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VilletteFrom the author of Jane Eyre, a strikingly modern story of a young woman starting over--with an introduction by Weike Wang, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of Chemistry "Villette Villette Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bront 's final novel appeared in 1853....
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ALA Izquierda, El (Cegador 1)Author: Mircea CartarescuPublisher: BatiscafoPublished: 10/04/2022Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.00dISBN: 9788417115869Language: Spanish
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The Dream of the Red ChamberFor more than a century and a half, Dream of the Red Chamber has been recognized in China as the greatest of its novels, a Chinese Romeo-and-Juliet love story and a portrait of one of the world's great civilizations. Chi-chen Wang's translation is skillful,...
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Revised Edition: An Account in Words and PicturesFirst released in 2002, this provocative, critically acclaimed novel is now a major motion picture starring Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig, and Alexander Skarsg rd. "I don't remember being born. I was a very ugly child. My appearance has not improved so I guess it...
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Sherston's Progress: The Memoirs of George SherstonThe third volume in Siegfried Sassoon's beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies...
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The Farewell SymphonyFollowing A Boy's Own Story (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed The Beautiful Room Is Empty, here is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Introduction by Richard BrownIn his first and still most widely read novel, James Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a young man's self-discovery by respecting its substance while exploding its form, thereby inaugurating a literary revolution.Published in 1916 when Joyce was already at...
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Martin EdenSmitten with a beautiful and cultivated young woman, a bright but uncultured sailor determines to better himself intellectually and socially. Martin Eden turns his attention and energy from drinking and brawling to an aggressive pursuit of self-education through reading. Martin's determined striving leads to...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManA masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce's semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artist's life. "I will not serve," vows Dedalus, "that in which...
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Music of the GhostsThis "novel of extraordinary humanity" (Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing) from New York Times bestselling author Vaddey Ratner reveals "the endless ways that families can be forged and broken hearts held" (Chicago Tribune) as a young woman begins an...
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1996This fictionalized memoir of the award-winning author, Gloria Naylor, tells a story of a massive covert surveillance operation perpetrated against her by an official of the U.S. government.Author: Gloria NaylorPublisher: Third World PressPublished: 03/01/2007Pages: 175Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.66w x 0.54dISBN: 9780883782781About...
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AstragalAs if the reader were riding shotgun, this intensely vivid novel captures a life on the lam. "L'astragale" is the French word for the ankle bone Albertine Sarrazin's heroine Anne breaks as she leaps from her jail cell to freedom. As she drags herself...
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Seeing RedAn Entropy Magazine Best of 2016: Fiction Books selectionIncluded in World Literature Today's 75 Notable Translations of 2016A Foreword Reviews Reviewers' Choice Selection for 14 Favorites of 2016A penetrating autobiographical novel, and for English-language readers this work serves as a stunning introduction to a...
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Under KilimanjaroAn American literary treasure "The sun was not up but that was because of the flank of the mountain it had to rise over and the light was gray but good and Ngui and I were walking through the grass that was wet from...
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TortugaRudolfo Anaya's personal journey to Tortuga began one desert-hot day when, as an adolescent, he and some friends were swimming in irrigation ditches. He dove in, sustaining an injury that put him in the hospital for an arduous period of time.Tortuga is set in...
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Moral Disorder and Other StoriesFrom the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments - This brilliant collection of connected short stories strings together several decades of moments in the life of one woman--as an ambitious girl in the 1930s, as a young professional coming of age...
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Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury's Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in IrelandIn 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts -- Moby Dick -- in the form of a workable...
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Elizabeth and Her German GardenMeet Elizabeth and discover there is no greater happiness to be found than when lost in a wilderness of a garden, with bird cherries, lilacs, hollyhocks and lilies crowding the vision. This is her sanctuary from a host of unreasonable demands, whether from the...
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VilletteWith her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a...
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Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free BlackWith a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. EllisA fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and...
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