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  • A Son at the Front
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    A Son at the Front

    Edith Wharton

    "Wharton has done nothing that equals this."New York Times Book Review (1923)"Extraordinarily poignant...Heartrending, tragic, powerful, this is not to be missed."-Publishers WeeklyEdith Wharton's A...
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    Spectral Sounds

    Manon Burz-Labrande

    Darkness now was around me and sound. I seemed to stand in the centre of some yelling planet, the row resembling the resounding of many thousands of cannon, punctuated by strange crashing.The violent...
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  • The Great Modern American Stories, an Anthology The Great Modern American Stories, an Anthology
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    The Great Modern American Stories, an Anthology

    William Dean Howells

    This collection features some of the most iconic stories of late 19th/early 20th century American literature. It includes works by writers such as Mark Twain, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, making...
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    Holy Ghosts

    Fiona Snailham

    "I confess I have a particular dislike to remain in a church after dusk; it recalls to my mind the most painful story I ever heard."A festering evil lurks in the grotesque carvings of a cathedral's...
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  • The Fruit of the Tree
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    The Fruit of the Tree

    Wharton, Edith

    Originally published in 1907, this little-known novel by Edith Wharton (1862-1937), the author of "The Age of Innocence" and "Ethan Frome", was considered controversial for its frank treatment of...
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  • The Best Short Stories of 1917 The Best Short Stories of 1917
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    The Best Short Stories of 1917

    Edward J. O'Brien

    This anthology features some of the finest short stories of 1917, selected by noted critic and anthologist Edward J. O'Brien. With contributions from such luminaries as Jack London, Edith Wharton,...
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  • A Pickpocket's Tale
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    A Pickpocket's Tale

    Timothy J. Gilfoyle

    In George Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as...
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  • Social Thought in American Fiction (1910-1917) Social Thought in American Fiction (1910-1917)
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    Social Thought in American Fiction (1910-1917)

    Hazel Clare Wilkinson

    In this critical study, Hazel Clare Wilkinson examines how prominent American writers of the early 20th century, including Edith Wharton and Upton Sinclair, engaged with social and political issues...
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  • The Great Modern American Stories, an Anthology The Great Modern American Stories, an Anthology
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    The Great Modern American Stories, an Anthology

    William Dean Howells

    This collection features some of the most iconic stories of late 19th/early 20th century American literature. It includes works by writers such as Mark Twain, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, making...
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  • The Haunted House in Women's Ghost Stories The Haunted House in Women's Ghost Stories
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    The Haunted House in Women's Ghost Stories

    Emma Liggins

    This book explores Victorian and modernist haunted houses in female-authored ghost stories as representations of the architectural uncanny. It reconsiders the gendering of the supernatural in terms...
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  • The New Physiognomy (Paperback)
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    The New Physiognomy (Paperback)

    A fascinating new study of the face, form, and history of expression. Advances in facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and other technologies provoke urgent ethical questions about facial...
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  • The Book of the Homeless The Book of the Homeless
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    The Book of the Homeless

    Anonymous

    Published during World War I, this anthology of poetry, fiction, and essays was designed to raise funds for displaced persons in Europe. Featuring contributions from some of the era's most respected...
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  • Travel, Modernism and Modernity
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    Travel, Modernism and Modernity

    Robert Burden

    Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how travel enabled a new consciousness of mobility and...
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  • The Custom of the Country The Custom of the Country
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    The Custom of the Country

    Edith Wharton

    Undine Spragg is a beautiful and ambitious, yet vain and socially dense young woman with dreams of marrying a rich man. Hoping for a life of prominence and luxury, Undine convinces her family to...
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  • The Book of the Homeless The Book of the Homeless
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    The Book of the Homeless

    Anonymous

    Published during World War I, this anthology of poetry, fiction, and essays was designed to raise funds for displaced persons in Europe. Featuring contributions from some of the era's most respected...
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  • The Blossom Which We Are The Blossom Which We Are
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    The Blossom Which We Are

    Nir Evron

    Charts the vicissitudes of a distinctly modern and peculiarly human vulnerability-our intimate dependence on the fragile, time-bound cultural framework that we inhabit-in the history of the realist...
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  • The Best American Short Stories Of 1916 The Best American Short Stories Of 1916
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    The Best American Short Stories Of 1916

    Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

    ""The Best American Short Stories Of 1916: And The Yearbook Of The American Short Story"" is a collection of short stories edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien and published in 1917. The book...
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  • The Age of Innocence
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    The Age of Innocence

    Edith Wharton

    The Pulitzer Prize winning novel about love and the constraints of privilege, and the basis for Martin Scorsese's outstanding, award-winning 1993 adaptation, now freshly repackaged for the Union...
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  • Women's Fiction and the Great War
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    Women's Fiction and the Great War

