Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Written in Berlin in 1934, this novel takes the reader into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison, not quite knowing when the end will come.
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
The Counterfeiters
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Publisher: Indypublish.com
When Tarzan is orphaned as a baby deep in the African jungle, he is adopted by a she-ape. Raised as one of her own, Tarzan learns the ways of the Kerchak - the tribe of apes who rule the jungle. By the time he is a young man Tarzan has the courage and strength […]
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Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
A road novel fifty years before Kerouac, The Valley of the Moon traces the odyssey of Billy and Saxon Roberts from the labor strife in Oakland at the turn of the century through central and northern California in search of beautiful land they can farm independently - a […]
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Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd
Anton Chekhov's best stories display a detached sympathy for the Russian people and a controversial skill in portraying the decaying world of czarist Russia. Though not a political man, Chekhov could be cutting in his criticisms of upper-class society, and he turned a lens on its manners and shortsightedness. […]
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Publisher: Everyman's Library
Portraying social life in fashionable Bath and centred around Catherine Morland, this novel ridicules the popular tales of romance and terror and contrasts with these the normal realities of life.
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Publisher: Everyman's Library
A fictionalized account of the author's own early experience, which ranks with Turgenev's Huntsman's Sketches as a masterpiece of 19th-century Russian pastoral life.
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Publisher: Everyman's Library
Daniel Deronda
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
P B Jones discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way that prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remain ignored.
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Publisher: Yale University Press
In this new translation of Voltaire's Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novel's irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that - had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American - he might himself have employed. The translation is […]
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