Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain and Emory Elliott (ed.)
You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, but that ain’t no matter. So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest ...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain and Peter Stoneley (ed.)
‘Tom was a glittering hero once more – the pet of the old, and the envy of the young…There were some that believed he would be President yet, if he escaped hanging.’ In this enduring and ...
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton and Stephen Orgel (ed.)
‘They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.’
Edith Wharton’s most ...
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The Ambassadors
Henry James and Christopher Butler (ed.)
Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by ...
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The American
Henry James and Adrian Poole (ed.)
‘You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!’ A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe ...
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The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
Henry James and Adrian Poole (ed.)
There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake.’ The poet Aspern, long since dead, has left behind some private papers. They are jealously guarded by an old lady, once his ...
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The Awakening: And Other Stories
Kate Chopin and Pamela Knights (ed.)
‘She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.’ Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new ...
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The Beautiful and Damned (2 ed.)
F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Blazek (ed.)
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), is a devastating portrait of a generation of wealthy young Americans who struggle to find meaning and happiness in their ...
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The Bostonians
Henry James and R. D. Gooder (ed.)
The plot of this novel revolves around the feminist movement in Boston in the 1870s. F.R. Leavis called it one of “the two most brilliant novels in the language.” The novel’s many allusions ...
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories
Jack London, Earle Labor (ed.), and Robert C. Leitz (ed.)
Of all Jack London’s fictions none have been so popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog’s adventures during the Klondike gold ...
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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
Herman Melville, Tony Tanner (ed.), and John Dugdale (ed.)
Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the ‘masquerade’ of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidèle is ‘the confidence man’? The central motif of Melville’s ...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain, M. Thomas Inge (ed.), and Daniel Carter Beard
When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. Thus what began as a literary burlesque of ...
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The Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton and Stephen Orgel (ed.)
Edith Whartonߣs satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her ...
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Daisy Miller and An International Episode
Henry James and Adrian Poole (ed.)
An inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence’ ... Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and charms her stiff but susceptible fellow-American, Frederick Winterbourne. Is she innocent ...
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Daisy Miller and Other Stories
Henry James and Jean Gooder (ed.)
This volume includes “Daisy Miller”, “Pandora”, “The Patagonia”, and “Four Meetings”.
The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams and Ira B. Nadel (ed.)
As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An ...
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Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton and Elaine Showalter (ed.)
Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In ...
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The Europeans: A Sketch
Henry James and Ian Campbell Ross
Eugenia, Baroness Mnster, wife of a German princeling who wishes to be rid of her, crosses the ocean with her brother Felix to seek out their American relatives. Their voyage is prompted, ...
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The Golden Bowl
Henry James and Virginia Llewellyn Smith (ed.)
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A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and a noble husband. ...
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