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  • The Harbor

    by Ernest Poole, Patrick Chura ...
    Ernest Poole's bestselling, muckraking classic about the plight of the worker.The best-known novel by the winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Ernest Poole's The Harbor was published in 1915 to instant acclaim and remains his most important book. At the heart of the story is Billy, an aspiring writer who struggles to reconcile his sympathy for workers with his middle-class allegiance to ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Vital Contact

    Downclassing Journeys in American Literature from Melville to Richard Wright

    by Patrick Chura ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    The book analyzes American literature about middle or upper class characters who voluntarily descend the class ranks to experience vital contact by living or associating, temporarily, with the poor. The motivations of these characters--and historical figures such as John Reed and Walter Wyckoff--range from straightforward bohemian slumming among the exotics to more complex and psychologically ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Michael Gold

    The People's Writer

    by Patrick Chura ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture
    An authoritative biography of the dean of American proletarian writers during the interwar years.Winner of the 2022 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize presented by the Literary EncyclopediaWinner of the 2022 Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Award presented by the Peace Corps WorldwideJewish American Communist writer and cultural figure Michael Gold (1893–1967) was a key progressive author of his generation, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Damned Agitator

    A Michael Gold Reader

    by Mike Gold ...
    The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer."Is it time to release Michael Gold from his personal gulag to range free in the pastures of 20th-century American literature?" - Jim Hoberman, The NationThis definitive collection of fiction, drama, poetry, and journalism, edited by the author of the award-winning biography Michael Gold: The People's ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer

    by Joseph Conrad ...
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  • The Long Loneliness

    The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

    by Dorothy Day ...
    The compelling autobiography of Dorothy Day, a remarkable Catholic woman and social activist sainted by many, who championed the rights of the poor in America’s inner cities.When Dorothy Day died in 1980, the New York Times eulogized her as “a nonviolent social radical of luminous personality . . . founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and leader for more than fifty years in numerous battles of ... Read more

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  • The Best Short Stories of O. Henry

    by O. Henry ...
    The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume. The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously by anthologists and those that represent, in variety and balance, the best work of America's favorite storyteller. They are tales in his most ... Read more

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  • World of Our Fathers

    The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

    by Irving Howe ...
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  • The Jews in America Trilogy

    "Our Crowd," The Grandees, and "The Rest of Us"

    by Stephen Birmingham ...
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  • The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

    by Mark Twain ...
    A sparkling anthology of sixty stories covering the entire span of Mark Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later yearsFor deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. Every one of his sixty stories is ... Read more

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  • "The Rest of Us"

    The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews

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    The New York Times–bestselling history of the Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland who altered the American landscape from New York to Hollywood.The wave of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who swept into New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by way of Ellis Island were not welcomed by the Jews who had arrived decades before. These refugees from czarist Russia and the ... Read more

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