Simon & Schuster. 10/01/2036. Published in 1936, GONE WITH THE WIND sold 50,000 copies on its first day, and two million after a year. Even though it is 1,037 pages long, readers all over the world snatched up the book; by 1937 it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the movie rights had been sold to David O. Selznick. Mitchell prided herself on the historical accuracy of her work, and--despite its melodramatic plot and somewhat two-dimensional supporting characters--GONE WITH THE WIND is a sweeping account of how the Civil War tore apart an entire way of life, and Scarlett O'Hara is one of the most enduring characters in American fiction. Originally published at $22.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Univ of Nebraska Pr. 08/01/1995. 277 pgs. A family saga describing the changes that overtake a rural community in the American West. Marge Hogan grows up on a small farm in the western Dakotas. Bored with country life and exhausted by farm work, she encourages her son Kurt to escape the life she inherited, through college and service abroad in the Navy. A local turkey processing plant opens in the area and soon becomes the leading economic force in the area, buying most of the local produce and many of the farms. When Kurt returns home after years away, he finds the region depopulated and its few remaining inhabitants impoverished. Originally published at $15.95 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/2003. Reprint. John Cheever's sequel to "The Wapshot Chronicle" takes place in a small town in Massachusetts. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1999. 816 pgs. Dickens's huge, rambling novel tells the story of the Nickleby family after the death of the father, when the family is tyrannized by their nefarious Uncle Ralph. Nicholas becomes a schoolmaster at a brutal Yorkshire school run by the evil-hearted Wackford Squeers, who treats his young charges with neglectful brutality. Nicholas and the orphan boy, Smike, run away and join a troupe of traveling actors. Hearing that his sister Kate is in danger, Nicholas travels to London and foils his uncle's vile plans for her. The frail and saintly (if simpleminded) Smike dies, after which it is revealed that he was Uncle Ralph's son. Uncle Ralph hangs himself, leaving the tormented Nickleby family in peace at last. Originally published at $7.95 You save 87% 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. 12/01/1993. Reissue. Mrs. Eckdorf, a brash professional photographer, is determined to investigate the decline of O'Neill's Hotel from a plush and prosperous establishment to a dingy house of disrepute. However, Mrs. Eckdorf becomes the victim of the truth she seeks to exploit. Originally published at $11.95 You save 84% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 05/01/1992. Reprint. 569 pgs. A retired, ailing history professor, Lyman Ward, has been deserted by his wife. To distract himself from pain, both physical and emotional, he embarks on the project of editing the private papers of his grandmother, an artist and writer married to a geologist. Ward recounts the story of his grandparents' life juxtaposed with his own--specifically, the betrayals of his grandmother and his own wife. Stegner masterfully evokes the Western landscape as well as the complex tensions between art and life. Stegner's magisterial tale, an American classic, was voted the best Western novel of the 20th century in a poll taken by the San Francisco Chronicle. Originally published at $15.00 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/2000. 220 pgs. In South Africa after apartheid, a middle-aged professor of Romantic poetry sees his career crumble as the world turns more to technology than to literature. After a series of ever more degrading misadventures, including a charge of sexual harassment, he ends up on his daughter's farm. There, after further disgraces--his daughter is raped and he is attacked and disfigured--he is able to reconcile himself to his stunted life by caring for animals and, finally, feeling a kind of kinship with them. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 09/01/1996. Abridged. In SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Jane Austen writes about two ways of looking at the world in the personalities of two sisters, Elinor the determinedly practical and Marianne the madly romantic. Forced to live in reduced circumstances with their widowed mother and younger sister, the Dashwood girls must rely on marrying well if they are to survive in the world, and the way in which this goal is eventually accomplished provides the plot of this delightful novel, the first of Jane Austen's to be published (1811). As SENSE AND SENSIBILITY progresses to the requisite happy ending, Elinor and Marianne and their suitors are subjected to a volley of misunderstandings, jealousies, and manipulations--and to Jane Austen's mercilessly satirical look at provincial life. As she herself stated, "Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on"--and in doing so, Austen perfected the comedy of manners, zeroing in on her characters and their relationship to the society in which they live--an achievement that brought her closer to the later novels of the Victorian era and the 20th century than to those that preceded her. Originally published at $3.99 You save 70% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1966. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH is a thinly disguised account of Butler's own Victorian childhood. Butler began the work in 1872; it was finally published in 1903, a year after his death. With irony and wit, he savaged contemporary values and beliefs, turning the conventional family-history novel inside-out. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 10/01/1982. Reprint. Parson Primrose and his wife, Deborah, must manage the lives of their children--scholars George and Moses, the attractive and sensual Olivia and Sophia, as well as two younger sons. Betrothals, betrayals, loss and gain of fortune, catastrophe, vanity, pretension, and providence pepper this novel that Henry James called "the spoiled child of our literature." Originally perceived as a sentimental pastoral account, it is now regarded as a satire on that very type of novel. Originally published at $9.00 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1964. Reissue. 280 pgs. A collection of short stories portraying life among the various strata of Russian society of the 19th century. Chekhov was a master of realism, and his stories remain models of economy and precision of language to this day. Originally published at $9.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1978. 201 pgs. In his first full-length novel, published in 1883, Maupassant follows the life of Jeanne, a member of the old Normandy gentry, from her departure from a convent in 1819 to middle age in 1855. In her family life she is surrounded on all sides by avarice, treachery, cruelty, and greed, as her husband turns out to be a lascivious boor and her son a heedless spendthrift. Her family estate must be sold so that she can survive. Originally published at $12.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 09/01/1982. A collection of short stories portraying life among the various strata of Russian society of the 19th century. Chekhov was a master of realism, and his stories remain models of economy and precision of language to this day. Originally published at $6.