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The Diviners

By: Laurence, Margaret

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart: January 1988

Seller ID: 28271

ISBN: 077109986X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's celebrated Manawaka cycle, "The Diviners" is an epic novel.
This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process - putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right - relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world - and finally ...
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The Diviners

By: Laurence, Margaret

Price: $11.50

Publisher: New Canadian Library: December 2007

Seller ID: 58354

ISBN: 0771034903

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel.
This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process - putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right - relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world - and fin...
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The Norton Anthology of World Literature; Volume E - 1800 to 1900

By: Lawall, Sarah

Price: $13.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: July 2001

Seller ID: 33745

ISBN: 0393977595

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Women in Love

By: Lawrence, D. H.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd: June 1999

Seller ID: 22917

ISBN: 0140014853

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories

By: Lawrence, D. H.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Penguin Group: June 1995

Seller ID: 52495

ISBN: 0140187804

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Twelve stories of remarkable power and sensitivity from one of Britain's great modernists

His first published collection, these twelve stories were written between 1907 and 1914, during a crucial period of development for Lawrence from which he emerged a leading figure of the modernist movement. Reaching new levels of feeling and experience, these stories range from the tale of a Prussian officer who drives his orderly towards a bloody reckoning, to the strangely exotic elements of 'A Fragment of Stained Glass', and the divisions within society and conflicts of the heart that for...
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Sons and Lovers, The Fox, The White Peacock, Love among the Haystacks, The Virgin and the Gypsy, Lady Chatterley's Lover Complete and Unabridged

By: Lawrence, D.H.

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Heinemann / Octopus: September 1976

Seller ID: 7382

ISBN: 0706405706

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Women in Love

By: Lawrence, D.H.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Premier Classics: 2010

Seller ID: 28346

ISBN: 0307291898

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Sons and Lovers (BBC Television Serial tie-in)

By: Lawrence, D.H.

Price: $23.95

Publisher: Nationwide: 1981

Seller ID: 44023

ISBN: 281BQL1002260

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Plumed Serpent

By: Lawrence, D.H.

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Vintage: June 1992

Seller ID: 45266

ISBN: 0679734937

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Independent People

By: Laxness, Halldor

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Vintage: January 1997

Seller ID: 33697

ISBN: 0679767924

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, a magnificent, epic novel--"funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant" (Annie Proulx)--at last available to contemporary American readers.

Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.

Having spent eighteen years in...
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Laugh With Leacock: An Anthology of the Best Works of Stephen Leacock. (A Dodd, Mead quality paperback)

By: Leacock, Stephen

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Dodd Mead: November 1981

Seller ID: 43617

ISBN: 0396080243

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

To Kill a Mockingbird

By: Lee, Harper

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing: October 1988

Seller ID: 62104

ISBN: 0446310786

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated int...
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To Kill a Mockingbird

By: Lee, Harper

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing: October 1988

Seller ID: 64967

ISBN: 0446310786

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

To Kill a Mockingbird

By: Lee, Harper

Price: $9.25

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics: March 2002

Seller ID: 65057

ISBN: 0060935464

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South--and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred

One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians acros...
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The Female Quixote: or The Adventures of Arabella (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Lennox, Charlotte

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press: June 2008

Seller ID: 62207

ISBN: 0199540241

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

The Female Quixote, a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays Arabella, the beautiful daughter of a marquis, whose passion for reading romances colors her approach to her own life and causes many comical and melodramatic misunderstandings among her relatives and admirers. Both Joseph Fielding and Samuel Johnson greatly admired Lennox, and this novel established her as one of the most successful practitioners of the "Novel of Sentiment."

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broad...
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Golden Notebook

By: Lessing, Doris

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Grafton: May 1973

Seller ID: 38041

ISBN: 0586037950

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

How Green Was My Valley

By: Llewellyn, Richard

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Penguin Classic: July 1991

Seller ID: 42755

ISBN: 0140184651

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Conversation in the Cathedral

By: Llosa, Mario Vargas

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: February 2005

Seller ID: 37683

ISBN: 0060732806

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Haunting tale of power, corruption,
and the complex search for identity

Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odr a. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the overall degradation and frustration that has slowly taken over their town.

Through a complicated web of secrets and historical references, Mario Vargas Llosa analyzes the mental and moral mechanisms that govern p...
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