"It was the century of Hemingway, Steinbeck and Faulkner – American authors of worldwide fame. It was also the era of Orwell, Solzhenitsyn, pasternak, and Kafka – of the greatest international writers and storytellers who ever lived. The 20th century was a time of upheaval and world wars – of The grapes of wrath and Catch-22. It was a time of decadence, of growth and change – of The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Nineteen Eighty-Four. These are the stories, the experiences, the novels, that tell us who we are, what is important to us. They show us what we have done and learned, and predict where we might go in the years ahead. This collection includes fifty of the 20th century’s literary masterpieces, chosen by the Editorial Advisory Board of Easton Press."
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The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Edith Wharton
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
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All the King's Men (A Bantam Classic)
by Robert Penn Warren
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The Ambassadors
by Henry James
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Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Sinclair Lewis
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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
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The Call of the Wild (Scribner Classics)
by Jack London
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
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A Clockwork Orange (Essential.penguin)
by Anthony Burgess
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
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Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)
by Willa Cather
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Dr. Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
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Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges
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The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
by Ayn Rand
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
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Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
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The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Carson McCullers
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
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Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
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Light in August
by William Faulkner
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
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The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
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Native Son (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright
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Night (Oprah's Book Club)
by Elie Wiesel
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Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
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Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
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On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Jack Kerouac
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
by Ken Kesey
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
by E.M. Forster
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Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
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The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Graham Greene
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Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
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Swann's Way (Modern Library Classics)
by Marcel Proust
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
by Virginia Woolf
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka
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Ulysses
by James Joyce
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Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
by D. H. Lawrence
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