7 Best classics books like USA: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money by John Dos Passos, Townsend Ludington, Daniel Aaron

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USA: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money

By: John Dos Passos , Townsend Ludington , Daniel Aaron

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

In the novels that make up the U.S.A.trilogy--The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money--Dos Passo…

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1. The Recognitions

By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more

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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

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2. The Assistant

By: Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Rosen

4.00

Format: 32 pages,

Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a groce… read more

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3. USA: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money

By: John Dos Passos , Townsend Ludington , Daniel Aaron

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

In the novels that make up the U.S.A.trilogy--The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money--Dos Passo… read more

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4. Parade's End

By: Ford Madox Ford , Robie MacAuley

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford wanted the Novelist in fact to … read more

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5. Sister Carrie

By: Theodore Dreiser

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving h… read more

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6. Vernon God Little

By: D.B.C. Pierre

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQmagazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of V… read more

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7. The Ambassadors

By: Henry James , Harry Levin

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene and E.M. Forster marvelled at it, but F.R. Leavis considered it to be 'not only not o… read more

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8. An American Tragedy

By: Richard R. Lingeman , Theodore Dreiser

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

On one level, An American Tragedyis the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde G… read more

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9. Pigeon English

By: Stephen Kelman

3.79

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

Lying in front of Harrison Opoku is a body, the body of one of his classmates, a boy known for his … read more

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10. A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #7-9)

By: Anthony Powell

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century… read more

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11. A Fable

By: William Faulkner

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of… read more

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12. Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

By: Viv Albertine

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

The guitarist for seminal female punk group The Slits recounts playing with Sid Vicious, touring wi… read more

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"It’s true the good die young."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"I grew up with John Lennon at my side, like a big brother."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"I think most people in long marriages have a touch of Stockholm Syndrome"

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

13. Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

2.96

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life… read more

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14. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)

By: Anthony Powell

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more

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15. A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #10-12)

By: Anthony Powell

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century… read more

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16. Sophie's Choice

By: William Styron

3.19

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair b… read more

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17. A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1-3)

By: Anthony Powell

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century… read more

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18. Darkness at Noon

By: Arthur Koestler , Pınar Kür , Daphne Hardy

4.11

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an agi… read more

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"Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

19. From Here to Eternity

By: James Jones

3.96

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler… read more

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20. Death in a Lonely Place (Jake Jackson #2)

By: Stig Abell

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Former London detective Jake Jackson—introduced in the acclaimed mystery Death Under a Little Sky—f… read more

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Cover of New Georgia: Pattern For Victory (Ballentine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Campaign book No. 15) by Dick Crofton Horton

21. New Georgia: Pattern For Victory (Ballentine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Campaign book No. 15)

By: Dick Crofton Horton

3.25

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked and binding is tight. Cover shows minor shelf … read more

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9 Top fiction books like USA: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money by John Dos Passos, Townsend Ludington, Daniel Aaron

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William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

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3.64

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3.15

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4.04

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