The Divine Comedy (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
A landmark of world literature, The Divine Comedy tells of the poet Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in search of salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for the heavenly Beatrice, he learns the meaning of evil, sin, damnation and forgiveness through a series of unforgettable en ...Show more
Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Breath of Life is Clarice Lispector's final novel, 'written in agony', which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a mystical dialogue between a god-like author and the creation he breathes life into: the speaking, shifting, indefinable Angela Pralini. As he has created Ange ...Show more
Collins Classics - the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A Collection of 12 Short Stories. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July ...Show more
The Passion According to G.H by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it. Her irresistibl ...Show more
Blue of Noon by BATAILLE GEORGES
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors the fi ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
Dostoyevsky's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues-brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality-that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-centur ...Show more
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
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Category: Classics | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller "The Alchemist," comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar i ...Show more
The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
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Category: Classics
'A book full of marvels' New Yorker The American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with the fight for civil rights. She wants to end it all. But then she finds herself in the hands of a Black faith community, and the fabled hea ...Show more
Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. It charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider.
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
With new cover by urban artist Shepard Fairey. To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just this as he wandered the streets of both capitals in search of a job. By day, he tra ...Show more
Confessions of a Mask: A Novel Translated from the Japanese by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Classics
Long regarded as one of the most important novels to appear in post-war Japan, Confessions of a Mask is an allegory of a lonely boy’s yearning quest for belonging and his gradual acceptance of his homosexuality. With its overlay of intense sado-masochistic fantasy, the author draws deeply from the well ...Show more