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John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath is a novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of... read more

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To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. The freely, multiply discursive tale centers on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. To the Lighthouse follows and extends the tradition of... read more

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Breakfast at Tiffany's

Truman Capote

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy,... read more

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The Winter of Our Discontent

John Steinbeck

The Winter of Our Discontent published in 1961, is John Steinbeck's last novel. The title is a reference to the line "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son [or sun] of York," from William Shakespeare's Richard III. The story... read more

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Tortilla Flat

John Steinbeck

Tortilla Flat (1935) is an early John Steinbeck's novel set in Monterey, California. The book portrays with great sympathy and humour a group of paisanos (fellows/countrymen), denouncing society by enjoying life and wine in the idyllic days just before U.S.... read more

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The Kindly Ones

Jonathan Littell

The Kindly Ones (French: Les Bienveillantes) is a historical fiction novel written in French by American-born author Jonathan Littell. The 900-page book became a bestseller in France and was widely discussed in newspapers, magazines, academic journals, books... read more

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Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California, USA. Based on... read more

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East of Eden

John Steinbeck

East of Eden is a novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952. Often described as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, East of Eden brings to life the intricate details of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, and their... read more

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Slowness

Milan Kundera

The novel is a meditation on the effects of modernity upon the individual's perception of the world. It is told through a number of plot lines that slowly weave together until they are all united at the end of the... read more

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Ignorance

Milan Kundera

Czech expatriot Irena, who has been living in France - Kundera self reference - decides to return to her home after twenty years. There she meets an old flame. The novel examines the feelings instigated by the return to a homeland, which has ceased to be a... read more

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Sonnets

William Sheakspeare

This book is an important and complete collection of the Sonnets of William Shakespeare. Most readers are aware of the great plays and manuscripts written for the stage, but are unaware of the magnificent Sonnets which were written around the same period.... read more

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Identity

Milan Kundera

There are situations in which for a moment we fail to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. This also happens with couples--indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear... read more

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In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.As... read more

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Summer Crossing

Truman Capote

Considered lost for over 50 years, this is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about... read more

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Music for Chameleons

Truman Capote

Music for Chameleons (1980) is a collection by American author Truman Capote that includes both fiction and nonfiction. Capote's first offering of new material in 14 years, Music for Chamelons spent an unheard of (for a collection of short nonfiction) 16... read more

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A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic licence of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasizing that the lack of an independent income, and... read more

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Early Stories

Truman Capote

The early fiction of one of the nation’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an... read more

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The Book of Sand

Jorge Luis Borges

"Borges is one of the most remarkable artists of our age", Mario Vargas Llosa said. "The Book of Sand" was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, 'variations on favourite themes...combining a plain and at times... read more

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Five Points

Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa's latest novel was named after one of the emblematic neighborhoods of old Lima. In Five Points, the author creates a mural, rich in details and contrasts, in which characters from very different social circles find themselves affected by... read more

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Limonov

Emmanuel Carrère

"Limonov" is the fictional biography of Eduard Limonov (1943), a Russian writer, politician, contradictory and eccentric personality. Limonov was a small bandit in Ukraine; an idol of the Soviet underground during the time of Brezhnev; a totter; a servant of... read more

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Odessa Star

Herman Koch

In his fourth novel, Herman Koch presents his own twisted take on a familiar plotline: the protagonist Fred Moorman, stranded in a meaningless job and a joyless marriage, is anything but a pitiful victim. He is an unscrupulous man who doesn’t think... read more

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Lives Other Than My Own

Emmanuel Carrère

In the winter of 2004, Emmanuel Carrère and his life companion Ellen spent their vacation in Sri Lanka when the island was hit by a devastating tsunami. They get closer with a young family who had lost their four-year-old daughter in the disaster, and... read more

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The Green House

Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent... read more

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The Children Act

Ian McEwan

Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the... read more

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A Universal History of Iniquity

Jorge Luis Borges

In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with... read more

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Jacob`s Room

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive young man named Jacob Flanders. The life story, character and friends of Jacob are presented in a series for separate scenes and moments from his childhood,... read more

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Ancient Light

John Banville

Is there a difference between memory and invention? That is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he reflects on his first, and perhaps only, love — an underage affair with his best friend’s mother. When his stunted acting career is... read more

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The Infinities

John Banville

On a languid midsummer’s day in the countryside, the old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying. His family gathers at his bedside: his son, young Adam, struggling to maintain his marriage to a radiantly beautiful actress; his... read more

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The Complete Cosmicomics

Italo Calvino

The definitive edition of Calvino’s cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories — including some never before translated — in one volume for the first time. In Italo Calvino’s cosmicomics, primordial beings cavort... read more

