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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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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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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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Yasunari Kawabata,
The Rainbow

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'In this masterpiece Kawabata, his brush dipped in silver, renders all the excruciating anguish and beauty of post-war Japan' Edmund White With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan…

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Philip Guston
I Paint What I Want to See

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Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century 'Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light'How does a painter…

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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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Truman Capote
In Cold Blood

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Ein dramaturgisch geschickter Roman, der aus der Perspektive der Mörder, der ermordeten Familie und der ermittelnden Beamten erzählt. Spannend, psychologisch stimmig, fesselnd von der ersten bis zur letzt…

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George Orwell
Down an Out in Paris and London

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'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them'. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Pa…

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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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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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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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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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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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Kobo Abe,
The Woman in the Dunes

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Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist. His novels have …

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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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George Orwell
Coming Up for Air

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George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizon.George Bowl…

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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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John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men

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Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day…

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Len Deighton
London Match

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'Spying at its most captivating and intricate' The Times 'Deighton has woven an intricate and satisfying plot, peopled it with convincing characters and even given a new twist to the spy story. But then h…

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Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man

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Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious American National Book Award, tells the extraordinary story of a man who is invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. …

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