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  • The Twenties

    by Edmund Wilson ...
    Series Book 1 - Edmund Wilson's Notebooks and Diaries
    The preeminent award-winning literary critic of the era shares his dazzling observations of the American twenties.Here is the raw side of the U.S.A., the mad side of Hollywood, the literary infighting in New York, the gossip and anecdotes of an astonishing cast of characters, the jokes, the profundities, the inanities. Here is Edmund Wilson, the slim young man in Greenwich Village sallying forth ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The American

    by Henry James, Leon Edel ...
    Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry Claire de Cintré, a scintillating and beautiful aristocrat, Christopher Newman comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family in a dramatic clash between the Old World and the New. A co-production with the BBC, starring Diana ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

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  • The Fifties

    From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period

    by Edmund Wilson ...
    Series Book 4 - Edmund Wilson's Notebooks and Diaries
    Edmund Wilson's The Fifties, edited by Leon Edel, is the highly acclaimed fourth volume in the series that began with The Twenties. It is complimented with photographs and journal excerpts of some of the most interesting characters of the decade, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, and Vladimir Nabokov."A giant's workroom we can wander through, marveling ..." - Richard Locke, The Wall ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Henry James' Chilling Psychological Ghost Story of Suspense and Uncertainty

    by Henry James ...
    Are the ghosts real—or just in her mind? The Turn of the Screw is Henry James' iconic novella of psychological horror, ambiguity, and creeping dread. A young governess is hired to care for two orphaned children in a remote country estate. But when she begins to see ghostly apparitions, the line between reality and madness begins to blur. Is she protecting the children—or projecting her own fears ... Read more

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  • Daisy Miller

    A Study

    by Henry James ...
    Series series World Classics
    Daisy Miller is a novella by Henry James that tells the story of a young American woman who travels to Europe and becomes embroiled in a love triangle with a wealthy Italian man and an American expatriate. The novella is noted for its exploration of social mores and class distinctions in 19th century Europe. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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  • Glasses

    by Henry James ...
    Henry James' adept skill at probing the darkest depths of human psychology is on full display in this complexly layered tale. The stunningly beautiful Flora Saunt is rapidly losing her eyesight and refuses to wear the ugly eyeglasses that can help her see. Will she maintain her claw-like grip on superficial beauty? ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Complete Works

    Enriched edition. Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays & Screenplays (The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night...)

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lance Evans ...
    F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Complete Works" serves as an unparalleled compendium of the author's entire literary output, gathering his finest novels, short stories, essays, and critiques. Renowned for his vivid portrayals of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald employs a lyrical, yet precise style that captures the glitz and despair of his characters' lives. His work intricately dissects themes of ambition, ... Read more

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  • The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    **The complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath—essential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet's life and work."A genuine literary event.... Plath's journals contain marvels of discovery." —The New York Times Book Review**Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by John Cheever ...
    Series series Vintage International
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.”From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Novels, stories, poems, and essays of the Roaring Twenties and Lost Generation—modernist milestones of the Jazz Age

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Garrett Valeford ...
    The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald gathers the fiction, stories, and essays through which one of American modernism's defining voices anatomized desire, class, youth, and disillusionment. From the crystalline social tragedy of The Great Gatsby to the romantic volatility of Tender Is the Night and the sharply observed short stories of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's prose combines lyrical ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Journals of Sylvia Plath

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature. These exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Plath for the last twelve years of her life - covering her marriage to Ted ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays

    Jazz Age Novels, Stories, Poems & Essays

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald is considered a ... Read more

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