Harcourt School. 01/01/1997. 348 pgs. Twain spent seven years writing HUCKLEBERRY FINN--the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on the Mississippi provides a panoramic view of Southern society, which Twain saw as beset by greed, violence, and coldhearted brutality in the guise of virtue. At the end of the book, Huck definitively abandons the hypocrisy and cant on which he has been raised when he makes the shocking decision to go to hell rather than betray his friend Jim and send him back to slavery. The book has been banned from time to time, beginning with its publication in 1885, when it was deemed too subversive for children, until the late 20th century when, despite its compassionate attitude toward blacks and is violent denunciation of slavery, it has been branded racist because of Twain's use of dialect and "offensive" language. In addition to its message of tolerance and understanding, HUCKLEBERRY FINN continues to be read, talked about, and loved by readers of all ages because it's a cracking good coming-of-age story full of vivid characters and hilarious events --and because Twain's relentlessly clear-eyed angle of vision sees beneath the foibles and absurdities of humanity to the common ground that we all share. Originally published at $18.25 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1986. 517 pgs. In THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, Kate Croy, a penniless young Englishwoman, tries to arrange a marriage between her fiancé Merton Densher and the American heiress she has befriended, knowing that Millie, the heiress, has a fatal illness and not long to live. Informed about the situation, Millie generously leaves her money to Densher anyway, as proof of her love for him. But Densher, conscience-stricken and devastated by this proof of purity and virtue, is unable to accept the money or to marry Kate, whom he now sees for the scheming opportunist she is. Originally published at $9.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 06/07/2005. Reprint. 516 pgs. John Tradescant was a gardener to the rich (including Charles I) during the time of the English Civil War. Not content merely to toil in their flowerbeds, he accepts several commissions to travel to Russia, Holland, and especially the American colonies, returning from Virginia with rare plants (including magnolia, phlox, and asters) for the royal gardens. In EARTHLY JOYS, Tradescant--though he is married and has a young son--is also passionately in love with the Duke of Buckingham, whose allegiance is to King James. In this story of love, loyalty, and gardening, Philippa Gregory adds another novel to a collection based firmly in English history. Originally published at $16.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1994. Dickens's second novel was a far cry from THE PICKWICK PAPERS, his first. The story of an orphan who flees the workhouse only to fall in with a gang of thieves and prostitutes in London's sleazy underworld, it was a trenchant criticism of England's poor laws. Enacted in the 1830s, these laws provided assistance for the poor only through workhouses, which were deliberately squalid and miserable to encourage the poor--who were considered lazy and immoral--to better themselves and get out. The inequities between rich and poor were one of Dickens's constant themes, and with OLIVER TWIST he established himself as a staunch champion of the downtrodden, particularly children. The novel also, however, has its cheerful moments, and contains some of Dickens's most memorable characters, including Fagin, the Artful Dodger, the evil Bill Sykes, and the unfortunate Nancy. Originally published at $4.99 You save 60% off the cover price!

