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When Charlotte Lewes, newly widowed by World War I and deeply unhappy, decides to embark for Rangoon in 1918, she is looking to escape the ruins of ... More

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This sea tale by the author of "Of Human Bondage" evolved from a passage in "The Moon and Sixpence" that Maugham had written 12 years before.

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THE ROAD BACK After four grueling years the Great War has finally ended. Now Ernst and the few men left from his company cannot help wondering what ... More

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A compelling novel of immigrant life, set in Minneapolis in the early 1900s, by the acclaimed author of Giants in the Earth.

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" ... a broad and generalized picture of life in Russia on the eve of the Revolution of 1905"--P. [4] of cover.

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As the might of the Imperial Japanese Army is crumbling, so too are the tenuous ties with human society held by a sensitive soldier of World War II.

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This beautiful novel opens on the eve of World War II as a group of middle-class Jews arrive in the resort town of Badenheim, somewhere in Austria, ... More

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Love, hate, ambition, greed, lasciviousness-- human nature is laid bare in this story about the fall of the grandest house in Hebron, Georgia. ... More

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Written in eight days, in December 1905, and published in the January 1906 issue of the magazine Teikoku Bungaku (Imperial Literature), Shumi ni iden ... More

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Set in Vancouver in 1907, Better the Devil You Know is the outrageous tale of three unique and curious characters: the small-time con man who passes ... More

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It was during World War II that Konstantin Fedin began work on a group of related novels about the October Revolution and the Civil War in Russia. ... More

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The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Bremerhaven, Germany. The passenger list is long and portentous, and ... More

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This fourth story in Lavette series takes place during the turbulent 1960s as Barbara and her family are embroiled in the issues of that decade: ... More

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Outwardly a compelling tale of events aboard a British man-of-war during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, "Billy Budd, Sailor" is a natural recasting ... More

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'Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the greatest of his works and, in its ... More

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This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1929 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. Ford Madox Ford was ... More

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Witty, romantic and insightful, this novel retells the love affair at the heart of Jane Austen's Persuasion from the perspective of the suitor- ... More

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...Napoleon in exile declared that were he again on the throne he should make a point of spending two hours a day in conversation with women, from ... More

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Disillusioned by the new ideologies circulating in Europe after World War I, Franz Tunda is the archetypal modern man taken up by the currents of ... More

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Destitution, hunger, cruelty, rootlessness--all the odds stand against Jacky, the young boy at the center of this powerful, popular American classic, ... More

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The saga of how a widow from Minneapolis and her brother--soon to become the new teacher in a tiny Montana community in 1909--change lives in ... More

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Wheeler recreates the calamity of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake through the eyes of an architect, a photographer, a city engineer, a missionary, ... More

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In the bitter Antarctic winter of 1910, in the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentlemen adventurers wait out a raging blizzard in the ... More

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