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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 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
The Rainbow by Mark Kinkead-Weekes; D. H. Lawrence
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
To be oneself was a supreme, gleaming triumph of infinityThis is the insight that flashes upon Ursula as she struggles to assert her individuality and to stand separate from her family and her surroundings on the brink of womanhood and the modern world.In The Rainbow (1915) Lawrence challenged the custo ...Show more
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro; John Sutherland (Introduction by); Salman Rushdie (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go Winner of the Booker Prize ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. In the summer o ...Show more
The Stranger by CAMUS ALBERT
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
The Sun Also Rises - Introduction by Nicholas Gaskill by Ernest Hemingway; Nicholas Gaskill (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Hemingway's first novel--both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their illusions in post-World War I Europe The Sun Also Rises tracks the Lost Generation of the 1920s from the ni ...Show more
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima; Ivan Morris (Translator); Donald Keene (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully. Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto's famous Golden Te ...Show more
The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume I - They Were Counted by Miklos Banffy; Hugh Thomas (Introduction by); Patrick Thursfield (Translator); Katalin Banffy-Jelen (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
**Washington Post Best Books of 2013**The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Mikl s B nffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism ...Show more
The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volumes II and III - They Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided by Miklos Banffy; Hugh Thomas (Introduction by); Patrick Thursfield (Translator); Katalin Banffy-Jelen (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
**Washington Post Best Books of 2013**The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Mikl s B nffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism ...Show more
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose, "To the Lighthouse "is above all the story of a quest, and as such it possesses a brave and magical universa ...Show more
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live : Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem ...Show more