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The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
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Classic tales of changing lives and loves from one of Russia's greatest playwrights, a master of the modern short story.
Morality, philosophy, and science merge in "The Duel," the classic tale of transformation in which educated Russian aristocrat Ivan Andreitch Laevsky falls in love with the married Nadya Fyodorovna and runs off to the Black Sea with her. As their passion wanes, Nadya turns to other men for comfort, while Ivan indulges in heavy...
3) Romola
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The celebrated Victorian author of Middlemarch explores the turbulent world of Florence during the Italian Renaissance in this sweeping historical novel.
Florence, 1492. Lorenzo de Medici has just died, leaving governance of the Florentine Republic to his son Piero, an unskilled ruler. Meanwhile, Tito Melema, a shipwrecked stranger, finds love with a young woman named Romola, the devoted daughter of a blind scholar. Though her brother has a vision...
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First published in 1925, "Manhattan Transfer" by American author John Dos Passos is an engrossing portrayal of urban life in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age. Critically acclaimed and widely considered to be his most important work, Dos Passos tells the story of the city as it grows and changes through the perspectives of many of its inhabitants. The city itself is a central character of the novel. It is exciting and glamorous, but...
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After a family member tragically falls ill, Una Golden was forced to move from Pennsylvania to New York in order to get a job to help support her family. Set in the early 1900s, going to the big city as a single woman was daunting and unconventional, but Una is dedicated to helping her family. After diligently job searching and excelling in additional training and education, Una discovers that she has the skills to be a talented commercial real estate...
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Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
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A lethal plague sweeps the globe. Millions have died. Survivors are confined to their homes.
Gabriel passes his time in a small New York apartment on the city's Upper West Side. During the plodding solitude of the lockdown, he observes several strangers in their nearby apartments. As he watches them struggle to survive a world at risk of extinction, he wonders about their lives—where they're from, what they value, how they're coping with
9) Antic Hay
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A lost generation searches for meaning in chaotic post-WWI London in this satirical novel by the acclaimed author of Brave New World.
First published in 1923, Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay was banned in Australia and burned in Cairo for its frank depiction of bohemian life in the grim and listless aftermath of the Great War. Set in London, the comic novel follows a large cast of artists and intellectuals through their nihilistic yet determined pursuits....
10) Memories
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The main character, Ann, is born into poverty in 1947. It shows how her family controls her and keeps her in poverty through their attitudes regarding gender inequality, immigrants, and minorities. We learn from her how to break this cycle to get out of poverty.
She grows up in Brooklyn with a single mother and an absentee father and tells the story through her memories.
You hear about the three generations of women who were chained to poverty because...
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A group of Chinese rural women who want to get rid of difficulties, after entering the city, something unexpected happened...
It takes Zheng Jinhua, a rural woman in Fujian and eastern Fujian as the main line. It tells about her experiences when she was young, after marriage and "working in the city", and describes her tragic childhood, humiliating youth, difficult marriage, and emotional life. At the same time, it depicts the fate of 12 rural...
12) Ashes
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A lawless land of violence and deprivation, The Meadow Well Estate is a no-go area for police and non-residents alike and a hotbed of ritual violence. No-one dares enter of their own accord, and few make it out alive. But Jack was one of the good ones. Recently released from prison, he is determined to turn his life completely around: by getting out. When, however, rumours spark of the police's involvement in the death of two young joy riders,
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A sharply witty novel about social ambitions and artistic pretensions by the author of Brave New World.
The widowed Mrs. Aldwinkle will tell anyone who will listen of her love for art, and in a quest to surround herself with her intellectual equals, she invites an entourage to an Italian palace. One guest, who supports his poetry habit by editing a magazine for rabbit fanciers, will become the target of her amorous advances. Another guest will use...
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While they are discussing the possible illnesses they may have, Jerome, Harris, and George all realize they suffer from the same thing-working too much. Upon the realization, the three best friends decide that they must go on a vacation. After rejecting the ideas of a sea trip or country stay, because Jerome doesn't like the sea, and Harris finds the country to be dull, the men decide on a boat trip. With their bags packed and with the company of...
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Reid Wolfe is a master of seducing women.
This time, his life may depend on it.
He's known as the Wolfe of Manhattan. Reid Wolfe sees women as playthings, and most are happy to be arm candy and bed warmers for the handsome billionaire rake. He knows the art of seduction like no other, so surely he can get a Las Vegas showgirl into his bed in record time. He must, because she has information
...16) Dotted Lines
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Between the years of 2003 and 2018, the number of working women in India fell from 42.7% to a staggering 23.3%.
When novice journalist Neha learns of this mind-boggling statistic, she is determined to do something about it. Neha knows how best to communicate the issue at hand - through her first article series with Arkaa magazine. But when Neha's assignment on Artificial Intelligence proves more than she bargained for, she finds herself trapped...
17) Black and Whites
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Meet Lenny Bird. He's in his mid-twenties, big and burly, with a ravenous appetite. He's a larger-than-life, eccentric, impetuous, exuberant photographer who has recently relocated from Oklahoma to Los Angeles. Travel with him through various jobs, relationships and experiences as he confronts life head-on. In his job as a photojournalist, Lenny is obsessed with getting perfect, unique photographs. He is an unconventional employee who dislikes bureaucrats...
18) Riley
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When Riley Cotswald, a writer at work on her second novel, finally leaves her husband, she gets way, more than she bargained for. Her characters' lives echo her own dilemmas, and she feels a kinship to them as they come alive on her desktop. Her best friend Jennifer does not understand this but loves Riley. Maybe too much.
After a particularly infuriating conversation with her husband Cameron, Riley impulsively gets involved with Edward, a socially,...
19) No somos amigos
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Alexander Amador es uno de los empresarios más exitosos de Panamá. Joven, apuesto, altivo y de una gran soberbia, nadie imagina el sufrimiento del que se esconde detrás de ese muro impenetrable que ha moldeado con los años.
Vive en una rutina inamovible, pero varios hechos comienzan a hacer temblar su perfecto mundo organizado.
Mauricio, recién graduado de la universidad, espera impaciente ingresar al empleo que su padre le ha prometido. Honesto,...
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Shadows of Deception is a gripping tale of love, danger, and deceit set in a conservative society. The story follows Trudy, who holds a flash drive containing secrets that bind her to Wambui, the woman she secretly loves. As Juma, an informant, calls for police backup to dismantle Mzee's drug empire, the guests inside the mansion are lost in their own web of deceit. Aisha's guilt and Katana's desperation to escape poverty add to the tension, while...
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