    The essays in this volume on women's writing of the First World War are written from an explicitly theoretical and academic feminist perspective. The contributors - including a number of leading...
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  • Virginia's Sisters
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    Virginia's Sisters

    Virginia Woolf

    A fascinating anthology of poetry and prose by leading feminist writers of the 20th century on the topic of women's freedom and the idea of the 'New Woman'. This international collection offers over...
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  • Frederick's Heir Frederick's Heir
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    Frederick's Heir

    Joan Clark

    Set in the 19th century and inspired by Edith Wharton's women who were not passive victims of their lives, Frederick's Heir is the story of two girls who defy the conventions of convent school and...
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  • Machine and Metaphor
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    Machine and Metaphor

    Jennifer C. Cook

    American literary realism burgeoned during a period of tremendous technological innovation. Because the realists evinced not only a fascination with this new technology but also an ethos that seems...
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  • Machine and Metaphor Machine and Metaphor
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    Machine and Metaphor

    Jennifer C. Cook

    American literary realism burgeoned during a period of tremendous technological innovation. Because the realists evinced not only a fascination with this new technology but also an ethos that seems...
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  • Madame De Treymes Madame De Treymes
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    Madame De Treymes

    Edith Wharton

    This novel by Edith Wharton tells the story of Fanny de Malrive, a Frenchwoman who marries a wealthy American but finds herself torn between loyalty to her family and the demands of her new life...
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  • Chanel's Riviera
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    Chanel's Riviera

    Anne de Courcy

    Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there...
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  • Unutterable Horror Unutterable Horror
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    Unutterable Horror

    S. T. Joshi

    S. T. Joshi is one of the leading authorities on weird fiction, and in this expansive new study he provides a comprehensive history and analysis of the entire range of weird fiction from antiquity to...
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  • The Essential Anthology of Short Fiction The Essential Anthology of Short Fiction
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    The Essential Anthology of Short Fiction

    Lorena Butler-Prince

    Sabino Falls literary texts are the new standard for discerning scholars throughout the world. Our Essential anthologies are designed with students and instructors in mind. Thorough without being...
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  • Celtic Weird
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    Celtic Weird

    Johnny Mains

    In this volume, Johnny Mains dives into the archives to unearth a hoard of twenty-one enthralling tales imbued with elements of Celtic folklore, ranging from the 1820s to the 1980s and including...
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  • The Awkward Age The Awkward Age
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    The Awkward Age

    Henry James

    A tragicomedy of manners that explores the conflicts between generations, sexes, and social classes in turn-of-the-century London. The plot revolves around the love affair between Nanda Brookenham, a...
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  • Country Commonplace Book
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    Country Commonplace Book

    Miranda Mills

    A seasonal touchstone packed full of quotes, book lists, recipes, poems and observations on the natural world to keep close at hand and to accompany you through the year.Commonplace books have been...
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  • Reading the Male Gaze in Literature and Culture Reading the Male Gaze in Literature and Culture
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    Reading the Male Gaze in Literature and Culture

    James D. Bloom

    This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries.Male gazing has typically...
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  • Word Cloud Classics: Horror Collection
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    Word Cloud Classics: Horror Collection

    Dive into these six volumes of classic stories from the masters of the dark and macabre...if you dare. Step into the shadows with this six-volume boxed set of timeless horror and classic literature...
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  • Age of Innocence
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    Age of Innocence

    Wharton, Edith

    Enjoy Edith Wharton's signature grace and insight in this sumptuous edition of the timeless Gilded Age story The Age of Innocence. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the most celebrated novels...
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  • A Naturalist Of Souls A Naturalist Of Souls
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    A Naturalist Of Souls

    Gamaliel Bradford

    A Naturalist of Souls: Studies in Psychography (1917) is a book written by Gamaliel Bradford, an American biographer and author. The book is a collection of essays that explore the psychology of...
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  • A Well-Behaved Woman
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    A Well-Behaved Woman

    Therese Anne Fowler

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A glittering depiction of a woman ahead of her time who absolutely refused to be second best' Red Alva Smith, her Southern family destitute after the Civil War, marries...
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  • A House A-Haunt A House A-Haunt
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    A House A-Haunt

    Chad Arment

    The haunted house is a foundational motif in the literary ghost story. There may be a distinct spectral presence, or the building itself (or even just a room) may take on the supernatural essence...
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  • The Virago Book of Friendship
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    The Virago Book of Friendship

    Rachel Cooke

    A fond, fascinated look at women's friendship through the fiction, diaries, and letters of friends

    'A highly entertaining, often instructive anthology bursting with every kind of amicable -...
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  • Classic Ghost Stories
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    Classic Ghost Stories

    A Vintage Classics selection of haunting tales by some of the masters of nineteenth-century literature. Includes spine-chilling stories by Charles Dickens, M.R. James, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle...
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