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The Art of the Novel

Milan Kundera

Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. (Milan Kundera) Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such... read more

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Night and Day

Virginia Woolf

Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. As she struggles to decide, the lives... read more

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The Kingdom

Emmanuel Carrère

Corinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago. An itinerant preacher, poor, wracked by illness, tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea, who came back from the dead, and whose return is a sign of something enormous. Like a contagion, the... read more

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The Bostonians

Henry James

This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive... read more

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Immortality

Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera's sixth novel begins with a casual, elegant gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character — Agnes — in the mind of a writer named Kundera. A novel in seven parts, Immortality alternates the stories... read more

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Silence in October

Jens Christian Grøndahl

After eighteen years of marriage, an art historian wakes up one morning to find his wife standing in the bedroom doorway with her bags packed, leaving him with no explanation. Alone in his Copenhagen apartment, he tries to make sense of his enigmatic marriage... read more

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Sonnets, hardcover

William Sheakspeare

This book is an important and complete collection of the Sonnets of William Shakespeare. Most readers are aware of the great plays and manuscripts written for the stage, but are unaware of the magnificent Sonnets which were written around the same period.... read more

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Blood Wedding

Pierre Lemaitre

Normally happy and well-adjusted, Sophie Duguet doesn't understand what's happening to her: she has begun losing things, from her recently delivered mail to the car she parked the night before. She is constantly forgetting things she's said and done, too...... read more

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The Joke

Milan Kundera

It is told from the viewpoint of four different narrators (the only of Kundera's novels that does not feature the author himself as narrator); as the novel nears its climax, the point of view shifts at a repeating rate. The novel partly criticizes Communist... read more

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Dear Mr. M.

Herman Koch

The tour-de-force, hair-raising new novel from Herman Koch, New York Times bestselling author of The Dinner and Summer House with Swimming PoolOnce a celebrated writer, M's greatest success came with a suspense novel based on a... read more

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Dubliners

James Joyce

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemism, reveals to the Irish their unromantic reality. Each of the 15 stories offers glimpses into the lives of ordinary Dubliners, and collectively they paint a... read more

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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Salman Rushdie

From one of the greatest writers of our time: the most spellbinding, entertaining, wildly imaginative novel of his great career, which blends history and myth with tremendous philosophical depth. A masterful, mesmerizing modern tale about worlds dangerously... read more

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The Aleph

Jorge Luis Borges

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical... read more

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Black Dogs

Ian McEwan

Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement... read more

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Selected Essays

Virginia Woolf

"A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out." According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure... It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we... read more

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Farewell Waltz

Milan Kundera

"It is hard to imagine anything more chilling and profound than Kundera's apparent lightheartedness." Elizabeth Pochoda in this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a... read more

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Sweet Thursday

John Steinbeck

In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row - the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of... read more

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The Untouchable

John Banville

Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, one of the most dazzling and adventurous writers now working in English takes on the enigma of the Cambridge spies in a novel of exquisite menace, biting social comedy, and vertiginous moral complexity. The... read more

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The Festival of Insignificance

Milan Kundera

From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an unexpected and enchanting novel - the culmination of his life's work. Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one... read more

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Goodbye Up There

Pierre Lemaitre

"Goodbye Up There" follows two men who realize that France “has no use for them” after World War I, and decide to exact vengeance on their homeland and contrive an immoral scam that will throw the whole country into turmoil. Albert and... read more

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Complete Stories

Truman Capote

A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story. Ranging from the gothic... read more

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The Enchanter

Vladimir Nabokov

"The Enchanter" is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry... read more

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The Discrete Hero

Mario Vargas Llosa

Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa’s newest novel, The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the... read more

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The Innocent

Ian McEwan

Psychological thriller set in Berlin during the Cold War, based on an actual (but little known) incident which tells of the secret tunnel under the Soviet sector which the British and Americans built in 1954 to gain access to the Russians' communication... read more

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The Colossus of Maroussi

Henry Miller

"The Colossus of Maroussi" is an impressionist travelogue by Henry Miller, written in 1939 and first published in 1941 by Colt Press of San Francisco. As an impoverished writer in need of rejuvenation, Miller travelled to Greece at the invitation of his... read more

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The Mysteries of Paris, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2

Eugène Sue

The hero of the novel is the mysterious and distinguished Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. Rodolphe can speak in argot, is extremely strong and a good fighter.... read more

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Alex

Pierre Lemaitre

Alex Prévost—kidnapped, savagely beaten, suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a tiny wooden cage—is running out of time. Her abductor appears to want only to watch her die. Will hunger, thirst, or the rats get her... read more

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