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Great American Novels

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Great American Novels

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Still Life with Woodpecker

Tom Robbins

3,9

(477)
Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference betwee...
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Rabbit, Run

John Updike

3,6

(2K)
Джон Апдайк - знаменитый американский писатель, поэт, критик. Неоднократный обладатель Пулитцеровской премии. "Rubbit, Run" ("Кролик, беги") - первый из серии романов п...
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The Recognitions

William Gaddis

4,4

(50)
Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate '...
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Falconer

John Cheever

3,5

(61)
Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a drug-addict and a murderer. Locked in Falconer State Penitentiary, he struggles through tormenting visits from his wife, the bur...
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Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller

3,5

(4,8K)
Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years, now reinvigorated in a new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A penniless and as yet...
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The Sot-Weed Factor

John Barth

4,4

(45)
Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain, Elizabeth Dowsett

4

(1)
"Someone killed Huckleberry Finn." Everyone in the village of St. Petersburg will tell you this, but Huck Finn is not dead. He ran away. Now he is traveling down the grea...
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Shadow Country

Питер Маттиссен

0

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Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic–Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone–was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it ...
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The latest installment of Vollmann's seven-part epic chronicling the clash of Europeans and Native Americans in the New World. Volume six focuses on the white explorers of...
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Deliverance

James Dickey

4

(51)
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

3,9

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'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you shoul...
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Zora Neale Hurston And Their Eyes Were Watching God

Rodrigo Alva, Maria Aparecida Andrade Salgueiro

0

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This work has two main goals. The first is to analyze the construction of the female identity of the main character of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora N...
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Black Boy

Richard Wright

4,1

(52)
Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hang...
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Catch-22

Heller Vintage

3

(3)
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The Son

Philipp Meyer

4,2

(2,1K)
Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching examination of the bloody price of power, The Son is a gripping and utterly transporting novel that ...
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To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee, Harper

Харпер Ли

4,6

(73,1K)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and ...
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Middle Passage

Чарльз Джонсон

4,5

(2)
It is 1830. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is desperate to escape unscrupulous bill collectors and an impending marriage to a priggish sc...
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The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

3,9

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The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Syl...
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The Awakening

Kate Chopin

3,7

(78)
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. "I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my childre...
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