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Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Originally published in 1938, Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare is a masterpiece of psychological realism and often considered Graham Greene's best novel. It is a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the "appalling strangeness of the mercy of God," a classic of its kind. Set in ...Show more
Buddenbrooks - The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann; John E. Woods (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929. Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story o ...Show more
DETECTIVE STORIES by WASHINGTON PETER
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
This is a glorious collection of some of the best sleuths in the business. It includes creators such as Poe and Conan Doyle to Hammet, Christie, Chandler, Rendell and Rankin.
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann; H. T. Lowe-Porter (Translator)
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Adrian Leverk hn is a young man destined for success. He is a composer - creative and brilliant, but he will stop at nothing to achieve greatness. Intentionally contracting syphilis in order to deepen his creative potential through madness, Adrian makes his pact with nature. Mann?s interpretation of the ...Show more
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens; Phiz (Illustrator)
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Dombey and Son is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in monthly parts from 1 October 1846 to 1 April 1848 and in one volume in 1848. Its full title is Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. Dickens started writing the book in Lausanne, Switzerland, before ret ...Show more
Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac; Ellen Marriage (Translator)
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Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
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"FICTIONS is perhaps the single most mysterious and extraordinary collection of short stories written this century. Influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes, Borges is nethertheless a complete original who can turn dry logical puzzles in to enchanting fables. The Piec ...Show more
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman; Polly Jones (Introduction by); Robert Chandler (Translator)
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Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an immense ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; Laura Thompson (Introduction by)
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Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew t ...Show more
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
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Nostromoby Joseph ConradA gripping tale of capitalist exploitation and rebellion, set amid the mist-shrouded mountains of a fictional South American republic, employs flashbacks and glimpses of the future to depict the lure of silver and its effects on men. Conrad's deep moral consciousness and masterfu ...Show more
The Cairo Trilogy (comprising Palace Walk; Palace of Desire; Sugar Street) by Naguib Mahfouz
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Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of Th ...Show more
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Giorgio Bassani's acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature. Made into an Academy Award--winning film in 1970, "The Garden of the Finzi--Continis "is a richly evocati ...Show more