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The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hasek
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics S.
Set in the Central Europe of old, this anti-war novel features a simple soldier whose determination to survive brings into question the powerful social and political institutions he confronts. A portrait of a "little man" waging his own war against authority, it becomes a satire on the old regime.
The Iliad (Everyman's Library) by Homer (Translated by Robert Fitzgerald)
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The greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the cornerstone of Western culture. The story centres on ...Show more
The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities by Marguerite Duras
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husb ...Show more
The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by HAMMETT DASHIELL
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One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century.'His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow' IndependentSam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has el ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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Michael Henchard knew he deserved the pain he felt. Henchard is a handsome farm laborer. When he gets drunk at a country fair, he sells his wife and child to a sailor. The next day, ashamed by what he has done, he lets people believe that his wife has died. Thus begins a chain of events which leads Henc ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer
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An epic poem by the Greek poet Homer, which is the tale of Odysseus' wanderings, a story of heroic adventure and romantic temptation.
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom and Selected Essays by Albert Camus
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
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The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
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In the barren moor of Egdon Heath, a wild tract of country in the southwest of England, one native yearns to escape to city life while another has just returned from that life, unimpressed. Clym Yeobright, a former diamond merchant in Paris, returns home to become a schoolmaster in Egdon, where he falls ...Show more
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway; Nicholas Gaskill (Introduction by)
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"The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost." -- The Wall Street JournalOne of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadThe Sun Also Rises is a classic example of Hemingway's spa ...Show more
The Water Kingdom by Philip Ball
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
A secret history of China - a fresh new way of thinking about a people, a civilisation, an epic story. The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the overwhelming complexity and teeming energy of the countr ...Show more
Women In Love by D. H. Lawrence
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As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and ot ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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The saga of two Yorkshire families in the remote Pennine hills. The book has been interpreted as an historical romance, a ghostly thriller, a psychological love-story, a religious allegory and a nature poem. This is the author's only novel.