20th Century Books


High Bonnet: A Novel of Epicurean Adventures (Modern Library Food) Best Price: $6.89 I started to devour this book, then, afraid to get to the end too soon, I began to pace...	The Jungle (Modern Library Classics) Best Price: $4.49 This book is a wonderful look into the lives of an immigrant family in the early 1900's. ...	Christmas in My Heart A Second Treasury: More Heartwarming Tales of Holiday Joy Best Price: $4.46 Mr. Wheeler has done a terrific job of compiling a heartwarming collection of stories of...	The Watch Best Price: $13.97 "The Watch" is a long story placed third in the collection. It is a tale of...	Sherwood Anderson Best Price: $62.98



Fair and Tender Ladies Best Price: $8.25 Ivy Rowe, Virginia mountain girl, then wife, mother, and finally "Mawmaw," never...	The Collected Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt (Mentor) Credited with almost single-handedly pioneering a genuine African-American literary tradition in...	The Early Ayn Rand Best Price: $15.96 This collection of short fiction and plays by Ayn Rand charts her artistic and intellectual...	The Vineyard (California Fiction) Best Price: $8.50 This is a fine tale of people at the turn of the last century, farming and loving the land that...	Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities Best Price: $28.80 This book gathers together eleven essays on important American short story sequences of the...



Fiction in the Quantum Universe In this outstanding book Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the...	Tara's Healing Best Price: $16.67 " This is the story of Tara Cochrane, who had been Hod's captain during World War II....	Concordance to Hemingway's 'in Our Time'	Word Ways: The Novels of D'Arcy McNickle Best Price: $1.91	The Long Haul Best Price: $65.51 This book is a collection of conversations with important contemporary Southern novelists and...

Half Finished Heaven Best Price: $69.00 The five best-selling novels of the Social Gospel Movement (1865-1920) are examined in this...	John Steinbeck's Re-Vision of America This book has been out of print for years, yet is continually cited in current Steinbeck...	The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures) Best Price: $0.99 In The Hammers of Creation, Eric J. Sundquist analyzes the powerful role played by folk culture...	Fables of Subversion: Satire and the American Novel Best Price: $44.95 Drawing on more than thirty novels by nineteen writers, Fables of Subversion is both a survey...	Men Working (Brown Thrasher Books) Best Price: $15.32 This novel of Mississippi hill country life depicts some of the more troubling and unpublicized...

The Sun Also Rises Best Price: $19.89 This is the first book that ever had a profound effect on me. I read it just after returning...	Men Beyond the Law: A Western Trio (Five Star Western Series) Best Price: $22.50 WesternIn Werewolf, the first short novel in this Western trio, Christopher Royal flees after a...	Thunder Moon and the Sky People Best Price: $3.79 The Thunder Moon series represents some of Max Brand?s best work, originally published in...	When the Tree Flowered: The Fictional Autobiography of Eagle Voice, a Sioux Indian (Bison Book) Best Price: $14.80 Clean bright cover has light edge and shelf wear. Small number written on first. page. Text is...	A Lantern in Her Hand Best Price: $4.33 Like some other reviewers, I read this when I was quite young, and the story of Abbie Deal, who...

The Mystery of Hunting's End Best Price: $15.00 Originally written in 1930. A murder takes place in a hunting lodge. Five years later the...	Free Air Best Price: $10.50 Apparently Lewis didn't become disillusioned and embittered until after 1919, when this...	The Quarry Best Price: $8.58 As a Mildred Walker fan, I've read pretty much every one of her books. "The...	The American Private Eye: The Image in Fiction Best Price: $17.37 There is/was another review on this page (which I hope Amazon has removed by the time you read...	Edgar Allan Poe (Literature and Life) It included info. on every Poe work. I found it useful. It also implied his life into the...

