The Optimist's Daughter
By: Eudora Welty
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South a…
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1. Wise Blood
By: Flannery O'Connor
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more
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"Jesus died to redeem you,"-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
2. His Family
By: Ernest Poole
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this 1918 Pulitzer Prize winning story, widower Roger Gale struggles to deal with the way his ch… read more
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3. The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen, #3)
By: Edmund Crispin
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Richard Cadogan's Oxford holiday turns into a mystery solving adventure full of dangerous twists an… read more
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"What are you going to do with your self now?'... 'I? said Fen. 'I shall pursue my orderly and dignified progress towards the grave."-Edmund Crispin, The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen, #3)
4. Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)
By: Christianna Brand
3.55
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
At a medieval pageant, Inspector Cockrill investigates a dramatic death Ever since she drove her… read more
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"But now the streets were not like the streets she knew. They were so silent: and so empty. On the doorsteps, little groups of milk bottles huddled with their dirty white collars, waiting for the roun…"-Christianna Brand, Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)
5. House Made of Dawn
By: N. Scott Momaday
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native Americ… read more
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6. The Keepers of the House
By: Shirley Ann Grau
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the Houseis Shirley Ann Grau's masterwork, a m… read more
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7. The Optimist's Daughter
By: Eudora Welty
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South a… read more
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- southern
- fiction
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8. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
By: Katherine Anne Porter
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Despite the enormous success--both critical and popular--of her novel Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne… read more
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9. The Confessions of Nat Turner
By: William Styron
3.95
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader … read more
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10. The Diary of a Country Priest
By: Georges Bernanos , Remy Rougeau
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Paperback
In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life of a young French country pries… read more
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11. A Summons to Memphis
By: Peter Taylor
4.04
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
One of the most celebrated novels of its time, the Pulitzer Prize winner A Summons to Memphisintrod… read more
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12. Now in November
By: Nancy Hoffman , Josephine Winslow Johnson
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) written when J… read more
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13. The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor
By: Jonathan Rogers
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything… read more
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14. Elbow Room
By: James Alan McPherson
3.37
Format: 414 pages,
A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive … read more
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15. My Name Is Asher Lev
By: Chaim Potok
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono … read more
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16. The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
By: Joyce Carol Oates , Jean Stafford
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
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17. Summer Lightning
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.06
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
The Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoir--a tell-all that could destroy po… read more
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18. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more
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"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
19. Post After Post-Mortem
By: E.C.R. Lorac
4.00
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, revi… read more
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20. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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21. The Scarlet Letter: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting (Read and Reflect with the Classics)
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.16
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literatu… read more
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