Elmer Gantry
By: Sinclair Lewis
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when …
Want to Read $ 0.99"He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason"-Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry
"He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason"-Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry
"He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason"-Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry
"And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology."-Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry
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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 Pastures of Heaven
By: John Steinbeck
4.08
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on … read more
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3. Elmer Gantry
By: Sinclair Lewis
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when … read more
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"He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason"-Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry
"And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology."-Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry
"They were obsessed by the gaffer in Terra Haute who got converted every single night in the meetings. He may have been insane and he may have been a plain drunk."-Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry
"sinclair "They were obsessed by the gaffer in Terra Haute who got converted every single night in the meetings. He may have been insane and he may have been a plain drunk."-Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry
4. The Gilded Age
By: Mark Twain , Charles Dudley Warner
3.53
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Arguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and th… read more
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"If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile."-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age
"A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man."-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age
"No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its exec…"-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age
"Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society w…"-Mark Twain, The Gilded Age
5. Norwood
By: Charles Portis
3.85
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Out of the American Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, The Grand Ole Opry, and girls who … read more
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"Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son."-Charles Portis, Norwood
"They later moved to a tin-roof house that was situated in a gas field under a spectacular flare that burned all the time. Big copper-green beetles the size of mice came from all over the Southland to…"-Charles Portis, Norwood
6. The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2)
By: Booth Tarkington
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersonschronicl… read more
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7. Bodily Harm
By: Margaret Atwood
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harmis the story of Rennie Wilford, a young jour… read more
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8. Theophilus North
By: Thornton Wilder , Christopher Buckley
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Marking the thirtieth anniversary of Theophilus North,this beautiful new edition features Wilder's … read more
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9. Tobacco Road (Brown Thrasher Books)
By: Lewis Nordan , Erskine Caldwell
4.38
Format: None pages,
Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Roadwas f… read more
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10. God's Little Acre
By: Lewis Nordan , Erskine Caldwell
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Like Tobacco Road, this novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia.… read more
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11. O Pioneers!
By: Willa Cather
3.90
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged ma… read more
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"Things away from home often look better than they are."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"Neither Oscar nor Lou has changed much; they have simply, as Alexandra said of them long ago, grown to be more and more like themselves."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
12. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
By: Thornton Wilder
5.00
Format: 36 pages,
Featuring a beautiful new cover and author biography, this novel, which brought Wilder his first Pu… read more
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13. The Haj
By: Leon Uris
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Leon Uris retums to the land of his acclaimed best-seller Exodusfor an epic story of hate and love,… read more
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14. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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15. Henderson the Rain King
By: Saul Bellow , Luciano Bianciardi
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Henderson has come to Africa on a spiritual safari, a quest for the truth. His feats of strength, h… read more
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16. The Last of the President's Men
By: Bob Woodward
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A new work of narrative nonfiction from bestselling author Bob Woodward. Bob Woodward exposes on… read more
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"K [Kissinger] called from New York all disturbed because he felt someone had been getting to the P [President] on Vietnam... Henry's concerned that the P's looking for a way to bug out and he thinks …"-Bob Woodward, The Last of the President's Men
17. Ironweed
By: William Kennedy
3.68
Format: 336 pages,
Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he… read more
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18. A Man in Full
By: Tom Wolfe
4.28
Format: None pages, Paperback
The setting is Atlanta, Georgia -- a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and… read more
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20. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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21. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
