility, dubbed "Ince...
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Harry Leon Wilson
Merton of the Movies (LARB Classics)
Merton of the Movies, which Gertrude Stein called “the best book about 20th century American youth,” follows midwestern bumpkin Merton Gill’s unlikely journey from a Kansas stockroom to the star-studded set of a silent film. Unfortunately, the actors he’s idolized from afar lose their luster...
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Jorge Majfud
Latin American Political Cinema
Latin American Political Cinema includes an analysis of 18 Latin American films, 18 contemporary classics that represent the non-commercial cinema of this continent. The author analyzes these productions specifically in their social and historical context. Each of the films included in this book po...
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Knut Hamsun
Hunger: A Novel (FSG Classics)
A true classic of modern literature that has been described as "one of the most disturbing novels in existence" ( Time Out ), Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets, struggling on the edge of starvation. As hunger overtakes him, he slides inexorably into paranoia and des...
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Larry McMurtry
Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890
A brilliant and riveting history of the famous and infamous massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. In Oh What a Slaughter, Larry McMurtry has written a unique, brilliant, and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked—and marred—the settli...
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Thomas Paine
Common Sense: and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics)
Includes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of Reason (part one); Four Letters on Interesting Subjects , published anonymously and just discovered to be Paine’s work; and Letter to the Abbé Raynal, Paine’s first examination of world events; as well ...
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Rosemarie & Jubalee
Rosemarie & Jubalee Women's Stunning Red White And Blue American Flag Crystal Rhinestone Stars July 4th USA Clip On Earrings, 1"
Your patriotism is on full display with these stunning red, white and blue enamel and crystal adorned American star earrings! With these whimsical earrings you'll be the most stylish person at the voting polls! Glittering crystals catch the light beautifully, adding major sparkle, making this earrin...
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John R. M. Wilson
Forging the American Character, Vol. I: Readings in United States History to 1877
An offensive against multiculturalism that reprints articles and book chapters deemed to portray the construction of a distinctive American character, from Columbus' landing in the Caribbean to Reconstruction. Among the topics are religion and politics from the first settlements to the Civil War, Ha...
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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott Classics Collection: Work: A Story of Experience, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Hospital Sketches
Four books in one. While best known for her Little Women novels, Louisa May Alcott was a prolific author, with a deep body of work that deserves deeper examination. In this volume, we are pleased to published four of her most important non -Little Women titles, all of which center on a famili...
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Alice Cooke Brown
Early American Herb Recipes
For early American households, the herb garden was an all-purpose medicine chest. Herbs were used to treat apoplexy (lily of the valley), asthma (burdock, horehound), boils (onion), tuberculosis (chickweed, coltsfoot), palpitations (saffron, valerian), jaundice (speedwell, nettles, toad flax), tooth...
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Julio Ramon Ribeyro
The Word of the Speechless: Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
Available in English for the first time, a collection of deeply humane stories depicting marginalized populations by one of the greatest South American writers of the 20th century. The Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro is one of the masters of the short story and a major contributor to the grea...
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Rudyard Kipling
Captains Courageous (Bantam Classics)
The only one of Kipling's novels to be cast in an American setting, Captains Courageous endures as one of literature's most cherished and memorable sea adventures. Harvey Cheyne, spoiled millionaire's son, tumbles overboard from a luxury liner--only to be rescued by the crew of a Gloucester schoon...
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Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
A Vintage Classics edition of the abolitionist leader’s classic autobiography. • In telling his personal story, Douglass gives eloquent expression to the principles that made him the first great African-American leader in the United States. This dramatic autobiography of the early life of ...
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The Ice Cream Parlor
Pressure Canning Adventures: 82 All-American Recipes
Pressure Canning Adventures: 82 All-American Recipes Introducing Pressure Canning Adventures: 82 All-American Recipes, a cookbook for the experienced and new pressure canner alike! Here you’ll find a range of detailed, delicious recipes, for all types of dishes. Whether you’re looking for somet...
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Mariam Daud
I Sleep in My Kitchen: Comfort Food Recipes from My Palestinian American Home: A Cookbook
100 flavor-forward recipes—including signature bakes—from the Palestinian American creator of the beloved social media account mxriyum Mariam Daud has built a devoted following by sharing beautifully prepared, comforting meals that feel both timeless and entirely her own. In I Sleep in My Kit...
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Marc Fumaroli
When The World Spoke French (New York Review Books Classics)
A New York Review Books Original During the eighteenth century, from the death of Louis XIV until the Revolution, French culture set the standard for all of Europe. In Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany, among kings and queens, diplomats, military leaders, writers, aristocra...
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John Dos Passos
Manhattan Transfer (Warbler Classics)
John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer follows the overlapping lives of four principal characters in a sweeping multi-faceted tale set to the soundtrack of the booming, rhythmic pulse of New York City in the 1920s. Peopled with wealthy professionals, struggling immigrants, actors, cab drivers, che...
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William Dean Howells
Indian Summer (New York Review Books Classics)
One of the most charming and memorable romantic comedies in American literature, William Dean Howells's Indian Summer tells of a season in the life of Theodore Colville. Colville, just turned forty, has spent years as a successful midwestern newspaper publisher. Now he sells his business and heads...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned – LARGE PRINT: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age Drama, Classic American Literature, Original 1922 Collector’s Edition
The Beautiful and Damned, A Jazz-Age masterpiece of love, wealth, ambition—and self-destruction by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Large Print Edition of The Beautiful and the Damned has been specially formatted for comfortable reading, featuring clear 16-point type , a spacious 6 × 9 inch layout,...
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