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The heart is a lonely hunter
Carson McCullers
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When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work ...
1993; 430 p.; isbn:0679424741 More Information |
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The best of Herman Melville : Moby Dick ; Omoo ; Typee ; Israel Potter
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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1983; 845 p.; isbn:0890097275 |
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville ; edited with an introduction and notes by Tony Tanner
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A world-famous classic novel is the basis for this brand-new, dramatically illustrated book. Transformed from Herman Melvilleas original text into a graphic novel, this and other" Graphic Classics" editions make good introductions for young readers to the imaginative riches of literature. These books contain many extra features, including brief biographies ...
1998; 602 p.; isbn:0192833855 More Information |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville ; with an introduction by Larzer Ziff.
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The story of Captain Ahab's obssession with the great white whale that crippled him
1991; 593 p.; isbn:0679405593 More Information |
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Moby-Dick, or, The whale
Herman Melville ; introduction by Andrew Delbanco ; notes and explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk
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1992; 654 p.; isbn:0140390847 More Information |
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Jazz
Toni Morrison
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1992; 229 p.; isbn:0679411674 More Information |
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Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison (i.e. C. Wofford)
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This novel reates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world readers enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr.; the day on which lonely Robert Smith attempts to fly from a steeple of the hospital, a black Icarus looking homeward.
341 p.; isbn:0451083407 More Information |
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Going after Cacciato
Tim O'Brien
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"To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby Dick a novel about whales." So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brein's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar blend of horror and hallucinatory comedy that marked this the strangest of wars. Reality and fantasy ...
1978; 301 p.; isbn:0385283490 More Information |
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The fountainhead
Ayn Rand ; with an afterword by Leonard Peikoff
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1943; 704 p.; isbn:0451175123 More Information |
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Uncle Tom's cabin ; The minister's wooing ; Oldtown folks
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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1982; 1477 p.; isbn:0940450011 More Information |
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Uncle Tom's cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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500 p.; isbn:0395081297 More Information |
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The confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
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In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery... The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region. The Confessions ...
1994; 428 p.; isbn:0679601015 More Information |
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