FREE/BARGAIN — Fiction (everything else)

[ZodWallop]

Erskine Caldwell's most famous (or infamous) novel, God's Little Acre is $1.99 at Amazon.

Single father and poor Southern farmer Ty Ty Walden has a plan to save his farm and his family: He will tear his fields apart until he finds gold. While Ty Ty obsesses over his fool’s quest, his sons and daughters search in vain for their own dreams of instant happiness—whether from money, violence, or sex.

God’s Little Acre is a classic dark comedy, a satire that lampoons a broken South while holding a light to the toll that poverty takes on the hopes and dreams of the poor themselves.

From Wikipedia:

The novel's sexual themes were so controversial that the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice asked a New York state court to censor it.

[GlenBarrington]

Originally Posted by HarryT

A little misleading titling it "new", in that case!

Perspective is everything!

[lxpose]

Amazon UK Daily Deal

James Baldwin - If Beale Street Could Talk (Penguin Modern Classics) - £0.99

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beale-Stree.../dp/B003P9XDR0

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

The Inferno: A New Verse Translation - free
https://www.amazon.com/Inferno-New-V...dp/B07NLH541F/

Thanks - worth a try! I picked it up.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by lxpose

Amazon UK Daily Deal

James Baldwin - If Beale Street Could Talk (Penguin Modern Classics) - £0.99

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beale-Stree.../dp/B003P9XDR0

I was hoping the movie would cause the book to go on sale over here as well. Guess I'll add it to my ereaderiq list.

[ZodWallop]

Cathedral by Raymond Carver is on sale for $2.99 at Amazon. It's been on sale for a little bit (I thought I'd missed it), not sure how much longer the sale will last.

Raymond Carver’s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories mark a turning point in Carver’s work and “overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life. . . . Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty. . . . his eye set only on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart” (Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World).

[ZodWallop]

James Clavell's excellent Shōgun is $1.99 at Amazon.

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is late sixteenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne’s loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss, and he is torn between two worlds that will each be forever changed.

Powerful and engrossing, capturing both the rich pageantry and stark realities of life in feudal Japan, Shōgun is a critically acclaimed powerhouse of a book. Heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat action melds seamlessly with intricate historical detail and raw human emotion. Endlessly compelling, this sweeping saga captivated the world to become not only one of the bestselling novels of all time but also one of the highest-rated television miniseries, as well as inspiring a nationwide surge of interest in the culture of Japan. Shakespearean in both scope and depth, Shōgun is, as the New York Times put it, “…not only something you read—you live it.” Provocative, absorbing, and endlessly fascinating, there is only one: Shōgun.

[conan50]

Thanks for posting about Shogun!

[ReadingManiac]

Just a general heads up, Smashwords is having one of their big sales for Read an Ebook Week. Today though Saturday the 9th. Loads of free and heavily discounted.

I know Smashwords isn't flavour of the month here but some of my own favourite books are included in the sale. Anerage prices .99-0.00

[ZodWallop]

There's a separate thread about it, but just so it isn't missed:

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco is $2.99 at Amazon. What if Sherlock Holmes was a 14th century monk?

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon—all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where “the most interesting things happen at night.”

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

There's a separate thread about it, but just so it isn't missed:

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco is $2.99 at Amazon. What if Sherlock Holmes was a 14th century monk?

Superb book. If anyone hasn't read it, I highly recommend it.

[ZodWallop]

Pearl Buck's The Good Earth is $1.99 at Amazon.

The Good Earth is Buck’s classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple’s fortunes improve over the years: They are blessed with sons, and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property in the House of Wang—the very house in which O-lan used to work. But success brings with it a new set of problems. Wang soon finds himself the target of jealousy, and as good harvests come and go, so does the social order. Will Wang’s family cherish the estate after he’s gone? And can his material success, the bedrock of his life, guarantee anything about his soul?

[ZodWallop]

Deliverance by James Dickey is on sale for $1.99.

The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.

[jselby]

George Orwell's 1984 & Animal Farm in one volume is available at amazon.com for $4.99.

https://smile.amazon.com/Animal-Farm.../dp/B003ZX868W

This edition features George Orwell's best known novels – 1984 and Animal Farm – with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

Animal Farm is Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution -- an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. But are they?

[ZodWallop]

A Widow for One Year by John Irving is $2.99 at Amazon.

In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island (in the summer of 1958) through the fall of 1990 (when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career), and at last in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother (and she’s about to fall in love for the first time). Both elegiac and sensual, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force.

The first third of the novel was adapted into the excellent film The Door in the Floor.