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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Great Short Works of Herman Melville	Herman Melville	Collection of 22 stories: The Town-Ho's Story [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) Cock-A-Doodle Doo The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles The …	OL102653W
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
Billy Budd	Herman Melville	TRIALS OF THE HANDSOME SAILOR Aboard the warship Bellipotent, the young orphan Billy Budd was called the Handsome Sailor. Billy was tall, athletic, noble looking; he was friendly, innocent, helpful …	OL102746W
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
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
Being there	Jerzy N. Kosinski	Being There is a satirical novel by the Polish born writer Jerzy Kosinski, first published in 1971. Set in America the story concerns Chance, a simple gardener who unwittingly becomes a much sought a…	OL10695414W
Wilderness	Robert Penn Warren	"More than a decade before the civil rights movement, newspaperman Ralph McGill broke the social code of silence that kept white southerners from publicly debating any change in the system of racial …	OL11369338W
The Ponder heart	Eudora Welty	Edna Earle Ponder, who runs a hotel in a small Mississippi town, tells the story of her beloved, softhearted, but trying Uncle Daniel.	OL113979W
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
Mother mason	Bess Streeter Aldrich	Molly Mason, fifty-two, is the devoted wife of the bank president, mother of four fun-loving Masons, and a reliable standby for the library board, missionary society, and the women's clubs. She has a…	OL12151965W
Lucy Gayheart	Willa Cather	Fervently pursuing the life of an artist, a young music student leaves behind her small midwestern town existence and comes to know the elation and heartache of a life in the creative world.	OL12823W
Novels (The Call of the Wild / White Fang)	Jack London	Two classic tales of dogs, one part wolf and one a Saint Bernard/Scotch shepherd mix that becomes leader of a wolf pack, as they have adventures in the Yukon wilderness with both humans and other ani…	OL144709W
Tales of the Pacific	Jack London	If you know London primarily through novels like WHITE FANG, these stories will provide a new perspective. Full of intriguing characters and snippets of pidgin, they also highlight London's concern w…	OL144740W
The People of the Abyss	Jack London	Book of Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote the experiences of living in the East End for months, staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. The conditions he ex…	OL144815W
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
All the King's Men	Robert Penn Warren	The story is about Willie Stark, a slick politician of humble birth, who was based on real-life Huey Long, a Louisiana governor, but the real main character is Jack Burden, a reporter who serves to n…	OL14858283W
History, tales, and sketches	Washington Irving	A writer of great urbanity and poise, Washington Irving was America's first internationally acclaimed man of letters. Here in one volume are the writings that established his reputation and earned hi…	OL14876307W
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
American appetites	Joyce Carol Oates	American Appetites is classic Joyce Carol Oates—a suspenseful thriller in which the happy facade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal. For twenty-six yea…	OL14958421W