This Library of America volume includes the best-known works of Henry Adams, one of the most powerful and original minds to illuminate the American scene from the Civil Wa...
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The Irish troubles rage, but up at the 'Big Hou...
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If the management of the Hotel Guelph, that London landmark, could have been present at three o'clock one afternoon in early January in the sitting-room of the suite which...
This collection comprises of Joyce's three novels, plus the short story collection Dubliners.
Dubliners, about Joyce’s native city, is faithful to his country, seeing i...
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These sixty satirical, rollicking, uproarious tales by the greatest yarn-spinner in our literary history are as fresh and vivid as ever more than a century after their aut...
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