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1986. A collection of short stories portraying life among the various strata of Russian society of the 19th century. Chekhov was a master of realism, and his stories remain models of economy and precision of language to this day. Originally published at $8.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 06/01/1990. Reissue. 150 pgs. The story of Marian Forrester, a wife and then a widow in a small Nebraska town, and Niel Herbert, the narrator, who has been devoted to her since he was a child, is one of Cather's lesser-known novels, but considered by many to be one of her best. Marian is a refined and civilizing presence in the rough town to which her marriage to a rich man takes her, but after a devastating love affair, followed by her husband's death and the loss of her money, she makes changes in her life that, at first, Niel fails to understand. It's only years later that he is able to see that her life was, in fact, a work of art with its own logic--that the woman he revered but considered "lost" was in fact the mistress of her fate, and a woman he can continue to admire. Originally published at $9.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 12/01/2002. Reprint. Dickens's huge, rambling novel tells the story of the Nickleby family after the death of the father, when the family is tyrannized by their nefarious Uncle Ralph. Nicholas becomes a schoolmaster at a brutal Yorkshire school run by the evil-hearted Wackford Squeers, who treats his young charges with neglectful brutality. Nicholas and the orphan boy, Smike, run away and join a troupe of traveling actors. Hearing that his sister Kate is in danger, Nicholas travels to London and foils his uncle's vile plans for her. The frail and saintly (if simpleminded) Smike dies, after which it is revealed that he was Uncle Ralph's son. Uncle Ralph hangs himself, leaving the tormented Nickleby family in peace at last. Originally published at $10.00 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Oxford Univ Pr. 06/01/1998. 294 pgs. Five plays by the celebrated 19th-century Russian author. Originally published at $8.95 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Oxford Univ Pr. 05/01/1999. 272 pgs. A collection of short stories portraying life among the various strata of Russian society of the 19th century. Chekhov was a master of realism, and his stories remain models of economy and precision of language to this day. Originally published at $9.95 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Trafalgar Square. 11/01/1996. In a small Italian village, a brother and sister are forced to give up the land that their once-wealthy family owned, keeping only the house where they lived as children. A year passes, during which both siblings undergo personal crises and trials, and when at last they find that they must give up the old house, they find themselves able to let it go. Originally published at $26.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 08/01/1999. 314 pgs. The eponymous hero leaves his wife and four daughters on their New Zealand farm to seek his fortune in England. In a desperate attempt to do so, he becomes butler to a fat heiress named Blanche Lovelace, hoping to con her out of her money. Blanche, of course, falls in love with him--and Palliser, to his shock, finds himself warming toward her. Meanwhile, back on the farm, his wife struggles to stay afloat, eventually teaming up with a wealthy local man in a wine-making business. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Farrar Straus & Giroux. 04/01/1996. 247 pgs. John Moon, abandoned by his wife and infant son, supports himself by doing odd jobs and poaching off a neighbor's land. One morning he is out hunting deer. Hearing a rustle in some branches, he fires a single shot which, he is horrified to discover, kills a teenage girl. In his attempts to investigate the girl's identity and why she was in the woods, Moon uncovers a pattern of evil in his town. Originally published at $22.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 07/01/2000. 317 pgs. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Warner Books Inc. 12/01/1997. Mel Burke and her husband, Builder, belong to Atlanta's black professional elite, but the American dream begins to fade--and their family values to erode--when Mel loses her job and Builder's business goes into decline. Originally published at $6.50 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 02/01/2001. In upstate New York, the Mulvaneys are a wealthy and magnetic family--attractive, charismatic, promising. But after 25 years, the family begins to slide, then fragment, then shatter, and soon there is nothing left of the dynasty. Judd, the youngest of the clan, begins to search for the reasons behind the downfall, and as he uncovers family secrets, he begins to bring the Mulvaneys slowly back together in a spirit of healing and compassion. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Dover Pubns. 08/01/1990. A collection of short stories portraying life among the various strata of Russian society of the 19th century. Chekhov was a master of realism, and his stories remain models of economy and precision of language to this day. Originally published at $2.00 You save 50% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 09/01/1994. Reprint. Styron calls these three stories--all of which take place in the Virginia Tidewater of the 1930s--"an imaginative shaping of real events." They include the reminiscences of a Marine about to participate in the invasion of Japan, a child recalling the last day of a former slave he knew, and the death of a young teenager's mother from agonizing cancer. Originally published at $11.95 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 04/01/1991. Reprint. Amis's third novel is a comedy of manners in which two roommates and foster brothers, Gregory and Terry, gradually exchange roles in the changing England of the 1970s: as one falls, the other rises. They narrate their story in alternating chapters. Originally published at $13.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 10/01/1997. Reprint. Mona Simpson's third novel repeats some of her perennial themes: a troubled family, a mentally unstable mother, a neglected daughter, an absent father, and a journey. In this case, it is Jane, age 10, who goes off in search of her father, and tries both to accept him with all his flaws, and to win his affection. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 02/01/1999. 224 pgs. Originally published at $23.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 02/01/1999. 300 pgs. Three sisters are raised in an upper-class black community in Philadelphia. When, in the early '60s, their father's business fails and he disappears from their lives, their mother collapses, and the girls are put into foster care with a working-class family. Their foster sister, Ramona, who resents them deeply, is being abused by her mother, Mae, and the three sisters must cope with Ramona's problems, Mae's political activism, and the enormous changes in their own lives. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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