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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Simon & Schuster. 03/01/1985. 338 pgs. Lodge uses the quest from medieval romance literature to tell the tale of Persse McGarrigle and his pursuit of the beautiful Angelica, as well as the quests of professors, critics and academic hangers-on for their various brass rings. Set in literary conferences held at universities, SMALL WORLD finds Persse flying all over the world after Angelica as she goes from conference to conference, culminating at the annual MLA conference in New York. Almost equally important, however, is the political jockeying among professors and critics for the UNESCO chair of Literary Theory, which involves no work and pays $100,000, tax-free. While SMALL WORLD is infused with a strong satiric flavor, Lodge also draws on the legend of the Fisher King in portraying a sterile, stagnant academic world consumed with greed and feeding off itself. Originally published at $1.98 You save 49% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 03/01/2000. 246 pgs. Edith Goodnough, whose life spans much of the 20th century, gives up Sanders Roscoe--this novel's narrator-- to care for her domineering crippled father. Haruf's first novel won the 1986 Whiting Award and a PEN/Hemingway citation. Originally published at $12.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Brilliance Audio. 12/01/2000. Unabridged. Peter's adored wife, Joan, leaves him, and as the years go by he begins to wonder if their son is really his child. When he has blood tests done proving that he is not, in fact, Sam's father, Joan tries to deny him custody. This painful story of a man and his child considers the points of view of everyone involved to produce a complex analysis of parental love. Originally published at $32.95 You save 97% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 12/01/1997. 433 pgs. This whimsical novel, winner of the 1988 Booker Prize, is set in Victorian England and Australia, is the story of two highly unusual people: Oscar Hopkins, rebellious son of a disciplinarian preacher, and Lucinda Leplastrier, an heiress who has just bought a glass factory. The two meet on shipboard, fall in love, and find that they share an attraction for gambling and for risks--a taste that culminates in the precarious conveyance of a crystal church across the rough Australian outback. Originally published at $14.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 11/01/1989. 277 pgs. Eddie Socket is in love with Merrit Mather, but Merrit prefers Eddie's boss, Saul. Eddie and his equally depressed roommate, Polly, conclude that the single life is the only way to go. Then fate takes an odd turn, and they are forced to reevaluate their lives. Originally published at $17.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 11/01/2002. Reprint. 336 pgs. This novel imagines an incident in the life of the painter Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) when he became an art instructor in Dresden. Obsessed with Alma, his lost love, Kokoschka makes a doll in her image and pretends she is real--while, meantime, his housekeeper, who assists him in the charade, is in love with him. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% 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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Penguin USA. 06/01/1985. Reprint. After the death of his wife, Owen Kraznik went on living and teaching in Amherst, but his days had become a bewildering fluster, a tangled wilderness, a formless and perplexing dishevelment. Originally published at $5.95 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 07/01/1995. Reprint. This is the saga of an Irish family who face the hardships of famine, emigration, and political turmoil with an enduring spiritualist faith. In 1830's Ireland Mary is a young woman who's life is changed when a fairy sailor dies in her arms. Although she marries and moves her family to Ottawa to escape the famine, the fairy world never loosens its grip. Later in life she is called into the Canadian woods to die, abandoning her husband and two children. Her daughter Eileen carries on Mary's proclivity for impossible, otherworldly love, by falling for a fiery Irish patriot who is then caught up in an assassination plot. The whole tale is framed in the memories and legends as recalled by the 80-year-old Esther, Mary's great granddaughter. Originally published at $15.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1996. 161 pgs. "The mere slim shade of an intelligent but presumptuous girl...a certain young woman affronting her destiny" is how Henry James describes his first perception of Isabel Archer, who grew into one of his most magnificent heroines. An American heiress newly arrived in Europe, Isabel does not look to a man to furnish her with her destiny; instead she desires, with grace and courage, to find it herself. Two eligible suitors approach her and are refused. She then becomes utterly captivated by the languid charms of Gilbert Osmond. To him, she represents a superior prize worth at least 70 thousand pounds; through him, she faces a tragic choice. The greatest of the novels of James's early period, PORTRAIT OF A LADY was deeply influenced by both Turgenev and George Eliot. Originally published at $10.95 You save 91% 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 83% off the cover price!

