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Virginia Woolf

Orlando

Orlando
“Orlando”, Virginia Woolf's sixth major novel, is a fantastic historical biography, which spans almost 400 years in the lifetime of its protagonist. The novel was conceived as a "writer's holiday" from more structured and demanding ...read morå

Evelyn Waugh

Vile Bodies

Vile Bodies
“Vile Bodies” is a 1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh satirising the Bright Young People: decadent young London society between World War I and World War II. The title is a literal translation of the Latin phrase "corpora vilia," the ...read morå

John Steinbeck

East of Eden

East of Eden
East of Eden is a novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952. Often described as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, East of Eden brings to life the intricate details of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, and ...read morå

Bohumil Hrabal

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (Czech: Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé) is a 1964 novel by the Czechoslovak writer Bohumil Hrabal. It tells the story of a man who recounts various events from his ...read morå

Mircea Eliade

Marriage in Heaven

Marriage in Heaven
One night outside of the habitual course of time gets two men together through the sacred, healing spaces of confession. Each of them reflects on his past and his unique encounter with a woman. Mircea Eliade’s novel moves, evokes thrills and ...read morå

Bohumil Hrabal

I Served the King of England

I Served the King of England
“I Served the King of England” was born during one summer month in blinding sunlight. The narrator, Ditie, a waiter, becomes a millionaire and owner of a hotel, but he loses everything when Communists seize power. Ditie's surname ...read morå

Kurt Vonnegut

While Mortals Sleep

While Mortals Sleep
Foreword by Dave EggersSmart, whimsical, and often scathing, the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut influenced a generation of American writers—including Dave Eggers, author of this volume’s Foreword. In these previously unpublished gems, ...read morå

Evelyn Waugh

Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall
Decline and Fall is a novel by the English author Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1928. It was Waugh's first published novel; an earlier attempt, entitled The Temple at Thatch, was destroyed by Waugh while still in manuscript form. Decline and Fall ...read morå

Vladimir Nabokov

Transparent Things

Transparent Things
This short novel tells the story of Hugh Person, a young American editor, and the memory of his four trips to a small village in Switzerland over the course of nearly two decades. He first visits the village as a young man, along with his father. In ...read morå

John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California, USA. ...read morå

Italo Calvino

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Six Memos for the Next Millennium
"American Lectures" ("Six Memos for the Next Millennium") is a book based on a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in Harvard, but never delivered as Calvino died before leaving Italy. The lectures were ...read morå

John Steinbeck

America and Americans

America and Americans
There is no writer more quintessentially American than John Steinbeck. More than forty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Yet his nonfiction-the writings in which he spoke directly about his ...read morå

Jorge Luis Borges

Collected Essays

Collected Essays
Although his fame rests mainly on his production of short stories, Jorge Luis Borges began his career writing poems and essays, and continued to do so throughout his life. However, there is no separate Borges the essayist, Borges the poet, or Borges ...read morå

Henry James

What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew
What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in the Chap-Book and (revised and abridged) in the New Review in 1897 and then as a book later in the same year. The story of the sensitive daughter of divorced and ...read morå

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