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  3. 4 Plays by Eugene O'Neill: Beyond the Horizon/Anna Christie/The Emperor Jones/The Hairy Ape
  4. 41 Stories
  5. 41 Stories
  6. A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories
  7. A Christmas Carol: And Other Christmas Stories
  8. A Little Princess
  9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  10. A Room with a View and Howards End
  11. A Tale of Two Cities
  12. Adam Bede
  13. Adam Bede
  14. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  15. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  16. Adventures of Tom Sawyer (97 Edition)
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  18. Aesop's Fables
  19. All's Well That Ends Well
  20. An American Tragedy
  21. Animal Farm
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  25. Anton Chekhov: The Major Plays: Ivanov/The Sea Gull/Uncle Vanya/The Three Sisters/The Cherry Orchard
  26. Arabian Nights Volume 1
  27. Around the World in Eighty Days
  28. Around the World in Eighty Days
  29. Arrowsmith
  30. As You Like It
  31. Babbitt
  32. Babbitt
  33. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
  34. Beowulf
  35. Beowulf
  36. Bible's Greatest Stories (01 Edition)
  37. Billy Budd and Other Tales
  38. Black Beauty
  39. Black Voices
  40. Bleak House
  41. Bread and Wine
  42. Captains Courageous
  43. Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady
  44. Common Sense, Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine
  45. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  46. Crime and Punishment
  47. Crime and Punishment
  48. David Copperfield
  49. David Copperfield
  50. Death in Venice and Other Stories
  51. Dracula
  52. Dubliners
  53. Elmer Gantry
  54. Emma
  55. Emma
  56. Ethan Frome
  57. Flatland a Romance of Many Dimensions
  58. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimesions
  59. Four Great Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Twelfth
  60. Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth
  61. Four Major Plays Volume 1
  62. Four Major Plays: Volume I: A Doll House/The Wild Duck/Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder
  63. Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus
  64. Great Dialogues of Plato
  65. Great Expectations
  66. Great Expectations
  67. Growing Up in the South
  68. Gulliver's Travels
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  71. Hard Times: For These Times
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  73. Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer
  74. Henry IV, Part 1
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  77. Howards End
  78. Hungry Hearts
  79. Ibsen Four Major Plays Volume 2
  80. Immigrant Voices: Twenty-Four Voices on Becoming an American
  81. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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  86. Jude the Obscure
  87. Just So Stories (100th Anniversary)
  88. Kidnapped (00 Edition)
  89. King Lear
  90. Last of the Mohicans
  91. Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
  92. Leaves of Grass
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  95. Looking Backward: 2000-1887
  96. Lord Jim (61 Edition)
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  121. Nectar in a Sieve
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  125. Oliver Twist
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  128. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  129. Othello
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  132. Persuasion
  133. Plays from the Contemporary American Theater
  134. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics
  135. Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of Boston
  136. Portrait of a Lady -Lib
  137. Pride and Prejudice
  138. Pudd'nhead Wilson
  139. Pygmalion and My Fair Lady (50th Anniversary Edition)
  140. Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
  141. Ramona
  142. Richard II
  143. Rob Roy
  144. Robinson Crusoe
  145. Roughing It
  146. Roughing It
  147. Selected Stories
  148. Sense and Sensibility
  149. Silas Marner
  150. Silas Marner
  151. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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  157. Sophocles: The Complete Plays
  158. Spoon River Anthology
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  177. The Classic Slave Narratives
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  187. The Federalist Papers
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  189. The Haves and Have Nots
  190. The Hound of the Baskervilles
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  192. The House of the Seven Gables
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  195. The Iliad
  196. The Iliad: The Story of Achilles
  197. The Inferno
  198. The Invisible Man
  199. The Island of Dr. Moreau
  200. The Journals of Lewis and Clark
  201. The Jungle Books
  202. The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757
  203. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories from the Sketch Book
  204. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
  205. The Major Plays: Ivanov, the Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, the Three Sisters, the Cherry Orchard
  206. The Man in the Iron Mask
  207. The Merchant of Venice
  208. The Metamorphoses
  209. The Mill on the Floss
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  211. The Moonstone
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  214. The Paradiso
  215. The Pathfinder
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  218. The Philosophy of Aristotle
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  223. The Playboy of the Western World: And Other Plays
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  227. The Prince and the Pauper
  228. The Purgatorio
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  231. The Red Badge of Courage: And Four Stories
  232. The Return of the Native
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  234. The Scarlet Letter
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  236. The Scarlet Letter
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  238. The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
  239. The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries with DVD
  240. The Signet Book of American Essays
  241. The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories
  242. The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories
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  244. The Song of the Lark
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  247. The Souls of Black Folks
  248. The Sport of the Gods
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  250. The Story of My Life
  251. The Swiss Family Robinson
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  255. The Time Machine/The Invisible Man
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  257. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet with DVD
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  259. The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels
  260. The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution
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  263. The War of the Worlds
  264. The War of the Worlds
  265. The Wind in the Willows
  266. The Winter's Tale
  267. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  268. Three By Flannery O'connor
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  271. Troilus and Cressida
  272. Twelfth Night (Rev. Signet Ed.)
  273. Twelfth Night
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  276. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative
  277. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly
  278. Uncle Toms Cabin 150TH Edition Anniversary
  279. Up from Slavery
  280. Vanity Fair
  281. Walden and Civil Disobedience: Or, Life in the Woods
  282. War and Peace
  283. War and Peace
  284. What to Listen for in Music
  285. White Fang & Call of the Wild 100 Ann Edition
  286. Why We Can't Wait
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  289. Wings of the Dove
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It Can't Happen Here (Signet Classics)

by Sinclair Lewis

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Lewis's cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy is an alarming and timeless look at how easily fascism could take hold in America is now reissued in a brand-new package. Reissue.

Synopsis:

'It is 1936. America has just elected Berzelius Windrip to the presidency-and his fascist policies turn the U.S. into a totalitarian state.'

Product Details

ISBN:
9780451529299
Introduction:
Meyer, Michael
Publisher:
Signet Classics
Introduction:
Meyer, Michael
Author:
Lewis, Sinclair
Author:
Meyer, Michael
Author:
Meisel, Perry
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Vermont
Subject:
Canada
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Signet Classics
Publication Date:
March 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
400
Dimensions:
6.74x4.22x.90 in. .41 lbs.

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