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1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has ...Show more
Catch 22 by Heller
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Catch-22" is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World War II, in a ...Show more
Dubliners by JOYCE JAMES
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Dubliners is a landmark in modern literature, and one of the twentieth century's finest collections of short stories. In its remarkable portrait of a city and its people, it dramatises ordinary life in the modern world. Together, the stories form one interwoven tapestry which provides a rich and subtle ...Show more
Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Lolita" tells the story of aging Hubert Humbert who has an obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze. It is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. All in all, "Lolita" is filled with awe and exhilaration, along ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Probably Garcma Marquez's finest and most famous work. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of a mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendma family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, alive with unforgettable men and women, and with a trut ...Show more
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie : Girls of Slender Means, Driver's Seat & the Only Problem by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
"A perfect book"--and basis for the Maggie Smith film--about a teacher who makes a lasting impression on her female students in the years before World War II (Chicago Tribune). "Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!" So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and somet ...Show more
The Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/the High Window by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Raymond Chandler's first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. The Big Sleep, Chandler's first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he ta ...Show more
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Mann's best-known novel illustrating the cultural misgivings and misanthropy that gave rise to the First World War. A novel rich in philosophy, historical literacy and present anxiety.
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom and Selected Essays by Albert Camus
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
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The Stranger by CAMUS ALBERT
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose, "To the Lighthouse "is above all the story of a quest, and as such it possesses a brave and magical universa ...Show more