East of Eden
Penguin Books, October 1979. Mass Market PaperBack. More
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Dell / Laurel, December 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. Billy Pilgrim is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in World War II, is captured by the Germans, and he survives the largest massacre in European history the fire bombing of Dresden. After the war Billy..... More
Cat's Cradle
Dell, August 1980. Mass Market PaperBack. "Cat's Cradle" is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is..... More
Mansfield Park
Signet Classics, December 2008. Mass Market PaperBack. Jane Austen turns her unerring eye on the concerns of English society at a time of great upheaval in this historical romance classic. Mansfield Park is named for the magnificent, idyllic estate that is home to the wealthy Bertram family and that serves..... More
Sirens of Titan
Laurel, December 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. The richest and most depraved man on Earth takes a wild space journey to distant worlds, learning about the purpose of human life along the way. small tear, approx 1-inch long anjd 1/4 wide on edge of front cover and corresponding tear in first..... More
The Brothers Karamazov
Bantam Classics, March 1995. Mass Market PaperBack. The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication..... More
Crime and Punishment
Bantam Classics, March 1992. Mass Market PaperBack. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read A desperate young man plans the perfect crime--the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons..... More
Sense and Sensibility (Collins Classics)
William Collins, July 2013. Mass Market PaperBack. HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed..... More
Persuasion (Bantam Classic)
Bantam Classics, April 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. 'All the privilege I claim for my own sex...is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.'. Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors..... More
Pride and Prejudice
Signet Classics, January 2008. Mass Market PaperBack. Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners is one of the most universally loved and admired English novels of all time. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."..... More
The Sea
Vintage, August 2006. Trade Paperback. BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An "extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife. In this luminous novel, John Banville introduces us..... More
A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement: A Question of Upbringing; A Buyer's Market; The Acceptance World
University Of Chicago Press, April 1995. Trade Paperback. 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...... More
Time's Arrow (Vintage International)
Vintage, October 1992. Trade Paperback. In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one..... More
The Martian
Broadway Books, November 2014. Trade Paperback. Selected for common reading at North Lake College Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first..... More
The Vanishing Half: A Novel
Riverhead Books, June 2020. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE* VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST "Bennett's..... More
The Deptford Trilogy
Penguin (Non-Classics), June 1990. Trade Paperback. Who killed Boy Staunton? Around this central mystery is woven a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels. Luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history, and magic, "The Deptford Trilogy" provides an exhilarating antidote to a world from where "the fear and..... More
Shanghai Girls: A Novel
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2010. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A gifted writer . . . explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience."--USA Today In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the..... More
Silence
Parkwest Pubns, February 1980. Trade Paperback. "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama." Irving Howe. -- The New York Times Review Of Books *** Susaku Endo is Japan's foremost novelist, and Silence is generally regarded to be his masterpiece. In a perfect fusion of treatment and..... More
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Bantam, October 1999. Trade Paperback. More
Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2011. Trade Paperback. A ferocious debut that puts Frank Bill's southern Indiana on the literary map next to Cormac McCarthy's eastern Tennessee and Daniel Woodrell's Missouri Ozarks Crimes in Southern Indiana is the most blistering, vivid, flat-out fearless debut to plow into American literature in..... More
The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics)
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, June 2003. Trade Paperback. When The Wapshot Chronicle was published in 1957, John Cheever was already recognized as a writer of superb short stories. But The Wapshot Chronicle, which won the 1958 National Book Award, established him as a major novelist. Based in part on Cheever..... More
The Woman with the Cure
Berkley, February 2023. Trade Paperback. "Huge applause... women have always been in science--despite those who would pretend otherwise." --Bonnie Garmus, New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry She gave up everything -- and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who..... More
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Vol. 1 (Sense & Sensibility / Pride & Prejudice / Mansfield Park)
Modern Library, September 1992. Hardcover. The first volume in the Complete Novels of Jane Austen, this volume contains the classics Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park. More
Islands in the Stream
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. Hardcover. Bright green cloth over boards cover in good condition, though shows mild signs of shelf wear; light fading along spine and top front of cover, corners are sharp, pages are bright; binding is tight and in very good condition. More
Don Quixote
Ecco, October 2003. Hardcover. Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, in an expanded P.S. edition Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho..... More
