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George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World''Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of …

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George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four. Anniversary Edition

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Versteckt in der Dokumentationsabteilung des weitläufigen Wahrheitsministeriums arbeitet Winston Smith an der Fälschung der Geschichte, damit sie den Erfordernissen der Partei genügt. Dabei wird er - wie …

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James Baldwin
Notes of a Native Son

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Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, social critic, and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain , appeared in 1953 to…

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Torborg Nedreaas,
Nothing Grows by Moonlight

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'Breathtakingly powerful' Guardian'This startling, absorbing book will leave you fizzing with anger and possibility' Noreen MasudIn the blue dusk of a spring evening, a man is drawn to a lonely, beautiful…

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Edward W. Said
Orientalism

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Edward W. Said was a university professor at Columbia University. He was born in Jerusalem in 1935 and educated in Egypt and the United States. His other books include The Question of Palestine, Culture a…

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Henry Miller
Plexus

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Explores a mans desperate desire for freedom. It finds him in the midst of his stormy marriage to the volatile, duplicitous Mona, and joyfully quitting his dreary job for a hand-to-mouth existence in Broo…

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Louise Glück
Poems

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A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet For the past fifty years, Louise Glück has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intel…

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James Joyce
Poems

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The poems published in Joyce's own lifetime collected in a new edition, with an introduction and notes by scholar Clare Hutton 'His writing is not about something; it is that something itself' Samuel Beck…

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Shirley Jackson
Raising Demons

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'Hilarious, subversive, sharp without being lethal, and loving without an ounce of sentiment, Shirley Jackson's more-or-less autobiographical account of life as a mother of four and faculty wife (and bril…

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Henry Miller
Sexus

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The author called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in 1930s Paris his rosy crucifixion. In this volume, he looks back to his early sexual escapades in Brooklyn, an…

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George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant

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This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes "Shooting an Elephant", "My Country Right or Left", "Decline of an English Mu…

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Brigitte Reimann,
Siblings

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'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us into the beating heart of a family and post-war East Germany, conjuring the political dreams and division…

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Rachel Carson
Silent Spring

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Rachel Carson (1907-64) wanted to be a writer for as long as she could remember. Her first book,Under the Sea Wind , appeared in 1941. Silent Spring , which alerted the world to the dangers of the misuse …

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Seicho Matsumoto,
Suspicion

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A taut psychological thriller from 'a master crime writer' (Financial Times) -- now available in English for the first time Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her m…

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Seicho Matsumoto,
Suspicion

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A taut psychological thriller from 'a master crime writer' (Financial Times) -- now available in English for the first time Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her m…

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C. L. R. James
The Black Jacobins

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'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary Younge The…

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Georges Simenon,
The Cat

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'Remarkable' New York Times ' No one is better than Simenon at showing how banal domestic conflict can lead to murderous catastrophe' Financial TimesAn acerbic tale of marital warfare and emotional estran…

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Karl Polanyi
The Great Transformation

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'One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written ' Thomas Piketty 'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect 'Polanyi's revolutionary work is a must-read' Ma…

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Carson McCullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" was Carson McCullers' first novel, written in 1940. Set in a small town in the American South, it is the story of a group of people who have little in common except that the…

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Czeslaw Milosz,
The Issa Valley

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'Thomas was born in the village of Gine at that time of year when a ripe apple thumps to the ground during an afternoon lull.' So a boy's life begins in a winding river valley on the Polish-Russian border…

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