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Oxford Univ Pr. 09/01/1998. 160 pgs. This tragic short novel tells the tale of Ethan Frome, who lives an isolated life in cold New England. When his mother dies, he marries his cousin Zeena for companionship, rather than for love. When they hire Mattie Silver as a live-in household helper, Ethan and the young Mattie fall desperately in love. Inevitably, Zeena discovers the affair. Originally published at $8.95 You save 84% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 10/01/1998. Reprint. 448 pgs. Morgan and Maud fall in love and marry, adopt two daughters, move to the country, and become wealthy. When World War II breaks out, Morgan goes overseas. This novel is about love, loyalty, and honor, and it recreates its period so meticulously that it could actually have been written in the '50s. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 03/01/2002. Reprint. 386 pgs. Fourteen years ago, Doctor Stuart Jordan's wife Annabel allowed the couple's son to wander off into the woods, where the child died. Since then, Stuart has found meaning in his life by serving as a dedicated doctor in a town in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Annabel's bipolar disorder, coupled with her guilt over the death of her son, has led her into a life on the streets. In her absence, Stuart is having an affair with Bobbie Tisdale, an attractive woman married to a dangerous man. When Stuart is called upon to be the medical examiner in a murder case, his life becomes even more turbulent. He finds himself responsible for the care of the accused murderer's infant child. Then Annabel reappears, forcing Stuart to choose between his wife and his mistress. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 03/01/2001. 306 pgs. Pat McNab murders his mother and buries her in the back yard. After that, things go rapidly down hill: he is plagued by his mother's ghost, his next-door neighbor forces him into sex, a blackmailer threatens him, and a drug sale goes bad. As a result of his troubles, he commits more murders. Unless, of course, the entire scenario is the product of Pat's hazy alcoholic fantasy life.... Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1994. Reprint. 290 pgs. This novel about the friendship between two Nebraska children, Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda is considered Cather's masterpiece. The fortunes of the two families are opposed: the Burdens thrive while the Shimerdas decline, a downfall that culminates in the suicide of Antonia's father, which forces the girl to work in the fields and then as a servant. Throughout all her trials, Antonia's strength, humor, and goodness sustain her and her family--and Jim, for whom she is a lifelong inspiration and mentor. Willa Cather called this novel "the best thing I've done." Originally published at $9.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 03/01/1999. 243 pgs. In this literary mystery, the teenage narrator comes across a corpse on his family's land and finds himself in danger as a result. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% 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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Harpercollins. 08/01/2002. 418 pgs. Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady's 12-year-old daughter, Jenny, and Jenny's friend, troubled and rebellious Dora, find the body of a woman in the woods. Days later, Dora is brutally murdered. Terrified for Jenny's safety, Joanna tries to find the killer. Originally published at $7.99 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1994. Reprint. 248 pgs. A chronicle of the odd and compelling lives of a pair of elderly, inseparable identical twins, Lewis and Benjamin Jones, who are sheep-farmers in rural Wales. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1988. Reprint. Richard and Sara Everton, a middle-aged couple devoted to each other and, perhaps, foolhardy, move from California to a small village in Mexico to reopen an abandoned copper mine. As foreigners in an alien environment, they must learn to cope with the villagers' exaggerated respect, their own disorientation, the things they discover about each other--and the terminal cancer with which Richard is diagnosed soon after they arrive. Originally published at $14.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 02/01/1990. Reprint. 272 pgs. The marital bliss of Liffey and Richard is disturbed when his desire for them to have a baby comes into conflict with her desire for the peace and quiet of the country in which to write her novel. The compromise they reach eventually becomes a formula for the disintegration of their marriage. Originally published at $8.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Univ of Notre Dame Pr. 10/01/1980. Prudence Sarn has a harelip, and finds in her deformity a way to rise above the petty concerns of the less afflicted. Mary Webb's richly sensuous and intensely symbolic 1924 novel, set in rural Shropshire, is a classic of its kind. Originally published at $18.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 02/01/1992. Reprint. Eight interconnected stories, set in rural Florida in the 1950s, that tell the story of a minister's daughter and her eccentric family. Originally published at $10.95 You save 91% 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. 