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The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Influenced by Don Juanand the novels of Kafka, The Myth of Sisyphuspresents a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyrical eloquence, Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaf ...Show more
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
A young woman who has left the South, returns to New Orleans several years later when her father is dying. After his death, she and her young stepmother go back to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past and herself.
The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International
The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the New World Economic Order. The people coming together are the reader, me, and those the essays are about Rembrandt, Paleolithic ca ...Show more
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
Here, for the first time, the stories of one of the century's greatest prose stylists are collected in a single, comprehensive volume. Written from the early 1920s - the years of his exile from Russia - to the mid-1950s, when he abandoned the story form and turned to his English-language masterpieces Lo ...Show more
The Stranger by Albert Camus
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Albert Camus's spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. Possessing both the force of a ...Show more
The Untouchable by John Banville
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Victor Maskell has been betrayed: in Parliament, a revelation of his double, perhaps quadruple, life of espionage; in the press, photographs and inch-high type. But why now - as he enters his seventies, diagnosed with cancer, twenty years into "retirement" - and by whom? To figure it out before his time ...Show more
Under the Glacier by Halldor Laxness
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness's Under the Glacier""is a""one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Sn?fells Glacier, who, among other things, ...Show more