American Classics

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William Wei
Asians in Colorado: A History of Persecution and Perseverance in the Centennial State (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)
Providing the most comprehensive examination to date of Asians in the Centennial State, William Wei addresses a wide range of experiences, from anti-Chinese riots in late nineteenth-century Denver to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Amache concentration camp to the more re...
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Robert J. Allison
The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government based on the idea th...
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Stephen L. Dyson
Ancient Marbles to American Shores: Classical Archaeology in the United States (Anniversary Collection)
In Ancient Marbles to American Shores , Stephen L. Dyson uncovers the history of classical archaeology in the United States by exploring the people and programs that gave birth to archaeology as a discipline in this country. He puts aside the common formula of chronicling great digs, great discover...
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Henry James
Washington Square (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
One of Henry James’s most engaging and emotionally affecting novels, Washington Square tells the story of Catherine Sloper, a plain and unassuming young woman living with her wealthy father, Dr. Austin Sloper, in New York City in the 1840s. She meets and falls in love with Morris Townsend, a cha...
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N Giddings
The Great American Telly Time Machine: From I Love Lucy To Stranger Things : Decades Of Iconic US TV, Culture Shocks & Cult Classics
FROM LUCY'S CHOCOLATE FACTORY TO WALTER WHITE'S METH LAB— THE WILDEST RIDE THROUGH AMERICAN TELEVISION HISTORY! Remember when owning a TV meant you were the envy of the neighborhood? When three channels felt like an embarrassment of riches? When everyone watched the same shows and talked about th...
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Ernest Hemingway
The Torrents of Spring: Hemingway’s First Satirical Novella – Classic American Author & Novel of 1926
Unlock the satirical comedy and sharp parody of literary pretension in this modernist novella, The Torrents of Spring, that launched Hemingway’s voice! • This razor-sharp novella and American classic is a brilliant parody of 1920s literary circles, poking fun at the self-importance and stylis...
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Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis A Penguin Classic George F. Babbitt, a conniving, prosperous real estate man from Zenith, Ohio, revels in his popularity, his success, and, especially, in the material rewards they bring. He bullies his wife, flirts with other women, and pat...
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Dante Alighieri
The Inferno (Chartwell Classics)
Journey into Dante’s nine circles of Hell in the epic poem, Inferno , with this elegant, unabridged edition featuring the classic translation by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). The Divine Comedy , written in the early fourteenth century by Dante Alighieri, continues to be e...
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Anthony Brandt
The Adventures of Theodore Roosevelt (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
Explorer. Adventurer. Naturalist. Hunter. Historian. Colonel. Conservationist. “You cannot sum Theodore Roosevelt up,” writes Anthony Brandt in the introduction to this treasure of adventure tales of the twenty-sixth president of the United States, “you can only stand in awe of him.” From ca...
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Ray Keating
1950s Sci-Fi: A Fresh Look at 12 Science Fiction Hollywood Classics
Were 1950s sci-fi films nothing more than B-movies schlock? Was 1950s America, and the science fiction movies made during the decade, largely about hysterical paranoia as modern observers suggest? Is there more at work in these iconic motion pictures than social distrust, cheap thrills, and bad spec...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby: Gilded Pocket Edition (Arcturus Ornate Classics)
This deluxe hardback pocket edition presents one of the most celebrated American novels of all time, The Great Gatsby, with silver gilded page edges and foil-stamping. Jay Gatsby is a mystery to Nick. On the surface he is a man of wealth and excess - throwing wild, extravagant parties that run...
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Jean-Patrick Manchette
Nada (New York Review Books Classics)
This tour de force political thriller, told in Manchette's signature noir style, follows a group of far left extremists in the throes of post-1968 disillusionment. The thrill of 1968 is long over, and the heavy fog of the 1970s has settled in. In Paris, however, the Nada gang—or groupuscule—s...
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Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt (Bantam Classics)
When Babbitt was first published in 1922, fans gleefully hailed its scathing portrait of a crass, materialistic nation; critics denounced it as an unfair skewering of the American businessman. Sparking heated literary debate, Babbitt became a controversial classic, securing Sinclair Lewis’s pl...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings (Modern Library Classics)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872—1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known authors in America, and the first African American to earn a living from his poetry, fiction, drama, journalism, and lectures. This original collection includes the short novel The Sport of the Gods, Dunba...
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Nicholas Coles
A History of American Working-Class Literature
A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work h...
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Richard Rosenbaum
Raise Some Shell: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Pop Classics)
Celebrating the persistence of Turtle Power Raise Some Shell critically and cleverly examines the origins, evolution, and impact of the Ninja Turtles phenomenon — from its beginning as a self-published black-and-white comic book in 1984, through its transformation into a worldwide transmedia ...
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Dean Patino
BASEBALL CLASSICS LEGENDS OF THE DIAMOND: T-206 Dream Baseball Card Set
Step into the golden age of baseball and discover the untold story behind the most iconic card set in sports history. Baseball Classics Legends Of The Diamond: T-206 Dream Baseball Card Set is a captivating tribute to the legendary T-206 collection—an extraordinary series of baseball cards print...
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Cesar Vallejo
Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition (Penguin Classics) (Spanish Edition)
A major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's work Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan...
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Edward Countryman
The American Revolution: Revised Edition
A newly revised version of a classic in American history When The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synthesis of the Revolutionary War to use the new social history. Edward Countryman offered a balanced view of how the Revolution was made by a variety o...
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James Fenimore Cooper
The Spy (Penguin Classics)
A historical adventure reminiscent of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley romances, Cooper’s novel centers on Harvey Birch, a common man wrongly suspected of being a spy for the British. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking wo...
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