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"A dazzling collection of short fiction, more than half of which have never been published before, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and Swing Time Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically-respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world....
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Set in San Francisco, Vandover is the story of a rich young man who desires to become a great artist but lacks the ambition to do so. Suicide, death, gambling, and a lost fortune swirl around the young man, reducing him to menial work in the very slums he once owned. Vandover is an early example of American literary naturalism.
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It is 1982. In the Vatican, priestly vultures gather around the dying Pope, whispering the names of possible successors. In a forgotten monastery on Ireland's gale-swept coast, a dangerous document is hidden, waiting to be claimed. And in a family chapel in Princeton, New Jersey, a nun is murdered at her prayers.
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A cultivated poor young woman, Emily Hood, from a small town in the north of England works as a governess in a wealthy country family. She falls in love with her employer's son, Wilfrid Athel, and the two are engaged. However, during a visit to her parents' home, she is confronted by her father's employer, Dagworthy, who threatens to expose her father as a thief unless Emily marries him.
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Jet volume 292
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This is a tale of two sisters, Elinor the determinedly practical and Marianne the madly romantic. Forced to live in reduced circumstances with their widowed mother and younger sister, the Dashwood girls must rely on marrying well if they are to survive.
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Rich and elegant, British arms merchant Richard Onslow Roper arrives at a posh Zurich hotel where Jonathan Pine, a former military intelligence officer is night manager. Pine's attempts to bring Roper to justice take us from one hair-rising encounter to another in this post Cold War adventure.
10) The broken road
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The Broken Road is a 1907 novel of adventure and romance by A. E. W. Mason, set in India during the period of British rule. It first appeared in serial form in The Cornhill Magazine. As a result of the book's publication, the British Government abolished a regulation that had prevented soldiers of the British Indian Army, no matter how valorous, from being eligible to receive the Victoria Cross.
11) A woman hater
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This 1876-7 novel continued the author's focus on trade unionism from his 1870 Put Yourself in His Place, while adding the element of a female physician named Rhoda Gould to the mix in order to express support for women's rights. Rhoda must overcome the prejudices of the misogynistic Vizard before she can pursue her dream.
12) In hazard
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The Archimedes is a modern merchant steamship in tip-top condition, and in the summer of 1929 it has been picking up goods along the eastern seaboard of the United States before making a run to China. A little overloaded, perhaps—the oddly assorted cargo includes piles of old newspapers and heaps of tobacco—the ship departs for the Panama Canal from Norfolk, Virginia, on a beautiful autumn day. Before long, the weather turns unexpectedly...
13) Kangaroo
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Kangaroo is a semi-autobiographical novel by D. H. Lawrence. It follows a British writer on his visit to New South Wales. In it there are vivid descriptions of the Australian countryside and a powerful glimpse into a wartime Cornwall. Lawrence delves deeply into his thoughts on relationship, power and the people of Australia. Perhaps Lawrence's finest, if not most accessible, novel.
14) The pretty lady
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"The Pretty Lady" is the story of a French prostitute, Christine, who has escaped from wartime Ostend, and set herself up in business in London. Though a refugee, she demands no pity; she is self-sufficient, practical and realistic. Bennett began writing the novel in May 1917. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
15) Into the blue
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Harry Barnett series volume 1
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A sudden disappearance. A twisting hunt for the truth. A harrowing journey...
“Robert Goodard’s manipulation of suspense and surprise rarely fails to dazzle.”—The New York Times Book Review
Harry Barnett lives the life of an Englishman on permanent vacation in Greece, house-sitting for a powerful friend and hiding from a past disgrace. That is, until a guest at the villa disappears on a walking...
“Robert Goodard’s manipulation of suspense and surprise rarely fails to dazzle.”—The New York Times Book Review
Harry Barnett lives the life of an Englishman on permanent vacation in Greece, house-sitting for a powerful friend and hiding from a past disgrace. That is, until a guest at the villa disappears on a walking...
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London,1920-youth stands in the center of the present, with extraordinary possibilities whirling about it, ready and eager to grasp at these possibilities, anxious to try conclusions in a world made over after the end of World War I. Henry Trenchad--the Henry who was so very young in The Green Mirror-returns to center stage. He may not be so much older now, but years have passed and he has been through the war...
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Channels of English literature volume no. 4
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Published in 1913, Saintsbury's study of the history of the novel in England examines its influences and origins. His critical essays include discussions on the works of Swift, Scott, Thackeray, Austen, Dickens, as well as writers of the late-nineteenth century.
20) Mary, a fiction
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Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in...