20th Century Books


A Farewell To Arms Best Price: $4.99 What beauty. What excellent prose. There is little I can say that has not already been said...	As I Lay Dying Best Price: $4.99 In As I Lay Dying the Bundren family is on a death-watch as Addie--wife and mother--dies....	The Pearl Best Price: $3.99 This book is criminally unknown. In just under 100 pages, Steinbeck weaves the immortal truth...	Light in August (The Corrected Text) Best Price: $4.00 The American paperback editions of Faulkner published by Vintage are far more readable and...	The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated Best Price: $11.24 Appel's annotations are simply insufferable. It's pathetic and depressing to read his sniveling...



Alas, Babylon Best Price: $5.15 Some people say the book is outdated, but really, we are under the same dark cloud that was...	The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition Best Price: $7.35 But the ending is absurd considering that the "capitalist industrialists" are in fact...	The Big Sleep Best Price: $6.00 I tried with this "classic" ... two times, then a third ... and as much as the first...	A Moveable Feast Best Price: $6.19 A Moveable Feast, Hemingway's memoir of his early days in Paris, is nearly bursting with rich,...	Earth Abides Best Price: $8.25 I was looking for a good "end of the world" type novel, and after the amazing reviews,...



Cold Sassy Tree Best Price: $8.41 According to the flyleaf, this book was written while the author was recovering from cancer. ...	The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread: A Novel Best Price: $7.37 "The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread" (GTSSB) was published in 1965 at the beginning...	The Maltese Falcon Best Price: $3.99 It was the portly Continental Op who usually played the starring role in Dashiell Hammett's...	Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) Best Price: $5.73 Warning: A few plot spoilers in here. Will Cather's novel describing the 1851 mission of...	The Unvanquished Best Price: $7.88 A local English professor's answer to a radio call-in question, "What's a good place to...

Johnny Got His Gun Best Price: $3.93 I read this book in high school (on my own, it wasn't assigned reading. The assigned reading...	The Long Goodbye Best Price: $5.25 Originally copyrighted and published 1953. Chandler talked his way out of a 5-star rating by...	The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series (TM)) Best Price: $7.80 I selected this audio book because I liked the idea of listening to a selection of well read...	Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) Best Price: $11.67 This is a book that must be read with an open mind. If you read it before judging its...	Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays & Letters (Library of America) Best Price: $18.36 Now that I've read everything by O'Connor (including works that were part of her thesis for her...

Fate is the Hunter Best Price: $6.00 This book reads about as exiting as the monotone drone of a window box fan on a hot sweaty...	Farewell, My Lovely Best Price: $5.24 The vague product description on Amazon may lead you to think this product is an audiobook of...	Big Sur Best Price: $8.07 "On the Road" gets all the attention. I stumbled through that novel, thought it was...	Sons (Good Earth Trilogy, Vol 2) Best Price: $7.47 The Good Earth follows the life of a farmer by the name of Wang Lung as he suffers life's trials...	Passing (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.49 This is a story of two African American women who are able to pass as caucasian in the 1920s. A...

Double Indemnity Best Price: $6.50 Maturation of James Cain's writing between "The Postman Always Rings Twice" to...	The Postman Always Rings Twice Best Price: $5.39 The Postman Always rings Twice is an Americal classic--a great book by any standard. Cain's plot...	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library) Best Price: $7.30 In rebuttal to Douglas Moran's review on this website, I have to admit I am listening to...	The Thin Man Best Price: $4.97 Boy, these reviews are all over the place, aren't they! Well, they at least give you the plot so...	Play It As It Lays: A Novel Best Price: $4.98 I bought this novel since it was listed on Time Magazine's list of the Best 100 Novels written...

The High Window Best Price: $3.99 Raymond Chandler is that rare sort of novelist who creates a world that sings with individuality...	The Killer Inside Me Best Price: $6.01 It was such a good book. I got about half way through and then one of my dirt bag coworkers...	The Lady in the Lake Best Price: $7.20 This book is a pretty quality read. I liked it a lot better than Dashiell Hammett's stories. I...	The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (Signet Classics) Best Price: $2.62 Great looking book, unnfortunately it is not the edition we need fo my son's class	The Professor's House (Vintage Classics) Best Price: $4.39 Willa Cather is one of the top five American writers. She gets little notice, it seems, today. ...

Red Harvest Best Price: $6.25 While this novel may have an important place in the history of crime fiction it is simply an...	Flowers for Algernon: Student Edition Best Price: $2.40 For the longest time I believed this was the worst book ever. After reading A Portrait of the...	The Ways of White Folks: Stories Best Price: $7.32 I'm not a short story person but I was a assigned this book for my Harlem Renaissance Class...	Imperial Woman (Buck, Pearl S. Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck, 3rd,) Best Price: $8.55 Although the language at times was dry, and failed to fully engage me, I really enjoyed Imperial...	The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction Best Price: $34.10 My Creative Writing professor assigned this book for our class, and we read about two stories a...

A Lost Lady (Vintage Classics) Best Price: $4.98 Many other reviewers have expressed more or less my sentiments about this book, but I shall add...	The Grifters Best Price: $4.99 I can still remember the stark scenes in the 1990 movie starring John Cusack, Anjelica Huston...	Jack London : Novels and Stories : Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories (Library of America) Best Price: $19.10 Love this book and have loved reading Call of the Wild, since I was 9 or 10. I also recommend...	Peyton Place Best Price: $4.90 "Peyton Place", a soap opera-esque tale of life in a small town in New England, starts...	The Education of Little Tree Best Price: $0.68 Nutshell review - Not withstanding the controversy surrounding the authenticity of the story and...

The Robe Best Price: $8.39 It was interesting enough to make me want to finish it but it was really slow, at least in my...	The House of Mirth (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $10.49 This is an unusually good book with the familiar theme of the life of a single woman in times...	Mary Emma & Company (Bison Book) Best Price: $6.86 Highly recommended series. I recommend as an alternative to the Little House series for boys. ...	Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) Best Price: $12.91 A clever construction and master of words in an essentially unreadable work that fails to hold...	Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner (Modern Library) Best Price: $8.44 This is a great set of classics that I intend to read again. It is from this prolific novelist...

Intruder in the Dust Best Price: $5.00 This story is one of the most difficult stories I have read thus far. I am supposed to summarize...	Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral Best Price: $15.29 You could see the world black and white with black and white people. But within both races there...

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