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1) Ethan Frome
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This amply annotated edition of Wharton's 1911 classic novella includes textual notes and documents, including Wharton's preface, letters, reviews, and early short story, "Mrs. Manstey's View." It is accompanied by the editor's comprehensive introduction and a wide array of readings on topics central to the novella: tragedy, health and fitness, sex and marriage, and turn-of-the-century New England poverty and isolation. Of her twenty-five novels and...
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"Karin knew what she was getting herself into when she fell for John, the high-flying criminal and love of her life. But she never imagined things would turn out like this: John is now gone and the coke-filled parties, seemingly endless flow of money, and high social status she previously enjoyed have been replaced by cut telephone lines, cut heat, and cut cash. All that remains of Karin's former life is the big house he bought for her--and his daughter,...
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New York Times Book ReviewNotable Book of the Year
"A new masterpiece of American literature." -Dennis Lehane, Entertainment Weekly
"A Prayer for the Dying reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy. It's twisted proof that God will do worse to test a faithful man than the devil would ever do to punish a sinner." -Chuck Palahniuk
Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for...
9) Winter door
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Gateway trilogy volume 2
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When her own world and Valley are threatened with an endless winter, Rage and her friends seek to stop the powerful Stormlord from using the despair of others to create the bleak weather.
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"Después de compartir toda una vida, el esposo de Bárbara muere. Ella, devastada por la situación, pierde el rumbo. A bordo de un crucero, decide abandonarlo todo, incluso a sí misma. Se despide de su familia, de su casa y de los recuerdos que alguna vez la hicieron feliz. ¿Cómo recuperar las ganas de vivir? Bárbara pasa las tardes llorando sobre cubierta acompañada de una libreta roja, en la que escribe sus memorias. De pronto, una misteriosa...
11) La ciudad blanca
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Panorama de narrativas volume 964
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"El mundo de Karin se ha transformado por completo. John, el hombre al que amaba, ya no esta con ella. Y con John ha desaparecido el tren de vida que llevaba: las fiestas amenizadas con coca, los lujos... Ahora esta sola con su hija Dream, el poco dinero que le queda se le esta agotando y el entorno en el que se movia las otras mujeres de los miembros de la organizacion criminal de la que formaba parte John le ha dado la espalda. La justicia ha desmontado...
12) The gates ajar
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"For the first time in Penguin Classics, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's bestselling Civil War classic Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1868 Reconstruction-era novel The Gates Ajar, in its portrait of inconsolable grief following the American Civil War, helped to shape enduring American ideas about heaven and demonstrated that for American women, the war didn't simply end at Appomattox. When Mary Cabot loses her beloved brother, Union soldier Royal, in the war,...