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Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1987
Description
A master of naturalism, Theodore Dreiser brought the American novel into the twentieth century. Fascinated by the city street, its parade of fashion and its threat of poverty and degradation, his journalistic eye lets us see as they were first seen the now familiar realities of modern living. "Sister Carrie" traces the fate of a small-town girl drawn into the brutal metropolitan worlds of Chicago and New York, and Sinclair Lewis called it "the first...
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 44
Publisher
Distributed to thetradein the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Author
Publisher
Collier Books
Pub. Date
1986, c1937
Description
To Have and Have Not is the dramatic, brutal story of Harry Morgan, an honest boat owner who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who swarm the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.In this harshly realistic, yet oddly tender and wise novel, Hemingway perceptively...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1989
Description
Known primarily for her classic and haunting story "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an enormously influential American feminist and sociologist. Her early-twentieth-century writings continue to inspire writers and activists today. This collection includes selections from both her fiction and nonfiction work. In addition to the title story, there are seven short stories collected here that combine humor, anger, and startling vision...
14) Vanity fair, selections from America's most memorable magazine: a cavalcade of the 1920s and 1930s
Publisher
Viking Pressillus.Viking Press
Pub. Date
1960
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