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"A dazzling collection of short fiction, more than half of which have never been published before, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and Swing Time Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically-respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world....
4) Utopia
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First published in 1516, Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly five centuries after it was written, and it...
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 4
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Four children help Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts to free Narnia from evil. Troubled times have come to Narnia as it is gripped by civil war. Prince Caspian is forced to blow The Great Horn of Narnia, summoning the help of past hero Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. Now they must overthrow Caspian's uncle, King Miraz, to restore peace to Narnia.
7) Villette
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With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully...
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A bold and spirited reimagining of the myth of Odysseus, The World's Desire begins with Odysseus utterly alone. His kingdom of Ithaca is an empty, abandoned wasteland. His beloved wife Penelope is dead and his patron goddess Athena has forsaken him. The famous wanderer is without kin and without purpose on an island he no longer knows.
But then Aphrodite visits Odysseus and sends him on a quest to find the world's desire, the face that launched a...
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Modern Library
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The works of V. S. Pritchett, a British writer born in 1900 who mastered nearly every form of literature--the novel, short fiction, travel writings, criticism and memoir. Portraits of the Amazon and London vie with his reflections on turning eighty.
10) Liza of Lambeth
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Maugham's first novel is about the gloomy, poverty-stricken world of South London in the 1890s and how it affects one young girl who tries to escape from it.
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Can Manfred, the Prince of Otranto, secure the family castle for his descendants in the face of a mysterious curse - or does the tragic death of his son Conrad on his wedding day signal the end of his line? Determined to avert destruction, Manfred vows to divorce his wife, who he believes has failed to bear him a proper heir, and marry the beautiful bride, Isabella, himself. But when Isabella flees in terror, assisted by well-meaning friends and allies,...
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The dying Mrs. Trevorton composes a guilt-ridden letter to her husband and instructs her maid Sarah to deliver it, but Sarah -- implicated in the secret within the letter -- hides it in a forgotten room of the Trevorton mansion. Fifteen years later, daughter Rosamond Trevorton marries with plans to renovate the mansion and the secret emerges.
13) A set of six
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Regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the masters of English fiction, Joseph Conrad is known for novels and works of fiction such as The Heart of Darkness, Victory, and Lord Jim. The collection A Set of Six brings together a number of Conrad's shorter pieces, featuring a swashbuckling cast of characters that will appeal to fans of the action-adventure genre. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba...
15) Indian tales
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Even if you're a die-hard fan of the Disney animated classic The Jungle Book, you may not know that the tales upon which the popular movie was based comprised a significant proportion of British author Rudyard Kipling's creative output. In addition to the Mowgli tales, Kipling composed dozens of other short stories about virtually every aspect of life in the jungle, the best of which are presented in this collection.
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El hombre invisible de H.G. Wells es una novela clásica de ciencia ficción que sigue la historia del Dr. Griffin, un brillante científico que descubre una forma de hacerse invisible. Mientras Griffin experimenta con su nuevo poder, sucumbe a la locura y utiliza su invisibilidad con fines siniestros. La novela explora temas como el poder, la moralidad y las consecuencias de una ambición científica desmedida. A medida que las acciones de Griffin...
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At the center of Martin Chuzzlewit is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of his close and distant relations, now converging in droves on the country inn where they believe he is dying, will stop at nothing to become the inheritor of his great fortune. Having unjustly disinherited his grandson, young Martin, the old fellow now trusts no one but Mary Graham, the pretty girl...
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Lake Union Publishing
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[2018]
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December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family's summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live. That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe...
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