 Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Classic story of wasted lives, set against a bleak New England background. Superbly delineated characters in a hauntingly grim tale of thwarted love. Considered by many to be Wharton's masterpiece.
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 The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
by Mark Twain
Includes 4 memorable selections spanning the career of famed American humorist: "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The £1,000,000 Bank Note," "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," and "The Mysterious Stranger."
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| |  Three Lives
by Gertrude Stein
Clear, carefully crafted stories of 3 women, whose relatively ordinary lives and minds Stein invests with extraordinary interest. Excellent entree to author's later work.
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 A Pair of Silk Stockings
by Kate Chopin
Includes 9 masterful portraits of black and white inhabitants of Louisiana's bayou and urban areas. Written with grace, delicate humor, and a keen understanding of the female psyche.
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| |  The Story of an African Farm
by Olive Schreiner
The first great South African novel chronicles the adventures of 3 childhood friends who defy societal repression. A gripping indictment of the rigid Boer social conventions of the 19th-century.
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 Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
Classic satire of small-town America. A young newlywed encounters bigotry, hypocrisy, and complacency when she tries to transform Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, into a place of beauty and culture.
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| |  At Fault
by Kate Chopin
Set in the rural post-Reconstruction South against a backdrop of economic devastation and simmering racial tension, Chopin's first novel explores two of the era's taboo subjects, divorce and alcoholism.
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 Lilacs and Other Stories
by Kate Chopin
From the author of The Awakening comes this collection, which features 24 distinctive tales of Southern life, filled with fascinating characters, idiosyncratic customs, and sometimes shocking details.
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| |  The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Seven charming tales explore relations between the sexes and offer witty insights from a feminist perspective. Includes the 1892 title classic, plus "Cottagette," "Turned," "Mr. Peebles' Heart," and more.
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 My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
Splendid early novel (1918) evokes the Nebraska prairie life of the author's childhood, and touchingly commemorates the spirit and courage of the immigrant pioneers who settled the land.
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