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A Penguin ClassicAncient pagan beliefs, the great Greek epics, and the Bible all inform this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, which occupied him for more than five difficult years. While fulfilling his dead father’s dream of creating a...
NATIONAL BESTSELLERWritten to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the Westis an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado—the Centennial State—is manifested...
#1 New York Times Bestseller“Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades." — New York TimesA landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning...
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels ? Winner of the 2024 Richard Harris AwardThe beloved feminist classic of Chicano literature that "could be the offspring of a union between One Hundred Years of Solitude and General Hospital: a sassy, magical, melodramatic...
A timeless story of first love set in a remote fishing village in Japan. • "A story that is both happy and a work of art.... Altogether a joyous and lovely thing." —The New York Times A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the...
A young woman is forced to face the family tragedy she desperately tried to run from in this "stunningly evocative and keenly informed debut" (Hartford Books Examiner)."Rewarding, up-all-night reading at its best." —Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times–bestselling authorA...
The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste' Virginia WoolfJane Austen's subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly portrays a world where rigid social convention clashes with the impulses of the heart. It...
The acclaimed classic documentary novel depicting the Nazi occupation of Kyiv and one of the largest mass executions of the Holocaust."[A] masterpiece . . . every bit the peer of the canonical works of witness [such as] Anne Frank's diary [and] Wiesel's Night."...
An aspiring writer from the Midwest finds inspiration and heartache in New York's Hudson Valley in this classic novel by the author of The House of Mirth. It's the early 1920s, a time when all of America seems to be hurtling toward transformation. Vance Weston, a...
ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S “BEST 100 NOVELS WRITTEN IN ENGLISH”ONE OF WSJ’S “FIVE BEST: BOOKS ON THE GOLDEN YEARS”A “sharp and witty” story of loneliness, deception, and life in old age, by one of the most accomplished novelists of the 20th century (The Guardian).On a...
