American Classics

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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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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby (Clydesdale Classics)
"Leaves the reader in a mood of chastened wonder . . . A revelation of life . . . A work of art." — Los Angeles Times Set in during the Roaring Twenties, this masterful story by F. Scott Fitzgerald is told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a young man who moves to Long Island and attempts ...
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Greg Hildebrandt
Heavy Metal Presents: American Beauties By Greg Hildebrandt 2023
The American Beauties calendar is a collection of retro inspired pinups by world-renowned artist Greg Hildebrandt. This calendar features 13 exquisitely rendered paintings that harken back to the days of pulp noir yet with a decidedly modern take . The American Beauties by Greg Hildebrandt pinup c...
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James Weldon Johnson
Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson (Penguin Classics)
The autobiography of the celebrated African American writer and civil rights activist Published just four years before his death in 1938, James Weldon Johnson's autobiography is a fascinating portrait of an African American who broke the racial divide at a time when the Harlem Renaissance had no...
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Tobias Wolff
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive. The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe ...
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Octavus Roy Cohen
Jim Hanvey, Detective (Library of Congress Crime Classics)
First published in 1923, Jim Hanvey, Detective is a collection of seven stories that originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and features private eye Jim Hanvey in classic whodunit style mysteries. Described as the "backwoods Nero Wolfe," the genial Hanvey befriends "good guys" and crim...
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James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room: Introduction by Colm Tóibín (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
Set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, this groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is "a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction" ( The Atlantic ). • Presented here in stunning hardcover and with an Introduction by Colm Tóibín, New York Times bestselling ...
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Various
Four Stories by American Women: Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah OrneJewett, Edith Wharton (Penguin Classics)
Representing four prominent American women writers who flourished in the period following the Civil War, this collection includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Country of the Pointed Firs" by Sarah Orne Jewett, and "Souls ...
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Edward Abbey
The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
From acclaimed author and literary genius Edward Abbey comes this classic novel that inspired the motion picture Lonely Are The Brave —a stirring and unforgettable tribute to the American hero and the American West. “We are living. . . among punishments and ruins. For those that know this, Edwa...
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Nina Baym
Feminism and American Literary History: Essays
Bodies may be currently fashionable in social and feminist theory, but their insides are not. Biological bodies always seem to drop out of debates about the body and its importance in Western culture. They are assumed to be fixed, their workings uninteresting or irrelevant to theory. Birke argues th...
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Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man (Oxford World's Classics)
Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the `masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidèle is `the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most `modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history. About the Series: For over ...
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