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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez

The rise and fall, birth and death, of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, …
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The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

Oedipa Maas finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy.
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Moby Dick, Or, The Whale

by Herman Melville

A young seaman joins the crew of the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
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The Great Gatsby

by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Tells the tragic love story of Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.
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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

The saga of a family in 1939 that struggles through the Great Depression by laboring as Dust Bowl migrants.
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Wilhelm Meister

by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

Tragedy strikes when cunning old lawyer Tulkinghorn makes it his business to unravel the mystery that surrounds the beautiful, haughty Lady Dedlock.
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The Sacred and the Profane

by Mircea Eliade

Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade …
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Earth from Above

by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

This picture-a-day book shows Earth in a revealing, eye-popping photographic view rarely ever seen. 365 photos.
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John Margolies's Miniature Golf

by John Margolies

Miniature Golf explains in words and pictures the six decades of a purely American sport, filled with wonderful mini-memorabilia, signage, and inventive hazards guaranteed to charm and delight mini-golf fans …
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California

by Carey McWilliams

This edition is graced by a new foreword by Lewis Lapham.
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National Geographic on Assignment USA

by Priit Vesilind

Though well known for its portrayal of exotic places, the magazine has also featured numerous stories on the United States during the course of the century. This selection of US …
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The Americans: The National Experience

by Daniel J. Boorstin

This second volume in "The Americans" trilogy deals with the crucial period of American history from the Revolution to the Civil War. Here we meet the people who shaped, and …