Seventeen  |
| Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1916.
Tarkington was a widely read and prolific multiple Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and dramatist.
Here Tarkington satirizes first love.
"Every man and woman over fifty ought to read Seventeen. It is not only a skillful analysis of adolescent love, it is, with all its side-splitting mirth, a tragedy. No mature person who reads this novel will ever seriously regret his lost youth or wish he were young again...." -- William Lyon Phelps, The Advance of the English Novel
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| The Eyes of the World |
| Harold Bell Wright (1872 - 1944) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1914.
Set in the world of authors, artists, and their patrons this novel explores the conflict between art for art sake and art for profit and fame.
It was quite controversial in it's day; some accusing Wright of preaching and others supporting his observations.
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| The Inside of the Cup |
| Winston Churchill (1871 - 1947) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1913.
It is important to note that the author is not the famed English politician and author, but an unrelated American writer.
"masterly grip of detail and rare psychological insight" - Henry Davies from letters to the New York Times 1913.
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| The Turmoil |
| Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1915.
Tarkington was a widely read and prolific multiple Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and dramatist.
The story uses a tale of two families following different trajectories but linked by romance to provide a glimpse of the changes induced by industrialization and urbanization.
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| The U.P. Trail |
| Zane Grey (1872 - 1939) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1918.
An epic novel set against the construction of the Union-Pacific Railroad between 1864 and 1869 and the introduction of the telegraph.
Full of wonderfully drawn characters and a central romantic thread.
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| Missing Persons |
| Lewis Shiner ( - ) http://www.lewisshiner.com |
Lewis Shiner is a two-time finalist for the Nebula (Frontera, Deserted Cities of the Heart), a finalist for the Philip K. Dick (Frontera), and won the World Fantasy award for Glimpses.
In Missing Persons we collect three of Lewis's own favorite suspense / mystery short stories, written between 1998 and 2004.
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| Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde |
| Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) |
Good and evil. Everybody has both these aspects within them thinks Dr. Jekyll who sets about creating a potion that turns him increasingly into evil. Adopting the evil persona of Edward Hyde, he indulges in a double life until it finally takes its toll ... Robert Louis Stevenson horrifies through the ages. Great reading. |
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