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| The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form... The characters of "The Rotters' Club--Jonathan Coe's nostalgic, humorous evocation of adolescent life in the 1970s--have bartered their...
One of the most-talked about works of fiction to emerge from China in recent years, this novel about an urban youth "displaced" to a small... This is Chinua Achebe's classic novel, with more than two million copies sold since its first U.S. publication in 1969. Combining a richly...
Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen's last novel, epitomizes her bold exploration of the territory between the comedy of manners and cutting social... Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life.
Now available for the first time in paperback, "Quartet" "belongs to the new tradition in prose, which shuns elaboration for sharpness and... Sebold's mesmerizing and luminous first novel--a #1 national bestseller--builds a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, and even joy,...
In this riveting tale of love and intellectual intrigue, Murdoch gives readers a seductive story with ever-mounting action, including... Jeebleh is returning to Mogadishu from New York for the first time in 20 years. It is not a nostalgia trip for him--Jeebleh's last residence...
The Nobel-laureate author tells the life story of a passionate and headstrong woman in the 14th century. She paints a richly detailed... The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Following the astonishing success of his first...
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, "Gravity's Rainbow" is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of... Alone since four members of the family died of arsenic poisoning, Merricat, Constance, and Julian Blackwood spend their days in happy...
A prime number can only be divided by itself or by one--it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia, both primes, recognize in each... This is the author's first novel, which relates the experiences of a young bohemian intellectual. The six episodes create a fascinating...
From the celebrated author of The Peppered Moth and The Witch of Exmoor, a splendid novel about starting over late in life Candida Wilton-a... One of Amos Oz's earliest and most famous novels, My Michael created a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and established Oz as...
"Three Guineas" is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war.... This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless...
Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is... Haunting, prophetic, and utterly revelatory, George Orwell's classic novels "Animal Farm" and "1984" are two of the most iconic books in...
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