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A Thousand Acres - Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett by Jane Smiley; Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * The only hardcover edition of the "powerful and poignant" twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear (The New York Times Book Review). * EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. * With a new introduction. This powerful novel centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who dec ...Show more
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS
Lewis Carroll's two Alice stories are renowned for their fantastic plots and use of nonsense. The edition, containing both stories, features John Tenniel's original illustrations.
In Search Of Lost Time Boxed Set (4 Volumes) by Marcel PROUST
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Category: Writing Guides | Series: Everyman's Library
In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann's daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new obje ...Show more
Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Mother deer that grieve? Horses that feel shame? Squirrels that adopt their grandchildren? We humans tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings intensely and consciously. But have you ever wondered what's going on in an animal's head? More and more researchers are real ...Show more
Leonard Cohen - Poemsand Songs by Leonard Cohen
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Category: Composers | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets | Reading Level: very good
This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as "Suzanne", "Sisters of Mercy", "Bird on the Wire", "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "I'm Your Man" and searingly memorable poems from many collections including "Flowers for Hitler", "Beautiful Losers" and "Death of ...Show more
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman; Polly Jones (Introduction by); Robert Chandler (Translator)
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Category: Historical | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an immense ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; Laura Thompson (Introduction by)
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Category: Self Help | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew t ...Show more
Poems and Prophecies by William Blake
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
This is a selection of the poet's work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her introduction the poet and critic expounds Blake's esoteric theory and shows how it helped to create a poetry which is unlike any other. The tigers that crouched in Blake's baleful sp ...Show more
Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests
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Category: Nature Writing | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards. This delightful collection ranges from Ovid to Austen and from Robin Hood's Sherwood For ...Show more
THE OUTSIDER by CAMUS ALBERT
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library
'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks by Angela Carter; Joan Acocella (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | 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 Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric; Misha Glenny (Introduction by)
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Category: Historical | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
The town of Visegrad was long caught between the warring Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but its sixteenth-century bridge survived unscathed--until 1914 when tensions in the Balkans triggered the first World War. Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, The Bridge on the Drina brilliantly ...Show more