Simon & Schuster. 10/01/1993. Reprint. Winner of the E.M. Forster Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, this lyrical, satirical novel is the story of an old man's rise from poverty to unimaginable wealth, his destructive plans to "modernize" the district where he was born, and the opposition to his scheme by one of his disaffected employees. Originally published at $10.00 You save 81% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 05/01/1993. Reprint. Published in 1905, Edith Wharton's first novel, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, navigates the murky waters of class-bound courtship and marriage in turn-of-the-century upper-crust Manhattan. Ironic, sharp, and tragic, the novel follows beautiful, orphaned Lily Bart in her search for a rich husband--the only route open to her if she is to survive in a ruthlessly materialistic world. Mercilessly, Wharton exposes the cruelty and indifference of a society in which such a woman has no role except to be exploited and looked down upon. Nor does she neglect to expose the vanity and delusions of poor Lily herself--qualities that undermine her considerable intelligence and charm. As always, Wharton is writing about a world she knows first-hand, and one in which she suffered her own trials. The complex and poignant tale of Lily Bart is one of her most popular and successful novels Originally published at $9.95 You save 82% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1995. Reissue. The tale of the orphan, Pip, and his mysterious benefactor provides a grotesque but pointed comedy that explores the many levels of English society with insight and sympathy as well as a satiric eye. Considered by many to be Dickens's best novel, GREAT EXPECTATIONS is the story of a young man who rises out of a rough, deprived childhood to a life in which his expectations--or some of them--are fulfilled: he is a gentleman and a success, though he soon finds that happiness doesn't necessarily accompany money and position. The novel is full of fascinating scenes and characters, among them the coldhearted Estella, the vengeful and dotty Miss Havisham, Joe Gargery the noble blacksmith, the ever-lovable Herbert Pocket, and of course Magwitch, the grotesque and terrifying but ultimately benevolent convict, one of Dickens's most vital creations. As the compelling plot progresses, Pip's fortunes rise and fall, and he slowly gains in wisdom, learning to value what is important and to abandon most of his illusions. But the moral of the story is never heavy-handed or didactic, and in telling his tale, Dickens epitomizes all the best qualities for which he became famous: a comic vision, an inventive imagination, and a bountiful appreciation for the wonderful variety and boundless possibility inherent in the most ordinary humans. Originally published at $4.99 You save 61% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 03/01/1997. Reissue. For the condemned nobles during the French Revolution, there is a ray of hope: rescue by the Scarlet Pimpernel. His identity remains a mystery to his sworn enemy, the ruthless Chauvelin, and to his devoted admirer, the beautiful Lady Margaret {Blakeney}. Originally published at $5.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 09/01/1987. Olivia Rivers, first wife of colonial officer Douglas Rivers, is the central character in this book which is narrated by Anne, the granddaughter of Douglas Rivers by his second wife. In 1923, Olivia Rivers travels to India to join Douglas at his post, but she has difficulty adjusting because the British maintain such a distance from the Indians. Olivia finds a local man, Nawab, more interesting than British colonial society, and eventually she develops an affair with him. In a parallel story, the narrator also becomes enamored on an Indian man, her landlord Inder Lal. Written after Jhabvala had begun her film collaborations with Merchant/Ivory, the book contains 23 sections, juxtaposing certain scenes together in the manner of a film. The book won the 1975 Booker Prize. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 07/01/1979. In this collection of acclaimed short fiction by a modern master of the form, the title piece--Garcia Marquez's first novel, originally published in 1955--stands out. It takes place in the fictional town, Macondo, made famous in ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE. In LEAF STORM, the place has been devastated by the closing of the banana company that gave it what little prosperity it had. Told from the shifting points of view of an old colonel, his difficult daughter, and his young grandson, it revolves around the colonel's long-ago promise to give a decent burial to the man his fellow citizens hate most. This volume also includes four stories from the collection INNOCENT ERENDIRA (1972), and two early stories, "Nabo" and "Monologue of Isabel Watching the Rain in Macondo." Originally published at $11.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 08/01/1996. 310 pgs. When Cole Clayfield's little granddaughter is kidnaped, the Tennessee mountain man springs into action using his tracking skill to hunt for her abductor. Meanwhile, her other grandfather, a wealthy man is using his money and influence for the same end. Originally published at $20.