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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. 08/01/1992. Reissue. The tale of an Irish boy raised as an Indian in imperial India. It is the story of his coming of age in a world of high adventure, mystic quests, and the "great game" between the British and the Russians for control of Central Asia. Originally published at $7.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 07/01/1995. Reprint. In FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, published in 1940, Hemingway explores his own conflicting emotions about heroism, the futility of war, and the value of human life--a theme that is exemplified by the book's title, which is taken from the 17th-century poet John Donne's famous sermon that begins "No man is an island" and goes on to say one should not ask for whom the funeral bell tolls: "it tolls for thee." The novel, which is set during the Spanish Civil War in the spring of 1937, takes place over the course of four days. It tells the story of Robert Jordon, a young American attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain--a college teacher who happened to be in Spain on vacation and decided to join the Loyalists. He has now been commissioned to blow up a bridge. Soon after he arrives at the mountain camp, he meets a young woman named Maria who has been raped by the fascists and seen her parents killed. The two fall instantly in love, but their romance is cut short by the inexorable progress of the war. With passionate clarity, Hemingway depicts Jordan's conflicting tangle of emotions: the idealism with which he joined the Loyalist cause, his belief in romantic love as salvation, his growing questions about whether violence is ever justified, and the combination of fatalism and fear with which he confronts his own death. In the novel's final moments, as Jordan faces the inevitable, he resolves the questions that have plagued him. Hemingway's novel, with its bleak view of war and the failure of idealism, has been called an antiwar document, but the book is more complex than that. It is more about the grim necessity of recognizing that moral issues are seldom clearly marked out in black and white, and that human beings must struggle constantly with difficult choices. Originally published at $15.00 You save 87% 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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Harpercollins. 09/01/1980. This novel by an Australian about the American Civil War, from the perspective of the Southern side, tells four overlapping stories: that of a poor, white Confederate soldier; his beautiful wife, whose fidelity he is never sure of; a Southern widow who is also a Yankee spy; and the story of the war itself and Stonewall Jackson's command. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Ultramarine Pub Co. 08/01/1971. 155 pgs. A young orphan boy travels with his uncle; when they encounter a hippie couple, the boy becomes fascinated with them. A house left to the uncle, full of articles from his past, burns to the ground in an accidental fire. In this novel, Morris again explores the idea of moving on from one's past. Originally published at $10.00 You save 81% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 09/01/1982. 464 pgs. In this historical novel set in the 1930s, Lord follows the House of Chang, a dynasty of scholars and landowners, from the end of the Manchu Empire, through two Sino-Japanese wars, and the Communist takeover. As China changes, the members of the House of Chang must question their previously traditional roles; as the society based on family and patriarchy crumbles, the Chinese wedded to their traditions must cope with the needs of the masses over those of the individual, the education of women, and the authority of the state over all. The plot centers on Spring Moon, a woman pampered by the Chang dynasty, and Lustrous Jade, her daughter, educated by Western missionaries and who wholeheartedly espouses Communism. Originally published at $4.95 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 10/01/1996. Reprint. 296 pgs. Peter Carey's first novel concerns Harry Joy, an advertising executive in the thick of a mid-life crisis. He has had a heart attack; his wife is pressuring him to move to New York City; his kids are into drugs, sex, and money. When his wife commits him to a mental hospital, Harry escapes and throws himself into a new relationship with a political subversive. The two run from her enemies into the rain forest. Leavened with a healthy streak of irony, Bliss takes the Cheever-Updike style of novel one step further into the world of the political thriller. Originally published at $13.00 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/1994. Reprint. Turtle Greer, daughter of Taylor Greer of Kingsolver's previous novel THE BEAN TREES, witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam. With a moment of celebrity, Turtle's life changes, and so do the lives of everyone she loves. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/1996. 248 pgs. Sassela is at a crossroads. In her 30s, a schoolteacher living with a man who is no longer interesting to her, she meets Ciam. With his Caribbean accent and warm smile, he is like an invigorating island breeze washing over her cold and tired life. He is fifteen years younger than she, with no money or attachments; they find themselves together on a Greek island, where Sassela allows herself an affair with him. Seemingly innocent, this fling actually has dark implications, and Sassela finds that she is not in control of nearly as much as she thought. Originally published at $22.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 12/01/2000. 642 pgs. The Diva of Revenge delivers a FIRST WIVES CLUB-esque tale of three young wives, who, after years of putting up with their philandering, apathetic, and sleazy husbands, whip up some just desserts for their soon-to-be ex-mates. Originally published at $7.50 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 07/01/2001. 