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Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created controversy in its analysis of 'modern' society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name ...Show more
Correction by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Old Titles - No Stock | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to “the Cone,” an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his family's estate in honor of his beloved sister. Not long after its completion, he takes his own life. As an unnamed friend pieces t ...Show more
Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 A "New York Times" Notable BookA "Washington Post" Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: "The Atlantic, "NPR, "San Francisco Chronicle," "Vogue," "AV Club"In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a p ...Show more
Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic; Christina Pribicevic-Zoric (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female (both available in Vintage International), which are identical save for seventeen crucial lines, Dictionary is the imaginary book of ...Show more
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This is the story of German composer, Adrian Leverkuhn. Zeitblom, the narrator, tells his friend''s story against the backdrop of WW2, which acts as a counterpoint to Mann''s vast theme, the discord between genius and sanity'
East, West by Salman Rushdie
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. Fantasy and realism collide as a rickshaw driver writes letters home describing his film star career in Bombay; a mispronunciation leads to romance and an unusual courtship in sixties Londo ...Show more
England, England by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Booker Prize Finalist "Wickedly funny." --"The New York Times" Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry. This is precisely what visionary tycoon, ...Show more
Everyman by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"Philip Roth's twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, Everyman, is intended to be the personification of mankind. The fate of Roth's Everyman is traced from his first sho ...Show more
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories 1995-2014 by MUNRO ALICE
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune Here is a selection of Munro's most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from the last two decades, a companion volume to A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994. These stories encompass the fullness ...Show more
Flags in the Dust by William Faulkner
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as "Sartoris."
G: a Novel by John Berger
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Born to an Italian father and his American mistress, G. becomes, in the years before the First World War, a modern Don Juan.