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10 best books like Silas Marner and Two Short Stories (George Eliot): The Rise of Silas Lapham, Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York, The Four Feathers, The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway, Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings, Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories (B&N Classics)

The Rise of Silas Lapham
AuthorWilliam Dean Howells
ISBN0140390308
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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...
Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire
AuthorEmma Donoghue
ISBN0231109253
The collection Poems Between Women explores many facets of female-female relationships in poems not only about love or affection between or inspired by women but also about the moments that complicate and call into question the nature of sexuality and intimacy between women. Including women married...
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York
AuthorStephen Crane
ISBN0140437975
"A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago."—Alfred Kazin.
Although fellow novelists William Dean Howells and Hamlin Garland immediately recognized genius in the twenty-one-year-old author of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,...
The Four Feathers
AuthorA.E.W. Mason
ISBN0142180017
Just before sailing off to war in the Sudan, British guardsman Harry Feversham quits his regiment. He immediately receives four white feathers—symbols of cowardice—one each from his three best friends and his fiancée. To disprove this grave dishonor, Harry dons an Arabian disguise and leaves...
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...
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...
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings
AuthorKarl Marx
ISBN1593081006
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 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...
Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories (B&N Classics)
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN1593080379
Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories, 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...
The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers and Two Stories (Barnes Noble Classics Series)
AuthorHenry James
ISBN1593080433
The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers and Two Stories, by Henry James, 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....
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,...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners
AuthorJames Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, by James Joyce, 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....
Thuvia, Maid of Mars / The Chessmen of Mars
AuthorEdgar Rice Burroughs
This volume contains novels 4 and 5 of the series:
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
The Chessmen of Mars

It also contains the Glossary of Names and Terms in the Martian Books

Mars (Barsoom) stories is a saga of 11 novels, picturing a dying Mars (a vision first expressed by writers like Camille...
The Major Works
AuthorSamuel Johnson
ISBN0192840428
Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell, the subject of one of the most famous English biographies.

This volume celebrates...
Slave Narratives
AuthorWilliam L. Andrews
ISBN1883011760
No literary genre speaks as directly and as eloquently to the brutal contradictions in American history as the slave narrative. The works collected in this volume present unflinching portrayals of the cruelty and degradation of slavery while testifying to the African-American struggle for freedom...
Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant
AuthorGuy de Maupassant
ISBN0517457512

Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant is part of the  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 of the remarkable features of Barnes &...
Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0140449000
The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through a colourful and seamy underworld populated by unsavoury beggars, corrupt priests, eccentrics, whores and criminals. Both Lazarillo de Tormesand Pablos and the swindler are determined to attain...
The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette
AuthorWilliam Hill Brown
ISBN0140434682
Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, The Power of Sympathy (1789) and The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in America. William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy reflects eighteenth-century America's preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers...
The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888
AuthorThomas Hardy
ISBN0140435328
"See if she is dark or fair, and if you can, notice if her hands be white; if not, see if they look as though she had ever done housework, or are milker's hands like mine."

So Rhoda Brook, the abandoned mistress of Farmer Lodge, is jealous to discover details of his new bride in 'The Withered Arm',...
A Simple Story
AuthorElizabeth Inchbald
When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of his religious vocation and 18th-century British society's standards of proper womanly behavior. Like other women writers of her time, Elizabeth Inchbald concentrates on the question...
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