Penguin Books publishes the first "paperback" book.
Studs Lonigan - A Trilogy is published by James T. Farrell . In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
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The Battle for Investment Survival – Gerald M. Loeb
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money - John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes [kens], 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton ( June 5, 1883 in Cambridge April 21, 1946 in Sussex) was an English economist, whose radical ideas had a major impact on modern economic and political thought. He is particularly remembered for advoc
Golden Apples - Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings ( August 8, 1896 December 13, 1953) is an American author who lived in remote rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer
The Hidden Harbor Mystery - Franklin W. DixonFranklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors who wrote the Hardy Boys novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Due to the popularity of the Syndicate's various series, its ghostwriters have produced "crossover" novels, containing
A House Divided - Pearl S. BuckBuck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Chinese name ) ( June 26, 1892 March 6, 1973) was a novelist. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia to Caroline (Stulting) and Absalom Sydenstricker, Buck and her southern Presbyterian missionaries parents went to Z
Journeyman - Erskine CaldwellErskine Preston Caldwell ( December 17, 1903- April 11, 1987) was an American author born near Moreland, GA in Coweta County. His most famous works are the novels Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre''. Caldwell was married to photographer Margaret Bourke-W
The Last Puritan - George SantayanaGeorge Santayana ( 16 December, 1863- 26 September, 1952) was a philosopher. He was born in Madrid, Spain with the name Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana . Santayana moved to Boston in 1872, and took the name George as he is generally known by in t
The Lotus Eaters - Stanley G. WeinbaumStanley G. Weinbaum ( 1902- 1935) was an American science fiction author. He wrote numerous short stories for pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s; most of his work in the 1930s appeared in Astounding and Wonder Stories''. He is most noted for the ground