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 09/01/1994. Reissue. A fictional inquiry into the origins of apartheid. This sweeping novel employs 30 different narrators to tell the story of a South African slave uprising in the early 19th century, following the oppressors and the oppressed for three generations. Originally published at $23.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 07/01/1992. Reprint. When Eleanor Darcy's stuffy husband goes to jail for giving bad advice to the Prime Minister, she is interviewed by two journalists, Hugo and Valerie, who are also lovers. Each seeks different things from Eleanor, but Eleanor herself takes the opportunity to formulate and articulate her utopian ideas, a vision of a world in which people are miraculously enlightened about such issues as raising children, abortion, race relations, business, and of course the relations between the sexes. Originally published at $14.00 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 12/01/1967. Reprint. Jane Austen's last and most melancholy novel was posthumously published in 1818. In PERSUASION, Austen presents men and women as moral equals, inverting the conventional roles of hero and heroine, and creates a strong, mature, and independent heroine, Anne Elliot, who spurns the binding reins of paternal authority. She heeded the advice of a friend by breaking off an engagement eight years earlier to Frederick Wentworth, a naval officer who had not yet risen in his profession and was deemed unworthy of her. Anne has always remained in love with him, and has regretted her susceptibility to persuasion; now that Wentworth has become wealthy, the two are able to marry, but only after a series of painful misunderstandings. Originally published at $5.95 You save 68% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1975. Published in 1865, this is the first novel in Trollope's Palliser series. Alice Vavasor, a cousin of Trollope's beloved character Lady Glencora Palliser, is torn between two suitors, one a reckless politician. Engaged first to one, then to the other, Alice changes her mind yet a third time before she settles down--a radical departure from the way a Victorian woman was supposed to behave. Worse yet, Lady Glencora, newly married to Plantagenet Palliser, is tempted by her old beau Burgo Fitzgerald to run away with him--and he almost succeeds in persuading her. To portray a respectable married woman even contemplating adultery was a daring plot element in a novel of the period. Trollope's portrayal of the various levels of Victorian upper-class life and the dilemmas that accompany them--particularly for women--makes this one of his best novels. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 02/01/1999. Because of its sexual frankness and indictment of Victorian hypocrisy, Hardy's novel was considered shocking when it was published in 1891. It is the tale of Tess Derbeyfield, a young country girl whose rape by Alec D'Urberville, a distant aristocratic relative, leads to pregnancy. Tess's baby dies, and she finds work as a dairymaid at a farm where no one knows her story. There she falls in love with and marries a young farmer named Angel Clare, but when Angel finds out about his wife's past, he is horrified, and deserts her. Tess meets Alec again--now a reformed character who has become an itinerant preacher--and lives with him as his wife. When Angel returns for her and finds her with Alec, he leaves her again--and Tess, in despair, stabs Alec--the cause of all her woes--and kills him. She and Angel are reunited, but only briefly: Tess is taken into custody and will be tried for murder and hanged. The cynical and sophisticated Alec's seduction of a country girl, and the self-righteous Angel's destructive idealization of her, can be seen as symbols of the city's ruthless exploitation of the English countryside--a common theme in Hardy's fiction. Originally published at $7.95 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Oxford Univ Pr. 12/01/1998. 552 pgs. In his autobiography, Trollope summed up the plot of this novel in these words: "In it a young girl, who is really a lady of high rank and great wealth, though in her youth she enjoyed none of the privileges of wealth or rank, marries a tailor who has been good to her, and whom she had loved when she was poor and neglected." Trollope's readers strongly disapproved of his allowing an heiress to marry a humble tailor, and at the end of the novel, Lady Anna, facing these same prejudices from her family and friends, emigrates to Sydney with her husband. (Trollope added, after the above description, "What would they have said if I had allowed her to jilt the tailor and marry the good-looking young lord? How much louder, then, would have been the censure!") Originally published at $13.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Oxford Univ Pr. 06/01/1998. Reissue. 