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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York

10 best books like Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York (Stephen Crane): The Life of Charlotte Brontë, The Rise of Silas Lapham, Daisy Miller and Washington Square, The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights, Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway, Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, Silas Marner and Two Short Stories, Six Plays: Peer Gynt / A Doll's House / Ghosts / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder

The Life of Charlotte Brontë
AuthorElizabeth Gaskell
ISBN0192838059
Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Bronte's and, having been invited to write the official life, determined to both tell the truth and honor her friend. This edition collates all...
The Rise of Silas Lapham
AuthorWilliam Dean Howells
ISBN0140390308
Book Review
3 of 5 stars to The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells. Most of the works of literature that made up the canon during the late nineteenth century were classified as realistic literature. These realistic works resembled life as realistically as possible, ranging from youthful...
Daisy Miller and Washington Square
AuthorHenry James
ISBN1593081057
In Henry James''s "Daisy Miller, a young American woman ventures into sophisticated European society, where her naivete provokes scandal and tragedy. Graham Greene called "Washington Square "the only novel in which a man has successfully invaded the feminine field and produced work comparable...
The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction
AuthorKate Chopin
ISBN1593080018
When it first appeared in 1899, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novel’s frank portrayal of a woman’s emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the author’s reputation and career. Many years passed...
Ethan Frome and Selected Stories
AuthorEdith Wharton
ISBN1593080905
One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in...
Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights
AuthorJack N. Rakove
ISBN1593082304
Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights, by Various, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully...
Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway
AuthorCorinne Demas
ISBN1593080867
Beginning with well-known stories by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, this diverse and colorful collection includes tales by Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Sherwood Anderson, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, and Mary Wilkins Freeman. From Sarah Orne Jewett's portraits of rural...
Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales
AuthorHerman Melville
ISBN1593082533
Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Herman Melville mastered not only the great American novel but also the short story and novella forms. In Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, Melville reveals an uncanny awareness of the inscrutable nature of reality.



Published posthumously...
Silas Marner and Two Short Stories
AuthorGeorge Eliot
ISBN1593082517
George Eliot’s third novel, Silas Marner (1861) is a powerful and moving tale about one man’s journey from exile and loneliness to the warmth and joy of the family.

The story opens as Silas Marner, falsely accused of theft, loses everything, including his faith in God. Embittered and...
Six Plays: Peer Gynt / A Doll's House / Ghosts / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder
AuthorHenrik Ibsen
ISBN1593080611
The father of modern drama, Henrik Ibsen shook off the stale conventions of nineteenth-century theater and made the stage play an instrument for brilliantly illuminating the dark recesses of human nature.
After writing historical plays and imaginative epic dramas in verse, such as Peer Gynt,...
Northfield
AuthorJohnny D. Boggs
ISBN0843961031
Really enjoyed this book, apparently as this is my second reading of it. Author Johnny Boggs does an excellent job of telling the story of the famous James/Younger gang robbery of a bank in Northfield, Minnesota. These boys headed north to rob them some Union money. Never having ventured this far north...
The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It
AuthorE. Nesbit
ISBN1593082746
The Enchanted Castle (1907) begins when three children stumble upon a mysterious house and discover an invisible princess and a magic ring. At first it all appears to be a great adventure. When the children need an audience for a play they have mounted, they make their own out of old clothes, pillows,...
The Dangerous Dimension
AuthorL. Ron Hubbard
ISBN1592128289
Dr. Henry Mudge undergoes a striking personality change when he discovers a mathematical formula—"Equation C"—that defines a mysterious negative dimension. He is instantly transported to any location in the solar system by merely thinking of it—even when he doesn't want to..
The Death of Ivan Ilyich/Master and Man
AuthorLeo Tolstoy
ISBN0679642935
This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, Master and Man, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In Ivan Ilyich, a bureaucrat looks back over...
The House of the Dead/Poor Folk
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN1593081944
The House of the Dead and Poor Folk, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some...
Blind Man's Alley
AuthorJustin Peacock
ISBN0385531060
From the author of the Edgar Award–nominated legal thriller A Cure for Night, an ambitious and compulsively readable novel set in the cutthroat world of New York real estate.

A concrete floor three hundred feet up in the Aurora Tower condo development in SoHo has collapsed, hurling three...
Hunter's Moon
AuthorDon Hoesel
ISBN0764205617
After a long absence, novelist CJ Baxter returns to his hometown of Adelia in Upstate New York for his grandfather's funeral. Facing a messy divorce and doubting his talent as a writer, CJ is forced to confront secrets that have tormented him since childhood. To complicate matters, his brother Graham...
Getting Old Is to Die For
AuthorRita Lakin
ISBN0440243874
Gladdy Gold may have gone from dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker to South Florida retiree, but she’s loving every minute of it. Between poolside gossip, a hot-to-trot boyfriend, and a booming detective business, life couldn’t be sunnier—until a trip back north with her sister Evvie leads to murder...
Under Darkness
AuthorSavannah Russe
ISBN0451223853
The terrorist threat to America continues, but this time it's so top secret that only those in the highest circles of government know about it. As it unfolds, Daphne and the vampire spies, the Darkwings, become the first--and only--line of defense to save a city. Team Darkwing's assignment decipher...
Hades
AuthorRussell Andrews
ISBN0892960213
Police Chief Justin Westwood is content to escape his big-city past in sleepy East End Harbor, but the brutal murder of a Wall Street shark is about to change all that--not least because Westwood was in bed with the victim's wife at the time.

National bestselling author Russell Andrews returns...
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