Top 10 20th Century Novels

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  • The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud

    • ASIN: 0679886478
    • ISBN: 0679886478
    • Brand: Knopf Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers

  • The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology

    • ASIN: 0374533180
    • ISBN: 0374533180
    • Brand: Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    During a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations. From Rubén Darío's quest to renew the Spanish language to César Vallejo's linking of religion and politics, from Jorge Luis Borges's cosmopolitanism to Pablo Neruda's placement of poetry as uncompromising speaker for the downtrodden, and from Alejandra ... [Read More]

  • Prison Writings in 20th Century America

    • ASIN: 0140273050
    • ISBN: 0140273050
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • 100 All-Time Favorite Movies of the 20th Century (Bibliotheca Universalis)

    • ASIN: 3836556189
    • ISBN: 3836556189
    • Brand: Muller Jurgen
    • Manufacturer: TASCHEN

    Take a journey through the makers and shapers of celluloid history. From horror to romance, noir to slapstick, adventure to tragedy, Western to new wave, this selection gathers the greats of 20th-century cinema into one indispensable guide to movie gold.The collection is arranged chronologically and in an extra-handy format. Film entries include a ... [Read More]

  • Great Speeches of the 20th Century (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759474677
    • ASIN: 0486474674
    • ISBN: 0486474674
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    A great speech can stir the soul — and move a nation. This compact and affordable anthology gathers complete speeches and selected excerpts from some of the twentieth century's most memorable addresses. Writers and speakers in search of memorable quotations will appreciate this collection, as will any reader seeking historical wisdom and inspirat... [Read More]

  • The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442155878
    • ASIN: 0618155872
    • ISBN: 0618155872
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America’s tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and important, essays that move from personal experience to la... [Read More]

  • Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness

    • ASIN: 0393309762
    • ISBN: 0393309762
    • Brand: Forche, Carolyn (EDT)
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    This landmark anthology, the first of its kind, takes it impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecht: "In these dark times, will there also be singing? / Yes, there will be singing. / About the dark times." Bearing witness to extremity―whether of war, torture, exile, or repression―the volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, ov... [Read More]

  • Brazil Modern: The Rediscovery of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Furniture

    • ASIN: 1580934447
    • ISBN: 1580934447
    • Manufacturer: The Monacelli Press

    Twentieth-century Brazilian furniture design is perhaps the last great largely unknown tradition of modernism, characterized by rich and sensually textured hardwoods and an ingenuity, grace, and simplicity that exemplify the national character of brasiliadade. With well over 400 historic images and new photography, Brazil Modern: The Rediscovery of... [Read More]

  • Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century

    • ASIN: 0441011330
    • ISBN: 0441011330
    • Brand: Ace Books
    • Manufacturer: Ace

  • Anthology of English Literature: The Twentieth Century, Vol. 20, 7th Edition

    • ASIN: 0393975703
    • ISBN: 0393975703
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    With adoptions at over 1,300 colleges and universities in its first semester; the Seventh Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Seventh Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format. More selec... [Read More]

  • Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America (Studies in Industry and Society)

    • ASIN: 0801894859
    • ISBN: 9780801894855
    • Brand: Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
    • Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins University Press

    The history of automobiles is not just the story of invention, manufacturing, and marketing; it is also a story of repair. Auto Mechanics opens the repair shop to historical study―for the first time―by tracing the emergence of a dirty, difficult, and important profession.Kevin L. Borg's study spans a century of automotive technology―from the ... [Read More]

  • The Bedford Anthology of World Literature Book 6: The Twentieth Century, 1900-The Present

    • ASIN: 031240266X
    • ISBN: 031240266X
    • Brand: Brand: Bedford/St. Martin's
    • Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's

    The Bedford Anthology of World Literature doesn’t just surround an unsurpassed collection of western and world literature with generous literary, historical, and cultural contexts — it also gives students the help they need to explore an entire world of literature.

  • August Sander: People of the 20th Century

    • ASIN: 3829606443
    • ISBN: 9783829606448
    • Brand: Cologne Sk Stiftung Kultur
    • Manufacturer: Schirmer/Mosel

    With People of the 20th Century, August Sander created a monumental work that is unique in the history of photography and a classic of photographic literature. Sander conceived this large-scale project, which he ultimately never completed, in the 1920s. He was to spend the rest of his life working on it, his objective nothing less than a complete t... [Read More]

  • 20th Century American Short Stories, Volume 1 (Student Book)

    • ASIN: 083844850X
    • ISBN: 083844850X
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Heinle ELT

    These classic texts introduce your students to American literature through a rich selection of contemporary authors from the twentieth century.

  • The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry

    • ASIN: 0143121480
    • ISBN: 0143121480
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    Penguin’s landmark poetry anthology, perfect for learning poems by heart in the age of ephemeral media  Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years in The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Now availa... [Read More]

  • Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American Poetry

    • ASIN: 0062506668
    • ISBN: 0062506668
    • Manufacturer: HarperOne

    Representing the work of thirty-one poets since the turn of the century, this is the definitive anthology of Native American poetry.

  • The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

    • UPC: 046442843676
    • ASIN: 0395843677
    • ISBN: 0395843677
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the b... [Read More]

  • Summer of '69

    • ASIN: B07J564ZHD
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

    The #1 New York Times Bestseller Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed, in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year... [Read More]

  • Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Vol. 3

    • ASIN: 1421519224
    • ISBN: 1421519224
    • Brand: Urasawa, Naoki
    • Manufacturer: VIZ Media LLC

    R to L (Japanese Style). It turns out that the Friend's plan to destroy the world was dreamed up long ago by a gang of boys playing "good guys against bad guys"...And now, the only one who can stop this diabolical plot from succeeding is the one who came up with it--Kenji!Kenji races home and picks up the newspaper: sure enough, the mystery microbe... [Read More]

  • Key Buildings of the 20th Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations (Second Edition) (Key Architecture Series)

    • ASIN: 0393733114
    • ISBN: 0393733114
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    An analysis of influential work by seminal architects, including Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, and Rem Koolhaas.Featuring more than one hundred of the most significant and influential buildings of the twentieth century, this second edition has been expanded and updated to include new buildings from... [Read More]

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