FREE/BARGAIN — Fiction (everything else)

[Fluribus]

Hans and Frans will pump you up and teach you how to cuss like a sailor. Or it's a satiric alternate history where Armstrong Custer survived Little Bighorn. I can never keep these things straight.

H. W. Crocker - Armstrong (The Custer of the West) for $0.99 at Amazon.com.

[issybird]

For those who have read all of Hornblower, Aubrey/Maturin and Bolitho, The King's Coat, the first in the Alan Lewrie series of naval adventures during the age of sail, is $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo.

[Gardenman]

Originally Posted by issybird

For those who have read all of Hornblower, Aubrey/Maturin and Bolitho, The King's Coat, the first in the Alan Lewrie series of naval adventures during the age of sail, is $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo.

Thank issybird

got it

[SpaceCowboy1964]

The following book "Follow The River" is a novelized version of the escape of Mary Ingles from the Shawnee Indians in the mid 1700's. I read this many years ago and while it is aimed at a Jr high/middle school aged group it is readable by adults.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003XT60JK..._397691520_KDD

[conan50]

Originally Posted by SpaceCowboy1964

The following book "Follow The River" is a novelized version of the escape of Mary Ingles from the Shawnee Indians in the mid 1700's. I read this many years ago and while it is aimed at a Jr high/middle school aged group it is readable by adults.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003XT60JK..._397691520_KDD

Also read that book years ago. The author makes you feel every mile those women traveled. Excellent book.

[Gronk]

Originally Posted by conan50

Also read that book years ago. The author makes you feel every mile those women traveled. Excellent book.

Agreed. Great book.

[SpaceCowboy1964]

Justt realized I forgot the most important part of this post. The price which is $1.99 US.

Originally Posted by SpaceCowboy1964

The following book "Follow The River" is a novelized version of the escape of Mary Ingles from the Shawnee Indians in the mid 1700's. I read this many years ago and while it is aimed at a Jr high/middle school aged group it is readable by adults.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003XT60JK..._397691520_KDD

[lxpose]

Muriel Spark - Loitering With Intent (Virago Modern Classics) - £0.99

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00C2V4V28

[ZodWallop]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson is $2.99 at Amazon.

This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.

[lxpose]

Barbara Pym - No Fond Return of Love (Virago Modern Classics) - £0.99

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fond-Return.../dp/B006CUYV3E

[ZodWallop]

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser is $0.99 at Amazon.

Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy (1925) is nothing less than what the title holds it to be; it is the story of a weak-willed young man who is both villain and victim (the victim of a valueless, materialistic society) and someone who ultimately destroys himself. Dreiser modeled the story of Clyde Griffiths on a real-life murder that took place in 1906; a young social climber of considerable charm murdered his pregnant girlfriend to get her out of the way so that he could instead play to the affections of a rich girl who had begun to notice him.

Filmed as A Place in the Sun, a movie I'd recommend.

[Dr. Drib]

^ I haven't seen the film, but I highly recommend the book and just about anything by Theodore Dreiser.

NOTE: For an additional dollar, one can buy a very nice Delphi edition of his collected works:

https://www.amazon.com/Delphi-Collec...r=1-1-fkmrnull

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

^ I haven't seen the film, but I highly recommend the book and just about anything by Theodore Dreiser.

Well hey, The Titan (book 2 of his Trilogy of Desire) is going for $1.99 over at Amazon.

Theodore Dreiser’s absorbing Trilogy of Desire weaves a tale of twentieth-century American capitalism through the rise and fall of aspiring mogul, Frank Cowperwood.

Finally released from prison, Frank immediately dives back into the stock market after the Panic of 1873, aiming to recover his lost fortune, and become a millionaire once more. This time, he has a new plan and sets out for Chicago with his mistress, Aileen. Using his brutal business sense to snuff out his opponents Frank has his eyes on the city’s street-railway system as his ticket back to the top.

But as Frank knows, the past cannot remain buried forever, and it’s only a matter of time before his previous misdeeds come back to find him in his new home, threatening his stability—and more importantly, his money.

There seems to be several cheap editions of the first two books in the trilogy (The Financier and The Titan). But only Rosetta has the final book (The Stoic). I guess it is still under copyright?

[Dr. Drib]

We may have been writing at the same time.

If so, do a refresh and check out that Delphi edition for $1.99

[Dr. Drib]

I'm a member at Kobo UK, which is where I bought my copy - but it costs more than the Delphi U.S.A edition.

The Stoic was published in 1947, I think, and is NOT included in the U.S.A. edition.