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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Piazza Tales	Herman Melville	6 Tales - The Piazza - [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) - Benito Cereno - The Lightning-Rod Man - The Encantadas; or, Enchanted Is…	OL102742W
White-Jacket	Herman Melville	In the year 1843 I shipped as Ordinary seaman on board of a United States frigate, then lying in a harbour of the Pacific Ocean. After remaining in this frigate for more than a year, I was disc…	OL102744W
The color purple	Gloria Rose	The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. In CliffsNotes on The Color Purple, you follow the bea…	OL10369269W
The Rise of Silas Lapham	William Dean Howells	The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortu…	OL10415255W
The executioner's song	Norman Mailer	Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 a…	OL10426574W
Romney	Owen Wister	"Even in its incomplete state - nearly fifty thousand words - Romney is Wister's longest piece of fiction after The Virginian and Lady Baltimore. Writing at the express command of his friend Theodore…	OL106148W
The way we live now	Anthony Trollope	From a review of the Anthony Trollope canon in The Economist (2020/04/08 edition): *“The Way We Live Now” (1875) is as much a portrait of the last few decades as it is of the high Victorian age, and…	OL109871W
The optimist's daughter	Eudora Welty	The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel, a widow who returns to Mississippi when her father is ill and witnesses his death and funeral. From there, she embarks on a deeply personal journey to …	OL113982W
King Coal	Upton Sinclair	King Coal is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single …	OL115067W
The Moneychangers	Upton Sinclair	Upton Sinclair writes an historic novel concerning the Wall Street scare of 1907. He describes how several formidable capitalists organize the fall of a rival trust company. The ruin of this enterpri…	OL115069W
Winesburg, Ohio	Sherwood Anderson	Winesburg, Ohio is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small Ohio town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the centre is George Willard, a young report…	OL12553686W
Little Big Man	Thomas Berger	Believe it or not, Jack Crabb is 111 years old. He is also the son of two fathers, one white, the other a Cheyenne Indian chief who gave him the name Little Big Man. As a Cheyenne, Crabb feasted on d…	OL137304W
Flowering Judas and other stories	Katherine Anne Porter	ix, 232 p. ; 21 cm	OL1446721W
Martin Eden	Jack London	Jack London's Martin Eden was first published in 1909 and is the story of a young writer's quest for celebrity and love. Much loved by writers who identify with Martin's belief that when he posted a …	OL144822W
By love possessed	James Gould Cozzens	"Spanning forty-nine hours in the life of Arthur Winner, the leading lawyer in the small Pennsylvania town in the 1950s, By Love Possessed portrays all the myriad aspects of love."--Back cover, 1998 …	OL1448853W
A son of the circus	John Irving	A Hindi film star . . . an American missionary . . . twins separated at birth . . . a dwarf chauffeur . . . a serial killer . . . all are on a collision course. In the tradition of A Prayer for Owen …	OL14858718W
Novels	Carson McCullers	"In The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940), one of the most extraordinary debuts in modern American literature, an enigmatic deaf-mute draws out the confessions of an itinerant worker, a young girl, a d…	OL14864462W
The Stories of Edith Wharton. 2/2	Edith Wharton,Anita Brookner	The lamp of psyche -- A journey -- The line of least resistance -- The moving finger -- Expiation -- Les metteurs en scene -- Full circle -- The daunt Diana -- Afterward -- The bolted door -…	OL14919675W
Ghostly Tales and Eerie Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [14 stories, 9 poems]	Edgar Allan Poe	14 stories: MS. found in a bottle -- Morella -- Ligeia -- [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) The mu…	OL14937997W
Edgar Allan Poe	Edgar Allan Poe	STORIES [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Ligeia [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/work…	OL14938089W