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Lightning Source Inc. 10/01/1997. 357 pgs. For 20 years Sabine was the assistant of the magician, Parsifal. Deeply in love with him despite his homosexuality, she had to settle for his friendship. After his death, Sabine learns that Parsifal has surviving relatives in Nebraska, so she decides to visit them in an attempt to learn more about his past. In the place where her beloved came of age, she slowly pieces together the mystery of the magician's life, and finds herself drawn into the tangled webs of affection and tragedy that drove Parsifal to reinvent himself in the first place. Originally published at $33.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/14/2005. Reprint. 298 pgs. In this, the fourth novel in Baker's Company series, two of Dr. Zeus's genetically altered agents, Joseph and Lewis, spend the late 20th to the early 24th century searching for Joseph's missing protege Mendoza and his missing mentor Budu, who are only two among a myriad of vanished agents. In the process, they gain ever more puzzling information about the two seemingly identical Englishmen that Mendoza loved in two separate eras, and learn some disturbing things about the corporate policy on their continued existence. Originally published at $14.95 You save 88% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 06/01/1997. 247 pgs. Dan is a middle-aged detective who specializes in collecting debts. His adored (and much younger) wife Priscilla divorces him, and Dan tries to figure out what went wrong. Did the trouble start when Priscilla persuaded Dan to work for a drug dealer who was also involved in the porn industry? Or when she took a young lover named Xavier? Gold's novel is about the sadness of lost love, and also about the end of his hero's youth. Originally published at $21.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 11/01/1998. 203 pgs. Sometime in the 18th century, a dying scientist named D'Alembert consoles himself with memories of his great love, while two men in a prison cell discuss various philosophical questions. Originally published at $21.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 06/01/2001. 448 pgs. An Englishman, Archie Jones, and a Bengali Muslim named Samad Iqbal, who first met after World War II in Turkey, encounter each other again 30 years later in the North-West London neighborhood where they live with their families. The daughter of Archie and his Jamaican wife falls in love with Samad's radical fundamentalist son. Archie's sister-in-law is a fervent Jehovah's witness. Samad is plagued by guilt over his affair with his children's schoolteacher. And a nearby Jewish family tries to interfere in their lives. In a stew of often competing multicultural elements, Archie, Samad, and their families struggle to find their identities amid the complexities of the 1970s. Zadie Smith calls her acclaimed novel "a utopian view" of race relations: "It's what it might be and what it should be and maybe what it will be." A New York Times "Editors' Choice" for one of the best books of 2000. Nominated in 2001 for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Originally published at $14.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 12/01/1973. Henry Soames, proprietor of a diner in a small upstate New York community, is obese, ill, miserable, and compulsive, but his acceptance of everyone he encounters as a worthwhile individual makes him a Christlike figure. A young woman named Callie who comes to work as a waitress at the diner is the instrument of his redemption when they marry and she bears his child. Originally published at $15.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library. 10/01/1999. Reprint. 373 pgs. A reworking of Mary Jo Putney's 1989 regency romance THE WOULD-BE WIDOW, THE BARGAIN tells the whimsical tale of beautiful, resourceful Lady Jocelyn Kendal. The year is 1815, and Jocelyn, her aunt warns her, must find a husband within a few weeks or lose most of her beloved inheritance. When the desperate damsel visits a friend in the hospital, she has the good fortune of meeting Major David Lancaster, a soldier on his deathbed after fighting the brutal battle at Waterloo. Sure that the major will die in a matter of days, Jocelyn wagers a bargain with him: marry her immediately and she'll provide a monthly stipend for his penniless sister. A flawless plan, it seems. But when Lancaster makes a miraculous recovery soon after tying the knot, Jocelyn finds herself in quite a bind. Can the lady wiggle her way out of this marriage of convenience? Or will an unexpected love hold her captive? Originally published at $7.50 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Tuttle Pub. 08/01/1995. The composition of this novel in verse occupied a substantial portion of Pushkin's most productive years, from 1823 to 1831. His subject matter, genre, and even the meter he chose, were all influenced by Lord Byron and, in particular, "Childe Harold" (1812-1818). Eugene Onegin is an educated dandy in Petersburg society, an archetype for the "superfluous man" in Russian literature who suffers from melancholy and an aching but willful detachment from the conventional aristocratic lifestyle. These very qualities make him the object of Tatyana Lavin's love when he decides to accompany his friend Lensky on an excursion to court Olga Lavin. Tatyana soon declares herself in a letter to Onegin, but he believes that his temperament is beyond the possibility of love, that he could never be happy, and he tells her so. A few weeks later Onegin reluctantly accepts an invitation to Tatyana's name-day party and, feeling spiteful about the whole affair, provokes Lensky by dancing with Olga. Thinking his good friend will not go through with it, Lensky challenges Onegin to a duel. Mechanically, Onegin accepts the challenge and the following day Lensky is killed. Olga is inconsolable and Tatyana is taken away to Moscow by her family to find a suitable husband. Years pass, and when Onegin next sees Tatyana at a Petersburg ball she has married a wealthy prince and is a prominent member of society. He now finds himself consumed with desire for her and writes her a letter that mirrors the one he received from her years earlier. Onegin waits in vain for her reply until finally he visits her at home. Tatyana admits that her love for him has not diminished, but her position in society, her duty towards her husband, outweigh his unwelcome, belated, and tactless emotions. Originally published at $7.95 You save 75% off the cover price!

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