Harpercollins. 09/01/1990. Reprint. This work of small-town realism is the story of Wade Whitehouse, a born-to-lose, middle-aged blue-collar resident of a bleak New Hampshire community like the one in which Russell Banks grew up. The story of Wade's abusive father, Wade's hopeless marriage and attempts to be a father to his daughter, and his obsession with the death in a hunting accident of a man he doesn't even know, followed by his almost willful downward slide, is told by his detached, educated younger brother as an American macho tragedy, steeped in pointless violence. AFFLICTION was made into a highly acclaimed film in 1998 by Paul Schrader, starring Nick Nolte. Originally published at $13.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 02/01/1989. Reprint. In a small English village, Clare Paling--a newcomer--feels left out of the life of the community until a series of violent acts involves her in a particularly intimate way. Originally published at $10.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins Childrens Books. 12/01/1996. Illustrated. 127 pgs. Crane's novel, the harrowing tale of a young soldier in battle during the Civil War, is a masterpiece of 19th-century naturalism. Crane attended a military prep school and was obsessed with war all his life, but he wrote his masterpiece without ever having witnessed a battle--a fact he was always slightly defensive about. He read extensively about the Civil War, however, before he began to write, particularly the memoirs of survivors that were popular in the late 19th century. Originally published at $4.25 You save 66% off the cover price!

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McGraw-Hill. 06/01/1973. This novel takes place during World War II. Leni Pfeiffer is German, and her secret lover is a Soviet prisoner of war; the relationship is both sustaining and threatening. Her story is told--to an anonymous author/investigator--by people ("informants") who know her, and a complete portrait emerges, not only of Leni but of German life under the Nazis--one of Böll's recurring themes. Originally published at $8.95 You save 78% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 07/01/1996. In 1988 in Paradise County, Garlic farmer Gao Ma has fallen in love with an abused young woman named Jinju whose family is forcing her to marry for money. When she discovers that she is pregnant with his child, she decides to run away with Gao Ma. Meanwhile, because there is a surplus of garlic, the government refuses to buy the current crop, causing the farmers to riot and destroy a government building. Gao Ma tragically loses his bride-to-be and is soon arrested as the alleged ringleader of the riot. In the process, he finds himself bound up with the fate of other political prisoners in a highly corrupt communist society. This book, by the author of "Red Sorghum," is banned in China. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1996. 849 pgs. Daniel Deronda, raised by Gentiles, discovers the truth about his heritage and seeks his Jewish roots, finding that Judaism--and, particularly, Zionism--gives meaning to his life. Daniel's story intersects with that of the beautiful and spoiled Gwendolyn Harleth, who marries the jaded, depraved aristocrat Grandcourt and lives to repent her bad judgment. As the novel's moral center, Daniel provides a role model for Gwendolyn and, eventually, becomes a revered leader of the Zionist movement. DANIEL DERONDA, first published in 1876, is remarkable for its sympathetic and closely observed portrait of its Jewish characters--unusual in the Victorian period, when Jews were routinely vilified or caricatured in fiction. But it is also a deeply intelligent novel that explores two vastly different worlds with subtle acuity, whether the plot takes it to the ascetic study of a Jewish scholar or to the casinos where Gwendolyn routinely gambles away her money. The main characters' two remarkable journeys--Daniel's back to the religion of his people, and Gwendolyn's from selfishness to wisdom--are parallel quests toward what is always Eliot's true subject: the progress of the mind and the heart toward self-discovery, a preoccupation that was more characteristic of modernist fiction than of the novels being written in the mid-19th century. Originally published at $9.95 You save 84% off the cover price!

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Oxford Univ Pr. 12/01/1998. Reissue. The central character of this novel is Lizzie Eustace, a brave, beautiful, and completely wicked young woman who steals her own diamond necklace because her inheritance of it is in dispute. By means of Lizzie's unscrupulous actions, Trollope examines the many meanings of "truth" in Victorian society. Trollope obviously disliked and disapproved of his fascinating heroine; in his autobiography, he referred to her as "a cunning little woman of pseudo-fashion," and in the end he takes revenge on her by having her marry one of his more repulsive characters. Originally published at $9.95 You save 80% 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. 06/01/1980. Reprint. Inspired by an anecdote told to George Eliot by her aunt, ADAM BEDE is notable for its extraordinarily realistic characters and convincing depiction of English rural life, complete with the earthy Derbyshire dialect of the title character. It is the story of Hetty Sorrel, the dairymaid who spurns the working-class Adam, a carpenter, for the faithless lord of the manor, and is abandoned by him after she becomes pregnant. When it was first published, in 1859, the book earned praise for its nuanced and unflinching description of a young woman's fall from grace and for Adam's simple righteousness. But George Eliot's choice of this scandalous subject matter for her first novel also met a great deal of adverse criticism, and only reaffirmed her decision to publish her novels under a pseudonym rather than as Mary Ann Evans, her given name. ADAM BEDE has also become famous for Eliot's groundbreaking defense, in chapter 17, of realism in art: "I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind. The mirror is doubtless defective….but I feel as much bound to tell you, as precisely as I can, what that reflection is, as if I were in the witness-box narrating my experience on oath." In this same section, she also makes a plea that her readers "tolerate, pity, and love" their fellow mortals despite their faults and sins--a sentiment that is embodied most vividly in ADAM BEDE. Originally published at $8.95 You save 79% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 10/01/1993. Reprint. The second novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire continues the story of the conflict between High and Low Church begun in THE WARDEN. Trollope introduces Mrs. Proudie, the bishop's wife, one of his most famously despicable characters. The plot revolves around the power struggle between her and Mr. Slope, the bishop's chaplain, for control of diocesan politics. Originally published at $10.00 You save 81% 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. 02/01/2000. This novel of love and growing disillusionment is about the romantic attachment of a young man for an older woman; its subtext is an examination of the consequences of moral compromise and indifference. Originally published at $7.95 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 10/01/1976. 682 pgs. Balzac's cycle of novels entitled LOST ILLUSIONS (ILLUSIONS PERDUES) was published between 1837 and 1843, and chronicles the life of Lucien de Rubempré and his rise from a small-town boy to a famous French poet in Paris, and then his fall as he returns, failed and suicidal, to his home town--only to be rescued from despair by a mysterious benefactor. Originally published at $16.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Xlibris Corp. 03/01/1986. A schoolteacher in East Germany has what seems to be a heart attack and re-evaluates his life, finding fresh vitality in a world that seems new. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% 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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Lightning Source Inc. 01/01/1997. 248 pgs. Treuer's debut novel relates the proverty-stricken lives of an eclectic community of Ojibwe indians living on Poverty--a housing tract on a Minnesota reservation--whose primary consolation is their survival and the stories they tell one another. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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