American Classics

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Dennis Cooper
Closer (Serpent's Tail Classics)
With an introduction by Lynne Tillman 'The last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction' Bret Easton Ellis Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles attracts his fellow students' attention, like a wallet lying on the street. One after another, his teenage friends rifle thro...
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Kingsley Amis
Girl, 20 (New York Review Books Classics)
Kingsley Amis, along with being the funniest English writer of his generation was a great chronicler of the fads and absurdities of his age, and Girl, 20 is a delightfully incisive dissection of the flower-power phase of the 1960s. Amis’s antihero, Sir Roy Vandervane, a conductor and composer wh...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned and Other Stories (Word Cloud Classics)
Feel the swing and sway of the Jazz Age in this collection of stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s  The Beautiful and Damned explores the world of America’s upper class during World War I and the beginning of the Jazz Age. Loosely based on Fitzgerald’s relationship with hi...
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Denise Hamilton
Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Noir)
The sequel to  Los Angeles Noir , an award-winning  Los Angeles Times  best-seller, this volume explores the history of the noir literary tradition on its home turf. Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with  Brooklyn Noir . Each story ...
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Jean Webster
Daddy Long Legs-Om Illustrated Classics
Jerusha Abbott at 18 years is the eldest orphan at John Grier Homeorphanage. All petty responsibilities of the kids at the orphanage reston her tender shoulders. One fine day, her mundane life under goes a surprising change when an unknown trustee of the orphanage to pay for her college education as...
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Matsuo Basho
The Narrow Road to Oku (Illustrated Japanese Classics)
In the account which he named The Narrow Road to Oku , Basho makes a journey lasting 150 days, in which he travels, on foot, a distance of 600 ri. This was three hundred years ago, when the average distance covered by travelers was apparently 9 ri per day, so it is clear that Basho, who was forty...
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Napoleon Hill
Penguin Select Classics: Think and Grow Rich: Timeless Bestseller (Original, Unabridged Classic) Premium Paperback
Discover the timeless secrets to wealth and success with Think and Grow Rich , a groundbreaking work by Napoleon Hill. After 25 years of research and interviews with over 500 of the most prosperous individuals of his era, Hill revealed a proven formula based on mindset and behavior to unlock financ...
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Jean Craighead George
My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics)
A NEWBERY HONOR BOOK • OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD • The defining childhood classic about a boy finding his own way in the wilderness—a nostalgic book for readers young and old who have ever wanted to run away from home. “Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to th...
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Richard P. Klobuchar
The USS Ward: An Operational History of the Ship That Fired the First American Shot of World War II
In 1940, the threat of war in the Pacific forced the United States to expand its fleet quickly. This effort included reconditioning and recommissioning "four stackers" from the navy's reserve fleet. Built in 1918 to fight German submarines, the USS Ward earned at Pearl Harbor the distinction of fi...
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Budi Darma
People from Bloomington (Penguin Classics)
Winner of the 2023 PEN Translation Prize Winner of the 2023 NSW Premier’s Translation Prize An eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia’s most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth...
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Neil Chriss
Representation Theory and Complex Geometry (Modern Birkhäuser Classics)
"The book is largely self-contained...There is a nice introduction to symplectic geometry and a charming exposition of equivariant K-theory. Both are enlivened by examples related to groups...An attractive feature is the attempt to convey some informal ‘wisdom’ rather than only the precise defin...
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Robert Lee Dunn
"""William Howard Taft, American"""
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain ...
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Zane Grey
Frontier Classics Collection: Betty Zane, The Spirit of the Border, The Last Trail
Three Books In One! In one, beautifully laid-out volume, three of Zane Grey's historical frontier novels, chronicling the story of his own family exploring and settling the American frontier during and after the Revolutionary War. Written as a trilogy, they include some of Grey's most vivid descri...
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Louisa May Alcott
Jack and Jill: by Louisa May Alcott with Classics Illustrated
Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott - The story follows Jack Minot and Janey Pecq , who are best friends who live next door to each other. They are always seen together, so Janey gets the nickname of Jill, to mimic the old rhyme. The two do go up a hill one winter day— and then are involved i...
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Kate Ramos
Plant Powered Mexican: Fast, Fresh Recipes from a Mexican-American Kitchen
In Plant Powered Mexican , Kate Ramos (Hola Jalepeno) takes you on a tour of her delicious, vegetable-driven kitchen with 70+ recipes celebrating the flavors of Mexico. Mexican recipes have long been known for their fresh, vibrant ingredients and delicious flavor combinations . However, it's only r...
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Ha Jin
Waiting: Introduction by Rachel Khong (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction! In Waiting , PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the con...
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Florence Scovel Shinn
The Game of Life and How to Play It: Discover the Astonishing Power of Your Mind to Create Success (Tarcher Success Classics)
A self-help classic since 1925, The Game of Life and How to Play It uses real-life stories and practical wisdom to guide readers to prosperity through a positive attitude. The Game of Life and How to Play It is now reset and grouped together with three other short books by Florence Scovel Shi...
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Henry David Thoreau
Walden: The Original 1854 Edition (A Henry David Thoreau Classics)
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden Walden by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau , is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of s...
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Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis (Modern Library Classics)
Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold Featuring essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin “When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” With this startling, bizarre, yet su...
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Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 4: Nineteenth Century (Yesterday's Classics)
The Oxford Book of English Verse in its entirety is a choice collection of over 800 poems spanning the period from 1250-1900, selected and edited by the eminent British literary figure, Arthur Quiller-Couch. This fourth part, roughly covering the nineteenth century, leads the reader through one of t...
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