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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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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 biting psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express , now available in English for the first time Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her mi…

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Simone de Beauvoir
The Blood of Others

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Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir's captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality'These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to spread…

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Georges Simenon
The Cat

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'Remarkable' New York Times '[Simenon is] a bit of a master' Cillian Murphy An acerbic tale of marital warfare and emotional estrangement, in a brilliant new translation In the oppressive silence of the s…

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Carlo Emilio Gadda
The Experience of Pain

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'The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict' Italo CalvinoGonzalo is a highly educated man living alone with…

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James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time

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Sounds a clarion warning to the world.

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Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead

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Ayn Rand was born Alissa Rosenbaum on February 2, 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She left Russia and her family in January 1926, never to return. Her novel The Fountainhead was published in 1943 and even…

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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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Len Deighton
The IPCRESS File

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'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, GuardianA high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the …

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John le Carré
The Little Drummer Girl

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John le Carr¿/b>was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has liv…

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Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle

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Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War...Philip K. Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped out…

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Eric Ambler
The Mask of Dimitrios

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Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series A crime novelist has found the perfect subject - but it may cost him his lifeEnglish writer Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when a police insp…

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Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
The Medium is the Massage

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Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian educator, philosopher and scholar - a professor of English Literature, a literary critic and a communications theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones …

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John Steinbeck
The Moon is Down

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Explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Now available in a new A format edition.

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Clarice Lispector,
The Passion According to G.H

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One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Books by WomenG.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been remo…

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Peter Green, Simone de Beauvoir,
The Prime of Life

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The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir's celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figureFirst published in 1960, The Prime of Life offers an inti…

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Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Muriel Spark has written poetry, stories, and biographies as well as her remarkable series of novels. She is an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and in 1993 was cr…

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Elaine Kraf
The Princess of 72nd Street

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'A cult classic ... A high and a comedown at once - a paroxysm of sex and booze and, above all, colour ... wryly funny ... it is also devastating' The New Yorker An unforgettable portrait of a smart, sens…

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