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Light in August (The Corrected Text) Best Price: $4.29 The American paperback editions of Faulkner published by Vintage are far more readable and... | The Land of Mango Sunsets Best Price: $2.45 A little different from other DBF books that I've read, this book tells the story of a Manhattan... | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) Best Price: $2.28 It's difficult to give any even-handed critique F. Scott Fitzgerald's standard-setting Jazz Age... | The Lay of the Land (Vintage Contemporaries) Best Price: $6.99 This is, to my way of thinking, the best of the 3 Frank Bascombe novels. Frank is now all... | Great American Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $1.58 Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation... |
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