Great Japanese Stories - 10 Parallel Texts by Jay Rubin (Editor)
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Category: Classics
This hand-picked selection from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories celebrates the best literature to emerge from Japan since the twentieth century.From a surreal fairy tale to a heart-rending evocation of the aftermath of the atomic bomb, this vibrant collection provides unique cultural insight ...Show more
Great Italian Stories / Grandi Racconti Italiani: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
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Category: Classics
A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the ...Show more
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Classics | Series: Marquez 2014
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. 'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the mor ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
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Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
The calamities that befall the hapless creatures of Aesop's Fables! The fox can't reach his grapes, then gets attacked by biting flies and loses his tail in a trap. And things don't go much better for the hare, who is chased relentlessly by a hound, barely escaping with his life-only to be beaten in a r ...Show more
Life Lessons from Literature by Joseph Piercy
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Category: Classics
‘I read a book one day and my whole life was changed’ ... So confesses the narrator of Orhan Pamuk’s novel The New Life. But what can we learn from reading books? Life Lessons from Literature poses this broad question by examining the works of some of the greatest writers in history. In it, we can draw ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: Classics
A 50th anniversary edition of the book that brought down the Soviet Union - now with an introduction from Solzhenitsyn's widow detailing the dramatic story of its publication ' The Gulag Archipelago helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ...Show more
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton; Jessie Gaynor (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
The Glimpses of the Moon, by Edith Wharton
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Classics | Series: Dalkey Essentials Ser.
Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the ...Show more
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery
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Category: Classics | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
Somewhere between Green Gables and Avonlea there is a Blue Castle.... Lucy Maud Montgomery, internationally best-selling Canadian author, wrote about girls who escaped into the wild when the world stopped making sense. Her girl-protagonists straddle the line between 'civilized' towns of the 1900s, a ...Show more
The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely (Crime & Espionage Classics) by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Classics
Two great novels featuring hard-boiled Californian detective Philip MarloweRaymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colour ...Show more
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Crime & Espionage Classics) by John le Carré
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Category: Classics
George Smiley faces his greatest challenge yet, unmasking a Soviet double agent at the heart of the British establishmentGeorge Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy.The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lampl ...Show more
Sleeping Dog by Dick Lochte
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Category: Classics
A darkly comic thriller following a cynical LA gumshoe who makes the catastrophic mistake of helping a 14-year-old find her dog . . .Serendipity Dahlquist is a headstrong roller-blading 14-year-old living in LA who has lost her dog. She asks private investigator Leo Bloodworth to help her find the missi ...Show more