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Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright
by Ada Louise Huxtable
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture writer for "The Wall Street Journal" and chief architecture critic for "The New York Times" for nearly 20 years explores the sources of Wright's tumultuous and troubled life and his long career as master builder... (read more)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a... (read more)
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Moby-Dick (Everyman's Library) Moby-Dick (Everyman's Library)
by Herman Melville
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An extraordinary collection that features some of the most beloved stories in early American literature, ranging from tales of love and longing to those of personal transformation. With elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon... (read more)
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Rock Springs (Vintage Contemporaries) Rock Springs (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Richard Ford
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In these ten stories, Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West--and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose,... (read more)
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Ninety-Two in the Shade (Vintage Contemporaries) Ninety-Two in the Shade (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Thomas McGuane
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Set in Key West — the nation's extreme limit — this is the story of a man seeking refuge from a world of drug addiction by becoming a skiff guide for tourists — even though a tough competitor threatens to kill him.... (read more)
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This Side of Paradise This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Published when he was twenty-three years old, F. Scott Fitzgeralds debut novel, This Side of Paradise, established him as the golden boy of the dawning Jazz Age. As a chronicle of youth, no other... (read more)
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Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
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One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the... (read more)
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A Man without a Country A Man without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut
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A Man without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut's hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life (If I die — God forbid — I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?), art (To... (read more)
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A Confederacy of Dunces A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
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When a true genius appears in the world, You may know him by this sign, that the dunces Are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting" "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy... (read more)
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The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain
by Cormac McCarthy
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The Border Trilogy chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys of the old school, are poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Their journeys across the... (read more)
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