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John le Carré
A Perfect Spy

Penguin Modern Classics

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 live…

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Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Penguin Modern Classics

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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Marta Del Grandi

Selva

Die italienische Singer-Songwriterin Marta Del Grandi meldet sich mit »Selva« zurück, ihrem bisher komplexesten und schillerndsten Werk, einer raffinierten, hingebungsvollen Suite aus scharfsinnigem Pop, …

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David Day
Ring Legends of Tolkien Deluxe Edition

The most popular legends about the Rings of Power are discussed in detail in this deluxe edition that will hold a special place on your bookshelf.The history of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middl…

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David Day
A Dictionary of Tolkien Deluxe Edition

Dive into the fantastical world and vocabulary of J. R. R. Tolkien with this deluxe edition that will stand out on your bookshelf.Step into the extraordinary world of J. R. R. Tolkien with this beautifull…

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Wendy Larson
Optimism, Literature, and Culture in American Capitalism and Chinese Socialism

This book examines the similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage happiness and optimism in their citizens. Comparing radically differen…

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Susan Byrne
The Aesthetic Turn in Cervantes

This book reveals the central role played by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes in the development of modern-day aesthetics.

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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Muriel Spark
A Far Cry From Kensington

Virago Modern Classics

I can't help it. Sometimes the words just come out and I can't stop them. It feels like preaching the gospel. [large quote]When publishing assistant and war widow Nancy Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett that …

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Anatoly Marienhof,
Cynics

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The blistering 1928 Bolshevik satire, unpublishable in the Russia until 1988 - in a brand new translation 'A love that cannot be throttled by the rubber tube of an enema bulb is immortal.'Bookish and idea…

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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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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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Daphne Du Maurier
I'll Never Be Young Again

Virago Modern Classics

A COMING-OF-AGE TALE OF ADVENTURE AND LOVE, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN'One of the last century's most original literar…

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William S. Burroughs
The Soft Machine

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A terrifying, surreal space-age odyssey, The Soft Machine initiated Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy that includesNova Express and The Ticket That Exploded . The book draws the reader into an unmappable textual …

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Göran Rosenberg
Israel

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Close, close beneath the land I had once rooted myself in and loved, lay a land filled with violence, injustice and hatredOn 22 April 1962 what remains of Göran Rosenberg's family embark from his native S…

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Oh Jung-Hee,
Chinatown

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In this emblematic selection of her stories, Oh Jung-hee probes beneath the surface of seemingly quotidian lives to expose nightmarish family configurations warped by desertion, psychosis, and death. In '…

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Terry Pratchett
Night Watch

Penguin Modern Classics

A definitive annotated edition of one of the greatest of Terry Pratchett's multi-million-bestselling Discworld novels'A master storyteller' A.S. Byatt'Both comic and dark, blending high fantasy, twisted s…

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Richard Hofstadter
The Paranoid Style in American Politics

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The classic and very funny account of the dark side of American politics This richly enjoyable book is an unimprovable guide to the strange highways and byways of American life, written by Richard Hofstad…

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Georges Simenon,
Letter to My Judge

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My dear Judge, I would like one man, just one, to understand me. And I really hope that man can be you.In a small town in western France, Dr Charles Alavoine seems to lead the perfect life: his own medica…

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