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…
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1. The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)
By: John Dos Passos
3.82
Format: 325 pages, Trade Paperback
With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is … read more
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" Luther Burbank was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass, he walked through the woods one winter crunching through the shinycrusted snow stumbling into a little dell where a warm spring was an…"-John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)
2. New Grub Street
By: George Gissing
3.78
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had exp… read more
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"Walker's a fool and Quarmby's an ass,' remarked her father."-George Gissing, New Grub Street
"Well, Maud made a mistake, let us say. Dolomore is a clown, and now she knows it."-George Gissing, New Grub Street
"Confound it! It's just because nobody does anything that things have come to this pass!"-George Gissing, New Grub Street
"The sum of their faults was their inability to earn money; but, indeed, that inability does not call for unmingled disdain."-George Gissing, New Grub Street
3. 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)
4. Main Street
By: Sinclair Lewis
3.78
Format: 454 pages, Paperback
With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West, Sherw… read more
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"So kindly,"-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
"in a world of groceries and sermons"-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
"Whatever she might become she would never be static."-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
"They had something to do. They could escape from themselves."-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
5. 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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6. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
By: Stephen Crane
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1892 Stephen Crane (1871-1900) published Maggie, Girl of the Streetsat his own expense. Consider… read more
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7. 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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- american
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8. The Little Lady of the Big House
By: Jack London
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
This novel features a love triangle between a rancher, Dick Forrest, his wife, Paula, and her lover… read more
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9. The Octopus: A Story of California
By: Frank Norris , Kevin Starr
5.00
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if t… read more
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10. 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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11. The Wings of the Dove
By: Henry James , Amy Bloom , Pierre A. Walker
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Set amid the splendor of L… read more
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12. The Pit: A Story of Chicago
By: Frank Norris
3.89
Format: 202 pages,
The story of Frank Norris's The Pit could be taken from today's headlines: a businessman begins spe… read more
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13. Manhattan Transfer
By: John Dos Passos
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transferis an "expressionistic … read more
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14. The Bostonians
By: Henry James
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspi… read more
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15. 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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16. The Golden Bowl
By: Henry James , Gore Vidal , Patricia Crick
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'A thing to marvel at, a thing to be grateful for.'A rich American art-collector and his daughter M… read more
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17. The House Behind the Cedars
By: Charles W. Chesnutt , None
3.71
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
An early masterwork among American literary treatments of miscegenation, Chesnutt's story is of two… 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. 1919 (U.S.A., #2)
By: E.L. Doctorow , John Dos Passos
3.26
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and swe… read more
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20. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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- american
"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
21. The Big Money (U.S.A., #3)
By: E.L. Doctorow , John Dos Passos
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
THE BIG MONEY completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success an… read more
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