538 pgs. Zola's depiction of the life of the laboring classes, and the struggle between capital and the workers in the mines of northern France, is an epic of naturalism that also possesses the richness and exactitude of a sociological document. Originally published at $8.95 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1982. Reprint. Hugo's wrenching story centers on Jean Valjean, an honest peasant sentenced to five years' hard labor for stealing a loaf of bread, then 19 more for trying to escape. Turned into a hardened and ruthless criminal by his experiences, he reforms, becomes mayor of a French town, but is tracked down by the pitiless detective Javert for another obscure crime, and incarcerated. Escaping again from the brutal French prison, he befriends a prostitute named Fantine and her daughter, Cosette. This 1862 novel is remarkable for its sympathetic portrayal of common people: prisoners, the poor, women of the streets--all the down-and-out victims of the gross inequities of class in 19th-century Europe. Originally published at $11.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library. 12/01/1994. Reprint. When the perpetually overweight Billy Halleck fatally wounds an old Gypsy woman with his car, her father whispers a one word curse in his ear--"thinner"--and Halleck begins to learn just how extensive weight loss can be. Originally published at $7.99 You save 76% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 04/01/2000. 302 pgs. HOWARDS END is a vivid portrait of life in Edwardian England, centered on an old country house in Hertfordshire, the object of an inheritance dispute. When the bohemian Schlegel sisters, Helen and Margaret, meet the Wilcox family, convention gives way to a more complex set of standards and emotions in this beloved and remarkable novel. The Schlegels are widely acknowledged to be based on Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa, who lived at Gordon Square with their brother Thoby (Tibby in the novel). Originally published at $11.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 08/01/1997. 225 pgs. A darkly comic novel that traces the lives and misadventures of the workers and managers of a Scottish automobile factory. Originally published at $23.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Lightning Source Inc. 09/01/1991. Reprint. 369 pgs. The cannibals in this novel are a group of art collectors flying to an archeological site in Tehran; they value art for the money it is worth. The missionaries, on the same flight, are a fact-finding committee about to investigate state-sponsored terrorism in Iran; they value people over material things. The plane is hijacked by a group of terrorists who value ideology over everything, and who hope that the liberal activists will provide leverage for negotiations. What they find is that the art collectors, as a group, are ultimately more valuable to them. Originally published at $20.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Macadam Cage Pub. 11/01/1997. 225 pgs. An adolescent football player in an Irish town decides to become a priest to subdue his carnal nature. Originally published at $20.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 05/01/1985. In 1918, at Compiegne, France, a group of stubborn, intractable men negotiate to achieve the peace that ends World War I. As the Allies urge total submission, the Germans try to finagle compromise--all the while, guns are blazing and people are dying. Originally published at $8.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Univ of Chicago Pr. 05/01/1998. Reprint. 392 pgs. A retired missionary schoolteacher travels to the troubled India of the mid-1940s and, because of her lower-class origins, is shunned by the British ruling class. This is the third volume in Scott's "Raj Quartet". Originally published at $20.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Pennsylvania State Univ Pr. 10/01/2001. Illustrated. 259 pgs. Though primarily remembered for his genre-defining work in Westerns, Wister's third novel, ROMANEY, is a study of class politics and the corruption surrounding the creation of the Pennsylvania railroad. The novel, unfinished at some 48,000 words, is compiled here with several Wister essays about his native city, Philadelphia--also the novel's setting. Originally published at $34.95 You save 97% off the cover price!

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Palgrave Macmillan. 04/01/1993. Because of its sexual frankness and indictment of Victorian hypocrisy, Hardy's novel was considered shocking when it was published in 1891. It is the tale of Tess Derbeyfield, a young country girl whose rape by Alec D'Urberville, a distant aristocratic relative, leads to pregnancy. Tess's baby dies, and she finds work as a dairymaid at a farm where no one knows her story. There she falls in love with and marries a young farmer named Angel Clare, but when Angel finds out about his wife's past, he is horrified, and deserts her. Tess meets Alec again--now a reformed character who has become an itinerant preacher--and lives with him as his wife. When Angel returns for her and finds her with Alec, he leaves her again--and Tess, in despair, stabs Alec--the cause of all her woes--and kills him. She and Angel are reunited, but only briefly: Tess is taken into custody and will be tried for murder and hanged. The cynical and sophisticated Alec's seduction of a country girl, and the self-righteous Angel's destructive idealization of her, can be seen as symbols of the city's ruthless exploitation of the English countryside--a common theme in Hardy's fiction. Originally published at $49.95 You save 98% off the cover price!

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