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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
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
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: 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