First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers

By Kathy Kiernan

Here is where it all began - the professional fiction-writing careers of forty-one of our century's finest authors, from Raymond Carver and Alice Walker to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ursula K. Le Guin...

The Sagas of Icelanders

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A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures--as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around...

Best New American Voices 2006

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By Jane Smiley

Dickens

By Dickens Charles. 1812 1870 . Smiley Jane.

Ordinary Love and Good Will

By Jane Smiley

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres—and “one of her generation’s most eloquent chroniclers of ordinary familial love” (The New York Times)—comes two exquisite twin novellas t...

Some Luck

By Jane Smiley

"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher.

Early Warning: A novel

By Jane Smiley

Family patriarch Walter Langdon has died, and his children have fanned out across the country. The narrative moves year by year from 1953 to 1986, encompassing Cold War blinkeredness, Sixties rebel...

Private Life

By Jane Smiley, Kate Reading

Early Warning

By Jane Smiley

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes the “wondrous…mesmerizing” second installment (The Washington Post), following Some Luck, of her widely acclai...