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1	Catcher in the Rye more books like this by J. D. Salinger The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex ... see all copies from £2.07! new only from £4.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Atlas Shrugged more books like this by Ayn Rand Published in 1957, "Atlas Shrugged" was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel, she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex. Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the ... see all copies from £6.61! new only from £7.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Fountainhead more books like this by Ayn Rand The Fountainhead is an unprecedented phenomenon in modern literature. Arguably the century's most challenging novel of ideas, when first published in 1943 it created a public furor and worldwide interest in its brilliant author, Ayn Rand. On the surface, it is a story of a gifted young architect, his violent battle with conventional standards, and ... see all copies from £2.12! new only from £7.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Me Talk Pretty One Day more books like this by D Sedaris Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious new pieces, including 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who ... see all copies from £2.11! new only from £6.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Their Eyes Were Watching God more books like this by Zora Neale Hurston One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Old Man and the Sea more books like this by Ernest Hemingway The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, "The Old Man and the Sea" has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £4.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Joy Luck Club more books like this by Amy Tan A collection of anthologies, resource and reference books, including titles from Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Alex Madina, Jo Phillips and Adrian Barlow. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £3.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Prophet more books like this by Kahlil Gibran First published in the 1920's, The Prophet an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, the book is perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the Twentieth Century and has sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. Gibran's protagonist, called simply 'the Prophet', delivers spiritual, yet practical, homilies on a wide ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Killer Angels more books like this by Michael Shaara This title is a novelized account of the Battle of Gettysburg. Despite carrying a letter from Lincoln offering peace on the South's terms, General Robert E. Lee resolved on one mighty blow to finally destroy the Federal Army of the Potomac. see all copies from £3.13! new only from £3.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	On the Road more books like this by Jack Kerouac "On the Road" swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the ... see all copies from £1.76! new only from £4.21! \| first editions
11 view cover	Bluest Eye more books like this by Toni Morrison The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.62! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Sun Also Rises more books like this by Ernest Hemingway Published in 1926 to explosive acclaim, "The Sun Also Rises" stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman a clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a ... see all copies from £3.65! new only from £6.32! \| first editions
13 view cover	East of Eden more books like this by John Steinbeck Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £3.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Color Purple more books like this by Alice Walker The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that tells the story of two sisters through their correspondence. With a new Preface by the author. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £3.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The bell jar more books like this by Sylvia Plath "The Bell Jar" is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £4.88! \| first editions
16 view cover	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings more books like this by Dr. Maya Angelou Bloom's Reviews are a acclaimed advancement to the standard chapter-by-chapter plot summaries provided by most study guides. Each Review saves a student time by presenting the latest research, from noted literary scholars, in a practical and lucid format, enabling students to concentrate on improving their knowledge and understanding of the work ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £4.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	All the Pretty Horses more books like this by Cormac McCarthy A stunning film tie-in edition of a classic American novel All the Pretty Horses - the first volume of the Border Trilogy - tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, almost the last American cowboy. Across the border Mexico beckons - beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two companions, he sets ... see all copies from £1.45! new only from £4.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Raisin in the Sun more books like this by Lorraine Hansberry In south side Chicago, Walter Lee, a black chauffeur, dreams of a better life, and hopes to use his father's life insurance money to open a liquor store. His mother, who rejects the liquor business, uses some of the money to secure a proper house for the family. Mr Lindner, a representative of the all-white neighbourhood, tries to buy them out. ... see all copies from £5.22! new only from £5.65! \| first editions
19 view cover	Bless Me, Ultima more books like this by Rudolfo A Anaya A bildungsroman about a young Mexican-American boy, Antonio, in a New Mexican village during the 1940s. He faces a choice that will determine the course of his entire life: to follow his father's family's nomadic lifestyle, or to settle down to agriculture as his mother's family has done. Anaya draws on the Spanish-American folklore with which he ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.86! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	As I Lay Dying more books like this by William Faulkner The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament, ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £4.72! \| first editions
21 view cover	Naked more books like this by David Sedaris A collection of humorous stories, where the author takes to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorts out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, and confronts his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £7.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Souls of Black Folk more books like this by W E B Du Bois, PH.D. 'The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line.' Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, this book vaulted W. E. B. Du Bois to the forefront of American ... see all copies from £1.55! new only from £1.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Cat's Cradle more books like this by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from "The Odyssey through modern literature- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom see all copies from £4.18! new only from £7.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Tropic of Cancer more books like this by Henry Miller Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years, now reinvigorated in a new Perennial Modern Classics edition. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Awakening more books like this by Kate Chopin This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1969 Seyersted text of Kate Chopin's novel along with critical essays that introduce students to "The Awakening" from the perspectives of feminism, new historicism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction and cultural studies. An additional essay demonstrates how various approaches can be ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £1.55! \| signed copies \| first editions

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