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  • The Stars' Tennis Balls
  • How to Be Good
  • The Dharma Bums
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English literature

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious ha...
Neil Gaiman - American Gods

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

4,1

(23K)
The extraordinary, highly acclaimed epic novel from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his re...
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3,7

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Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse. It concerns the...
Sue Townsend - The Queen and I

The Queen and I

Sue Townsend

3,7

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A seminal comic masterpiece of our time, now published for the first time in Penguin. THE MONARCHY HAS BEEN DISMANTLED When a Republican party wins the General Election, t...
Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
Teen angst has never been such serious business--or this much fun! In his secret diary, British teen Adrian Mole excruciatingly details every morsel of his turbulent adole...
Джером Д. Сэлинджер - Девять рассказов

Девять рассказов

Джером Д. Сэлинджер

4,2

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«Девять рассказов» американского писателя Джерома Дэвида Сэлинджера - мировой бестселлер в категории «короткой прозы». Это книга, повлиявшая на развитие мировой литературы...
Iris Murdoch - Under the Net

Under the Net

Iris Murdoch

3,8

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Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero...
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums

The Dharma Bums

Jack Kerouac

4

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A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics e...
Nick Hornby - How to Be Good

How to Be Good

Nick Hornby

3,5

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A brutally truthful, compassionate novel about the heart, mind, and soul of a woman who, confronted by her husband’s sudden and extreme spiritual conversion, is forced to ...
Stephen Fry - The Stars' Tennis Balls

The Stars' Tennis Balls

Stephen Fry

4,1

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Stephen Fry was born in the twentieth century and will die in the twenty-first. In the course of writing eight books he has drunk four hundred and twelve thousand cups of ...