The American
By: Henry James , Lee Clark Mitchell
3.33
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this classic collision of the New World with Old Europe, James weaves a fable of thwarted desire…
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1. The Naked and the Dead
By: Norman Mailer
3.95
Format: 721 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead rece… read more
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"Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get."-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
"Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken."-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
"It was probably a damn sight easier than getting rid of a woman who had found something in him that he didn't have or he didn't care to give."-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
"No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because he is having problems of adjustment. It is because he is a Tex…"-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
2. The Glimpses of the Moon
By: Edith Wharton , Regina Barreca
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Set in the 1920s, Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy … read more
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"Сюзи Бранч по мужски относилась к данному слову..."-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon
"О, благословенная нравственная свобода, которую дарует богатство!"-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon
"...её... память не соответствовала широте её интересов. (О миссис Хикс)"-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon
"...жить, как живут рабочие, в двух комнатах, без прислуги... (Сюзи Бранч - Стреффорду)"-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon
3. Romola
By: George Eliot , Dorothea Barrett
3.76
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence … read more
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"The eager theorizing of ages is compressed, as in a seed, in the want of a single mind."-George Eliot, Romola
"His faith wavered, but not his speech: it is the lot of every man who has to speak for the satisfaction of the crowd, that he must often speak in virtue of yesterday's faith, hoping it will come back…"-George Eliot, Romola
"All minds, except such as are delivered from doubt by dulness of sensibility, must be subject to this recurring conflict where the many-twisted conditions of life have forbidden the fulfilment of a b…"-George Eliot, Romola
4. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)
By: Frank Norris , Eric Solomon
3.68
Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the… read more
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"I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth."-Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)
5. The Guermantes Way
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne
4.27
Format: 619 pages, Paperback
After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way … read more
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"She was not yet dead. But I was already alone."-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"و خواندن کتاب تو را خوش میآید، چون تخیل با توست"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"گاهی آدم چیزهای دور را بهتر از چیزهای نزدیک میشناسد"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
6. The Woodlanders
By: Thomas Hardy , Patricia Ingham
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in… read more
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7. The American
By: Henry James , Lee Clark Mitchell
3.33
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this classic collision of the New World with Old Europe, James weaves a fable of thwarted desire… read more
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8. The Enormous Room
By: E.E. Cummings
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In 1917 young Edward Estlin Cummings went to France as a volunteer with a Red Cross ambulance unit … read more
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9. Jackson's Dilemma
By: Iris Murdoch
3.71
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
On the eve of their wedding, Edward Lannion and Marian Berran are led away onto dark and strange pa… read more
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10. The Way We Live Now
By: Anthony Trollope
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Trollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and hi… read more
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11. The Custom of the Country
By: Edith Wharton , Linda Wagner-Martin
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet… read more
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12. The Rise of Silas Lapham
By: William Dean Howells , Kermit Vanderbilt
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
William Dean Howells' richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society… read more
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13. The Rainbow
By: D.H. Lawrence , Daphne Merkin
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A controversial classic from D.H. Lawrence, the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Lush with religi… read more
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14. The Mill on the Floss
By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt
3.83
Format: 579 pages, Paperback
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more
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"Don't judge a book by its cover"-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Don't judge a book by its cover."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
15. The Small House at Allington (Chronicles of Barsetshire #5)
By: Anthony Trollope , Julian Thompson
3.61
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
The Small House at Allingtonis the fifth book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester series. As with all … read more
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16. Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2)
By: D.H. Lawrence
3.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
"An analytical study of sexual depravity" and "an epic of vice" were two of the critical expression… read more
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17. The Master of Ballantrae
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.93
Format: None pages,
Set in Scotland during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, in the exotic French Indies, and in the North A… read more
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18. The Good Soldier
By: Ford Madox Ford , None , Kenneth Womack
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldierrelates the complex social and sexua… read more
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19. The Quest Of The Absolute
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
In Balzac's classic study of obsession, a chance meeting changes Balthazar Claes' life as it introd… read more
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20. The Mayor of Casterbridge
By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more
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21. The House of Mirth
By: Edith Wharton , Nina Bawden
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, p… read more
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