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Tales of the South Pacific
by James A. Michener
James Michener's magnificent story of love and war and life in the South Pacific
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
Death of a Salesman (Heinemann Plays)
by Arthur Miller
The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This modern tragedy concerns a salesman who, at the end of his life, is forced to face its futility and failure.
The Age of InnocenceEdith. Wharton
The Age of Innocence
by Edith. Wharton
Lonesome Dove : A NovelLarry McMurtry
Lonesome Dove : A Novel
by Larry McMurtry
The Creators/a History of Heroes of the Imagination
by Daniel J. Boorstin
By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national bestseller.
One of Ours (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)
by Willa Cather, Kari Ronning
Although the land on which the Nebraska farm boy Claude Wheeler lives is settled, he himself has inherited the pioneer spirit of adventure, the frontiersman's purpose, and the settler's sense of idealism. In One of Ours , Willa Cather explores the dissonance between Claude’s attitudes and his physical reality and studies how this conflict affects him. Drawing on her own family’s experience of the war through her... (more)
Andersonville (Plume)
by MacKinlay Kantor
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie’s vivacious cousin enters their household as a "hired girl," Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fiction’s finest and most intense narratives, Edith... (more)
Cat on a hot tin roof
by Tennessee Williams
The definitive text of this American classic—reissued with an introduction by Edward Albee ( Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance ) and Williams' essay "Person-to-Person." Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat.... (more)