Peyton Place |
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| Author:
| Metalious, Grace |
| Series title: | Modern Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-517-20477-1 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1999 |
| Publisher: | Random House Value Publishing
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| Imprint: | Gramercy |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $10.99 |
Book Description:
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Peyton Place, published in 1956, has sold over 10,000,000 copies world-wide and remains the fourth biggest selling novel of all time. Its sequel,Return to Peyton Place, published in 1959, was a national best-seller for many, many months. Considered scandalous it its time of publication,Peyton Place, stirred controversy with its explicit—for the time—depictions of sex and sins in a small New England town. Today, the once shocking novel and its sequel seem tame, and are...
More DescriptionPeyton Place, published in 1956, has sold over 10,000,000 copies world-wide and remains the fourth biggest selling novel of all time. Its sequel,Return to Peyton Place, published in 1959, was a national best-seller for many, many months. Considered scandalous it its time of publication,Peyton Place, stirred controversy with its explicit—for the time—depictions of sex and sins in a small New England town. Today, the once shocking novel and its sequel seem tame, and are taught in college English courses as classics of their time, well-written and honest in the evocation of the passions, jealousies, and secrets of small-town America.