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1Q84 Murakami by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
"Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves." --"The N ...Show more
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic' This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film e ...Show more
A Burnt-out Case by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art of pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. ...Show more
A Certain Music by Celeste Walters
Category: Picture Books | Series: Vintage Classics
A fairytale in the tradition of Hans Christian Andersen u heart-warming and enchanting. It is 1823 and the child is a loner who spends her time hiding in the Vienna Woods until she spies an old man - a music maker. And so begins an odd friendship which develops through their mutual love of music. The ma ...Show more
A Christmas Carol (Vintage Christmas) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Christmas
The classic holiday tale is presented with two other Dickens Christmas stories, "The Chimes" and "The Haunted Man" "Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar." Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpress ...Show more
A Christmas Carol (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Ser.
'Bah ' said Scrooge, 'Humbug ' Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed by Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in money. Then, on the night of Christmas Eve, his life is changed by a series of ghostly visitations that show him some bitter truths abo ...Show more
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Vintage Voyages by Xiaolu Guo
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindTwenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for ...Show more
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
A comedy of errors, this title portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties.
A Fairly Honourable Defeat: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL 'I ...Show more
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Raven is an assassin, a hired killer, and his brutal murder of the Minister raises the spectre of war across Europe. As the nation prepares for battle, Raven goes on the run, hunted by the police and hunting the man who paid him in stolen banknotes, eventually unearthing the terrible truth behind the ki ...Show more
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
On the high seas of the Caribbean, a family of English children is set loose âe" sent by their parents from their home in Jamaica to receive the civilising effects of England. When their ship is captured by pirates, the thrilling cruise continues as the children transfer their affections from one batch ...Show more