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The Essential Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919 and ...Show more
The Flight from the Enchanter by Iris Murdoch
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
Annette runs away from finishing school to enter the school of life. As a result she meets a diverse group of characters, all of whom are trying to break free from their own particular obsessions.
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOODScobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) by Yoko Ogawa
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Series
Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one another. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbe ...Show more
The Leopard: Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
Lampedusa's masterpiece, one of the finest works of twentieth century fiction, is set amongst an aristocratic family facing social and political changes in the wake of Garibaldi's invasion of Sicily in 1860. At the head of the family is the prince, Don Fabrizio. Proud and stubborn, he is accustomed to k ...Show more
The Leopard (Vintage Classic Europeans Series) by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Europeans Ser.
The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury It is the spring of 1869 and there is talk of revolution in Sicily, by day the rattle of ...Show more
The Magus by John Fowles
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games. John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration ...Show more
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'An exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade...I'd put it in the 10 greatest books of the 20th century' David Mitchell 'A near-perfect novel' Hanya Yanagihara In the years leading up to the Second World War, four sisters live in dilapidated houses in Osaka and Ashiya, and eac ...Show more
The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
THE ORIGINAL AND BEST TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL GLENNY 50th Anniversary Edition Afterwards, when it was frankly too late, descriptions were issued of the man: expensive grey suit, grey beret, one green eye and the other black. He arrives in Moscow one hot summer afternoon with various alarming accomplices, ...Show more
The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederick Manning
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
They can say what they bloody well like, but we're a fuckin' fine mob.' Deep in the mud, stench of the Somme, Bourne is trying his best to stay alive. There he finds the intense fraternity of war and fear unlike anything he has ever known. Frederic Manning's novel was first published anonymously in 1929 ...Show more
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Noble Prize for Literature. Here, is a perfectly crafted story is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty ...Show more
The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must acco ...Show more