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| Tom Jones (1749) is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. At the center... The author "Mr. Knightley's Diary" retells Jane Austen's novel "Persuasion" from the point of view of Captain Frederick Wentworth.
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three... "Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--"The New York Times Book Review With Silk, his first novel to...
A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful,... This international bestseller about the shepherd boy Santiago who learns how to live his dreams includes an inspiring afterword by the...
In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister: a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, equal in genius, but...
Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India's independence, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous... "A banquet for all the senses," said "Newsweek" of this bestselling and Booker Prize-winning literary novel--a richly textured first book...
As much a historical document as it is a novel, this 1946 winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship is the poignant and... The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic BEOWULF, tells his side of the story.
An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars... Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland...
In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or... Imagine an England 13where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually...
Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: she can't eat. First meat. Then eggs, vegetables, cake,... Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a...
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as... Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni...
An uninspired college teacher's affair with a student is discovered, and he seeks solace on his daughter's farm in South Africa. A violent... In this essential work of fiction, DeLillo traces the way the events of September 11 kindled or rekindled relationships and reconfigured...
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