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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 89% 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. 09/01/1996. 235 pgs. Nona's father left her and her mother when Nona was a child, and he died young. A painter, he has become more famous after death than when he was alive. Nona herself grew up and married Roy, a voice teacher, and they live placidly in Greenwich Village. But when Nona goes to a writing colony to finish a book on her father, she is approached by another married man named Lyle, who seduces her and persuades her to come to Santa Fe. There, she discovers Lyle's true nature--and her own. Originally published at $23.00 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 10/01/1999. 287 pgs. In this true-crime account, award-winning journalist George Anastasia investigates the murder of Anne-Marie Fahey, secretary to the Governor of Delaware. Reconstructing her two and a half years with Thomas J. Capano, the lawyer who was convicted of killing her, Anastasia draws from e-mail messages, FBI records, interviews, and court testimony to uncover the shocking truth about corruption among Delaware's political elite. Originally published at $24.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 02/01/1990. Reissue. John Buddy Pearson, a Baptist minister, is a good preacher but a bad husband. His adulterous adventures are condemned by the black society of his southern town--something he is unable to comprehend. Hurston's first novel was published in 1934. Originally published at $13.95 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Midpoint Trade Books Inc. 10/01/1985. Mark Lamming is a biographer of some reputation in London. He is currently writing about Gilbert Strong, a critic and writer. In the course of his research, he meets Strong's granddaughter, and his fulfilled and well-ordered life is turned upside down. Originally published at $14.95 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 09/01/2001. 227 pgs. This novel, a winner of the American Book Award, chronicles the painful family life of the Howells. Dinah and her three children return to Dinah's hometown in Ohio for the eighth summer in a row, while Martin, her husband, remains at home in the Berkshires to teach summer school. The separation is difficult, but Dinah is dependent on this annual pilgrimage because she has not yet come to terms with her past and the difficulties of her own painful adolescence. Meanwhile, Martin embarks on an ultimately unsatisfactory extramarital affair. When their middle child is killed in an automobile accident, both Martin and Dinah are forced to grow up, reconcile the various contradictions in their life, and come together with a greater appreciation of the value of marital and familial love. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 02/01/1996. In this first novel from Myerson, she recounts the psychological depths of Susan, who, haunted with memories of a childhood scarred by an emotionally distant father, enters into an impossible marriage. A family suicide and an extramarital love affair begun in the eighth month of pregnancy force her to reexamine her life and the dark, complex family history that comprises its blueprint. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% 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. 11/01/1976. Reprint. In a typical Murdochean situation, a large cast of characters pairs off, regroups, and pairs off again in this 1961 novel, in which moral blindness is finally vanquished by goodness, acceptance, and maturity. Originally published at $15.00 You save 93% 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. 02/01/1990. Reprint. 201 pgs. Set in a small Somerset town--Jane Austen country-- Weldon's novel is about a marriage gone awry. Originally published at $9.95 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 07/01/1981. A love story involving an American tourist in Italy. Sophie, a middle-aged woman on a holiday, meets and is pursued by Tancredi, a married Italian architect. She resists him at first but eventually gives in without much enthusiasm. Slowly and with remarkably little passion, the couple falls in love. Originally published at $2.25 You save 56% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 12/01/1994. Reprint. Del and Bud Tribute are brothers who have never grown up. Now middle-aged, Bud moves to Hollywood to pursue fame and fortune, and Del moves to Biloxi to pursue Bud's wife. Selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best books of 1993. Originally published at $10.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 03/01/1997. Reprint. The prosperous Dutch heroine of this acclaimed historical novel lives in the icebound village of New Amsterdam in the 17th century. She recalls the dramatic events of her life, including her plague-stricken childhood in Holland, her past as an Amsterdam whore, her rape by a farmer on whom she wreaks revenge and the death of her husband. Originally published at $12.95 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 10/01/1994. Reprint. Annette Horrocks has finally succeeded in getting pregnant, after 10 year of trying, and is also about to have a first novel published. Then she discovers that her husband is having an affair. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 12/01/1992. Reprint. In Davies' historical romance, two Welsh families immigrate to Canada, the Gages in the late 18th century, the Gilmartins sometime later. The two stories are intertwined, culminating in a very 20th-century moment in which Connor Gilmartin, recently murdered, finds himself at a film festival sitting beside his murderer, and watching what seems to be a documentary about his family's history. Originally published at $13.95 You save 86% 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. 