Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet
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Category: Erotica | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
A window into a life of insatiable desire and uninhibited sex - this is Parisian art critic Catherine M.'s account of her sexual awakening and her unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. From the glamorous singles clubs of Paris to the Bois de Boulogne, she describes her erotic experiences in precise and beau ...Show more
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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Category: Classics
Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume o ...Show more
Giovanni's Room (Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraute ; Maria Jolas (Translator)
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Category: Classics
A series of sketches and observations of daily life a crowd gathering in front of shop windows, an old man talking to his grandchild about death, a professor lecturing about Proust and Rimbaud, a woman concealing her disdain at family gathering Nathalie Sarraute 's first work of fiction places human exi ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provi ...Show more
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence- the brass ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
Dubliners by James Joyce. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that ha ...Show more
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words o ...Show more
Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrère
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Editions Ser.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARY Little Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination - the child of an overbearing father. So, two weeks away on the class trip is already enough to fill him with dread. But when a child goes missing, Nicolas' mind turns to ...Show more
The Stranger by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Albert Camus's spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. Possessing both the force of a ...Show more
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Fiction
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't k ...Show more
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Erotica | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A young woman anxiously waits for her date on a street corner in New York City; he sits in a pizza parlour across the street, watching her discomfort. A middle-aged woman returns to a New York that is haunted by the passion and intensity of her former relationship with her estranged best friend. A secre ...Show more