470 pgs. Thirteen years old and motherless, Peyton MacKenzie receives a few lessons in life when her rebellious hipster cousin, Nora Findlay, comes to town. Originally published at $7.99 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 12/01/1996. Reprint. Harry Griffin is a former Special Forces Commando and now works as a journalist in St. Paul, Minnesota. On a hunting trip with his old friend Bud Maston, Bud's wife Jesse, and her two grown sons, Harry foils an attempt on Bud's life--but in doing so, he kills Bud's stepson. Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 02/01/1997. Reprint. Colorado rancher Atticus Cody travels to Mexico to recover the body of his son who supposedly committed suicide. But when he gets there, the pieces to the puzzle don't fit, and Atticus begins to suspect that his son was murdered. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/2002. Reprint. 307 pgs. The author of CHOCOLAT sets her novel in a little French village, where Françoise Simon returns home after many years away--harboring an uncomfortable secret. She opens a crêpe shop and goes through her mother's scrapbook--a precious volume filled with recipes and notes, many of them in code. Originally published at $13.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/2002. Reprint. Oscar hates his job working for a ruthless and sleazy New York publishing magnate named Dawn (of Dawn Books), and, worst of all, his latest assignment is to plan her wedding. Desperate for information, he attends the wedding of an old college chum, where he meets Lauren, who writes about weddings for the local rag. Perfect! Even more perfect, they fall in love. And when Oscar discovers that Dawn's intended is already cheating on her, he schemes to subvert the very wedding he is planning. Originally published at $12.95 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 10/01/2002. Reprint. 288 pgs. William is terminally ill and his family has abandoned him. Only his closest friends, Susan and Henry, can care for him as he grows worse. Yet Willam grows ever more afraid that they, too, will leave him. It is not a simple loving friendship he requires, but a pledge of loyalty till death, a handing over of their lives to him. Jones explores the outer limits of friendship, the ties that bind and strangle, ridden with ambivalence and redemption. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 05/01/1995. 372 pgs. The Spanish-language translation of PIGS IN HEAVEN, which launches this publisher's new Spanish-language imprint, HarperLibros. Originally published at $10.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 08/01/1984. Reissue. At the age of twenty-two, Catherine Sloper is regarded as a rather mature blossom, such as could be plucked from the stem only with a vigorous tug. She is neither clever nor beautiful (her taste in dress verges on the vulgar), yet Morris Townsend finds Catherine exceedingly charming. Less, it must be admitted, because of her evident goodness and truth than because she is due to inherit a substantial fortune. Meanwhile, Doctor Sloper finds the curious spectacle of his daughter's courtship by a handsome, athletic fortune-hunter at once an entertainment and a challenge. WASHINGTON SQUARE, set in New York City, belongs with Henry James's early novels. It is a spare and intensely moving story of divided loyalties and innocence betrayed, and it is also, as Graham Greene has said, "perhaps the only novel in which a man has successfully invaded the feminine field and produced a work comparable to Jane Austen's." Originally published at $7.95 You save 81% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 03/01/1988. Reprint. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, Amis's novel is a satirical but sympathetic portrait of a group of old retired pals in a Welsh town, stoically facing old age and the trials it brings: failing health, problems with booze, and romantic tangles. Kingsley Amis's son, the writer Martin Amis, considered this his father's masterpiece. Originally published at $7.95 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/1991. Reissue. Two brothers discover gold in the mountains and are immediately beset by all manner of treachery and betrayal. Originally published at $3.99 You save 62% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins Childrens Books. 06/01/1996. Illustrated. 127 pgs. Dickens's second novel was a far cry from THE PICKWICK PAPERS, his first. The story of an orphan who flees the workhouse only to fall in with a gang of thieves and prostitutes in London's sleazy underworld, it was a trenchant criticism of England's poor laws. Enacted in the 1830s, these laws provided assistance for the poor only through workhouses, which were deliberately squalid and miserable to encourage the poor--who were considered lazy and immoral--to better themselves and get out. The inequities between rich and poor were one of Dickens's constant themes, and with OLIVER TWIST he established himself as a staunch champion of the downtrodden, particularly children. The novel also, however, has its cheerful moments, and contains some of Dickens's most colorful characters, including Fagin, the Artful Dodger, the evil Bill Sykes, and the unfortunate Nancy. Originally published at $3.99 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins Childrens Books. 01/01/1997. Reissue. In this classic coming-of-age tale, the hero wants desperately is not the maverick iconoclast that Huck Finn is; his comic battles with prim conformity are essentially harmless. In "Tom Sawyer", Twain effectively and lovingly recreates the pastoral world of his Hannibal, Missouri childhood , including a portrait of his brother Henry, who died young in a shipboard explosion, as Tom's younger brother Sid. Originally published at $4.25 You save 60% off the cover price!

