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'Stunning......Wallace is an astonishing storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned how to read in the first place.' -San Francisco Chronicle OBLIVION is an arresting, hilarious new creation from a writer universally regarded as one of the most prodigious and original talents in contemporary letters. In the stories that make up this exuberantly praised collection, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest,... (more)

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary mate- rial, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714,the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipi-tated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering... (more)

The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)

by Nathanael West

Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional call-girl, his dream rapidly becomes a nightmare. For, with little in the way of looks and no money to buy her time, Tod's... (more)

BLACK BOY, A Record of Childhood and YouthRichard Wright

BLACK BOY, A Record of Childhood and Youth

by Richard Wright

The Ides of March: A Novel

by Thornton Wilder

Drawing on such unique sources as Thornton Wilder's unpublished letters, journals, and selections from the extensive annotations Wilder made years later in the margins of the book, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this internationally acclaimed novel. The Ides of March , first published in 1948, is a brilliant epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar's Rome. Thornton Wilder... (more)

Marjorie Morningstar

by Herman Wouk

Novel by Herman Wouk, published in 1955, about a woman who rebels against the confining middle-class values of her industrious American-Jewish family. Her dream of being an actress ends in failure. She ultimately forfeits her illusions and marries a conventional man with whom she finds sufficient contentment as a suburban wife and mother, thus finally coming to accept her parents' values. -- The Merriam-Webster... (more)

The Miracle

by Irving Wallace

The Vatican Announces that the Virgin Mary will return to Lourdes this year to Perform A Miracle Cure! Will It Be A Miracle? Or Will It Be A Fraud? Precious lives, loves, and happiness are at stake: Ken Clayton: the young American who abandons medical treatment for the chance of miracle Edith Moore: the Englishwoman whose miracle cure has made her famous against her will Gisele Dupree, the French girl whose... (more)

The Chapman Report

by Irving Wallace

Theophilus North: A Novel

by Thornton Wilder

Marking the thirtieth anniversary of Theophilus North, this beautiful new edition features Wilder's unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. The last of Wilder's works published during his lifetime, this novel is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventure of his twin brother who died at birth.... (more)

World Enough and Time (Voices of the South)

World Enough and Time (Voices of the South)

by Robert Penn Warren

"The longest and richest of <Warren's> novels". -- NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE

JaneDee Wells

Jane

by Dee Wells

THE EIGHTH DAY

The Hills Beyond (Voices of the South)

by Thomas Wolfe

This wonderful and compelling collection of stories and character sketches contains some of the finest Wolfe ever wrote.

The Nympho and Other Maniacs : The Lives, the Loves and the Sexual Adventures of Some Scandalous and Liberated Ladies

The Nympho and Other Maniacs : The Lives, the Loves and the Sexual Adventures of Some Scandalous and Liberated Ladies

by Irving Wallace

The Fan ClubIrving Wallace

The Fan Club

by Irving Wallace

The Pigeon ProjectIrving WALLACE

The Pigeon Project

by Irving Wallace

The Second LadyIrving Wallace

The Second Lady

by Irving Wallace

As in The Chapman Report, The Seven Minutes, and The Fan, leering Mr. Wallace has again come up with a plot that makes the dirty stuff ostensibly essential to the story; here, it's a reworking of the old Prisoner of Zenda gimmick, with a Russian look-alike taking the place of the U.S. President's wife . . . in bed as well as everywhere else. Actress-agent Vera Valilova, thanks to a touch of plastic surgery and a... (more)

The Seven MinutesIrving Wallace

The Seven Minutes

by Wallace, Irving, Irving Wallace

At Heaven's Gate (New Directions Paperbook)

At Heaven's Gate (New Directions Paperbook)

by Robert Penn Warren

Plot summary Sue Murdock searches for redemption throughout the novel. Her father repeatedly laments his inability to relate to his daughter. Sue rejects his assistance because she believes he is trying to control her. She has a stormy relationship with Jerry Calhoun, who, perhaps because he is profoundly naive and not particularly bright, is unable to understand her. Jerry clings to quaint notions of Southern... (more)

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