Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
The story of a black who is unjustly charged with murder.
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
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Category: Fiction | Series: Abacus Bks.
Geek Loveis the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out–with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes–to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . ...Show more
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic - from the author of 'Wonder Boys'. One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay's ...Show more
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares; Ruth L. C. Simms (Translator); Jorge Luis Borges (Prologue by); Suzanne Jill Levine (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is ...Show more
Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good - very good
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tr ...Show more
The Death of the Heart by BOWEN ELIZABETH
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia is manifestly trying to understand what is going on around her and looking for something that is not there. Evide ...Show more
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated "Library of Babel".
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Jorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art form--in his case, the short story. His work has been paid the ultimate honor of being appropriated and imitated by innumerable writers on every continent of the world. The seventeen brief masterpieces of FICCIONES expl ...Show more
The Information by Martin Amis
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Category: Fiction
How can one writer hurt another where it really counts? This is the problem facing novelist Richard Tull, contemplating the success of his friend and rival Gwyn Barry. Revenger's tragedy, comedy of errors, contemporary satire, "The Information" is an extraordinary novel of dark humor and piercing insigh ...Show more
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
This play tells the story of Willy Loman, an ageing salesman, who is a failure in both his business and private life. Fired by his firm, ignored by his children, his humiliation ends in suicide.
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: very good
Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.
The Little Green Grammar Book (PB) by Mark Tredinnick
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
What really goes on inside a sentence? What is your subject, where is your verb, what is its tense, where is your modifier, and why does it matter? Where do you need a comma, and where do you not? Why are dashes and semicolons so misunderstood? When is it which and when is it that? In The Little Green G ...Show more