11/01/1998. 368 pgs. Moline Bedwell returns to Resurrection, Missouri, after a disastrous marriage. Middle-aged and looking for peace and quiet, she falls into an affair with an old flame and becomes involved with the struggle between a developer and the locals. Originally published at $12.95 You save 85% 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. 06/01/1980. 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. 10/01/1982. 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. 12/01/1988. Reprint. Vladimir Petrovich, a middle-aged bachelor, is persuaded to write an account of his first love for a small group of friends who have been entertaining one another with romantic recollections. Vladimir's story takes place when he is 16 and living with his parents in their summer home outside of Moscow. Their neighbors are the Princess Zasyekin and her 21-year-old daughter Zinaida, who daily entertains an odd assortment of suitors. Zinaida gives Vladimir an honorary place among them as her "page," and he soon discovers that she has a secret lover. In a passionate rage, Vladimir is determined to find this lover and kill him but is horrified to learn of his own father's secret visits to Zinaida. His mother too learns of the infidelity, and their stay in the country is cut short. Tragically this episode colors everything Vladimir knows about his parents and all that he understands about love in general. Originally published at $10.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 08/01/1983. Turgenev's "comedy in five acts" was written in 1850. It depicts a love triangle straddling social and class barriers. Natalia is the bored wife residing at her husband's country estate who falls in love with her son's tutor. Vera, Natalia's ward, also falls for him and this rivalry results in the tutor being sent away. In the course of its various performances, it was among the first dramatic works to help establish Stanislavsky's acting methods by virtue of Turgenev's finely nuanced psychological dialogue. The play is also considered an important precursor to the style and subjects taken up by Chekhov. Originally published at $8.95 You save 81% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 09/01/1996. 213 pgs. Winner of England's Sunday Times First Novel Award, this is a story about an adolescent boy who lives an isolated life tending a pig. He falls in love Surinder, an Indian girl, and the two find a refuge from the harshness and bigotry that surround them. Originally published at $21.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 05/01/2003. 288 pgs. A group of friends on the cusp of middle age gathers at a deluxe Hudson River estate, where a horny 24-year-old and a neighbor's au pair on the make complicate the mix. Originally published at $24.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 01/01/1995. 277 pgs. Upon their mother's death, the three Lovejoy sisters gather in their home town and discover that her troublesome, lovable, exasperating spirit will not die. Originally published at $14.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 08/01/1994. Reprint. 241 pgs. Harriet Doerr's long-awaited second novel, about Americans in rural Mexico.
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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. 08/01/2003. Reprint. 240 pgs. The former governor of Massachusetts writes a novel set in a small town in the eastern part of the state in 1938, a time when several towns in the valley are going to be flooded to create the Quabbin Dam. Jamieson Kooby and his grandmother are slated to lose their home, and the townspeople finally revolt against the collection of crooked politicians, lawyers, and clergymen who are involved in the taking of their land. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Lightning Source Inc. 02/01/1980. In the last in the series of Colette's Claudine books, we find Claudine separated from her tubercular husband, Renaud, who is recuperating in a Swiss hospital. She goes to the countryside to stay with her friend, Annie, and experiences relief from her depression in the pleasures of the natural world--and in encouraging her friend to have an affair. RETREAT FROM LOVE was written a few years after the four original Claudine tales, and rumor has it that Colette wrote it to have a small revenge on her first husband, "Monsieur Willy," on whom Renaud (who dies in the end) was apparently based. Originally published at $15.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Columbia Univ Pr. 03/01/2001. 291 pgs. The first and last installments (THE WINTRY NIGHT and THE LONE LAMP) of the author's epic trilogy of life in Taiwan are included in this volume, which combines the little-known events of Taiwanese history with the story of a family of farmers. The narrative follows the Pengs from their 19th-century rural roots through the Japanese invasion of 1895 and into the 1940s, when a young family member serves in the Japanese army. Originally published at $77.50 You save 97% off the cover price!

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