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My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrel

My Family and Other Animals

When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended
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The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges

The Aleph

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan
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Inspiration
Isaac Babel

Inspiration

The collection of stories "Inspiration" contains rarely issued Babel's stories, most of which had never been published in Bulgarian so far. Isaac Babel was born in Odessa in 1894, and grew up in the traditional atmosphere of a lower middle-c
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Selected Essays
Virginia Woolf

Selected Essays

"A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out." According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure... It should lay us under a spell with its first wor
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The Thief's Journal
Jean Genet

The Thief's Journal

"The Thief's Journal" is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely lyrical prose style that is his trademark, the m
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Adam Bede
George Eliot

Adam Bede

Hailed for its sympathetic and accurate rendering of nineteenth-century English pastoral life, Adam Bede was George Eliot's first full-length novel and a bestseller from the moment of publication. Eliot herself called it "a country s
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Sweet Thursday
John Steinbeck

Sweet Thursday

In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row - the weedy lots and ju
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Complete Stories
Truman Capote

Complete Stories

A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story. Ranging from
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Darker Muses: The Poet Nero
Dezső Kosztolányi

Darker Muses: The Poet Nero

Nero is an emperor, but he wants to be something more - a poet. This is a book about the passion for glory that burns everything on his way. Nero, the all-powerful master, is a beggar at the foot of each poet of reputation. He is envious of the ta
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The Enchanter
Vladimir Nabokov

The Enchanter

"The Enchanter" is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconsciou
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Beasts in My Belfry
Gerald Durrel

Beasts in My Belfry

A hilarious record that no Durrell fan will want to miss. - Sunday TelegraphIf you looked you would think that his mind was full of beautiful and poetic thoughts...A ball of food would make its appearance at the base of the long neck and
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Home Is the Sailor
Jorge Amado

Home Is the Sailor

A humorous novel set in a sleepy Brazilian beach resort. When Captain Vasco Moscosco de Aragao arrives, the townspeople are enthralled by his talk of exotic romances and travel tales. Amado has written over 20 novels, including "The Violent
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The Colossus of Maroussi
Henry Miller

The Colossus of Maroussi

"The Colossus of Maroussi" is an impressionist travelogue by Henry Miller, written in 1939 and first published in 1941 by Colt Press of San Francisco. As an impoverished writer in need of rejuvenation, Miller travelled to Greece at the invitat
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The Mysteries of Paris, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
Eugène Sue

The Mysteries of Paris, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2

The hero of the novel is the mysterious and distinguished Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. Rodolphe can speak in argot, is extremely strong and a
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Honeymoon
Patrick Modiano

Honeymoon

Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature and winner of the Prix Goncourt, constructs "a haunting tale of quiet intensity" (Review of Contemporary Fiction). It parallels the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wi
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Dora Bruder
Patrick Modiano

Dora Bruder

Patrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal columns of the New Year's Eve 1941 edition of Paris Soir. Placed by the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl, Dora Bruder, who had r
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The Blood of Others
Simone de Beauvoir

The Blood of Others

Jean Blomart, patriot leader against the German forces of occupation, waits throughout an endless night for his wounded lover, Hélène, to die. He is the one who sent her on the mission that led to her death, and before morning he must
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Fillets of Plaice
Gerald Durrel

Fillets of Plaice

Durrell's hilarious and warm "My Family and Other Animals" (1957) began a trio of reminiscences of his life growing up with a slightly dotty family—the overbearing and omniscient Larry; the affectionate and loving siblings, Margot and Leslie;
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Encounters with Animals
Gerald Durrel

Encounters with Animals

Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first widely shared descriptions of the world's most extraordinary animals. "Encounters with Animals" is one of these entertaining accounts of the courtshi
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The Dain Curse
Dashiell Hammett

The Dain Curse

Everything about the Leggett diamond heist indicated to the Continental Op that it was an inside job. From the stray diamond found in the yard to the eyewitness accounts of a "strange man" casing the house, everything was just too pat. Gabriel
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Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Kurt Vonnegut

Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey th
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Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi

"It is a brave moment in the literary annals of a nation when it gives birth to its first indigenous private eye. Until it does, local devotees of the murder story must endure the indignity - to say nothing of the expense - of havin
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Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
Gerald Durrel

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to "My Family and Other Animals" is based on his boyhood on Corfu, from 1933 to 1939. Originally published in 1969 but long out of print, "Birds, Beasts, and Re
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The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carroll

The Hunting of the Snark

It is Lewis Carroll's sublimely weird nonsense epic about an ill-fated hunting mission by a group of bizarre characters. Carroll says of his eight fits of Snarkdom that there is no real symbolism - the Snark is just a Snark. Or more precise
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Seeing
José Saramago

Seeing

On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o’clock, the rain finally s
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Tales of Love, Madness and Death
Horacio Quiroga

Tales of Love, Madness and Death

This collection of stories includes tales about illness, despair, exile, and human brutality. The author himself compiled the selection. Held to be among the greatest writers of short-fiction, Horacio Quiroga has been compared to Kipling and Poe.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

"Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death" is a 1969 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. One of his most popular works and widely regarded as a classic, it combines science fiction elements with an analysis of
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Nicholas Nickleby (Hardcover)
Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby (Hardcover)

When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself f
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Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby

When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself f
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Deadeye Dick
Kurt Vonnegut

Deadeye Dick

Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut’s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors - a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutro
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The Plumed Serpent
David Herbert Lawrence

The Plumed Serpent

The story of a European woman's self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico. Lawrence's mesmerizing and unsettling 1926 novel is his great work of the political imagination. The novel has a contemporary set
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Mary Stuart
Stefan Zweig

Mary Stuart

A gripping biography of the doomed Scottish queen, who spent her life embroiled in the power struggles of Renaissance Europe. Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna an
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The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium
Gerald Durrel

The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium

This book constitutes a series of anecdotal snippets and short stories including ‘The Picnic’, a laugh-out-loud account of an ill-fated Durrell family excursion, which should have been a relaxing, jolly affair. But with the D
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Death with Interruptions
José Saramago

Death with Interruptions

Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation a
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Laughter in the Dark
Vladimir Nabokov

Laughter in the Dark

Laughter in the Dark (Original Russian title: Kamera obskura) is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov and serialised in Sovremennye Zapiski released in 1932. The first English translation, Camera Obscura, was made by Winifred Roy and publis
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Story of O
Pauline Réage

Story of O

“The free publication of Story of O in this country is an event of considerable importance… it is a significant measure of how far we have come in lifting the restrictions on art and our responses to it… In brief, Story o
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Orlando
Virginia Woolf

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 d
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Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh

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 plural o
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Middlemarch
George Eliot

Middlemarch

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her compani
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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Bohumil Hrabal

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 eve
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Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic
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Middlemarch
George Eliot

Middlemarch

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her compani
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Marriage in Heaven
Mircea Eliade

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 t
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Selected Stories
Milorad Pavić

Selected Stories

“We must not turn the reality into literature, conversely, we must turn literature into reality”. Milorad Pavic’s words served as a motto for this collection of stories. They represent truthfully the energy of his imaginat
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I Served the King of England
Bohumil Hrabal

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 r
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While Mortals Sleep
Kurt Vonnegut

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, Vonnegu
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Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh

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 Fal
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Transparent Things
Vladimir Nabokov

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

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