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1850s
Moby-Dick (The Penguin English Library)
Herman Melville · 2012
1880s
The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
Henry James · 2003
When Isabel Archer, A Beautiful, Spirited American Is Brought To Europe By Her Wealthy Aunt Touchett, It Is Expected That She Will Soon Marry. But Isabel, Resolved To Enjoy The Freedom That Her Fortune Has Opened Up And To Determine Her Own Fate, Does Not Hesitate To Turn Down Two Eligible Suitors. It Is Only When She Finds Herself Irresistibly Drawn To The Cultivated But Worthless Gilbert Osmond That She Discovers That Wealth Is A Two-edged Sword And That There Is A Price To Be Paid For Independence. With Its Subtle Delineation Of American Characters In A European Setting, Portrait Of A Lady Is One Of The Most Accomplished And Popular Of Henry James's Early Novels.
1890s
What Maisie Knew
Henry James · 2013
<p>The story of the sensitive daughter of divorced and irresponsible parents, What Maisie Knew has great contemporary relevance as an unflinching account of a wildly dysfunctional family. The book is also a masterly technical achievement by James, as it follows the title character from earliest childhood to precocious maturity.<br></p>
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Oxford World's Classics)
Frank Norris · 2009
The Awakening
Kate Chopin · 2019
1900s
Penguin English Library the House of Mirth (The Penguin English Library)
Edith Wharton · 2012
1920s
The Sound and the Fury (Vintage International)
William Faulkner · 2011
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · 2012
1930s
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 2001
Everybodys Autobiography 1st Edition
Stein, Gertrude
Nightwood
Djuna Barnes · 2006
The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece―one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna―a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous.<br/><br/>The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction―there is Guido Volkbein, the Wandering Jew and son of a self-proclaimed baron; Robin Vote, the American expatriate who marries him and then engages in a series of affairs, first with Nora Flood and then with Jenny Petherbridge, driving all of her lovers to distraction with her passion for wandering alone in the night; and there is Dr. Matthew-Mighty-Grain-of-Salt-Dante-O'Connor, a transvestite and ostensible gynecologist, whose digressive speeches brim with fury, keen insights, and surprising allusions. Barnes' depiction of these characters and their relationships (Nora says, "A man is another persona woman is yourself, caught as you turn in panic; on her mouth you kiss your own") has made the novel a landmark of feminist and lesbian literature.<br/><br/>Most striking of all is Barnes' unparalleled stylistic innovation, which led T. S. Eliot to proclaim the book "so good a novel that only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it." Now with a new preface by Jeanette Winterson, Nightwood still crackles with the same electric charge it had on its first publication in 1936.
It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis · 2017
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein · 2013
As I Lay Dying
Faulkner William · 1996
The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.
1940s
The Garden of Eden
Ernest Hemingway · 1995
The last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1986, charts the life of a young American writer and his glamorous wife who fall for the same woman.<br/><br/>A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. "A lean, sensuous narrative...taut, chic, and strangely contemporary," The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway, the master "doing what nobody did better" (R. Z. Sheppard, Time).
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carso Mccullers · 2000
1950s
Carol
Patricia Highsmith · 2010
Therese first glimpses Carol in the New York department store where she is working as a sales assistant. Carol is choosing a present for her daughter; she looks preoccupied, exuding an aura of elegance as perfect as a secret. Standing there at the counter, Therese suddenly feels wholly innocent - wholly unprepared for the first shock of love.<br> Therese was nineteen, and loved by a young man she cared about, but could not desire. Carol was a sophisticated married woman. Now Therese seemed to have no other purpose to her life other than their meeting?<br> First published under a pseudonym in 1952, Carol is a love story told with compelling wit and eroticism, and consummate tenderness.
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 2002
1960s
The Complete Stories (FSG Classics)
Flannery O'Connor · 1971
Butchers Crossing
John Williams · 2014
The Group
Mary McCarthy · 1991
Portrays the lives of eight women graduated from the same class at Vassar.
In Cold Blood
Capote Truman · 2012
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates · 2007
1970s
Augustus (New York Review Books Classics)
John Williams · 2014
Gravitys Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon · 2013
1980s
Libra (Contemporary American Fiction)
Don DeLillo · 1991
Bad Behavior
Mary Gaitskill · 2019
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
Truman Capote · 2005
Beloved (Everyman's Library)
Toni Morrison · 2006
<b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s <i>Beloved</i> is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past, presented here in stunning hardcover with an introduction by A. S. Byatt.<br></b><br><b>Named by <i>The Atlantic</i> as one of the Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years.<br></b><br>Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.<br><br>Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.<br><br>Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.<br><br>Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
2000s
Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer · 2003
1990s
The Rum Diary
Hunter S. Thompson · 2004
