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DOCTOR ZHIVAGO by PASTERNAK BORIS
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
In the grand tradition of the epic novel, Boris Pasternak's masterpiece brings to life the drama and immensity of the Russian Revolution through the story of the gifted physician-poet, Zhivago; the revolutionary, Strelnikov; and Lara, the passionate woman they both love. Caught up in the great events o ...Show more
Dubliners by JOYCE JAMES
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Dubliners is a landmark in modern literature, and one of the twentieth century's finest collections of short stories. In its remarkable portrait of a city and its people, it dramatises ordinary life in the modern world. Together, the stories form one interwoven tapestry which provides a rich and subtle ...Show more
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation trilogy--one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction--in a single hardcover volume. It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see th ...Show more
Giovanni's Room (U.S. HB) by James Baldwin
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
GoodBye to All That by Robert Graves; Miranda Seymour (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of one of the best and most famous memoirs of the conflict. Good-bye to All That was published a decade after the end of the first World War, as the poet and novelist Robert Graves was preparing to leave England for good. Th ...Show more
His Dark Materials - The Golden Compass/ The Subtle Knife/ The Amber Spyglass by PULLMAN PHILIP
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
The only hardcover omnibus of the best-selling and award-winning fantasy trilogy, in a Contemporary Classics edition. Philip Pullman's trilogy is a masterpiece that transcends genre and appeals to readers of all ages. His heroine, Lyra, is an orphan living in a parallel universe in which science, theo ...Show more
Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Lolita" tells the story of aging Hubert Humbert who has an obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze. It is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. All in all, "Lolita" is filled with awe and exhilaration, along ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Mrs. Dalloway "chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway-a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide of a young man she has never met. In giving an apparently ordinary day such immense resonance and sig ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1989 - and True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey; Paul Giles (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Peter Carey's two Booker Prize-winning novels, in one handsome hardcover volume. Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century Australia. Oscar, a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine, joins forces with Lucinda, a teenaged ...Show more
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie : Girls of Slender Means, Driver's Seat & the Only Problem by Muriel Spark
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
"A perfect book"--and basis for the Maggie Smith film--about a teacher who makes a lasting impression on her female students in the years before World War II (Chicago Tribune). "Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!" So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and somet ...Show more
The Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/the High Window by Raymond Chandler
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Raymond Chandler's first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. The Big Sleep, Chandler's first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he ta ...Show more