09/01/1993. Reprint. The protagonist of this novel is a writer named Benjamin Sachs who is widely considered to be brilliant, witty, and talented. As the novel opens, he is blown to bits while attempting to manufacture a bomb on a snowy road in Wisconsin. How he came to this abrupt, untimely end is the ostensible topic that the imaginary author of the present novel, Sachs's old friend, Peter Aaron, is investigating. Aaron is searching for the truth, lest the authorities hold Sachs responsible for a series of bombings of replicas of the Statue of Liberty throughout the United States. Could Benjamin Sachs have been one of this secret malignant, secret group? Originally published at $14.00 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1990. Reissue. Americans John and Florence Dowell maintain a distanced but amiable friendship with Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, a British couple they met at a spa. Dowell finds Ashburnham to be quite admirable, but as the book progresses, more and more of Ashburnham's character is revealed, causing the reader--and eventually Dowell himself--to question Dowell's own credibility. The story is told in a fragmented, impressionistic manner, and is the quintessential tale told by an unreliable narrator. Originally published at $11.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1999. 191 pgs. Graham Greene's 1951 novel centers on the attempt of Maurice Bendix, a London novelist, to learn why his lover, Sarah, had abandoned him without a word of explanation several years before. In the course of the story, Sarah dies, and Maurice comes into possession of her journal, which provides an explanation that is hardly less perplexing to him than the original mystery itself. The novel is permeated with the concepts of sin, guilt, and redemption, and is considered one of Greene's most "Catholic" works, though Greene himself rejected that label. The story is drawn partly from his 10-year affair with Catherine Walston, a married woman (and convert to Catholicism) he met in 1946. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 10/01/1999. 242 pgs. This 1948 story of moral decay was one of Graham Greene's greatest popular and critical successes, though not one of his own favorites. His hero Scobie is a colonial police commissioner in West Africa. He endures a loveless marriage and a nondescript career patiently enough until he falls in love with a young shipwreck survivor who, literally, washes ashore at his feet. To send his wife on an extended holiday to South Africa, he borrows money from a Syrian merchant, who then uses his position to blackmail Scobie into turning a blind eye to his smuggling. Once his wife returns home, Scobie finds that he can no longer reconcile his affection for his mistress with his duties as a husband, a policeman, and a Catholic, and is pressed to a desperate resolution of his confusions. One of Greene's aims in this novel was to open a philosophical exploration into the differences between pity (which he sees as destructive) and compassion (which is positive). Upon its publication, Greene commented, "I found myself regarded as a Catholic author in England, Europe, and America--the last title to which I had ever aspired." Originally published at $15.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1994. Reissue. Willa Cather's O PIONEERS!, first published in 1913, tells the story of Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of a Swedish pioneering family, who successfully takes over the management of the family farm upon her father's death. The story encompasses Alexandra's difficult relationships with her brothers, Oscar and Lou, her love for a neighbor, Carl Lindstrom, and the tragic romance between her youngest brother, Emil, and a married woman. The setting is as important as the events of the story, however. Alexandra's near-obsessive love for the huge sky and vast plains of Nebraska is part of what fuels the plot, and Cather's chronicle of the prairie's evolution from a raw and wild landscape to thriving farmland reflects her own love of the land and her admiration for the immigrants who worked it. O PIONEERS! is an early novel, and in later books Cather would become more skilled at dialogue and plotting, but the passionate conviction she brought to this novel secures its position as one of her greatest works. Originally published at $8.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1995. Reprint. 364 pgs. D. H. Lawrence's most controversial novel was published in Florence in 1928 by one of his friends, and in Paris the next year. Because of its overt sexuality and liberal use of four-letter words, LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER was declared obscene and actually went to trial; the complete text did not appear in England until 1960. The novel tells the impassioned story of Lady Constance Chatterley, who is married to Sir Clifford, a wealthy man left a paraplegic after World War I--now an intellectual who ignores her. She finds love and sexual fulfillment--graphically and lyrically described--with her husband's gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. This landmark novel epitomizes Lawrence's belief in the overriding legitimacy of sexual passion as an antidote to the cold and conventional values of a modern industrial society--and, in fact, to the life of the intellect, an attitude that has brought Lawrence as many detractors as admirers. LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER may not be Lawrence's best novel in terms of characterization or subtlety, and--for all the novel's radical sexual realism--the narrative harks back to the novels of the Victorian era. But it is certainly his most notorious work. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 04/01/1997. Reprint. A story of love, murder, ambition, and deceit, from the celebrated Albany novelist. Edward Daugherty is a successful playwright married to Katrina, an aristocratic Irishwoman. Their marriage is passionate but troubled, and reaches a crisis shortly after a hotel fire reveals some of the secrets that haunted it. Set amid the petty snobberies of turn-of-the-century Albany, "The Flaming Corsage" is both haunting and evocative. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Natl Book Network. 04/01/1996. 256 pgs. Nicholas Kraven is a British lecturer in English literature at Mosholu College in the Bronx. His job is good, although he must deal with a few inconveniences such as publishing scholarly papers and handling eccentric students. His love life is good, although his lover is married. He is content. But this satisfaction is shattered when his lover's husband leaves her. He steals a student's idea, is then discovered, and his plagiarism is exposed. As the novel progresses, it is revealed that Nicholas Kraven is not at all the man he had presented himself to be. Originally published at $21.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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