The Man of the House (The Alden Collection) Best Price: $4.35 This is a story about a boy who has to help support his mother and sister. Learning about...	Mountain Man: A Novel of Male and Female in the Early American West Best Price: $5.94 If you happen to be a fan of Bob Redfords 'Jeremiah Johnson'or a lesser known work by...	The Unabridged Jack London Best Price: $2.47 1143 pages of Jack London stories, and barely a word of anything else. The editors of this...	Gangland's Doom: The Shadow of the Pulps (Starmont Pulp and Dime Novel Studies, 1)	Eight Modern Masterpieces: Critical Essays Best Price: $22.80

Before She Kills (The Fredric Brown Pulp Detective Series, Vol 2) Best Price: $19.95	Cold Sassy Tree Best Price: $11.99 SPOILER ALERT LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this book. I can not believe I waited this long...	Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories Best Price: $95.76 The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia...	Alexander's Bridge Best Price: $17.52	The Jungle Best Price: $22.06 Here is the dramatic expose of the Chicago meatpacking industry at the turn of the century that...

Dream Makers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers at Work Best Price: $25.00	United States Authors Series: Ernest Haycox (Twayne's United States Authors Series) Best Price: $25.99	The Mid-Century American Novel, 1935-1965 (Critical History of the Novel Series) Best Price: $24.95	The Bell Jar, a Novel of the Fifties (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)	Hollywood Fictions: The Dream Factory in American Popular Literature (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory (Hardcovers)) Best Price: $72.73

The End of the Novel of Love Best Price: $5.99 After finishing Gornick's excellent book, I could not help feeling something grating against...	William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond Best Price: $12.25 This book is the companion volume to William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country by Cleanth...	Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner (Southern Literary Studies) Best Price: $20.00 Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner is a...	The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre James Nagel offers the first systematic history and definition of the short story cycle genre as...	TOWARD A FEMINIST TRADITION : an annotated bibliography of novels in English by women, 1891-1920 (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

Ernest Hemingway (Literature and Life)	Waldo Frank: Prophet of Hispanic Regeneration Best Price: $13.49	Plunder of the Sun (Hard Case Crime) Best Price: $0.01 I am not sure how one goes about the process of having a particular institution declared a...	Resist Much, Obey Little: Remembering Ed Abbey Best Price: $3.07 Wonderful collection of essays on the general theme of who Edward Abbey was. Some of the writers...	Gentlemen from England (Borealis Books) Best Price: $25.99 I got this book on a whim, just because I love the Betsy-Tacy books, and figured that since...

Fulfilment and Other Tales of Women and Men Sherwood Anderson, commenting on Dreiser's short stories, said that "if there is a...	Free Women: Ethics and Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction Best Price: $31.58 In this sensitive and incisive study of eleven major twentieth-century women novelists, Kate...	New Hope (Bur Oak Book) Best Price: $14.72 A writer of wide experience, Ruth Suckow nevertheless remained focused on small-town life; one...	Faulkner and Idealism: Perspectives from Paris The essays in this volume are indicative of the scope of international scholarship concerning...	Selves At Risk: Patterns of Quest in Contemporary American Letters (Wisconsin Project on American Writers) Best Price: $4.93 In this era of supersonic jets, ubiquitous McDonalds, and pervasive Panasonics, in our coddled...

Un arbol crece en Brooklyn (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $12.88	Short Lines: A Collection of Classic American Railroad Stories Best Price: $13.99 For nearly a century the steam locomotive symbolized American progress and adventure. By about...	Restrained Response: American Novels of the Cold War and Korea, 1945-1962 (Contributions in American Studies) Best Price: $119.95 Axelsson provides an overview of American war and military novels set between 1945 and 1962....	The Modern American Novel of the Left: A Research Guide Best Price: $74.00 Unique in its scope of coverage, this reference work provides students and scholars interested...	Protestant Evangelical Literary Culture and Contemporary Society: (Contributions to the Study of Religion) Best Price: $115.00 While studies have been done on the politics, personalities, and television empires of...

