American Classics

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Daniel Horowitz
Vance Packard and American Social Criticism
Vance Packard's bestselling books -- Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960) -- taught the generation that came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence. Like Betty Friedan and Wi...
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Willa Cather
The Song of the Lark (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
“The time will come when she will be ranked above Hemingway.” —Leon Edel In The Song of the Lark, Cather’s most autobiographical work, Thea Kronborg emerges as the heroine of her own life. Against formidable familial and social pressures, Kronborg, a minister’s daughter from a small Colo...
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Mark Twain
Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (Penguin Classics)
These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skilfully adapted, extended or satirized literary c...
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George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (Restless Classics)
With new illustrations and a brilliant original introduction by New Yorker writer and author of My Life in Middlemarch Rebecca Mead, the Restless Classics edition of Middlemarch presents George Eliot’s masterpiece of Victorian fiction in an appealing new light. Long regarded as one of the gr...
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Barry Spector
MADNESS AT THE GATES OF THE CITY The Myth of American Innocence
As the post-modern world lurches toward the disasters and bereavements that signal the end of an age, we turn to myth to comprehend the elemental forces that move through our lives, to know who we are, to understand which stories inform our consciousness. MADNESS AT THE GATES OF THE CITY, writes Rob...
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Miguel Ángel Asturias
Mr. President (Penguin Classics)
“[A] brilliant translation . . . Electrifying vividness animates every page.” ―Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine “A formidable new English translation.” ― The New Yorker “[A] masterful translation.” ― The Washington Post Nobel Prize–winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel...
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John Dos Passos
Three Soldiers (Warbler Classics)
John Dos Passos’s second novel, Three Soldiers, was published in 1921 after many rejections from publishers and censorship squabbles. The novel, which was hailed as a masterpiece on its original publication, stands as one of the most grimly honest portraits of World War I. This anti-war novel fo...
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Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories (Word Cloud Classics)
The best-known work by famed American writer Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage is a compelling exploration of human emotion in the midst of battle. Revered for its pioneering style, the book explores themes of maturation, cowardice, and nature’s cruelty. One of the most innovative writers ...
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Louisa May Alcott
Manga Classics: Little Women: Great Literature Brought to Life
Manga Classics: Little Women brings a classic coming-of-age story to life as a comic book. Enter the cozy, creative and colorful world of the March sisters as they each negotiate the path from childhood to womanhood. Meet beautiful, traditional and kind Meg; Jo, the rebellious tomboy writer; gentle...
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Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Last Days of Pompeii (Classics Illustrated)
Bulwer-Lytton's story of fictional events in Pompeii in the days leading up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed the city. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a ...
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Ernest Hemingway
Three Stories & Ten Poems (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Three Stories & Ten Poems, Ernest Hemingway’s first book, contains two stories that were all that remained of Hemingway’s first collection after the suitcase containing the originals was famously lost or stolen in 1922. “Up in Michigan,” which was controversial in its time for its explicit ...
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Louisa May Alcott
Little Women (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?' A heart-warming tale of love, sisterhood and hardship during the New England Civil War, Little Women tells th...
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Alexander Horwath
The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s (Film Culture in Transition)
The Last Great American Picture Show brings together essays by scholars and writers who chart the changing evaluations of the American cinema of the 1970s, sometimes referred to as the decade of the lost generation, but now more and more recognized as the first New Hollywood, without which the cine...
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Roger Scarlett
Cat's Paw (American Mystery Classics)
Martin Greenough's walled-off mansion is the last remaining holdout in the Boston parkland known as the Fenway—and the fact that it eluded condemnation by the city is a testament to the elderly bachelor's great wealth. Childless and nearing the end of his life, he surrounds himself with only his c...
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Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
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Thornton Wilder
Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker (Perennial Classics)
“Thornton Wilder will survive. . . as long as there are people around who are willing to sit in something called a theater and be reminded of their common humanity.” —New York Times From celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright Thornton Wilder, three of the greatest plays in Am...
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John Muir
Our National Parks (Legacy Edition): Historic Explorations Of Priceless American Treasures (The Doublebit John Muir Collection)
John Muir’s Journal of Explorations of America’s Greatest Natural Treasures This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of John Muir’s 1901 Our National Parks is a celebration of American outdoors heritage and the legacy that the American national parks system seeks to preserve. In this ...
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Paul Radin
Primitive Man as Philosopher (NYRB Classics)
Anthropology is a science whose most significant discoveries have come when it has taken its bearings from literature, and what makes Paul Radin’s Primitive   Man as Philosopher a seminal piece of anthropological inquiry is that it is also a book of enduring wonder. Writing in the 1920s, when a...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Song of Hiawatha (Classics Illustrated)
Longfellow’s epic poem of the legendary Native American hero, Hiawatha and his love, Minnehaha, as he performs many brave and magical deeds. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also incl...
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Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Annotated Keynote Classics)
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” — Mark Twain Travel down the Mississippi River on a raft with Tom Sawyer’s cohort, Huckleberry Finn,...
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