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Zondervan. 04/01/2001. 303 pgs. Originally published at $12.99 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 06/01/1988. Movie Tie-In. 308 pgs. In Waugh's biting satire of contemporary social life, Tony Last, a modestly well-to-do landowner in the South of England, allows his bored society wife, Brenda, to take an apartment in London. Brenda promptly takes advantage of her situation to begin a love affair with John Beaver, the social-climbing son of her landlady. (Waugh himself had been similarly betrayed by his apparently heartless wife shortly after their marriage.) After the accidental death of her young son, Brenda asks for a divorce, but Tony decides that he wants to leave England for a while to think things over and sets off on an archaeological expedition into the Brazilian rain forest. There his guide is killed in an accident, and Tony himself nearly succumbs to fever. However, he is rescued by an English hunter, who holds Tony prisoner in his camp in the jungle and forces him to read the novels of Charles Dickens aloud to him, over and over. (Waugh actually witnessed a situation something like this on a trip to British Guiana in 1932). Waugh claimed that A HANDFUL OF DUST "contained all I had to say about humanism." It is considered one of his greatest novels. Originally published at $14.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 03/01/1978. An unhappily married middle-aged schoolteacher falls in love with a younger woman and resolves to run off with her and change his life. In the end, his resolve crumbles, however, and he chooses duty over love in a novel that views his behavior ambiguously: Has the hero been cowardly and weak, or noble and brave? Originally published at $15.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1988. Reprint. Hank and Leland Stamper are half-brothers in a family of loggers. When the loggers' union goes on strike, the Stampers refuse to go with them. In addition to their conflict with the community, Hank and Leland are in conflict with each other: Hank is head of the family business; Leland is an Ivy League graduate. Hank has had an affair with Leland's mother; Leland seduces Hank's wife in revenge. These complexities are illustrated using multiple points of view, film techniques, and other narrative innovations. Originally published at $14.95 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 02/01/1983. Reissue. Banned in South Africa for 12 years, this novel is about the remorseful suicide of a white man, an activist in the struggle against apartheid, who betrays his friends to save himself. THE LATE BOURGEOIS WORLD was the first of Gordimer's novels to bring her to the attention of the international literary community. Originally published at $9.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1995. Reprint. It is 1965 and the god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the brink of chaos. Guy Hamilton, a Western journalist, Billy Kwan, his Chinese-Australian cameraman, and Jill Bryant, a British women whom both men love, are caught up in the violence. Kwan becomes disillusioned with Sukarno and, in an atmosphere charged with political hysteria and betrayal, commits a desperate act. This novel was made into a movie, directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, and Sigourney Weaver. Originally published at $15.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 04/01/1985. 232 pgs. When Alice Reese discovers that her husband is having an affair, she falls apart. In her acclaimed first novel, Josephine Humphreys explores the harsh realities of family life and marriage. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 04/01/1988. The Shrapnel Academy was established in commemoration of Harry Shrapnel, the inventor of the exploding artillery shell. Although life at the Academy has proceeded in fine style for many years, trouble is now brewing beneath the surface, as the motley assemblage of people gathered at the annual Eve-of-Waterloo address will soon discover. Acorn, the South African butler, and several hundred Third World denizens from below-stairs are about to stage an uprising. What results may cause the esteemed Mr. Shrapnel (not to mention the Duke of Wellington) to spin in his grave. Originally published at $8.95 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1996. Reissue. 271 pgs. Originally published at $11.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 04/02/1997. Reprint. John Converse is sent on assignment to Vietnam by his father-in-law, who runs a tabloid paper. While there, he decides to smuggle in three kilos of heroin to the U.S. He gets his friend Hicks to do it. Once Hicks gets to the U.S., he contacts Marge, who sells tickets in a porn theater and is addicted to tranquilizers. Hicks is set upon by thugs, and he and Marge escape across Southern California, Converse in pursuit of them, and a posse of lawmen led by a man named Antheil in pursuit of the heroin itself. The three parties meet at a cult in the mountains near the Mexican border. This book won the National Book Award in 1975 and was filmed as WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN? in 1978. Originally published at $14.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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