Literary Fiction Sample
Explore a curated list of literary fiction sample books, featuring timeless classics and contemporary masterpieces. Discover profound narratives and rich storytelling for avid readers and book lovers.
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East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel …
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This Other Eden
by Michael Hemmingson
Terrorism, crack cocaine and rape. Failure, miscarriages and suicide. Divorce, incest and misery. This Other Eden is Michael Hemmingson at his most brutal. A man …
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The Gravedigger's Daughter
by Joyce Carol Oates
Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father—a former high school teacher—is demeaned by …
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Little Bird of Heaven
by Joyce Carol Oates
In the tradition of the remarkably successful "New York Times" bestseller "The Gravedigger's Daughter," Oates is back with this dark, romantic, and captivating tale set …
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Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the …
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
James Joyce's coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and technique The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce’s novels, A Portrait of …
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Uncommon Arrangements
by Katie Roiphe
Katie Roiphe’s stimulating work has made her one of the most talked about cultural critics of her generation. Now this bracing young writer delves deeply …
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1185 Park Avenue
by Anne Roiphe
From National Book Award nominee Anne Roiphe comes this moving memoir of growing up in a wealthy Jewish home with a family who had money, …
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An Imperfect Lens
by Anne Roiphe
Twenty-seven-year-old Louis Thuillier, a protege of Louis Pasteur arrives in 1880s Alexandria, Egypt, as part of a French expedition searching for the source of the …
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Glory Goes and Gets Some
by Emily Carter
Follows Glory, an HIV-positive drug addict, who leaves the drugs and sex of the Lower East Side to find meaning to love and life in …
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Decline and Fall
by Evelyn Waugh
Subtitled "A Novel of Many Manners, " Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the "heathen idol" of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford, …
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The Sword of Honour Trilogy
by Evelyn Waugh
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) This trilogy of novels about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning …
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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during …
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A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh
A satire of decadence among the English upper class depicts the breakup of a marriage among London's gentry, following the changing relationship between Tony Last, …
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Merely Mary Ann
by Israel Zangwill
Lancelot stood at the hall door looking for a moment after his friend--the friend he had tried to cast out of his heart as a …
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The Deptford Trilogy
by Robertson Davies
The complete volume of Robertson Davies's acclaimed trilogy, featuring Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Fifth …
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The Cornish Trilogy
by Robertson Davies
Woven around the pursuits of the energetic spirits and erudite scholars of the University of St. John and the Holy Ghost, this dazzling trilogy of …
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The cunning man
by Robertson Davies
"A delight, a novel that travels 70 years of history on its own swift feet, a book of love and wisdom, loss and irony"--The Boston …
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Murther & Walking Spirits
by Robertson Davies
Anthony Burgess listed Davies' The Rebel Angels among the 99 best novels of our time and declared that Davies himself is "without doubt Nobel Prize …
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The Lyre of Orpheus
by Robertson Davies
Davies triumphantly concludes the trilogy begun with The Rebel Angels. The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the tutelage of Arthur Cornish, art expert, collector, connoisseur, …
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The Buddha Speaks
by Anne Bancroft
Here is the core of the Buddha's teaching in his own words, as it was memorized word-for-word by his disciples and written down two hundred …
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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
by Breece D'J Pancake
Breece D'J Pancake cut short a promising career when he took his own life at the age twenty-six. Published posthumously, this is a collection of …
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Short and Sweet
by Michael Hemmingson
Short and Sweet delivers, with lusty impact, the best of that nifty literary art form – the erotic novella. Longer than a short story and …