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Novels 1942-52: The Moon is Down/Cannery Row/The Pearl/East of Eden
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Include books by the same authorThe Good Earth Trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided
Pearl S. Buck · 878 pages
Three Complete Novels: Howards End, A Room with a View, Where Angels Fear to Tread
E.M. Forster · 503 pages
Harper Lee Collection: To Kill a Mockingbird + Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee · 624 pages
Rabbit Novels: Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux
John Updike · 640 pages
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street
Naguib Mahfouz · 1,336 pages
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Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher
R.K. Narayan · 648 pages
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn & Maggie-Now
Betty Smith
A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement
Anthony Powell · 274 pages
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the sec
The Tin Flute
Gabrielle Roy · 393 pages
A family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance while searching for love.
The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate
Nancy Mitford · 517 pages
Complete Novels: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member of the Wedding / Clock Without Hands
Carson McCullers · 827 pages
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays
Albert Camus · 656 pages
From the Publisher: From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century-two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913-1960) deployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation of the brave assertion of humanity in the face of a universe devoid of order or mean
The Complete Works of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Widely considered the greatest author of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, winning universal praise as a literary genius. Dickens' novels and beloved tales not only entertained the world, but helped to improve the lives of the lower classes and fight social injustices. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents
USA: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money
John dos Passos · 1,312 pages
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 318 pages
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak · 542 pages
***This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987.*** One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. ***The book quickly became an international be
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
Patrick Hamilton · 528 pages
The Little House Treasury
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 240 pages
Till We Have Faces
C.S. Lewis · 320 pages
C.S. Lewis once described Till We Have Faces as his best work. It is a retelling of the Psyche myth with a subtle Christian bent. One of my professors, Dr. Jim Hand, once posed the question, "Is Psyche a case of spirit becoming flesh, or flesh becoming spirit?" It is a great novel with much depth.
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren · 490 pages
The story is about Willie Stark, a slick politician of humble birth, who was based on real-life Huey Long, a Louisiana governor, but the real main character is Jack Burden, a reporter who serves to narrate the story and Stark's rise to power.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin · 226 pages
In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power
In the Castle of My Skin
George Lamming · 313 pages
George Lamming's "In the Castle of My Skin" skilfully depicts the Barbadian psyche. Set against the backdrop of the 1930s riots which helped to pave the way for Independence and the modern Barbados, through the eyes of a young boy, Lamming portrays the social, racial, political and urban struggles with which Barbados continues to grapple even with some thirty-three years of Political Independence