Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
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Category: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929. Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story o ...Show more
Death In Venice And Other Stories by Thomas Mann
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, he notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon Aschenbach’s days begin to revolve around seeing this boy ...Show more
The Magic Mountain: As Seen on BBC Between the Covers by Thomas Mann
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Category: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. "The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps-a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional ...Show more
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
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Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His ...Show more
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda; Nathaniel Tarn (Editor)
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Category: Vintage Classics
"The perfect gift for Valentine s Day /i>elected Poems contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile. Here we find sensuous songs of love, tender odes to the sea, melancholy lyrics of heartache, fiery political statement ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes: Edith Grossman (trans)
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Category: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HAROLD BLOOM Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they t ...Show more
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more
Welcome to the Monkey House - Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut
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A masterful collection of twenty-five short stories from the inimitable Kurt VonnegutA diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House, which gathers together twenty-five of Kurt Vonnegut's short stories from the 1950s and 1960s. Sh ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Catherine Morland should know better. She's the very ideal of a nice, normal girl. But Catherine is cursed with an overactive imagination. She is also obsessed with lurid Gothic novels, where terrible things happen to the heroine. Which gets her into all sorts of trouble... When Catherine visits Bath a ...Show more
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAULA HAWKINS, AUTHOR OF GIRL ON A TRAIN "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?" From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a ...Show more
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
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Category: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
At first "The Emigrants" appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigres in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss. Written with a bone-dry sen ...Show more
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes by Roland BARTHES
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The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician. This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. As idiosyncratic as its author, Barthes plays both commentator and subject to reveal his tastes, habits, passions and regre ...Show more