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The Doubleday 100th Birthday Reader, 1897-1997
The Doubleday 100th Birthday Reader 18971997 Author:Hoeft, Jack (ed.) Issued in 1997 to commemorate its one hundredth anniversary, the Doubleday 100th Birthday Reader is bound in blue boards with no dj, issued in limited quantities to Doubleday patrons, and for that reason was never assigned an ISBN. It includes excerpts from some of Doubleday's most famous publications, beginning with Bram Stoker's Dracula and ... more »including selections from the following works:
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Jungle Books- Rudyard Kipling
Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T E Lawrence
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
Roots- Alex Haley
Crusade in Europe - DD Eisenhower
The Living Bible
The Foxfire Book
Fatherhood- Bill Cosby
The Power of Myth- Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell
There Are No Children Here - Alex Kotlowitz
How the Irish Saved Civilization - Thomas Cahill
Lord Jim -Joseph Conrad
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Marjorie Morningstar- Herman Wouk
Exodus- Leon Uris
The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
Airport - Arthur Haley
Carrie- Stephen King
Jaws- Peter Benchley
Beach Music - Pat Conroy
Alias Grace- Margaret Atwood
The book concludes with a section on John Grisham and an excerpt from The Firm.
Truly an eclectic mix of genres, printed on high-quality paper with deckled edges. Although nearly ten years old, the book is unmarked and shows no signs of yellowing.« less