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Winner of the Booker Prize.
India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsio...
Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid was Malcolm Lowry's last book. It is an autobiographical novel of Lowry's return to Mexico to look for his friend Marquez. The ...
Separated from her husband, Ellen finds herself living alone in a city she dislikes - a place that denies her past and offers no hope for her future. Determined to change ...
A failed love affair, the failure to find work as an architect, and the difficulties of substitute teaching cause Albert Angelo to reexamine his life
A group of young people, cut off in Connemara by IRA action, are forced to come to terms with life and death. As the plot builds to its inevitable climax, their haunting e...
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they move from their little house on the banks of Plum Creek to the wilderness of the unsettled Dakota Territory...
Joseph decides to take his mistress and son, together with a few friends, to stay in a cabin in deepest Wales for the weekend - with absolutely disastrous results. Beryl B...
The best-selling novel about a slave revolt in ancient Rome and the basis for the popular motion picture.
In diesem Fruhwerk, darunter zum ersten Mal ein Text des jungen Boll aus der Vorkriegszeit, wird der kritische und distanzierte Blick des engagierten Schriftstellers deutl...
Um dem hektischen Berlin zu entfliehen, reisen Claire und Wolfgang für drei ›leuchtende Tage‹ in das idyllische Rheinsberg. Sie necken, zanken, sie amüsieren und sie liebe...
In seinen Liebesromanen nimmt der berühmte Satiriker Kurt Tucholsky eine Art Auszeit von den politischen Kämpfen der Weimarer Republik. Zwar fehlt auch die Zeitkritik nich...
"Cry, the Beloved Country" is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing...
In this unique collection of Waugh's early short stories, some of which became the inspirations for his novels, Waugh displays his unique talent for comedy and narration. ...
Home is where the heart is
At twenty years old, Pat Gardiner has never regretted staying at her beloved home of Silver Bush. She has the wild stories of housekeeper Jud...
Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.
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Palace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterw...
So writes Graham Greene, describing his childhood love of reading and how it grew into a passion for writing. Collected Essays contains nearly eighty essays, reviews and o...
Apparso sulla "Nuova Antologia" fra il settembre e I'ottobre del 1936, pochi mesi dopo la morte dell'autrice, "Cosima" occupa un posto singolare nella produzione di Grazia...
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they f...