The Go-Between (New York Review Books Classics) “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley’s finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend’s beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting [...]
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January 28th, 2012
The Hemingway Classics Collection (The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / The Snows of Kilimanjaro / Under My Skin / Adventures of a Young Man) for kindle
The Hemingway Classics Collection (The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / The Snows of Kilimanjaro / Under My Skin / Adventures of a Young Man) An English nurse and an American soldier have an affair on the Italian front during World War I; Hemingway’s semi-autobiographical Nick Adams stories are dramatized; a writer [...]
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January 27th, 2012
Gulliver’s Travels (Signet Classics) for kindle
Gulliver’s Travels (Signet Classics) This masterpiece tells the incredible tale of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship’s surgeon. He is shipwrecked upon the shores of Lilliput, where the residents are only six inches high, then journeys takes him to the land of Brobdingnag, populated by giants, a floating island in the sky, and a land where [...]
January 26th, 2012
Junky (Penguin Modern Classics) Reviews for kindle
Junky (Penguin Modern Classics) Burroughs’ first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time spent dealing and time rolling drunks for money, [...]
January 19th, 2012
The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God (Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) for kindle
The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God (Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) Here, collected for the first time in Everyman’s Library, are the three internationally acclaimed classic novels that comprise what has come to be known as Chinua Achebe’s “African Trilogy.” Beginning with the best-selling Things Fall [...]
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January 5th, 2012
Self Condemned (Voyageur Classics) for kindle
Self Condemned (Voyageur Classics) Self Condemned, originally published in 1954, tells the story of Professor René Harding and his wife, Essie, as they find themselves in Momaco, a fictionalized version of Toronto, following René’s resignation as an academic in London, England. Reduced to a position at the second-rate University of Momaco, René and Essie suffer [...]
December 31st, 2011
Locus Solus (Oneworld Modern Classics) for kindle
Locus Solus (Oneworld Modern Classics) Based on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, this book invites the reader to enter a world which, in its innocence and extravagance, is unlike anything in the literature of the twentieth century Cantarel, a scholarly scientist, whose enormous wealth imposes no limits upon his prolific ingenuity, is taking a group of [...]
December 16th, 2011
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) for kindle
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Giorgio Bassani’s acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature. Made into an Academy Award—winning film in 1970, The Garden of [...]
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December 15th, 2011
The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia (Oxford World’s Classics) for kindle
The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia (Oxford World’s Classics) Rasselas–regarded as Johnson’s most creative work–presents the story of the journey of Rasselas and his companions in search of “the choice of life.” Its charm lies not in its plot, but rather in its wise and humane look at man’s constant search for happiness. The [...]
December 12th, 2011
The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories (Everyman’s Library Classics) for kindle
The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories (Everyman’s Library Classics) ISBN13: 9780375414381 Condition: New Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) These three classics from [...]
