THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER
by John Cheever · Knopf
This collection of Cheever's short fiction features the Swimmer, The enormous radio, The housebreaker of Shady Hill and fifty-eight other stories written and published over the past three decades.
SECOND GENERATION
by Howard Fast · Houghton Mifflin
This sequel to "The Immigrants" depicts the life of Barbara Lavette, daughter of the son of a poor Italian immigrant and a woman of San Francisco's elite, from the Depression through World War II.
THE SILMARILLION
by J.R.R. Tolkien · Houghton Mifflin
The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron.
THE PRAISE SINGER
by Mary Renault · Pantheon
Manuscripts: Funeral Games (1981), The Last of the Wine (1956), and The Praise Singer (1978).
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