Gathering Storm (Stony Man) Best Price: $3.79 I have long been a fan of Phoenix Force and Able Team which are now combined into Stony Man...	Full Blast (Stony Man) Best Price: $1.29 This is the best Stony Man book to come out since Dragonfire!! The sequel is good as well, but...	Code Of Resistance (Executioner) Best Price: $2.67 An island nation rises up against a consortium of greed . . .	Edisto: A Novel (FSG Classics) Best Price: $4.75 Although I first bought the current Interrogatory Mood, I wanted to start with his first novel,...	The Exploded Form: The Modernist Novel in America Best Price: $87.51

Willa Cather and France: In Search of the Lost Language	Pity Is Not Enough (Radical Novel Reconsidered) Best Price: $16.30 Josephine Herbst's neglect is an incredible injustice. She is truly one of the most...	Passion and Craft: CONVERSATIONS WITH NOTABLE WRITERS Best Price: $6.94 The twelve contemporary fiction writers interviewed in Passion and Craft go beyond the usual...	Emma McChesney and Co. Best Price: $7.49 Edna Ferber, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Show Boat and Giant", achieved her...	The House of a Thousand Candles (Library of Indiana Classics) Best Price: $6.95 I've been enjoying this book for the last 35 years. It is always a treat. I easily...

Uncle Tom Andy Bill: A Story of Bears and Indian Treasure (Library of Indiana Classics) Best Price: $8.10 Charles Major's 1908 Uncle Tom Andy Bill is one of my all time favorite books. It is also...	The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel Best Price: $120.60 Published in 1935, George Santayana's The Last Puritan was the American philosopher's...	Conrad Richter: A Writer's Life (Penn State Series in the History of the Book) Best Price: $25.70 I didn't know a thing about Conrad Richter when I started reading this book. I had read and...	The Brave Bulls (Southwestern Writers Collection Series) Best Price: $11.92 I first read Tom Lea's The Brave Bulls in a Penguin edition in the middle 1950s and was...	The Man of the House (The Alden Collection) Best Price: $4.35 This is a story about a boy who has to help support his mother and sister. Learning about...

Mountain Man: A Novel of Male and Female in the Early American West Best Price: $5.94 If you happen to be a fan of Bob Redfords 'Jeremiah Johnson'or a lesser known work by...	The Unabridged Jack London Best Price: $2.47 1143 pages of Jack London stories, and barely a word of anything else. The editors of this...	Gangland's Doom: The Shadow of the Pulps (Starmont Pulp and Dime Novel Studies, 1)	Eight Modern Masterpieces: Critical Essays Best Price: $22.80	Before She Kills (The Fredric Brown Pulp Detective Series, Vol 2) Best Price: $19.95

Cold Sassy Tree Best Price: $11.99 SPOILER ALERT LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this book. I can not believe I waited this long...	Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories Best Price: $95.76 The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia...	Alexander's Bridge Best Price: $17.52	The Jungle Best Price: $22.06 Here is the dramatic expose of the Chicago meatpacking industry at the turn of the century that...	New Directions in Faulkner Studies: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1983 (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series)

Women Writers of the Contemporary South (Southern Quarterly Series) Best Price: $49.99 Women Writers of the Contemporary South edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw essays about Lisa...	Moving On: The Heroines of Shirley Ann Grau, Anne Tyler, and Gail Godwin Best Price: $12.15 Focusing on the works of Grau, Tyler, and Godwin, Susan S. Kissel shows how these writers...	Something More than Night: The Case of Raymond Chandler Best Price: $12.15 Raymond Chandler?s eminence as a mystery writer is unchallenged. Somerset Maugham and George...	The Bad Seed Best Price: $14.29 First published in 1954, this book, the last of the six novels written by the author, became a...	Look to the Mountain (Regional Interest) Best Price: $5.74 This is one of the most intriging books ever written about the hardships of pioneer life in the...

The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1940's	The Circular Staircase Best Price: $7.18 Rinehart's famous story mixes chilling suspense and romance with good humor to produce an...	An English-Russian Dictionary of Nabokov's Lolita	Fred Gipson, Texas Storyteller Best Price: $103.45

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