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  • I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking
    I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking
    Didion, Joan
    This second hardcover omnibus edition of Didion’s collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and her bestselling and most famous work, The Year of Magical Thinking .In her essay “Why I Write” (included in this volume), Joan Didion explained what lies behind her iconic nonfiction writing: “I write entirely to fin...

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  • Byron's Travels
    Byron's Travels
    Byron, Lord (George Gordon) / Stafford, Fiona (intro.)
    A new hardcover selection of Lord Byron's letters, poems, and journals, tracing his dramatic, scandalous, heroic life and his wide-ranging travels—and timed to the two-hundredth anniversary of his tragic early deathGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron, was one of the leading figures of British Romanticism. The Byronic hero he gave his name to—the charming, dashing, rebellious outsider—rem...

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  • Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The
    Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The
    Sacks, Oliver
    A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Dr. Sacks’s most extraordinary book, in which the “poet laureate of medicine” (The New York Times) recounts fascinating case histories of patients with neurological disorders.An influential landmark in the tradition of writing about the body and the brain,The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflict...

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  • Never Let Me Go
    Never Let Me Go
    Ishiguro, Kazuo
    From the Nobel laureate and author of Klara and the Sun, a beautiful hardcover edition of one of his most acclaimed novels: a deeply moving and stunningly original love story with a startling twistAs children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rul...

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  • Life and Fate
    Life and Fate
    Grossman, Vasily / Jones, Polly (intro.)
    This panoramic novel about a family scattered across the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II is a monument of modern Russian literature by the Ukrainian-born writer hailed as “the Tolstoy of the USSR.”Suppressed by the KGB and years later smuggled out of the Soviet Union to be published, Vasily Grossman’s novel is an unsparing story of ordinary Russians tragically caugh...

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  • Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The
    Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The
    Hugo, Victor
    Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men: Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and Captain Phoebus. Falsely accused of trying to murder Phoebus, who attempts to rape her, Esmeralda is sentenced to death and rescued from the gallows by Quasimodo who defends her to th...

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  • Foundation / Foundation and Empire / Second Foundation
    Foundation / Foundation and Empire /...
    Asimov, Isaac
    Isaac Asimov’s seminal Foundation trilogy-one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction-in a single hardcover volume.It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store-a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and viole...

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  • Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, The
    Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, The
    Gogol, Nikolai
    Collected here are Gogol’s finest tales—stories that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller—allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka. All of Gogol’s most memorable creations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose, the...

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  • Ghost Stories
    Ghost Stories
    Washington, Peter (ed.)
    A new anthology of classic ghost stories—the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format.The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. Revenge comes from beyond the grave in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Body-Snatcher,” while visions of the dead come between the living in Henry James’s “Th...

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  • Age of Innocence, The
    Age of Innocence, The
    Wharton, Edith
    One of Wharton’s most famous novels—the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize—exquisitely details a tragic struggle between love and responsibility in Gilded Age New York. Newland Archer, an aristocratic young lawyer, is engaged to the cloistered, beautiful May Welland. But when May’s cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, fleeing her failed marriage to a Polish count, her worl...

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  • Handmaid's Tale, The
    Handmaid's Tale, The
    Atwood, Margaret
    Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the...

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  • Collected Stories of W. Somerset Maugham
    Collected Stories of W. Somerset Maugham
    Maugham, W. Somerset
    From one of the twentieth century's most enduringly popular fiction writers: the only hardcover edition of his short stories.Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it has been argued that in the short story he reached the pinnacle of his art. These expertly told tales, with their addictive plot twists and vividly drawn characters, are both galvaniz...

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  • Poems
    Poems
    Plath, Sylvia
    A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally frank self-exposure and emotional immediacy, Plath's poems, from "Lady Lazarus" to "Daddy," have had an enduring influence on contemporary poetry. ...

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  • One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
    One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
    Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr / Bayley, John (intro.)
    One of the most chilling novels about the oppression of totalitarian regimes and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalin’s prison camps; if Solzhenitsyn later became Russia’s conscience in exile, this is the book with which he first challenged the brutal might of the Soviet Union. ...

