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Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In Earthly Powers Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power--Kenneth Toomey, a past-his-prime author of mediocre fiction, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age, living in self-exile o ...Show more
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Paris in the twenties- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and t ...Show more
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
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Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation o ...Show more
Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative ac ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 4: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
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Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In "Sodom and Gomorrah", Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century but also exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Jane EyreBy Charlotte Brontëm grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fe ...Show more
Light in August by William Faulkner
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Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A landmark in American fiction, "Light in August" explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable tha ...Show more
Lost World, The by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The notorious Professor Challenger claims that dinosaurs still walk the earth. When the press and the scientific community ridicule him, Challenger vows to show them proof. And so he sets off for South America, accompanied by a big game hunter, a scientist and a young reporter eager to impress the woman ...Show more
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Vita Sackville-West; Virginia Woolf
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Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you... At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.
Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino
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Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody . . . Distance has been the warp that supports the weft of every love story." -- from Numbers in the Dark Written between 1943 and 1984, the stories in Numbers in the Dark span the career of one of fiction's moder ...Show more