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The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
A bitter-sweet tale of quiet lives in the small and apparently timeless world of mid-19th century Sicilian nobility. Through the eyes of his princely protagonist, the author chronicles the details of an aristocratic, pastoral society, torn apart by revolution, death and decay.
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: Classics | 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 Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by HAMMETT DASHIELL
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Category: Crime | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century.'His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow' IndependentSam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has el ...Show more
The Master of Ballantrae and Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
In these two historical tales of the Scottish lowlands in the eighteenth century, Robert Louis Stevenson brought to the novel of adventure a psychological sophistication it had never before possessed - a subtlety that, far from impeding the action, everywhere intensifies its speed and credibility. A do ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Michael Henchard knew he deserved the pain he felt. Henchard is a handsome farm laborer. When he gets drunk at a country fair, he sells his wife and child to a sailor. The next day, ashamed by what he has done, he lets people believe that his wife has died. Thus begins a chain of events which leads Henc ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
An epic poem by the Greek poet Homer, which is the tale of Odysseus' wanderings, a story of heroic adventure and romantic temptation.
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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Category: Nature | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
"When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection. This theory, published as The Origin of Speci ...Show more
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to the pain and darkness of the Holocaust and its aftermath, Levi reflects on the dif ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
After the death of her father, Isabel Archer, a young American woman, travels to England to stay with her aunt, where she finds herself an object of affection for several men. When she is left a large legacy by her ailing uncle, she also attracts the attention of those with an interest in her substantia ...Show more
The Princess Casamassima by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The child looked up from her dandling and patting, and after a stare of which the blankness was somewhat exaggerated, replied: "Law no, Miss Pynsent, I never see him." "Aren't you always messing about with him, you naughty little girl?" the dressmaker returned, with sharpness. "Isn't he round the corner ...Show more
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth; Joachim Neugroschel (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 'Sublime ... it inspires a kind of evangelical cult passion among its devotees' Simon Schama'Roth is Austria's Chekhov' William BoydStrauss's Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three generat ...Show more