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  • Anne of Green Gables
    Anne of Green Gables
    Montgomery, L M
    No children’s library is complete without this beautiful hardcover edition of the beloved classic Anne of Green Gables, featuring gorgeous illustrations by Sybil Tawse.An eleven-year-old orphan, Anne Shirley, arrives at the enchanting Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island and wins the hearts of everyone at Avonlea with her mischievous and warm spirit. This is a classic stor...

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  • Animal Farm
    Animal Farm
    Orwell, George
    One of Time magazine’s 100 best English-language novels and the most famous of all twentieth-century political allegories.This account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, is a universal drama. Taking as his starting point the betrayed promise of the Russian Revolution, Orwell lays o...

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  • Crime and Punishment
    Crime and Punishment
    Dostoyevski, Fiódor
    Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision is almost unequaled in the literatu...

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  • War and Peace
    War and Peace
    Tolstoi, León
    Three-Volume Boxed SetTranslated by Louise and Aylmer MaudeWar and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to f...

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  • Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
    Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
    Twain, Mark
    Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century’s greatest chroniclers of childhood. These two novels reveal different aspects of his genius: Tom Sawyer is a much-loved story about the sheer pleasure of being a boy; Huckleberry Finn, the book Hemingway said was the source of all the American fiction that followed it, is both a hilarious account of an ...

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  • Jane Eyre
    Jane Eyre
    Brontë, Charlotte
    Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre none the less emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. How she takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr Rochester and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage are elements in a story that transcends melodrama to portra...

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  • Dead Souls
    Dead Souls
    Gogol, Nikolai
    Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls is the great comic masterpiece of Russian literature-a satirical and splendidly exaggerated epic of life in the benighted provinces.Gogol hoped to show the world "the untold riches of the Russian soul" in this 1842 novel, which he populated with a Dickensian swarm of characters: rogues and scoundrels, landowners and serfs, conniving petty officials-al...

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  • Notes from a Dead House
    Notes from a Dead House
    Dostoevsky, Fyodor
    In 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participating in a socialist discussion group. The novel he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, not only brought him fame, but also founded the tradition of Russian prison writing. Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead) depicts brutal...

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  • Castle, The
    Castle, The
    Kafka, Franz
    Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties. As the villagers and the Castle officials block his efforts at every turn, K.’s consuming quest–quite possibly a self-imposed one–to penetrate the inacce...

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  • Martin Chuzzlewit
    Martin Chuzzlewit
    Dickens, Charles
    At the center of Martin Chuzzlewit–the novel Angus Wilson called “one of the most sheerly exciting of all Dickens stories”–is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of Iris close and distant relations, now converging in droves on the country inn where they believe he is dying, will stop at nothing to be...

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  • Oliver Twist
    Oliver Twist
    Dickens, Charles
    Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape.One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles Dickens’s great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creation–through the splendidly real...

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  • Things Fall Apart
    Things Fall Apart
    Achebe, Chinua
    THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between t...

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  • African Trilogy, The
    African Trilogy, The
    Achebe, Chinua
    Here, collected for the first time in Everyman’s Library, are the three internationally acclaimed classic novels that comprise what has come to be known as Chinua Achebe’s “African Trilogy”—with an intorduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie .Beginning with the best-selling Things Fall Apart—on the heels of its fiftieth anniversary—The African Trilogy captures a society caught bet...

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  • The Tale of Genji
    The Tale of Genji
    Shikibu, Murasaki
    The Heian era of the tenth and eleventh centuries is recognized as one of the very greatest periods in Japanese literature, and The Tale of Genji is not only the unquestioned prose masterpiece of that period, but also the most absorbing account we have of the intricate, exquisite, highly ordered court culture which made such a masterpiece possible. Edward Seidensticker’s transl...

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  • Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vols.1-3 Vols. 4-6
    Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...
    Gibbon, Edward
    Edward Gibbon s classic timeless work of ancient Roman history in 6 volumes collected into 2 boxed sets, in beautiful, enduring hardcover editions with elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers." ...

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  • Collected Stories
    Collected Stories
    Dahl, Roald
    The only hardcover edition of Roald Dahl’s stories for adults, the Collected Stories amply showcases his singular gifts as a fabulist and a born storyteller. Later known for his immortal children’s books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and The BFG, Dahl also had a genius for adult short fiction, which he wrote throughout his life. Whethe...

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