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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Signet Classics)
DescriptionThe life and times of Everyone's favorite thief

Filled together with action, villains, and surprises, the legend lives on. Days of old bursting together with pageantry, knights, and stunning maidens return in a superb edition of this favorite classic story.

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ManufacturerSignet Classics
Categories Classics   20th Century   General   Folklore & Mythology   All 4-for-3 Deals   Paperback   4-for-3 Books   Printed Books  
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
DescriptionSince its publication in 1925, The Excellent Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's account of the American dream gone awry, has established itself as one of the much popular and widely read novels in the English language. Until now, however, no edition has printed the novel exactly as Fitzgerald designed. The first edition was marred by errors resulting from ...
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ManufacturerCambridge University Press
Categories American Literature   General AAS   Fitzgerald, F. Scott   General   20th Century   Literary Theory   Contemporary   Classics   Hardcover   Printed Books  
The Grapes of Wrath (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
DescriptionForced from their home, the Joad family is lured to California to locate work; instead they locate disillusionment, exploitation, and hunger.
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ManufacturerEveryman's Library
Categories General AAS   General   Hardcover   20th Century   Steinbeck, John   Contemporary   Literary   Classics   Printed Books  
The Old Man and the Sea (Old Man & the Sea Tr)
DescriptionSet in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Award for Literature. It stands as a distinctive and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements. Here, for a modify, is a fish tale ...
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ManufacturerScribner
Categories General AAS   General   Hardcover   Sea Adventures   20th Century   Hemingway, Ernest   Contemporary   Classics   Printed Books  
Ernest Hemingway's the Sun Also Rises (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
DescriptionBloom suggests this marks of the permanent canonical status of the work of Ernest Hemingway seem beyond doubt. He puts The Sun In addition Rises on a short list of modern American novels this be visible certain to endure.

The title, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun In addition Rises, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents ...

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ManufacturerChelsea House Publications
Categories General AAS   BISAC Test   General   Anthologies   20th Century   Contemporary   Classics   Literature & Fiction   Hardcover   Printed Books   Young Adult   Adolescentes   Bloom, Harold   Herge   Wells, Rebecca  
Running with Scissors: A Memoir
DescriptionRUNNING Together with SCISSORS is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet together with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain.Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in ideal squalor.The doctor's bizarre family, a few ...
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Categories Authors   Family & Childhood   Memoirs   General   20th Century   Hardcover   Printed Books   Herge  
The Moonflower Vine: A Novel (P.S.)
Description

A timeless American classic rediscovered—an unforgettable saga of a heartland family

On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames make a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in ...

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ManufacturerHarper Perennial
Categories Textbooks Trade-In & Buyback   Family Saga   Domestic Life   20th Century   Contemporary   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
Invisible Man (Modern Library of the World's Best Books)
DescriptionInvisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book this has continued to engage readers since its look in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Prize for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The ...
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ManufacturerModern Library
Categories General AAS   Ellison, Ralph   General   20th Century   Contemporary   Classics   Hardcover   Printed Books  
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Oxford World's Classics)
DescriptionIn The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), the excellent-known of his thrillers (made into a popular movie by Alfred Hitchcock), John Buchan introduces his much enduring hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an "ordinary fellow," is caught up in the dramatic and dangerous race against a plot to devastate the British war effort.
In this, ...
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ManufacturerOxford University Press, USA
Categories Classics   Action & Adventure   20th Century   General   Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue   All 4-for-3 Deals   Textbooks Trade-In & Buyback   Semiotics   Contemporary   Paperback   4-for-3 Books   Printed Books  
Tropic of Cancer
DescriptionMiller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for nearly thirty years, now reinvigorated in a new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of ...
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ManufacturerModern Library
Categories Miller, Henry   20th Century   General   Contemporary   Hardcover   Printed Books  
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