Another Country by James Baldwin
6.13 USD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by ...Show more
Selected Short Stories by Virginia Woolf
4.90 USD
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Category: Fiction
Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the 'swarm and confusion of life'. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of 'Solid Objects' through t ...Show more
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
6.13 USD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and successor, Mrs. Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But he is most shocked to be drawn into a relationship with ...Show more
An Anthology of Somali Poetry by Bogumil W. Andrzejewski; Sheila Andrzejewski
10.50 USD
15.00 (30% off)
Category: Fiction
This is a fascinating and unusual collection that deserves attention. --Bloomsbury Review . . . this anthology of poetry is a breath of fresh air. It provides the reader with the means of gaining a deeper insight into Somali life through what is to the Somalis their most important cultural form, namely ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days (Puffin Classics) by Jules Verne
4.29 USD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics
In Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the world in just eighty days and the very next day sets out from the port of Dover with his servant Passeportout to achieve his aim. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous places, they seiz ...Show more
Heart of Darkness (Penguin English Library) by Joseph Conrad
3.29 USD
9.79 (66% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak o ...Show more
Murder On The Orient Express (Poirot #10) by Agatha Christie
5.51 USD
12.59 (56% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Poirot Ser.
A facsimile first edition hardback of Poirot's most famous book, published to mark the 80th anniversary of his first appearance. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
3.29 USD
9.79 (66% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin English Library
'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none'. Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, "Oliver Twist" features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction - the treacherous g ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
6.30 USD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Austen Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Pride and PrejudiceBy Jane AustenElizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: ...Show more
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4.38 USD
12.59 (65% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4.29 USD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby?s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he?s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy dur ...Show more
The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco
6.13 USD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery behind the BBC TV Series The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William t ...Show more