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The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks by Angela Carter; Joan Acocella (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
In The Bloody Chamber, Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Riding's grandmother is stoned to death as a witch; a young music student is swept off her feet in Paris by a middle-aged aristocrat and transported to h ...Show more
The Bookshop / The Gate of Angels / The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Publisher's description: The Bookshop is a postwar tragicomedy of manners, set in an isolated seaside town where an enterprising woman opens a bookstore only to find it beset by poltergeists, weather, and hostile townsfolk. The Gate of Angels is an Edwardian romance within a novel of ideas: a young doct ...Show more
The Bookshop: WITH The Gate of Angels AND The Blue Flow by Penelope Fitzgerald
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. She began her writing career in 1975 at the age of fifty-nine, and over the next two decades she published three biographies, nine novels, and a c ...Show more
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of "T ...Show more
The Collected Works by Kahlil Gibran
Category: Religion | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) For the first time, all the major works of this beloved writer are gathered together in one hardcover volume. Poet, artist, and mystic, Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiec ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
In Everyman's Library for the first time--one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, read by tens of millions of people around the world since its publication in 1947."The Diary of a Young Girl" is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl whose triumphant human ...Show more
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Giorgio Bassani's acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature. Made into an Academy Award--winning film in 1970, "The Garden of the Finzi--Continis "is a richly evocati ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale HB by MARGARET ATWOOD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale "has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household o ...Show more
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Chilean writer Isabel Allende's classic bestseller is a richly symbolic family saga that is also the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country's turbulent history. In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colourful and all-too-human inhabitants ...Show more
The Leopard: With Two Stories and a Memory by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
A classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Mann's best-known novel illustrating the cultural misgivings and misanthropy that gave rise to the First World War. A novel rich in philosophy, historical literacy and present anxiety.
The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Edward Seidensticker (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of the extinction of a great family through pride and over-refinement. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two. With surgical realism and precision, Tanizaki lays bare the sinews of ...Show more