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The Virgin and the Gipsy was discovered in France after D. H. Lawrence's death in 1930. Immediately recognized as a masterpiece in which Lawrence had distilled and purified his ideas about sexuality and morality, The Virgin and the Gipsy has become a classic and is one of Lawrence's most electrifying short novels.Set in a small village in...

Helen is serving a life sentence at Sloatsburg women's prison for the murder of her children. Dr. Louise Forrest, a recently divorced mother of an eight-year-old boy, is the new chief of psychiatry there. Captain Ike Bradshaw is the corrections officer who wants her. And Angie, an ambitious Hollywood starlet contacted by Helen, is intent on...

A NovelWhen a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded...

Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian AAAa AaAAaAa AaAAAAAaAA AAaAAAaAaAAAa AaAAaAAAaAA!AAAAAaAA!AAaAaAA(c)migrAAAa AaAAaAa AaAAAAAaAA AAaAAAaAaAAAa AaAAaAAAaAA!AAAAAaAA!AAaAaAA(c) of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him.Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping...

A wonderfully provocative and appealing novel, from the much-loved author of Anywhere But Here and A Regular Guy, her first in ten years. It tells the story of two women whose lives entwine and unfold behind the glittery surface of Hollywood.Claire, a composer and a new mother, comes to LA so her husband can follow his passion for writing...

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.Sandra Cisneros knows both that the heart can be broken and that it can rise and soar like a bird. Whatever story she chooses to tell, we should be listening for a long time to come. The Washington Post Book WorldA...