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North River

by Pete Hamill

Published: 2007-06

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One snowy New Year's Day, in the midst of the Great Depression, Dr. James Delaney--haunted by the slaughters of the Great War, and abandoned by his wife and daughter--returns home to find his three-year-old grandson on his doorstep, left by his mother in Delaney's care. Coping with this ...

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North River: A Novel

by Pete Hamill

Published: 2008-06-04

Paperback: 368 pages

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One snowy New Year's Day, in the midst of the Great Depression, Dr. James Delaney--haunted by the slaughters of the Great War, and abandoned by his wife and daughter--returns home to find his three-year-old grandson on his doorstep, left by his mother in Delaney's care. Coping with this ...

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North Toward Home

by Willie Morris

Published: 2000-08

Paperback: 464 pages

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With his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this country's finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in a period of tumultuous cultural, social, and political change. In North Toward Home, Morr...

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Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Published: 2013-12-05

Paperback: 148 pages

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Jane Austen was an English author best known for her books of romantic fiction. Despite writing many books that are now considered classics, Austen did not gain much fame during her lifetime, likely due to being a woman. Austen was just 41 years old when she died yet she is still considered one of...

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Northanger Abbey (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Jane Austen

Published: 2005-03-03

Paperback: 288 pages

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Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics)

by Jane Austen

Published: 2002-01-08

Paperback: 256 pages

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Jane Austen's first novel, Northanger Abbey?published posthumously in 1818?tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during he...

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Northanger Abbey (Vintage Classics)

by Jane Austen

Published: 2007-09-04

Paperback: 256 pages

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Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its na�ve but sweetly appealing heroine, C...

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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon (Oxford World's Classics)

by Jane Austen

Published: 2003-10-30

Paperback: 432 pages

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Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated...

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Northanger Abbey: A Longman Cultural Edition

by Jane Austen

Published: 2004-09-12

Paperback: 328 pages

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From Longman's Cultural Editions Series, Northanger Abbey, edited by Marilyn Gaull, presents key texts that illuminate the lively intersections of literature, tradition, and culture. This edition places Jane Austen and Northanger Abbey in the major conversations of Romanticism, not just...

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Northern Borders: A Novel

by Howard Frank Mosher

Published: 2002-09-04

Paperback: 304 pages

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Northern Borders is Mosher"s nostalgic novel of life in northern Vermont"s Kingdom County, as told by a man remembering his boyhood. In 1948 six-year-old Austen Kittredge III leaves his widowed father to live with his paternal grandparents on their farm in the township of Lost Nation. Escapades at the...