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A startling portrait of the Great War, influencing chroniclers of warfare to come. 

Based on John Dos Passos’ own experiences in World War 1, three soldiers come together from very different backgrounds: Fuselli, a store clerk from San Francisco; Chrisfield, a farmhand from Indiana; and Andrews, a Harvard Graduate with aspirations of becoming a musician. 

They’ve been told it doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, but how you transform on the battlefield. Any man can be a killing machine. In the trenches of France, they will learn what this means, and that once lost, humanity may be impossible to recover. 

A beloved tragicomic, coming-of-age romance from readers and authors alike. 

The only child of the successful Dr. Austin Sloper, honest and shy Catherine Slope resides with her father on the cusp of Washington Square Park in New York City. But Catherine is a disappointment to the physician, more so when she attracts the attention of money-hungry Morris Townsend.

While her father works to keep the young couple apart, Aunt Lavinia Penniman moves the courtship along, with necessary comic relief. Ultimately, Catherine and Morris get engaged, but her father is not done yet, and soon enjoys the game of plotting to ruin the union. 

The feminist follow-up to the author’s infamous Jane Eyre. 

The quiet Caroline Helstone was raised strictly, but with love, by her uncle in Yorkshire, while the charming heiress Shirley Keeldar carves out her own path in life. 

Despite their differences, the girls become bonded as they navigate the complexities of Victorian society.

But soon, Shirley meets Robert Moore, a man who is after her wealth, and the lives of all three will become entangled—for better or for worse. 

The second installment in the revered Parade’s End tetralogy. 

Gentleman and officer, Christopher Tietjens has always done the right thing. That is, until he meets the lovely Valentine Wannop, who motivates him to throw caution to the wind and leave his marriage. 

But before they can be together, Christopher must leave Edwardian England and head to the front of World War I. There, in France, he learns that his wife has come looking for him, and he will do anything, even throw himself into war, to not learn of her intentions.