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Hardy Poems by Thomas Hardy; Peter Washington
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Distinguished as both a great novelist and a great poet, Thomas Hardy's writing career spanned more than 60 years. A master of the short lyric and the vivid narrative, Hardy is the poet of remembrance and tender regret; but he is also an ironist with sharp observations of human frailty.
IF THIS IS A MAN AND THE TRUCE by Primo Levi
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
"Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE covers his long journey to Italy at the end of the war through Russia and Central Europe. Levi never ra ...Show more
Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben
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Category: Animals | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Mother deer that grieve? Horses that feel shame? Squirrels that adopt their grandchildren? We humans tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings intensely and consciously. But have you ever wondered what's going on in an animal's head? More and more researchers are real ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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Thomas Hardy's final novel: A passionate and tragic story of the follies of Victorian England's most rigid institutions: class, marriage, and higher education Growing up in southern England, Jude Fawley dreams of one day transcending his country life and becoming a scholar at Christminster's most pre ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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This is a journey through madness and death resulting in stylized violence, narrated with irony and lyricism by Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acerbic and visionary portrait of the United States, its suburban horrors, and of motel and plastic culture.
London Stories by Jerry White
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, Defoe and Dickens. But there has also been an innumerable host of writers who have sought to capture the ess ...Show more
Love Songs and Sonnets by Peter Washington
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Love Songs and Sonnets includes Ronsard's famous sonnets to Helene, Dorothy Parker's sardonic reflections on men and Anne Bradstreet's touching poem "To my Husband ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library 140
Gustave Flaubert's first published novel 'Madame Bovary' has been enjoyed by readers around the world for over 150 years. A fantastically well-written novel, it is considered by many to be Flaubert's masterpiece, and the author himself confessed to be a perfectionist when it came to the details. It was ...Show more
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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A history of India since independence seen through the eyes of characters born on that independence was granted. Often hailed as a classic of magic realism, this is a many-layered and entralling narrative in which the complexities of the sub-continent are projected through the minds of its many characte ...Show more
Rome Stories by Jonathan Keates (Editor); TBC Staff
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
From Plutarch to Pasolini, from Henry James to Alberto Moravia, this collection of classic tales of the Eternal City draws on a wide range of brilliant writers from ancient times to the present. A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology. EVERYMAN'S POCKET CLASSICS. During its three-thousand-year his ...Show more
Rumi: Poems by Peter Washington (Editor); Jalal Al-Din Rumi
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufism--a mystic tradition within Islam--Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us ...Show more
Russian Fairy Tales by I.IA. Bilibin
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics
The famous stage-designer Ivan Bilibin was a self-taught artist who was lucky enough to be offered the commission of a lifetime at the very start of his career. In 1899 the Department for the Production of State Documents asked this young Russian artist to illustrate a series of fairy tales, a task that ...Show more