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The Trial
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get...- $ 350.00
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The Trial
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka's death, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must...- $ 350.00
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The Turn of the Screw and Others
To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these...- $ 300.00
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover—these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which...- $ 400.00
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The Vindications
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the traditional view of decorative femininity and deplored the educational restrictions and the “mistaken notions of female excellence” that degraded women and kept them in a state of “slavish dependence”. Indeed, independence, “the grand blessing of...- $ 300.00
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The Voyage Out
Helen and Ridley Ambrose are preparing to set off for an exotic resort off the coast of South America on the Euphrosyne, a ship belonging to Helen's brother-in-law Willoughby Vinrace. Travelling with them is his daughter Rachel – a quiet, unremarkable girl raised in...- $ 400.00
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The Voyage Out
A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, a young girl, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society, books, sex, love and marriage. She is a free spirit half-caught, momentarily...- $ 400.00
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The War of the Worlds
Without warning, strange cylinders fall from the sky, and from them emerge the Martians—towering, tentacled beings armed with heat-rays and unstoppable machines of war. As panic spreads and the British countryside burns, one man embarks on a harrowing journey through a crumbling world to...- $ 300.00
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The Whisperer in Darkness and Other Tales
When strange things are reported to be floating in rivers in rural Vermont after a flood, old myths about hill-dwelling monsters who abduct humans resurface in subsequent debates, much to the annoyance of local academic Albert N. Wilmarth. However, when he starts receiving letters...- $ 550.00
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The Wilderness Journeys
The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Born in Dunbar in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation. This collection, including the rarely-seen Stickeen, presents the...- $ 600.00
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The Willow and Other Stories
Old Arkhip sits every day by the roots of a wizened, hunchbacked willow, fishing and exchanging whispered stories with the ancient tree. One of these takes Arkhip three decades back in time, to a quiet day in early spring when a strange encounter shook...- $ 350.00
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The Witches of Eastwick
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a...- $ 450.00
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The Woman Destroyed
These three long stories draw us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. In the title story, the heroine's serenity is shattered when she learns that her husband is having an affair. In "The Age of...- $ 400.00
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Step into the magical world of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in this beautifully illustrated edition by Ella Okstad. This special version includes fun activities to help children dive deeper into Dorothy’s exciting adventure! When a big cyclone carries Dorothy and her dog, Toto,...- $ 270.00
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Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a...- $ 400.00
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This Side of Paradise
Fitzgerald's debut novel, first published in 1920, describes life at Princeton among the glittering, bored, and disillusioned, and was an overnight success "Discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained...- $ 500.00
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Thoughts
Thoughts – a collection of philosophical and critical observations put together for publication by Leopardi himself shortly before his death in 1837 – shows a more light-hearted side to Leopardi's personality, and offers both those who are familiar with and those who are new...- $ 400.00
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Three Years
A powerful novella about redemption and the nuances of human relationships that helped cement Chekhov's reputation as a major figure in Russian literature. On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works...- $ 250.00
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To the Lighthouse
The enduring power of this iconic classic flows from the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose. Though the novel turns on the death of its central figure, Mrs. Ramsay, her presence pervades every page in a poetic evocation...- $ 350.00
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Too Much of Life
The Complete Crônicas In the rich banquet of Clarice Lispector’s work, her crônicas—short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces—are the delectable canapés. “I’ve learned enough from taxi drivers to fill a book. They really get around. Maybe I know more about Antonioni, or maybe they know more...- $ 560.00
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Transformation
Having frittered away his family's fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido, driven by his ungovernable passions, is forced out of his native Genoa and harbours plans for revenge. After a mighty storm, he sees a mysterious, misshapen creature approaching from the sea, with whom...- $ 250.00
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Tropic of Cancer
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new...- $ 450.00
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Tropic of Capricorn
Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn’s ethnic neighborhoods and Miller’s outrageous sexual...- $ 450.00
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Ulysses
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922,...- $ 400.00
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Under the Net
Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with the formidable Hugo, whose ‘philosophy’ he once presumptuously dared to interpret. These meetings involve Jake and his eccentric servant-companion,...- $ 400.00
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Utopia
In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast...- $ 550.00
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Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
Written in 1935 during the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until a decade later, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a strange and erotic fable tracing a young girl’s unsettling passage into womanhood, set in motion by her first menstruation. Drawing...- $ 400.00
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Voices of the Fallen Heroes
A newly translated collection of short stories by Yukio Mishima, drawn from the final decade of his life in the 1960s. This selection offers a rare and intimate look into the mind of one of Japan’s most provocative and enduring literary figures. In the title...- $ 350.00
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War and Peace
Set during one of the most turbulent periods in European history—the Napoleonic Wars—War and Peace offers a sweeping portrait of Russian society in the early 19th century. Against the backdrop of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812, Tolstoy captures the impact of war on...- $ 550.00
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Waverley
A classic historical novel that transports readers to 18th-century Scotland during the Jacobite uprising of 1745. The story follows Edward Waverley, an English gentleman and soldier who becomes caught between his loyalty to the British crown and his growing fascination with the Highland way...- $ 350.00
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White Noise
A darkly comic, razor-sharp exploration of modern life, media saturation and the fear of death in a world overwhelmed by information. At the heart of the novel is Jack Gladney, a professor of "Hitler Studies" at a small liberal arts college, who lives with...- $ 450.00
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White Noise
A darkly comic, razor-sharp exploration of modern life, media saturation and the fear of death in a world overwhelmed by information. At the heart of the novel is Jack Gladney, a professor of "Hitler Studies" at a small liberal arts college, who lives with...- $ 450.00
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White Teeth
A deeply human debut novel that spans generations, cultures and ideologies in the heart of contemporary London. Zadie Smith tells the story of two unlikely friends—Archie Jones, a bumbling Englishman with a quiet past, and Samad Iqbal, a fiercely proud Bengali Muslim—who meet as...- $ 450.00
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Women in Love
A bold and emotionally intense exploration of love, identity, and the human condition in the aftermath of World War I. This modernist classic follows the lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, as they navigate complex romantic relationships and search for meaning in...- $ 450.00
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Wuthering Heights
A sweeping, gothic masterpiece of passion, revenge and the haunting grip of the past. First published in 1847, it remains one of the most powerful and unique novels in English literature. Set on the wild, windswept moors of Yorkshire, the story follows the dark...- $ 350.00
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