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100 Great American Short Stories by John Grafton (Editor)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A remarkable celebration of America's literary legacy, this superb selection includes the very best tales from the 19th and 20th centuries. Features "The Man With Two Lives," Ambrose Bierce; "The Locket," Kate Chopin; "Out of Season," Ernest Hemingway; "In a Far Country," Jack London; "The Fiddler," Her ...Show more
First Love and The Diary of a Superfluous Man by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev; Constance Garnett (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was one of the greatest Russian writers of his day, and the first to gain an international reputation. His novels, among them Rudin (1856), Fathers and Sons (1862), and Virgin Soil (1877), and his many stories and plays pointedly reveal his opposition to the serf system and his ...Show more
Five Classic American Novels by Dover Publications Inc. Staff
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Housed in an attractive slipcase, this inexpensive collection of American classics presents five perennial bestsellers from the Dover Thrift Editions series: Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Jack London's The Call of the Wild, Stephen Crane's The ...Show more
History's Greatest Speeches by James Daley (Editor)
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Category: History | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Ideal for classroom use, this anthology also provides a valuable tool for preparing or performing public speeches. Twenty of the world's most influential and stirring public lectures include Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty ...Show more
In Our Time: Stories by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Hemingway made his North American literary debut in 1925 with In Our Time, his first collection of short stories and vignettes. Widely praised at the time for what later would be considered the author's hallmark style--uncomplicated, precise language with an eye for realism--the stories' themes of alien ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Dafoe
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
One of the earliest picaresque novels in English, Moll Flanders has both captivated and shocked countless readers since it was first published in 1722. A masterpiece of fiction, written in the form of an autobiographical memoir, the novel describes Moll on the original title page as having been Born in ...Show more
Selected Short Stories by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
It is universally acknowledged that Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was as much a master of the short story as of the full-length novel. This original collection, which features some of his most hard-to-find tales, will enchant longtime enthusiasts of Tolstoy's work as well as n ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, "The Awakening" has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, h ...Show more
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Gogol's stories are admired for their skillful mingling of fantasy and reality, quiet good humor and use of mundane details -- as Gogol put it -- "to extract the extraordinary from the ordinary." Imaginative and timeless, they remain as fresh and significant today as they were to readers generations ago ...Show more
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Set in the rural midlands of England, The Rainbow revolves around three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than sixty years, setting them against the emergence of modern England. When Tom Brangwen marries a Polish widow and adopts her daughter as his own, he is unprepared for the c ...Show more