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The Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/the High Window by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Raymond Chandler's first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. The Big Sleep, Chandler's first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he ta ...Show more
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric; Misha Glenny (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
The town of Visegrad was long caught between the warring Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but its sixteenth-century bridge survived unscathed--until 1914 when tensions in the Balkans triggered the first World War. Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, The Bridge on the Drina brilliantly ...Show more
The Cairo Trilogy (comprising Palace Walk; Palace of Desire; Sugar Street) by Naguib Mahfouz
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of Th ...Show more
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The only widely available hardcover edition of Victor Hugo's masterful historical novel of medieval Paris--one of the most beloved of world classics. "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame "is an epic of a whole people, with a cast of characters that ranges from the king of France to the beggars who inhabit the P ...Show more
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The most celebrated English biography is a group portrait in which extraordinary man paints the picture of a dozen moreAt the centre of a brilliant circle which included Burke, Reynolds, Garrick, Fanny Burney and even George III, Boswell captures the powerful, troubled and witty figure of Samuel Johnson ...Show more
The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities by Marguerite Duras
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husb ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer, trans. Robert Fitzgerald
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of Odysseus' adventurous wanderings as he returns from the long wa ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolao Machiavelli
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended and indeed applauded as the firs ...Show more
The Stranger by CAMUS ALBERT
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway; Nicholas Gaskill (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
"The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost." -- The Wall Street Journal One of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read The Sun Also Rises is a classic example of Hemingway's ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose, "To the Lighthouse "is above all the story of a quest, and as such it possesses a brave and magical universa ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on one day in June 1904. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature and was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemin ...Show more