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Book Cover for: Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne
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150 Years Ago today in Radio History: More of an adventure novel than the Science Fiction for which he is better known, on this date, January 30, 1873, Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days" is publi https://t.co/laHIwcSBpm https://t.co/zaZWaMf44A

Hardcover, 2021

$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck
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Happy Birthday, John Steinbeck! Today would be John Steinbeck's 121st Birthday. Nobel Prize Winner John Steinbeck was a great American writer known for The Grapes of Wrath, Tortilla Flat, Of Mice and Men, The Winter of Our Discontent... https://t.co/5QQSnnkgDC https://t.co/SDBoOkoBE7

Paperback, 1993

$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: As You Like It, William Shakespeare

As You Like It

William Shakespeare
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Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare! Today is William Shakespeare's 459th Birthday. This collection includes Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, As You Like It, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Taming of the Shrew, Antony and... https://t.co/YTT3ZZXBWN https://t.co/ZAN4x4mkRn

Paperback, 2019

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Crucible, Arthur Miller

The Crucible

Arthur Miller
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70 Years Ago today in Radio History: Henry Miller's The Crucible, a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials, opened on Broadway on this date, January 22, 1953, and gained popularity as an allegory for McCart https://t.co/ehpNkuWFlA https://t.co/T9HVl9gfXQ

Paperback, 2003

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Happy Birthday, F Scott Fitzgerald! Today would be F Scott Fitzgerald's 125th Birthday. His finest work, The Great Gatsby, is a tale of decadence, idealism, social upheaval and excess, a concise portrait of the Jazz Age and a... https://t.co/BQubGNXoPI https://t.co/pMPmopPI8N

Paperback, 2004

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patricia Highsmith
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Happy Birthday, Patricia Highsmith! Today would be Patricia Highsmith's 102nd Birthday. A crime novelist best known for The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train, she infused troubled psychologies into her amoral characters, https://t.co/4B7g5A75cn https://t.co/fI1Q0Zx7aO

Paperback, 2008

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley

Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley
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205 Years Ago today in Radio History: Twenty-year-old Mary Shelley on this date, January 1, 1818, anonymously publishes her novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus. https://t.co/bFEen1Akbj https://t.co/zambPSjrlw

Paperback, 2008

$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley
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Happy Birthday, Aldous Huxley! Today would be Aldous Huxley's 128th Birthday. English writer best know for his dystopian novel "Brave New World" written in 1931. Today only: his collections is on sale at 20% off. https://www.otrcat.com/p/aldous-huxley https://t.co/y3gpYlKPCH

Paperback, 2006

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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